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Dubai Municipality has announced that it won the first prize in the eighth edition of the Climate Change Awards 2018 for the results of the study on the use of nanotechnology in paints under prevailing climatic conditions and their impact on reducing the carbon footprint. The award comes as an …

The Khalifa bin Zayed Foundation has dispatched a shipment carrying 25 tonnes of medicines to the Red Sea coast of Yemen, which unloaded in the Port of Aden on the first day of 2019. Dr. Nasser Baoum, Minister of Health of Yemen, and Mohammed Al Junaibi, Head of the Emirates …

British counter-terrorism police are investigating stabbings at Manchester Victoria train station that left three people injured, including a police officer, on New Year’s Eve, the Greater Manchester Police said. According to Reuters, Police were, however, keeping an open mind as there was no intelligence suggesting a wider threat, the Greater …

Nine people have died and 41 are still missing after a landslide buried 30 houses in a village in Indonesia’s West Java province, an official said Tuesday. The Deutsche Presse-Agentur, DPA, quoted Sutopo Purwo Nugrohoa, a spokesman for Indonesia’s Disaster Mitigation Agency, as saying, “The landslide hit Sirnaresmi village in …

Abu Dhabi Judicial Department has launched the Tolerance Centre for Reconciliation, as part of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Division. The move follows the announcement of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, declaring 2019 as the Year of Tolerance. Yousif Saeed Al Ebri, Undersecretary of Abu Dhabi Judicial …

The fireworks are done, the celebrations over and now 2019 is upon us. “It will be a year of great achievement and expectations fulfilled, one that will be celebrated as a Year of Tolerance, underscoring all that brings us together in our remarkable journey of harmony and peaceful coexistence,” said …

The State Security Court at the Federal Supreme Court rejected the appeal filed by A.M/.Sh, 49, a GCC citizen, and confirmed a previous ruling issued against him by the Abu Dhabi Court of Appeal sentencing him to ten years in prison and an AED1 million fine after he was found …

H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Minister of Finance, said that today marks the conclusion of the ‘Year of Zayed’ and the nation’s celebration of 50 years of inspiring leadership of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and …

Fifteen people have been charged in connection with the murders of two Scandinavian university students in Morocco. Prosecutors said they had filed preliminary terrorism charges against the men on Sunday. These include forming a gang to prepare and commit terrorist acts and premeditated murder. Three of the suspects also face …

As the last hours of 2018 wind down, it were 12 months that gave us reason to laugh and cry, love and celebrate what binds rather than divides, what made news, and what made the UAE one of the best places in the world to call home, the Gulf News …