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Barclays announces key appointment in Abu Dhabi
A former Deutsche Bank, Citibank, Standard Chartered and BNP Paribas executive, Hammoud will be responsible for driving the Abu Dhabi business and will work closely with office heads in Singapore, Geneva, London and ...
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UAE death sentence torture dad took discipline a bit far says lawyer
DUBAI // A father convicted of torturing and killing his eight-year-old daughter has blamed the girl's injuries on his ex-wife. HS, 29, an Emirati, was providing his final submission to the Appeals Court, where he and his girlfriend are fighting convictions for torturing his two daughters, Wadeema and Mira, 7, as well as killing Wadeema. The father is appealing a death sentence, his ...
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Man found with 60 fake immigration stamps Dubai court told
DUBAI // A man was found with 60 fake immigration stamps, a court heard today. The Criminal Court heard that two Uzbeks were arrested in February last year while trying to use the stamps and when arrested led police to RK, 30, from Uzbekistan. Officers found forgery paraphernalia and some passports in his apartment. They were then led to another man's apartment, where they found more fake ...
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Free Ivy League education for all - now in Arabic
DUBAI // Courses from some of the world's top universities, including Stanford and Duke, will soon be available for free in Arabic thanks to a new initiative involving hundreds of UAE volunteers. Coursera, an online eduction company launched in the US last year by two Stanford professors, offers courses in English from dozens of leading institutions. Now it has teamed up the volunteer ...
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Increase in leisure and business travelers will give boost to Abu Dhabi this summer
Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) announced that airlines from around the globe will be increasing their weekly number of flights departing from and arriving at Abu Dhabi International Airport during the coming summer ...
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Alarm bells over future of Arabic language
Shop owners in Abu Dhabi must conform to a new standard of sign starting on July 1 - but Arabic still vies with English for attention. Sammy Dallal / The ...
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Le Royal Meridien Abu Dhabi supports Rose of Tralee nominee from Abu Dhabi
Le Royal Meridien Abu Dhabi has recently agreed to support the nominee from the Irish Community in Abu Dhabi to take part in 'The Rose of Tralee', one of the largest and longest running International Festivals, celebrating 54 years this ...
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Etihad Airways offers more choice for Europes travellers
Evolving partnerships between airlines in Europe and the Middle East are delivering significant new options for international air travellers, including reconnecting markets no longer served by European carriers, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Etihad Airways, Mr James Hogan, ...
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Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed grant names winners
Zayed University graduates to pursue master's and PhD programmes at home and abroad. Students were picked for their academic performance and for the relevance of their subjects to the country's development. Priority was given to students in education, social sciences, tourism, science, museum studies, health care, public administration, engineering and architecture. "This batch ...
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UAE weather warning Hazy conditions ahead
Motorists in the Western Region are being urged to take extra precautions because of haze, the National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology warned yesterday, although road conditions and visibility had improved last night. Winds made seas rough and those conditions will remain until tonight. Offshore waves reached 3.65 metres yesterday and winds hit 60kph. Sailors are advised to check ...
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Ramadan in the UAE Will science replace moon-spotting to start the Holy Month
ABU DHABI // The wait for the start of Ramadan is always an anxious one. After weeks of guesses and rumours about what the date will be, astronomers haul their telescopes to the highest point in their emirate and watch for the new crescent moon to usher in the Holy Month. But last week the French Muslim Council voted to do away with that, basing the start of Ramadan on astronomical calculations ...
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UAE government seeks to deliver e-services through multiple channels
The UAE government's long-term e-strategy is to provide all public online services to customers through multiple channels, according to the director general ...
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Can’t you beam me up Scotty
Anyone going to see a Star Trek movie expects a spectacular vision of the 23rd century, and the latest incarnation - which opened in the UAE last week - does not disappoint. Amid all the breath-taking vistas, impacts and explosions, it is almost comforting to see such "familiar" technology as phasers, transporters and warp drives. Dreamt up half a century ago by the creative genius ...
