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Faked video targeting France and UAE likely Russian despite Moscow's links to Gulf Arab states

Sep. 13, 2024 03:25 AM EDT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A fake video that ricocheted across the internet claiming tensions between France and the United Arab Emirates after Telegram CEO Pavel Durov's detention in Paris likely came from Russia, an analysis by The Associated Press shows, despite Moscow's efforts to...

Francine strengthens into a hurricane in the Gulf as Louisiana prepares for storm to make landfall Wednesday

Sep. 10, 2024 19:39 PM EDT
MIAMI (AP) — Francine strengthens into a hurricane in the Gulf as Louisiana prepares for storm to make landfall Wednesday.

The US sanctions a man it says leads a fuel theft ring for hyper-violent Mexican cartel

Sep. 10, 2024 14:16 PM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Close to the leadership of Mexico’s hyper-violent Jalisco New Generation cartel is a man known as “the tank" who leads its fuel theft arm, supplying it with tens of millions of dollars a year by selling stolen gasoline through a network of seemingly legitimate businesses,...

Oman state-run oil firm OQ will make initial public offering and potentially seek billions

Sep. 09, 2024 06:47 AM EDT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Omani state-run oil and gas company announced Monday it will make an initial public offering of its exploration and production business, potentially seeking billions in a major move toward privatization in the sultanate. OQ, formerly known as...

Taliban vice and virtue laws provide 'distressing vision' for Afghanistan, warns UN envoy

Aug. 25, 2024 10:38 AM EDT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban’s new vice and virtue laws that include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public provide a “distressing vision” for Afghanistan’s future, a top U.N. official warned Sunday. Roza Otunbayeva, who heads the U.N. mission in the country,...

The UAE accepts credentials of Taliban ambassador in a major diplomatic win for Afghanistan’s rulers

Aug. 21, 2024 12:51 PM EDT

ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday accepted the credentials of the Taliban’s ambassador to the oil-rich Gulf Arab state, the biggest diplomatic coup for Afghanistan’s rulers who are not officially recognized as the country’s legitimate government. The...

Floods and climate change blamed for surge in dengue in the Emirates as WHO warns of global spike

Jul. 24, 2024 10:33 AM EDT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Since the United Arab Emirates witnessed its heaviest recorded rainfall ever three months ago, the desert nation has issued a multitude of warnings about dengue which, activists say, has surged and struck hardest among the vast populations of laborers. ...

UAE sentences Bangladeshi nationals to prison over protests against their home government

Jul. 22, 2024 06:21 AM EDT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A court in the United Arab Emirates sentenced dozens of Bangladeshi nationals to prison, including three for life imprisonment, over protests against their home government in the Gulf country, state media reported Monday. The Abu Dhabi Federal...

UAE orders a trial of Bangladeshi nationals arrested for protesting their home government

Jul. 22, 2024 02:10 AM EDT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Authorities in the United Arab Emirates ordered an investigation and an expedited trial of Bangladeshi nationals arrested for protesting against their home government across the Gulf country, state media reported. The protests in the UAE followed...

In attack that shocks quiet Oman, gunmen kill 6 and wound dozens more at a Shiite mosque

Jul. 16, 2024 22:13 PM EDT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Several gunmen burst into a Shiite mosque in the Gulf Arab state of Oman and opened fire, killing six people and wounding nearly 30 more, authorities said Tuesday, stunning the peaceful sultanate and making it the country's deadliest such attack in recent...