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Hezbollah announced today that its Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut. This came in a statement issued by the party and broadcast by the Lebanese National News Agency. Yesterday, Israeli warplanes carried out a heavy bombardment on the southern suburbs, …

H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Defence, and Jamshid Khodjaev, Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan, attended the signing of a series of agreements aimed at strengthening ties between the two nations. The event took place on the …

The National Center of Meteorology: Tomorrow’s weather will be fair to partly cloudy, with a probability of convective cloud formation Eastward and Southward associated with rainfall. Humid by night and Sunday morning with a probability of fog or mist formation over some coastal and internal areas. Light to moderate Southeasterly …

Continuing a 30-year partnership that has yielded 82 U.S. patents and countless medical breakthroughs for kids and their families, the Government of the United Arab Emirates has strengthened its transformational commitment to Children’s National Hospital with a new $35 million donation focused on prenatal, neonatal and maternal health. The announcement …

Hurricane Helene has made landfall in the Florida Big Bend, the US National Hurricane Centre said on late on Thursday. Reuters quoted the Miami-based forecaster as saying that Helene is located about 45 miles (70 km) east-southeast of Tallahassee, Florida, with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph (225 kph).

Easing cross border travel for Emiratis, the UAE and US governments signed an agreement between the UAE Ministry of Interior and the US Department of Homeland Security that will lead to the UAE’s inclusion in the US Global Entry Programme by October 2024. The signing took place on the sidelines …

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, highlighted that the UAE and Dubai draw upon a distinctive vision and clear roadmap for development, with the focus set on social, economic and investment priorities. The nation has read …

On behalf of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, honoured nine prominent global dignitaries with the First Class Order of Zayed II in recognition of their contributions to the success of COP28. …

A military funeral was held at Zayed Military Hospital in Abu Dhabi for the bodies of four Emirati martyrs who passed away after an accident while performing their duties in the UAE. The martyrs are servicemen: Ahmed Mohamed Rashid Al Shehhi; Nahyan Abdullah Ahmed Al Marzouqi; Abdulaziz Saeed Al Teneiji; …

The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) revised upwards its GDP growth projection for 2024 to 4 percent from 3.9 percent previously, reflecting the improved performance of the oil sector. For 2025, growth is expected to increase to 6 percent, as momentum in the non-hydrocarbon sector is projected to continue, …