News
Farage’s Reform UK says visa freezes would force faster return of people with no right to remain, including overstayers and offenders.
Business
Egypt’s central bank says remittances from citizens abroad rose 40.5% in 2025 to a record $41.5bn, up from $29.6bn in 2024.
Travel
flydubai will start twice-daily Dubai DXB to Bangkok, Don Mueang flights on Sept. 15, 2026, lifting Thailand service to 28 weekly flights via Emirates codeshare.
Sports
Jessica Pegula beat Elina Svitolina 6-2, 6-4 in Dubai to win her first Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships title and 10th career trophy.
Elina Svitolina and Jessica Pegula reached the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships final after three-set semifinal wins in Dubai on Feb. 20.
The ICC removed Bangladesh from the 2026 men’s T20 World Cup after it refused to play scheduled matches in India, replacing the team with Scotland.
Cote d’Ivoire and Algeria reached the AFCON quarter-finals in Morocco after winning round of 16 matches in Marrakech and Rabat as the knockout stage continued.
Ousmane Dembélé wins FIFA The Best 2025 in Doha, capping a record PSG season and earning football’s top global individual award.
TASHKENT, December 13, 2025: Mohammed Ben Sulayem has been re-elected as President of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA),…
Sheikh Khaled met McLaren CEO Zak Brown in Abu Dhabi to discuss AI, innovation, and global motorsport partnerships driving future automotive technology.
Iran’s football federation will boycott the 2026 FIFA World Cup draw in Washington after visa denials for key officials.
Health
WHO prequalified an additional novel oral polio vaccine type 2, a more genetically stable nOPV2 that can now be procured by UNICEF for outbreak response in 2026.
Technology
OpenAI will take 100MW of AI data center capacity in India from Tata’s TCS HyperVault, scalable to 1GW, under its OpenAI for India initiative.
