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The Ministry of Health and Prevention has warned against counterfeit versions of the world’s second-most expensive drug, “Soliris”, which contains the scientific substance “euclizumab” for the treatment of a rare genetic defect in children. The drug is manufactured by “Alexion” company, and the annual cost per patient is about $ …

The official spokesman of the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen, Colonel Turki Al Malki, has said that at 09:20 on Sunday, 3rd June 2019, Saudi Special Forces, with cooperation from Yemeni Special Forces, conducted a successful operation that resulted in the capture of the leader of Daesh Yemen Province …

His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, received US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Abu Dhabi on Monday. H.H. Sheikh Mohamed discussed with Pompeo, who is currently on a tour of the region, the …

More than 400 schools in the Malaysian state of Johor are closed after 75 students experienced breathing difficulties and vomiting. Schools in the industrial area of Pasir Gudang have been shut until Thursday as authorities investigate the latest air pollution incident to hit the state. In March about 4,000 people …

The Netherlands has been hit by its largest telecommunications outage in recent history, with emergency service numbers knocked out across the country. The disruption, which lasted four hours, originated from national carrier Royal KPN, and affected other providers linked to its network. KPN said the cause was still unclear but …

President Trump announced today that he is imposing new sanctions on Iran, for the recent aggressive acts by Tehran and the recent downing of a US drone by Tehran. The Trump administration already moved this spring to cut off all revenues from Iranian oil exports,  the new sanctions -targeting Iranian Supreme …

Two children, aged 3 and 4, died of suffocation in a fire at their parents’ home this afternoon in Madhab district of Fujairah this morning. Brigadier Ali Obaid Al Tunaiji, Director of the Civil Defense Department, Fujairah, stated that the two children were trapped in the fire that engulfed their …

The Abu Dhabi Court of Appeals scheduled June 30th for the ruling in a case of a GCC man charged with drug possession after he was found to have drug substance in a piece of cake he brought with him to the airport. Details of the case reveal that the …

The UAE has strongly condemned the Houthi terrorist attack on Saudi Arabia’s Abha International Airport, which resulted in the martyrdom of a Syrian resident and injury of seven civilians on Sunday. In a statement today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC) condemned the terrorist attack which, it …

A Syrian resident was killed and seven civilians were wounded in a terrorist attack by the Iranian-backed Houthi militias today on the Abha International Airport, Colonel Turki Almalki, the official spokesman for the Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen, said. “At 21.10, Sunday, the Iranian-aligned Houthi militias launched an attack …