UAE hopes to reactivate trade talks with EU this year

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Oman's Salalah port sees fall in container volumes amid Red Sea crisis

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Tether to launch stablecoin pegged to UAE's dirham

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Musk activates internet service in Gaza hospital with help of UAE, Israel

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Locals lobby to keep their valley green in South Lebanon

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Palestinian swimmer hopes to lift spirits of Gazans at Olympics

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Moroccan medical students protest privatization of medical education

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A Year on, Billions in Afghan Assets Linger in Switzerland 

More than a year after the Afghan Fund was created to disburse $3.5 billion in frozen assets for the benefit of the Afghan people, no disbursements have been made. Why?

Billions of frozen assets from Afghanistan’s Central Bank, Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), face an uncertain future in Switzerland, over a year after a fund was established to disburse them. In September 2022, the Fund for the Afghan People was created with a mandate to disburse $3.5 billion in DAB’s assets in support of Afghanistan’...

Safe space: the new cinema welcoming women in male-dominated Kabul

The majority of Kabul’s cinemas cater largely to audiences of young men, and tend to show Bollywood films produced in Pakistan and India. For some young Afghan men, the cinema is a rare occasion for public expressions of joy: audience members cheer on the films’ heroes and sometimes dance along.For most women, however, fears of harassment in a male-dominated space have made cinemas feel unwelcoming.“I can’t imagine an Afghan woman being comfortable sitting in a dark room with hundreds of men,” s...