Gulf

Shaikh Mohammad announced the Dh6.3b tourism project, which will break ground in June 2017 and will be completed by late 2020 Dubai, May 14, 2017 (GN): His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the ...

The price of gold in the so-called “City of Gold” is not getting any higher. As of 10:09 in the morning, the price of Dubai gold continues to fall, with the 24-carat gold hitting Dh147.75 mark, a drop from yesterday’s ...

Washington: United States President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster has said that the former made the decision to begin his first foreign trip in Saudi Arabia in order to deliver a message of peace and unity ...

Dubai: At least one person was killed on Saturday in a fire that broke out on a ship carrying petroleum products docked at a port in Sharjah. Four people were injured in the fire that was extinguished in the afternoon ...

Dubai: Dubai Police have arrested a six-member gang who stole Dh3 million from a money transporting vehicle, police said on Thursday. Major-General Khalil Ebrahim Al Mansouri, Assistant to the Dubai Police Chief for Criminal Investigation Affairs, said that police received ...

Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, issued a special message, marking the growth of Emirates over the decades. Emirates Group posted a Dh2.5 billion profit, announced earlier ...

Dubai: Dubai’s public buses have seen almost one million more riders in the first quarter of this year, up 2.5 per cent over the year before. In the first quarter of this year, the emirate’s buses saw 38,616,365 riders, up ...

More than 1,600 stones of different sizes were removed from the gallbladder of a 40-year-old woman at Khalifa General Hospital in Umm Al Quwain on Thursday. Dr. Tahir Hilmi, head of the medical team and general surgery and surgical endoscopy ...

A woman who was arrested on charges of entering the UAE illegally through a border has been languishing in a Dubai jail for three years after two East European countries refused to allow her entry. The Dubai Human Rights is ...

Riyadh: Saudi Government decided to get rid of all expatriate workers from all ministries and Govt. Departments. According to Dy. Minister, Abdullah Al-Melfi, Ministry of Civil Service instructed all ministries and government departments to remove all expatriate workers before 2020. ...

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday announced its decision to stop hiring foreign dentists to provide job opportunities for locals. The decision, announced by the Labour Ministry, aims to encourage the private sector to hire more locals in the medical area, ...

Sharjah: A Gulf Cooperation National in Sharjah was injured by three other women, breaking her thumb and afflicting minor cuts on her body, when she demanded them to delete the selfie. According, to the Sharjah police, the woman was in ...

Muscat: Two people have been arrested for possession of narcotics, the ROP announced Sunday. The Department of Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, led by the Wusta Governorate Police, arrested two people in the Haima province for charges of possession and abuse ...

Iran will hit back at most of Saudi Arabia with the exception of Islam’s holiest places if the kingdom does anything “ignorant”, Tehran’s defense minister was quoted as saying on Sunday after a Saudi prince threatened to move the “battle” ...