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HRW warns against COVID-19 outbreaks in UAE jails
Jun 11, 2020 03:11Human Rights Watch has warned against reported outbreaks of the novel coronavirus in a number of detention facilities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), calling on prison authorities to take urgent measures to protect the mental and physical health of prisoners.
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Qatar welcomes ‘real’ initiative meant to end Saudi-led blockade: Envoy
Jun 11, 2020 00:41Qatar’s Ambassador to Turkey Salem bin Mubarak Al Shafi says Doha welcomes any genuine initiative that would end the economic and diplomatic blockade Saudi Arabia and a number of its allies imposed on the gas-rich kingdom in June 2017.
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Egypt's ceasefire proposal for Libya aims to save Haftar: Turkey
Jun 10, 2020 12:07Turkey has slammed Egypt's proposal for a ceasefire in Libya as not sincere, saying the initiative aims to save renegade general Khalifa Haftar, whose fighters are losing ground in the war-torn country.
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Palestine says not informed of second UAE ‘aid flight via Israel’
Jun 10, 2020 05:28The Palestinian Authority (PA) says it has not been officially informed about the United Arab Emirates’ alleged dispatch of medical aid supplies to Palestinians via Israel after an Emirati plane said to be loaded with medical supplies landed in the Occupied Territories.
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Amid warming to Israel, UAE urges halt to annexation plans
Jun 01, 2020 09:44A minister of the United Arab Emirates has urged Israel to stop its plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, warning of a serious setback for the so-called West Asia peace process.
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Emirates lays off pilots, cabin crew due to coronavirus pandemic impact
Jun 01, 2020 01:21The Emirates Airline says it will cut some jobs in the face of the downturn over the coronavirus crisis, but did not specify the extent of the layoffs.
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UAE’s Etihad Airways makes first known flight to Occupied Palestine amid normalization attempts
May 20, 2020 04:39The United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s state-owned Etihad Airways has made a first known flight to the Israeli-Occupied Territories with the alleged goal of delivering aid to Palestinians as Arab regimes and Tel Aviv scale up their attempts to normalize relations.
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UN official says militants from Syria being sent to fight in Libya
May 19, 2020 13:20United Nations (UN) Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen says militants from the West Asian country are being sent to Libya to fight on both sides of the conflict there.
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At least 14 killed as UAE, Saudi mercenaries clash in south Yemen
May 17, 2020 05:24At least 14 UAE-backed southern separatists and Saudi-led militants have been killed as clashes between the two sides entered a sixth day in the Southern Yemeni Province of Abyan.
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UAE dispatched mercenaries to help rebels in Libya: UN report
May 17, 2020 05:18A confidential report by the United Nations says two private military companies based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have sent foreign mercenaries to support Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar in his offensive to seize the country’s capital Tripoli.