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The initiative aims to enable participants to exchange experiences, share global best practices, and engage in research to identify treatments, vaccines, and effective screening tools while discussing measures to restore normalcy and build upon the positive outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic to prepare for future crises. — WAM photo

June 6, 2020

UAE forges partnerships with countries, international organizations to combat COVID-19

ABU DHABI — To protect the future of human health, advanced research centers and laboratories in the United Arab Emirates are pursuing bilateral partnerships with international organizations and countries to combat COVID-19.UAE research centers and laboratories have begun to prepare to establish bilateral partnerships with the United Nations and the World Health Organization, in addition to several countries, including the United States, Russia, United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy, China, India, Brazil, ...

June 6, 2020

Qatar still supports terrorism, interferes into countries’ internal matters: Bahrain’s papers

MANAMA — Bahraini newspapers on Friday focused on the Qatari crisis, marking three years after the four countries — Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt and the UAE — calling for combating terrorism announced their boycott of Qatar.The "Al-Watan" newspaper, in its editorial entitled “Qatar’s Black Day”, said that it is a “dark occasion” that brings to mind Qatar’s bad actions and massive involvement in hostility to its neighbors in the Arabian ...

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June 6, 2020

Violators of coronavirus guidelines in UAE named and shamed, albeit partially

Saudi Gazette reportABU DHABI — With an aim to name and shame, albeit partially, the Public Prosecution’s office in the United Arab Emirates has published photos with abbreviated names of the individuals who were recently caught in violation of the country’s coronavirus precautionary guidelines.The violations committed included failure to comply with quarantine facilities' measures, leaving home during curfew, not adhering to quarantine instructions and violating compulsory hospitalization, violating prohibitions and ...

The United Arab Emirates on Friday announced 624 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of coronavirus infections in the country to 37,642. — Courtesy photo

June 6, 2020

UAE records 624 new coronavirus cases, 1 more death

Saudi Gazette reportABU DHABI — The United Arab Emirates on Friday announced 624 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of coronavirus infections in the country to 37,642, according to a statement from the Ministry of Health and Prevention carried by WAM.The new cases were detected as a result of the ministry’s intensified testing campaign to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out the necessary treatments.According to ...

Late September sunrise as seen from Paalijärvi observation tower in Alajärvi, Finland. May 2020, was the warmest on record, UN weather agency WMO has confirmed. — courtesy WMO/Tapio Niemi

June 5, 2020

May confirmed as warmest on record, CO2 levels hit new high despite COVID economic slowdown

NEW YORK — Last month was the warmest May on record and carbon dioxide levels also hit a new high despite the economic slowdown from COVID-19, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday, in an urgent appeal for member states to renew their efforts to tackle climate threats.“Governments are going to invest in recovery, and there’s an opportunity to tackle the climate as part of the recovery program,” said ...

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June 5, 2020

ICESCO calls for joint action to conserve biological diversity

RABAT — The Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) called for joint action to conserve biological diversity, and to adopt a joint environmental action proposal based on lessons learned from the novel Coronavirus crisis, especially those related to the preservation and balance of environmental diversity in various ecosystems, in forests, seas, agricultural systems, ecotourism and urban environment.In a statement issued Friday on the occasion of the World Environment ...

The report detailed suspected activities and materials including “the possible presence... of natural uranium in the form of a metal disc” at a site that “underwent extensive sanitization and leveling in 2003 and 2004”, the report said, describing the third site. — Courtesy photo

June 5, 2020

IAEA voices 'serious concern' over Iran’s uranium enrichment

VIENNA — Iran is continuing to enrich uranium at increasing levels and is in breach of safeguards agreement obligations, the International Atomic Energy Agency has found.In its a confidential report shared with member states and seen by journalists in Vienna on Friday, the UN nuclear watchdog expressed its "serious concern" that Iran continues to deny access to two locations of concern and not engaged in substantive discussions about possible undeclared ...

Kuwait Health Ministry said that the first shipment of Japanese medicine Avigan will arrive in the country next week, after positive results in the clinical trials to treat coronavirus.

June 5, 2020

Kuwait to get Avigan COVID-19 drug from Japan next week

KUWAIT — The first shipment of Japanese medicine Avigan will arrive in the country next week, after positive results in the clinical trials to treat coronavirus conducted by many countries, said Kuwait’s Health Ministry on Friday.In a statement to KUNA, the Ministry’s Assistant Undersecretary for Medicines and Medical Equipment Affairs, Dr. Abdullah Al-Bader, affirmed that the first shipment of the drug comes within the emergency response and humanitarian purposes and ...

The ministry also reported five more virus-related in the Sultanate, taking the total number of fatalities in the country to 72. — Courtesy photo

June 5, 2020

Oman reports 770 new coronavirus cases, 5 deaths

Saudi GazetteMUSCAT — Oman on Friday confirmed 770 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total number of COVID-19 infections in the Sultanate to 15,086, the country’s health ministry said in a statement carried by the state news agency ONA.The ministry also reported five more virus-related in the Sultanate, taking the total number of fatalities in the country to 72.Of the cases, there are 343 Omanis and 427 expatriates. There are 60 ...

Dubai’s security officials arrested Amir Faten Mekky, a Danish national, on the evening of Wednesday.

June 5, 2020

Dubai State Security arrests notorious international crime boss

DUBAI — In a sting operation, Dubai’s security officials arrested Amir Faten Mekky, a Danish national, on the evening of Wednesday (June 3).Mekky is the leader of one of the most dangerous international crime rings involved in murder, drug trafficking and money laundering.Mekky, who is wanted by Interpol, is associated with one of the world’s most notorious international criminals Radwan Al-Taghi, the head of the ‘Angels of Death’ gang, who ...

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