UAE bans live birds from Hungary and Slovakia

    Dubai: Based on a notification from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) of the outbreak of a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu, H5N2, in Hungary and Slovakia, the UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE), on Wednesday announced that it has banned the import of all species of domestic and wild live…

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      UAE Team Emirates kick off season in Australia

      Dubai: The 2020 UCI World Tour gets under way with the Tour Down Under in less than a week’s time. The UAE Team Emirates riders will face just over 900km of racing and more than 1,200km of climbing. Key general classification stages include Stage 2 to Stirling, with its uphill finish, an even stiffer uphill…

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        Will America ever learn from history?

        It was the week that was, a week that brought our region to the brink, after Iraqi militias allied with Iran fired missiles at an American base near Kirkuk on December 27 and, six days later, an American drone killed General Qassem Suleimani, Iran’s top military honcho in the Middle East. ### In diplomacy, brinkmanship,…

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