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‘My parents thought they’d lost their child’ recounts UAE epileptic patient
When Mariam started fainting at the age of 12 her parents did not take her to a doctor. She was taken instead to a mosque near their home in Ajman, where the religious cleric read the Quran over her.It was not until three years later after she suffered a severe seizure in class that her school advised her parents to seek medical help."I just remember sitting at my desk in maths class and ...
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Work on cables means slow connection for Du users
Du broadband subscribers may experience slow internet Sunday and Monday due to maintenance on two subsea communication cables. The Europe India Gateway cable system will undergo maintenance on Monday from 4.30am until 4.30pm. The Falcon system will undergo maintenance from 9am until 9am on Monday. "We have made sufficient provisions to re-route broadband traffic through alternative cable ...
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Emirati photographer part of exhibition that explores Arab identity in political funny and unforeseen forms
An image from the Emirati photographer Lamia Gargash's series Through The Looking Glass, which is a collection of portraits showing people with and without prosthetics. Courtesy Lamia Gargash / Third Line ...
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Ras Al Khaimah feels tremors from Iran earthquake
ABU DHABI // Ras Al Khaimah felt the effects of a 5.5-magnitude earthquake at 2pm today. The epicentre was 230km northeast of Ras Al Khaimah in southeast Iran, the UAE National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology reported. The tremor had "no effect" on the UAE and would not have been felt by most residents, the centre reported. The earthquake registered as a three on the Mercalli ...
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Lucy Orta brings her message to Abu Dhabi’s TEDxWWF One Planet Living
was installed in St Pancras International station in London and a series of river nymphs were unveiled in and around the French city of Marseille. Although they are quite different, Orta describes them as branches from the same trunk; an exploration into the subject of water through contemporary art that she and her husband Jorge have been working on for many years. This week, Orta is in Abu ...
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UAE motorists urged to take care in high winds
ABU DHABI // Motorists are being warned of reduced visibility as winds of up to 60kph whip up dust into the air. Winds are expected to get stronger until 3pm today, according to the National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology."We expect the horizontal visibility to deteriorate in some places to be less than 2,000 meters," said a spokesman. "Precautions must be taken by drivers ...
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Emirati announces new film project at Cannes
Gillian Anderson is fired up in 'The Fall', but Whicher is suspiciously dull ; The former 'X-Files' star channels her inner Helen Mirren in a new crime drama set in ...
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