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UAE, EU tackle combating money laundering, terrorist financing

Date: 2021-04-26 14:03:31 GMT - United Arab Emirates - Arab world - SN:53 - ID:8929660

ABU DHABI, April 26 (MENA) - The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC) held a virtual workshop with European Union officials on 5th and 6th April, discussing the importance of a multi-agency approach to parallel ....

Putin, Assad discuss Russian COVID-19 vaccine supplies to Syria: Kremlin

Date: 2021-04-26 13:38:54 GMT - Russia - Arab world - SN:51 - ID:8929503

MOSCOW, April 26 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syria's President Bashar al-Assad discussed Russian vaccine supplies to Syria and cooperation against COVID-19 during a phone call on Monday, the Kremlin said as quoted by Sputnik news ....

Putin, Assad discuss supplies of Russian Covid vaccines to Syria

Date: 2021-04-26 12:39:44 GMT - Russia - Arab world - SN:46 - ID:8929447

MOSCOW, April 24 (MENA) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has discussed the issue of supplying Russian coronavirus vaccines to Syria in a phone call with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad, the Kremlin was quoted by TASS as saying Monday ....

UAE records 1,759 new COVID-19 cases, two deaths

Date: 2021-04-26 11:52:16 GMT - United Arab Emirates - Arab world - SN:43 - ID:8929238

ABU DHABI, April (MENA) - The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 160,390 additional COVID-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment, according to WAM news agency. In a ....

AL chief, UN envoy confer on developments in Yemen

Date: 2021-04-26 11:10:13 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:40 - ID:8929165

CAIRO, April 26 (MENA) - Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit met Monday with UN envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths to discuss the latest developments in the war-torn Arab country. The meeting comes in the wake of a military escalation ....

Iraqi PM orders treating Baghdad hospital fire's critical cases abroad

Date: 2021-04-25 20:26:27 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:91 - ID:8928425

BAGHDAD, April 25 (MENA) - Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Khadhimi directed on Sunday the concerned bodies to send the critical cases, who were wounded in Baghdad's Ibn al-Khatib hospital's blaze, abroad for treatment. Khadhimi ordered offering ....

Syrian court gets 3 more applications from presidential hopefuls

Date: 2021-04-25 19:11:32 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:88 - ID:8928278

DAMASCUS, April 25 (MENA) - Speaker of the People’s Assembly of Syria Hammoudah Sabbagh said that the assembly received three notices from the Supreme Constitutional Court about applications from three presidential hopefuls, raising the number of ....

Tayyeb: Al-Azhar ready to provide relief to Baghdad hospital fire victims

Date: 2021-04-25 18:15:54 GMT - Egypt - Arab world - SN:85 - ID:8928185

CAIRO, April 25 (MENA) - Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed el Tayyeb stressed Sunday that Al-Azhar is ready to assist with all its medical resources to help the victims of a huge hospital fire in Iraq's capital Baghdad on Saturday. "Our sincere ....

Morocco reports 326 new coronavirus cases, 4 deaths

Date: 2021-04-25 17:31:44 GMT - Morocco - Arab world - SN:80 - ID:8928269

RABAT, April 25 (MENA) - Some 326 new coronavirus cases were recorded in Morocco during the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of Covid-19 infections in the country to 509,363. Four new virus-related deaths were also registered during the ....

UAE operates first flight to support stability in African Sahel region

Date: 2021-04-25 16:26:01 GMT - United Arab Emirates - Arab world - SN:79 - ID:8928218

ABU DHABI, April 25 (MENA) - The UAE Ministry of Defense has announced that it is operating logistical support flights to support the efforts of the international community, led by France, to combat terrorism in the Sahel region of Africa and ....