A German being tried in a bribery case at the Dubai Criminal Court will have to wait until December 9 for the verdict. TH, an administrative manager at the Bavaria Hotel in Dubai, has been accused of demanding a Dh385,000 bribe in return for...

Thuraya Telecommunications Company, a leading mobile satellite operator, has expanded the distribution chain for its competitive satellite broadband services in Europe. The provision of Thuraya's mobile satellite handhelds by Applied Satellite...

Dubai Chamber will be the guarantor of customs tariffs within the framework of the Istanbul Convention, agreed the Federal Customs Authority and the UAE's chambers of commerce and industry. Dubai Chamber has capabilities, technological...

Minister of Labour Saqr Ghobash Saeed Ghobash has issued a ministerial circulation according to which all private sector employees in the UAE shall enjoy a paid Eid Al Adha holiday from Thursday, November 26, to Saturday, November 28. Also they...

The remains of two bodies British experts found in eastern Lebanon were being tested Wednesday to determine if they included that of British journalist Alec Collett, a security source said. The nine-member British team, comprising specialists...

A team from the UAE Red Crecsent Authority continued to provide humanitarian aid to the displaced people at Al Marzouq1 camp in Yemen, following the events in Saada. The team members distributed 800 food parcels to the displaced people as part...

A senior Iranian military official on Tuesday accused Saudi Arabia of killing Shi'ite Muslims in Yemen and denounced it as the onset of "Wahhabi state terrorism," the official IRNA news agency reported. In another sign of increased...

Japan's prime minister said on Wednesday that his government had not confirmed the release of a Japanese engineer kidnapped by tribesmen in Yemen, after sources there said he had been freed. "Unfortunately, I have not confirmed that he has...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai was sworn in for a second term on Thursday, straining under Western pressure to eradicate corruption and restore legitimacy as a US-led war stretches into a ninth year. Karzai took the oath of office with a...

A suicide bomber struck outside a Pakistan court, killing 16 people on Thursday in the sixth attack on the northwestern city in 11 days as troops press a major anti-Taliban offensive. The bomb exploded at the main gate of the building near...

US President Barack Obama, defending plans to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civilian court, predicted Wednesday that the accused September 11 author would be convicted and executed. And US Attorney General Eric Holder assured lawmakers that...

South Korea deployed some 13,000 police and soldiers to guard President Barack Obama during his visit but pro-US demonstrators heavily outnumbered protesters in central Seoul Thursday. "Welcome Obama!" chanted an estimated 3,000 activists...