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The United Arab Emirates’ rate of post-mortem organ donation is 3.7, exceeding the global rate of 3.5, according to Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, SEHA. Today, the UAE is one of only two countries in the region that provides organ donation and transplantation, alongside Saudi Arabia. Since the UAE organ …

Kalba Criminal Court penalized a Gulf man AED 8,000 and confiscated his phone on charges of disturbing a lawyer by calling her 30 times, threatening, and insulting her through WhatsApp. In details, the lawyer’s brother filed a case in Kalba police station stating that a Gulf man disturbed her by …

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman ordered a royal decree on Thursday granting citizenship to foreigners in fields such as medicine and technology in a bid to diversify the kingdom’s economy. The changes are part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s economic and social reform plans to diversify the economy and steer …

The Roads and Transport Authority has announced the extension of the date of fully migrating their services from the Booking and Taxi Dispatch Centre to Hala e-hailing platform (a joint venture between The RTA and Careem) to 15th January, 2020. The step is taken to avail clients more time to …

A 4.5-magnitude earthquake hit Fengnan District, Tangshan city, north China’s Hebei Province, at 8:02 am Thursday Beijing Time, according to the China Earthquake Networks Centre, CENC. “The epicentre was monitored at 39.31 degrees north latitude and 118.04 degrees east longitude. The quake struck at a depth of 10 km,” according …

12 Arrested, 194kg of Drugs Seized The General Department of Anti-Narcotics at Dubai Police has recently foiled a big international drug trafficking operation in Al Ras at Dubai Creek harbour in an operation dubbed “LiStah”. Operation “LiStah”- an Emirati dialect for the boat’s deck, was carried out by Dubai Police’s …

Under the patronage of Professor Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Egypt, INDEX Conferences and Exhibitions will organise the first edition of the AEEDC Education Cairo Conference and Exhibition from 12th to 14th December, 2019, at Royal Maxim Palace Kempinski Cairo, in order to …

Buoyed by the success of two people-to-people events during the UAE’s 48th National Day, South India’s film fraternity has resolved to make such events a continuous observance until the 50th anniversary of formation of the UAE. Taking stock of the two-day events in south Indian states of Kerala and Tamil …

Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority has launched “HADI”, an AI-Based Conversational Bot that can answer users’ questions and process transactions with respect to DSOA’s services. HADI will be available on the organisation’s website and other messaging applications, and will constantly evolve to reflect accurate, up-to-date information about Dubai Silicon Oasis business …

Sharjah Police referred the brawl case that took place before yesterday evening in Kalba city to the Public Prosecution after arresting the defendants, which resulted in the death of an Emirati citizen (25 years) and various injuries of his brother (26 years) who was admitted to the intensive care unit. …