Riyadh: Yemen’s Iran-allied Al Houthi militants maintain “strong” links with the terrorist Al Qaida and Daesh groups, an Arab alliance official said late Monday. ### “This relation has been there since Al Houthis’ coup against legitimacy,” spokesman for the alliance Colonel Turki Al Maliki said in Riyadh, according to the official Saudi news agency SPA….
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Dubai: Sovereign investors from the Middle East are increasingly focusing on investment opportunities in emerging markets, particularly China, according to the Global Sovereign Asset Management Study by Invesco, an independent global investment management firm. ### The latest and the seventh edition of the study, an annual in-depth report on the complex investment behaviour of sovereign…
San Juan, Puerto Rico: Authorities say a toddler apparently slipped from her grandfather’s hands and fell to her death from a cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico. ### Police said Monday that the grandfather of the 1-year-old girl from Indiana told officers he lost his grip while holding her outside a window on the 11th…
DUBAI: If you have got a purported email from Mashreq Bank asking you to seek value added tax (VAT) refunds by submitting your bank details, banish the thought. It’s a phishing scam! ### Of late, several Mashreq Bank customers have got a dodgy email saying they are eligible to receive over Dh10,000 in VAT refunds…
ABU DHABI: The UAE provided $5.59 billion in foreign assistance to Yemen between April 2015 and June 2019, which was used to help rebuild various sectors in the country, including vital infrastructure and to restore health and social services. ### In data obtained by the Emirates News Agency from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and…
The struggle between capitalism and socialism is back. “America will never be a socialist country,” President Donald Trump tells us, even as Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez champion democratic socialism. At the same time, a consensus is growing — from Ray Dalio, the billionaire hedge fund manager, to Joseph Stiglitz, the economist and…
Dubai: The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) has launched the most recent edition of the UAE Financial Stability Report (FSR). ### CBUAE noted that the UAE banking system remains sound, with sufficient capitalisation and liquidity reserves, solid financial performance and high operating efficiency. Additionally, the regulatory stress test demonstrated that the UAE banking system…
Abu Dhabi: His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, yesterday received the credentials of several foreign ambassadors to the UAE at the Palace of the Nation in Abu Dhabi. ### Shaikh Mohammad received the credentials from ambassadors of Thailand, Nepal, Ethiopia, Azerbaijan, Kosovo,…
Manchester: The retirement of any cricketer, or a top flight sportsperson, is always an emotional affair. South Africa’s Imran Tahir and J.P. Duminy played the last One Day International matches of their career at Old Trafford in their 10-run win over Australia on Saturday. ### South African skipper Faf du Plessis gave the biggest compliment…