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Released figures from Dubai Customs showed that the Passenger Operations Department dealt with 208,812 flights coming to Dubai carrying 45,622,549 items of luggage in 2019. The Department also made 337 customs and 1832 criminal seizures including 1,222 drug seizures last year. “Smooth traffic of passengers and luggage is a priority …

Dubai International, DXB, has retained its position as the world’s number one hub for international passengers for the sixth consecutive year with annual traffic for 2019 reaching 86.4 million – 6 million more than the nearest rival London Heathrow. The year 2019 was also exceptional for DXB in terms of …

ADNOC Logistics & Services will test biofuel as a bunkering fuel for ships, in an effort to comply with the 2020 sulphur cap, the company’s Chief Executive Officer Captain Abdulkareem Al Masabi said. Al Masabi stated that ADNOC has applied the regulations by November 2019 across its entire fleet, which …

President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has conferred the Medal of Independence of the First Order on Abdul Fareed Zakaria, Ambassador of Afghanistan to the UAE, in recognition of his efforts that contributed to promoting the friendly relations and cooperation between the UAE and Afghanistan in all …

The commercial and economic ties between the UAE and Senegal have witnessed recent significant developments, with the value of their trade from 2014 to 2018 amounted to AED9.1 billion, according to statistics from the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Authority, FCSA, and the Ministry of Economy. The official visit of Macky …

H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, approved a decision to waive fees on various government services offered in Dubai, aimed at lowering the cost of living, facilitating the ease of doing business, and supporting investors. The waived …

Sharjah Criminal Court postponed the case of a Gulf man who was accused of threatening his maid with murder through a phone call after the maid beat his 4 years old child, and the defendant also crashed a police patrol who tried to arrest him.

Google faces one more probe in the European Union over concerns the company’s processing of user location data could violate the bloc’s tough privacy rules. Armed with the power to levy hefty fines, Ireland’s data protection commission on Tuesday also opened a separate investigation into Match Group Inc. and the …

An Arab man aged in the third decade slapped a doctor on his cheek, while performing his work in a hospital in Umm al-Quwain, where he broke into the doctor’s room after an argument between them which ended with the man slapping the doctor on his cheek. The defendant was …

A business meeting organised by the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce, and Industry, ADCCI, at its headquarters with a trade delegation representing 12 Japanese companies revealed the presence of 340 Japanese companies and 11,000 Japanese brands registered in the UAE. During the meeting, which aimed to brief the Japanese companies …