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Three years on memories of crash of Air Indias Dubai flight still haunt
Rescue work underway at the crash site of the Air India plane in Mangalore on 22 May 2010. About 150 people were killed when the plane flying from Dubai overshot the runway after landing at the Mangalore airport in south India. Jagadeesh NV / ...
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Study on UAE dolomite formation could pave way for future greener industries
Something unusual is happening on the UAE's coastal saltflats. A mineral known as dolomite - a crystalline rock containing calcium, magnesium and carbon - is slowly being formed. Not so odd, you might think - rocks are laid down all the time, albeit over many millions of years and under the right conditions. But dolomite is different. Until recently it was thought that it formed only ...
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Doctors urge action on the UAEs No 1 killer
DUBAI //Doctors have called for a centralised, long-term programme to tackle heart disease, the nation's biggest single killer. Heart disease is the cause of 25 per cent of deaths in the UAE, and the average age of contracting the disease is 15 years younger than in the western world. A national board should be set up under the federal government with a clear timetable for cutting the ...
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UAE graduates expectations must change experts urge
DUBAI // Be realistic when looking for your first job and seek out a workplace where you have opportunities to grow. This is the advice being given to thousands of graduates who will join the job market this month. Youth unemployment in the Middle East is the highest in the world, more than 25 per cent, and the UAE is not immune. To create the 100 million jobs required in the region by 2020, ...
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Singapore seeks to strengthen UAE ties
ABU DHABI // The arrival of Singapore's foreign minister, K Shanmugam, to the UAE tonight heralds a new era of political, diplomatic and economic ties between the two states, according to the country's ambassador. Mr Shanmugam, who is also the law minister, will visit the leadership during his two-day official visit and his counterparts, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, the Minister of ...
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Stigma about epilepsy is putting lives at risk warn UAE doctors
Social stigma about epilepsy and the mistaken belief that seizures are caused by djinn are putting the lives of sufferers and non-sufferers at risk, doctors warn. Such misconceptions mean cases often go undiagnosed, preventing patients from receiving the appropriate medical treatment and contributing to an underreporting of the condition. Doctors also say a lack of regulation on epileptics ...
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UAE doctors call for stricter laws to keep epileptic drivers off the roads
Doctors are calling for tougher legislation to govern the issuing of driving licences to epileptics. Sufferers of the condition are already banned from certain professions - such as aviation, driving public transport and operating heavy machinery - but doctors' advice to epileptic drivers of private vehicles is not legally binding, as it is in some western countries. "Someone with ...
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Wife beat husband with high heels Dubai court told
DUBAI // A woman beat her husband over the head with her high heels after he stopped her assaulting their maid, a court heard. The maid had stayed late on June 5 last year at their house in Al Barsha at the husband's request but this annoyed his wife, T M, 44, an Emirati, who started beating the woman. When the husband intervened, the wife assaulted him with her high heels and her ...
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Video CVs help UAE job-seekers get ahead
DUBAI // Like hundreds of young people before him, Abdulla Abbas struggled on the job hunt. After nine months of fruitless knocking on employers' doors, he created a video CV last month on the newly launched non-profit InternsME portal. "After it was uploaded, I was amazed at how quickly I got a call - within two days," said Mr Abbas, 25, who will graduate soon from the Canadian ...
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UAE patients speak out about coping with the stigma of epilepsy
Aiysha Nasser, an epilepsy patient, at a doctor's office in the neurology department at the Sheikh Khalifa Medical Center in Abu Dhabi. Silvia Razgova / The ...
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Dubai designer becomes first Saudi woman to conquer Everest
DUBAI // A 25-year-old graphic designer in Dubai yesterday became the first Saudi woman to climb Mount Everest. Raha Moharrak, originally from Jeddah, began the climb in early April in a fund-raising campaign for education in Nepal. She reached the 8,850-metre summit yesterday morning. She is part of the Arabs with Altitude group that includes Sheikh Mohammed Al Thani, a member of the Qatar ...
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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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