KHARTOUM, SUDAN -  A first Red Cross plane laden with humanitarian aid on Sunday landed in Sudan, where deadly clashes between rival generals' forces have entered their third week. "The eight tonnes of humanitarian cargo includes surgical material to support Sudanese hospitals and volunteers from the Sudan Red Crescent Society," the...

DUBAI, UAE - Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has received 29 expressions of interest (EOIs) to implement the first phase of its 120 Million Gallons Per Day (MIGD) Hassyan Sea Water Reverse Osmosis Plant (SWRO) Project using the Independent Water Producer (IWP) model. This is the first project implemented...

While Qatar feverishly seeks to complete work on hotels and apartments for the World Cup fans, its squad for the games trained on home territory for the first time in four months in a Doha stadium. The team had been kept away from the glare of media in Spain and...

A cruise ship docked in a Tunisian port on Wednesday for the first time since 2019, carrying over 700 passengers and rare good news for tourism operators battered by the Covid pandemic.

Sahar Al Rasti, the first Emirati female ship captain, said that working behind the rudders of ships for long days, and challenging the waves of the sea requires a lot of determination and passion as well.

Aleastur, top European metal producer, has set up first plant for aluminum grain refiners and master alloys production in Bahrain.

Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada addressed supporters in the southern city of Kandahar, officials announced Sunday, his first public appearance since taking control of the group in 2016.  

Halliburton, the US oil field service giant, is in the final stages of building the first reactor plant for the manufacture of chemicals in King Salman Energy City “Spark” in Jubail, and production will begin in the first quarter of 2022.

The meeting, during which a ministerial statement is to be drafted to be submitted to a confidence vote in parliament, opened in the presence of President Michel Aoun. He said in a statement he hoped the committee would pursue negotiations with the International Monetary Fund.

An international commercial flight touched down in the Afghan capital on Monday, the first since the Taliban retook power last month.

An American startup Eat Just has tied up with Doha Venture Capital (DVC) and Qatar Free Zones Authority (QFZ) to build the first-ever cultivated meat facility in the region. 

TAQA, the Abu-Dhabi government’s energy holding company, has reported a 42 percent jump in its net income for HI 2021 to $790 million compared to the same period last year, after a big contribution from the oil and gas segment.

Imports had the lion’s share at AED2.551 billion, followed by exports at AED549.782 million, and re-exports at AED137.473 million, Ahmed Mahboob Musabih, Director General of Dubai Customs, said.

Hyde will work with Emerald Palace Group to develop the property The hotel will be located in Business Bay For the first time in its history, Hyde will launch its first property outside the US in Dubai during the later part of the year. Hyde, a brand under global hospitality...

Matrooshi, 28, hopes she will have the opportunity to visit space one day She and her fellow countryman, Mohammad Al-Mulla, will train at NASA DUBAI: The UAE’s Nora Al-Matrooshi is the first Arab woman to start training to be an astronaut, one of two Emiratis picked from thousands of applicants...

  Bahrain’s biggest telecommunications firm has hired the investment arm of Samba Tadawul has been trying to encourage Middle Eastern firms to dual list for years, without success   Although the final decision has not been yet taken about the listing of the company on Tadawul, but if it gets...