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Instagram is testing a new feature that will solve a long-standing problem with the application’s feeds. Users will finally get a chance to star their favourite Insta accounts as ‘Favorites’. Since the application sorts posts on the feed using certain algorithms, it can miss out on updates from close friends …

The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) has issued a new guidance on transaction monitoring and sanctions screening for its licensed financial institutions (LFIs). The Guidance aims to promote the understanding and effective implementation by LFIs of their statutory anti-money laundering and combatting the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) obligations. The …

Under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai, the Organising Committee of Gov Games announced that the third edition of the high-energy team-building challenge is set to return from 9 December to …

The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) has announced the adoption of advanced tech solutions, to unify the process of collecting data content and organise patients’ healthcare records in the UAE by using single common terminologies within the “Riayati” platform. This contributes to sustainably consolidating digital systems and integrating encoded …

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, affirmed that the ‘Principles of the 50’ is a strategic roadmap for the country’s new era of political, economic and social development. These remarks by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid came during the …

The Ministry of Health and Prevention, MoHAP, announced on Monday that it conducted 314,018 additional COVID-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement, the Ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus …

The Abu Dhabi Emergency, Crisis and Disasters Committee for the Covid-19 Pandemic has announced a decreased Covid-19 infection rate in Abu Dhabi emirate of 0.2 per cent of total tests. This follows the implementation of the emirate’s strategy to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, and successes resulting from rigorous implementation of …

The Al Ain Criminal Court has convicted a young Emirati man of killing his father with 36 stab wounds and damaging his brother’s car as he tried to transport his father to hospital by deliberately crashing into it repeatedly. The murderer was sentenced to death by retribution after the aggrieved …

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Sunday went on a bike tour of Expo 2020 Dubai, as the world eagerly awaits the launch of the mega event next month. Expo 2020 Dubai will open its …

Sharjah Book Authority (SBA)’s global cultural campaign ‘If you’re into something, you’re into books’ has made its debut in Egypt, sending a powerful message in the local dialect on Cairo’s streets – there is a book for you no matter who you are, where you are from, or what your …