- ABU DHABI, UAE - The Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (ADDED) has launched the 'Abu Dhabi Smart Manufacturing Index',...
The Index empowers manufacturers with the necessary knowledge and training to initiate an Industry 4.0 transformation journey.
It breaks down sophisticated concepts into six building blocks to provide a clear and easy-to-follow roadmap.
- Two major opposition groups, the Shiite Al-Wefaq and the secular Waad, were prevented from presenting candidates. These parties were dissolved...
The Bahrain News Agency published the list of 34 candidates who won seats in the second round of parliamentary elections on Saturday.
More than 330 candidates, including a record 73 women, ran for a seat on the council of representatives -- the lower house of parliament.
- Kyiv and Moscow traded accusations of shelling on the territory of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant that Russia controls in...
The Russian army said missiles exploded around a power line that feeds the plant, the fourth and fifth power units and "special building number 2".
Renat Karchaa, an advisor to the Russian nuclear agency Rosatom, told state-run agency TASS that the "special building" contained nuclear fuel.
- GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - Switzerland regretted Sunday that the COP27 climate summit outcome does not impose obligations on the highest greenhouse...
There was disappointment in some quarters over COP27's stand on cutting emissions.
There were concerns that no resolutions were passed on phasing out coal and reducing subsidies for oil and gas
- When FIFA announced the deal for direct Israel-Qatar flights on November 10, it claimed that "Palestinian ticket holders and media"...
But it was not immediately clear to what extent Palestinian residents of the Israeli-occupied West Bank or blockaded Gaza Strip would have access to the charter.
Israeli foreign ministry official Lior Haiat, at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, told AFP that "history has been made," with the "first direct flight from Tel Aviv to Doha."
- Activists on Sunday expressed alarm that Iran was implementing a major crackdown in a Kurdish-populated town that has seen intense...
Iran's clerical leadership has been shaken by more than two months of protests sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini
The Norway-based Hengaw rights group said "armed troops" had been despatched to Mahabad from Urmia, the main city of West Azerbaijan province
- The summit drew praise for the "loss and damage" fund to help vulnerable countries cope with the destructive impacts of...
It is more than frustrating to see overdue steps on mitigation being stonewalled by a number of large emitters and oil producers, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.
"This COP has taken an important step towards justice. I welcome the decision to establish a loss and damage fund," said UN chief Antonio Guterres.
- Idlib, Syria— More than 300 children in rebel-held northwest Syria kicked off their own football World Cup on Saturday, with organizers...
Ibrahim Sarmini of the NGO Violet, which organized the tournament, said children aged 10 to 14 have been training for months to take part in the "camps World Cup"
The Idlib region is home to about three million people, around half of them displaced
- A week after the deadly Istanbul bombing, which Ankara blamed on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Turkey carried out air...
Turkey considers the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) -- the main component of the SDF -- an extension of the outlawed PKK
Both the PKK and the YPG have denied any involvement in the Istanbul attack, in which six people were killed
- The pact were inked during the B20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia.
The pacts will allow AMMROC to expand its MRO capabilities and consolidate its status as a key enabler of a sustainable domestic defense sector in the UAE.
The cooperation will further expand to the joint promotion of the N219 and NC212 aircraft in the Middle East and Africa markets.





















