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EU, UAE pledge to rally support for global renewable energy goals ahead of COP28 summit
A view of the United Nations Climate Change Conference flags at the venue, in Bonn, Germany, June 6, 2023. REUTERS/Jana Rodenbusch
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Brookfield enters race for Network International with US$2.7-billion proposal
FILE PHOTO: People walk to Brookfield Place off Bay Street on the day of the annual general meeting for Brookfield Asset Management shareholders in Toronto, May 7, 2014. REUTERS/Mark Blinch
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Leaked U.S. intel: Russia operatives claimed new ties with UAE
FILE - Luxury towers dominate the skyline in the Marina district, center, and the new Dubai Harbour development, right, are seen from the observation deck of "The View at The Palm Jumeirah" in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, April 6, 2021. The head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergey Naryshkin, held extensive meetings with United Arab Emirates leaders in Dubai in 2020. A U.S. official separately has told the AP that the United States also was worried about Russian money coming into Dubai's red-hot real estate market. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)
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United Arab Emirates leader designates his eldest son as crown prince of Abu Dhabi
This is a locator map for the Gulf Cooperation Council member states: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait and United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo)
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Senior Iranian official visits UAE on heels of Saudi deal
A handout picture released by the Emirati presidency shows the United Arab Emirates' top national security adviser Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed al-Nahyan during (R) during a meeting with the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani in Abu Dhabi on March 16, 2023. Portrait in the background shows the founder of the UAE, late leader Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan. (Photo by Hamad AL-KAABI / UAE PRESIDENTIAL COURT / AFP) / === RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / HO / UAE PRESIDENTIAL COURT" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS === (Photo by HAMAD AL-KAABI/UAE PRESIDENTIAL COURT/AFP via Getty Images)
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Human Rights Watch accuses UAE of arbitrarily detaining as many as 2,700 Afghan evacuees
UAE flag flies over a boat at Dubai Marina, Dubai, United Arab Emirates May 22, 2015. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah/File Photo
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SpaceX launches four astronaut crew to space station for NASA
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Pad 39-A Thursday, March 2, 2023, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Four astronauts are beginning a mission to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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UAE museum unveils Torah scroll that survived the Holocaust in tolerance push
Ahmed al-Mansoori, director of the "Crossroads of Civilizations Museum", shows visitors around a gallery at the facility in Dubai on January 11, 2023. - The Holocaust Gallery, which opened in 2021 and includes rifles pointing at a life-size cut-out of a boy, photos of the dead and religious scrolls, is also a first for the Arab world. The United Arab Emirates plans to teach school students about the Holocaust, signalling warming ties with Israel, a country that is widely condemned in the Arab world over the Palestinian conflict. The move comes after the UAE agreed to normalise ties under the US-brokered 2020 Abraham Accords along with Bahrain and Morocco, decades after Egypt and Jordan had forged relations. (Photo by Karim SAHIB / AFP) (Photo by KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images)
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South Korean president travels to UAE, seeks arms sales
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, center left, and Emirati leader Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan walk past an honor guard at Qasar Al Watan in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023. Yoon received an honor guard welcome Sunday on a trip to the United Arab Emirates, where Seoul hopes to expand its military sales while finishing its construction of the Arabian Peninsula's first nuclear power plant. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
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UAE taps oil boss to lead COP28 climate summit, worrying activists
(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 11, 2019, the United Arab Emirates' minister of state and CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, addresses the opening ceremony of the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) in the Emirati capital. - The head of the United Arab Emirates' national oil company was named as president of this year's COP28 climate talks on January 12, 2023, promising a "pragmatic" approach to climate action. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Trump ally Tom Barrack’s UAE ties not ‘nefarious’, defence says
FILE - Tom Barrack leaves Brooklyn Federal Court, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Barrack, a longtime associate of Donald Trump purposely tried to mislead a jury about how he used his access to the former president to secretly promote the interests of the United Arab Emirates, a prosecutor said on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022 at a foreign influence trial. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
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Germany hails first delivery of ‘green’ hydrogen from UAE
UAE Industry Minister Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber speaks during an official ceremony to mark the first arrival of an ammonia delivery from the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company in the harbor in Hamburg, Germany October 21, 2022. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer
