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About 14,000 years ago, long before humans had developed agriculture, bread was being baked in the Middle East, The National said in an editorial on Wednesday. “This astonishing discovery in northeastern Jordan significantly alters our ideas about the history of the most widely consumed food on earth. Charred remains of …

It is a much eagerly anticipated visit, said The Gulf Today, in its Wednesday editorial on the upcoming Chinese President’s state visit to the UAE. “The arrival of President Xi Jinping of China in the UAE on Thursday will be a great booster economically and add considerable weightage to this …

Dubai has scored a new milestone in its bid to cement its leadership in the international maritime sector after it was selected as one of the world’s top five in the International Shipping Centre Development Index (ISCD). Backed by legal and legislative excellence, Dubai is known for its advanced infrastructure, …

Dubai Science Park, DSP, a science-focussed business community, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with OPEN Health, a communications and market access firm, Synapse Medical Services, a healthcare service provider, and Connect Communications, a strategic healthcare communications company, to launch the healthcare networking platform, Advance Health. The platform converges …

In a record time, the Civil Defense teams in Abu Dhabi controlled two fires today without injuries, the first in in a caravan used to store cables and wood waste in the Marina Mall area of the emirate, and the other at a site for collecting air conditioning and wood …

Dubai Prosecution referred a gang of Asian nationals to the Criminal Court after they have been accused with targeting banks and money exchangers and stealing a bag of AED 51,500 cash from a victim. Further investigations revealed that the gang used to monitor banks from morning to afternoon to target …

H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Chairman of Dubai Executive Council and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Dubai Future Foundation, said that Dubai’s efforts to create a better future as part of the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin …

“Here is the Tigris, and nothing bars the way between it and China.” Those words of Abu Jafar Al Mansour, the 8th century Abbasid caliph of Baghdad, conjure a world of extensive cultural and commercial exchanges between China and the Arab world, The National said in an editorial on Tuesday. …

In in an editorial on Tuesday, the Gulf News said that the UAE Cabinet has issued a significant and welcome decision, one that will boost tourism and provide a welcome benefit to travellers transiting through the nation’s airports, and provide an ever-greater spur for those to leave those airports and …

Dubai Police warned members of the public who do not have sufficient experience in installing renewable solar panels not to do so, and stressed the need for companies specialized in this field to train those who wish to install these panels and introduce them to the possible risks of insufficient …