Master developer Nakheel is gearing up to welcome the world’s top cyclists for UAE Tour 2020. The event sets off from the Pointe at Palm Jumeirah on Sunday. Nakheel, sponsor of the White Jersey for the second consecutive year, is encouraging residents, their families and the general public to visit the Pointe on Sunday to […]
DUSHANBE — A former Tajik commander extradited to Dushanbe from the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) in recent days may face more charges, the Central Asian country’s Interior Ministry said on February 20. Khuja Karimov — who was a commander of government troops during Tajikistan’s five-year civil war — has been charged with banditry, murder, hostage-taking, […]
Issued on: 20/02/2020 – 08:37Modified: 20/02/2020 – 08:37 The Japanese government on Thursday said two people from the cruise ship Diamond Princess berthed in Japan, both in their 80s, have died from coronavirus infections and that another two government officials have tested positive for the infection. Advertising Read more More than 620 passengers aboard the […]
Issued on: 19/02/2020 – 04:04 Passengers on the virus-hit cruise ship moored near Tokyo began disembarking on Wednesday, public broadcaster NHK said, after a controversial two-week quarantine that saw more than 500 people infected with the new coronavirus originating in China. Advertising Read more The Diamond Princess, operated by Carnival Corp, has been quarantined in the port […]
After a week of delay, Ukraine said on February 18 that it plans to send a plane to China and evacuate 49 of its citizens and 25 foreign nationals. The passengers will be airlifted from Wuhan city in Hubei Province, the epicenter of a new coronavirus outbreak where the pathogen is believed to have originated […]
By Stuart Clark An artist’s impressions shows how the exoplanet acts as an electric dynamoDanielle Futselaar Radio waves blasting out of a red dwarf star have an unusual source – an orbiting planet. Astronomers using the Low Frequency Array radio telescope in the Netherlands have discovered that red dwarf star GJ1151 is emitting fluctuating radio […]
(Reuters) – BR Shetty on Monday stepped down as the joint non-executive chairman of NMC Health, a company he founded in 1975 and built up into the largest private healthcare company in the United Arab Emirates. Shetty’s decision to step down follows a string of resignations months after the company was thrown into turmoil following […]
Issued on: 17/02/2020 – 03:48 The death toll from China’s new coronavirus epidemic jumped to 1,770 after 105 more people died, the National Health Commission said Monday. Advertising Read more More than 70,500 have now been infected nationwide by the virus, which first emerged in December in central Hubei province before spreading across the country. Chinese […]
Issued on: 16/02/2020 – 18:27Modified: 16/02/2020 – 19:27 Americans began leaving a quarantined cruise ship off Japan on Monday to board chartered flights home as the number of new coronavirus cases diagnosed on the vessel jumped to 355. Advertising Read more The evacuation came as Japanese authorities stepped up warnings over the deadly outbreak, urging […]
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. officials in hazmat suits boarded a cruise liner on Sunday to fly home Americans quarantined for two weeks off Japan, while China said measures such as locking down megacity Wuhan had at last slowed the pace of new coronavirus cases. After being held on board the Diamond Princess since Feb. 3, […]