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Germany secures more gas shipments as Olaf Scholz visits Gulf
United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan meets with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, September 25, 2022. UAE Presidential Court/Handout via REUTERS
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Israel to sell air defence system to United Arab Emirates, sources say
FILE PHOTO: Flags of United Arab Emirates and Israel flutter during Israel's National Day ceremony at Expo 2020 Dubai, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, January 31, 2022. REUTERS/Christopher Pike/File Photo
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Mass firing at UAE newspaper raises question of censorship
A cleaner sweeps the reception area at the Al Roeya newspaper's offices in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sept. 3, 2022. A state-linked newspaper in the United Arab Emirates published a story this summer about a hot-button issue in the country: How Emiratis are coping with high fuel prices. It ended up seeing over 40 people fired and the paper was declared dissolved. The purge at Al Roeya reflects the intense challenges facing local journalists in the autocratic UAE, even as it courts Western media companies. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
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Canada agrees to resettle Afghans held in UAE facility, sources say
Afghan refugees who supported Canada's mission in Afghanistan arrive in Canada, at Toronto Pearson International Airport August 24, 2021. Picture taken August 24, 2021. MCpl Genevieve Lapointe/Canadian Forces Combat Camera/Canadian Armed Forces Photo/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.
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American attorney released from detention in UAE, lawyer says
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UAE overturns three-year prison sentence for former Khashoggi attorney
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U.S. embassy officials attended detained American’s hearing in UAE, State Department says
FILE - This Aug. 10, 2006, file photo shows the sign used as the backdrop for press briefings at the U.S. Department of State in Washington. More of the first volunteers are starting to trickle back to their desks at federal agencies in the coronavirus lockdown. In the third month after Americans began sheltering in place and worksites began closing, the Energy Department says the first voluntary returns of a small number of headquarters workers began Monday. The State Department and Agriculture Department also have some workers returning to job places this month. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak. File)
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At least three civilians killed in clashes in southern Yemen, officials say
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U.S. approves massive arms sale to Saudi, UAE to counter Iran
This photo provided and digitally altered by the White House shows President Joe Biden meeting with CIA Director William Burns, left, and other CIA and National Security advisers about al-Qaeda leaders and their locations, July 1, 2022, in the White House Situation Room. (Adam Schultz/The White House via AP)
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U.S. disputes UAE’s claims that it sought arrest of Jamal Khashoggi’s former lawyer
FILE PHOTO: A demonstrator holds a poster with a picture of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi outside the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, Turkey October 25, 2018. REUTERS/Osman Orsal/File Photo
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UAE sentences former Khashoggi lawyer to 3 years in prison
FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2014 file photo, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi speaks during a press conference in Manama, Bahrain. Three leading international NGOs say they're boycotting meetings Saudi Arabia is holding with civil society groups ahead of hosting this year's Group of 20 summit. Transparency International, Amnesty International and CIVICUS said Monday, Jan. 13, 2020 that participating would lend legitimacy to a kingdom “trying to whitewash its dire human rights record.” (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)
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UAE has detained U.S. lawyer who represented slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi, rights group says
FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2014, file photo, Jamal Khashoggi, general manager of a new Arabic news channel, speaks during a news conference in Manama, Bahrain. Saudi Arabia is paying influential lobbyists, lawyers and public relations experts nearly $6 million a year to engage U.S. officials and promote the Middle East nation, even after several firms cut ties with the kingdom following the disappearance of journalist Khashoggi. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)
energy and resources
Oil extends gains as major producers flag capacity limits
An aerial view shows an oil factory of Idemitsu Kosan Co. in Ichihara, east of Tokyo, Japan November 12, 2021, in this photo taken by Kyodo. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS
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Pixar film Lightyear banned in United Arab Emirates over same-sex kiss scene
TRIAL AND ERROR – After being marooned on a hostile planet, Buzz Lightyear (voice of Chris Evans) attempts multiple test flights in an effort to recreate the complicated fuel required to reach hyperspeed so he and the whole crew can return to Earth. Directed by Angus MacLane (co-director “Finding Dory”) and produced by Galyn Susman (“Toy Story That Time Forgot”), Disney and Pixar’s “Lightyear” opens in U.S. theaters on June 17, 2022. © 2021 Disney/Pixar. All Rights Reserved.
