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Dubai New Year 2019 Full Fireworks & Laser Show at Burj Khalifa

Hunt said on BBC radio of the spying charges: “We have never seen any evidence that they are true”

Staff at Birmingham University have voted to boycott their campuses in the Emirates

Nearly 10,000 people have been killed in Yemen since the Saudi-led intervention began

by Mohamad Ali Harissi Dubai (AFP) – A United Arab Emirates court sentenced British student Matthew Hedges to life in jail on spying charges on Wednesday, prompting a “shocked” Britain to warn of repercussions for relations with its longstanding Gulf ally. Hedges, a 31-year-old PhD student, had protested his innocence ever since his arrest at […]

Matthew Hedges’ Arrest exposes the extreme limits on academic freedom in the United Arab Emirates

Update: Ms. Holman has been released and Dubai has apologized. -JC, 8/12/18 A mother and her four-year-old daughter were detained for three days in Dubai for drinking a glass of wine on a flight from London, according to rights group Detained in Dubai. Ellie Holman, 44, was arrested at Dubai International Airport after being asked […]

The Hague (AFP) – The UN’s top court Monday ordered the United Arab Emirates to protect the rights of Qatari citizens, wading into a bitter year-long crisis triggered when Gulf countries snapped ties with Doha. Judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague narrowly ruled in a provisional but binding decision that […]