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OPEC+ efforts to boost oil output ‘not encouraging’, UAE minister says
United Arab Emirates Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazrouei speaks during the Atlantic Council's Global Energy Forum at the Dubai Expo 2020, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, March 28, 2022. The United Arab Emirates' energy minister doubled down Monday on an oil alliance with Russia that's helped buoy crude prices to their highest in years as the war in Ukraine rattles markets and sends energy and commodity prices soaring. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Caisse has ESG priorities upside-down with latest Dubai investment
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Dubai police arrest two Gupta brothers over South African fraud case
(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 27, 2010 Atul Gupta looks on outside the Randburg magistrate court, near Johannesburg. - Two Indian-born businessmen brothers have been arrested in Dubai and are facing extradition to South Africa, where they were allegedly at the centre of a web of state corruption, police said on June 7, 2022. Atul and Rajesh Gupta are accused of paying bribes for state contracts and influence over ministerial appointments in a scandal that dogged former South African president Jacob Zuma's administration. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan becomes UAE president
A handout image provided by the UAE Ministry of Presidential Affairs shows Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani (L), brother to the Emir of Qatar, offering his condolences to Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan (R), President of the UAE and Ruler of Abu Dhabi at the Presidential Airport in Abu Dhabi. - The UAE's long-time de facto ruler Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan was on May 14 unanimously elected as president by the Federal Supreme Council, becoming the ruler of the oil-rich country founded by his father in 1971. (Photo by Rashed AL-MANSOORI / Ministry of Presidential Affairs - Abu Dhabi / AFP) / === RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / UAE'S MINISTRY OF PRESIDENTIAL AFFAIRS - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS === (Photo by RASHED AL-MANSOORI/Ministry of Presidential Affairs/AFP via Getty Images)
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UAE de facto leader Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed named new president
Emirati consul Khaled al-Marshoodi checks a local tv station at the UAE Embassy in Kuwait City on May 14, 2022, following the death of UAE's President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan. - Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan died on May 13, aged 73 after a years-long battle with illness, triggering a period of mourning and a handover of power in the oil-rich Gulf state. The UAE's long-time de facto ruler Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan was elected as president, official media said, a day after the death of former leader Sheikh Khalifa. (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT / AFP) (Photo by YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images)
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UAE president oversaw country’s economic rise
FILE - UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan walks with Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, unseen, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Feb. 5, 2007, to discuss bilateral relations. Sheikh Khalifa died Friday, May 13, 2022, the government's state-run news agency announced in a brief statement. He was 73. (AP Photo/WAM, File)
energy and resources
Oil market volatility not linked to OPEC+, UAE energy minister says
FILE - United Arab Emirates Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazrouei speaks during the Atlantic Council's Global Energy Forum at the Dubai Expo 2020, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, March 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
international business
Deliveroo suspends pay cut for UAE delivery riders after rare worker strike
FILE - A delivery driver for the app Deliveroo prepares to make a delivery, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sept. 9, 2021. Food-delivery drivers protesting wage cuts and grueling working conditions went on an extremely rare strike in Dubai on Saturday, April 30, 2022 — a mass walkout that paralyzed one of the country’s main delivery apps and revived concerns about labor conditions in the emirate. The strike ended early on Monday, when London-based Deliveroo agreed in a letter to riders to restore workers’ pay to $2.79 per delivery instead of the proposed rate of $2.38 amid surging fuel prices. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)
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Yemen’s president steps aside as efforts to end long-running civil war gain momentum
FILE - Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi walks next of his Tunisian counterpart Beji Caid Essebsi, not in photo, upon his arrival at Tunis-Carthage international airport to attend the Arab Summit, in Tunis, Tunisia, March 30, 2019. Yemen’s exiled president stepped aside and transferred his powers to a presidential council on Thursday, April 7, 2022, as international and regional efforts to end the country’s long-running civil war gained momentum with a two-month truce.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)