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The United Arab Emirates has achieved the goal of its National COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign, announcing that 100 percent of the targeted categories have been vaccinated, state news agency (WAM) reported on Thursday. The national campaign aimed to vaccinate and immunize frontliners, volunteers, and individuals from the age groups specified according to the type of vaccine, the elderly as well as those who suffer from chronic diseases and who can take the vaccine. The UAE has through the Ministry of Health and Prevention worked to make the COVID-19 vaccine available to citizens and residents of the country in order to reach acquired immunity and hence decrease the number of COVID-19 cases and control the spread of the virus. Read More : https://english.alarabiya.net/News/gulf/2022/06/02/UAE-achieves-100-percent-COVID-vaccination-target-Report

Assets under management in the Middle East, which increased 52 per cent over the past three years, are set to grow further as oil and gas prices continue to rise. A rally in oil prices, up more than 60 per cent over the past year and hovering above $100 a barrel, along with soaring natural gas prices are helping to drive private capital's improved fortunes in the Middle East, alternative assets industry data and analytics specialist Preqin said in a report on Thursday. Natural gas prices in the US soared to a 14-year high this month and they surged in Europe as a result of the Russia-Ukraine war, now in its third month. Preqin said: "The ongoing conflict in Ukraine alongside the continued post-pandemic economic resurgence is pushing commodity prices higher, creating short-term opportunities. "But in the long-term, Europe’s governments are looking to reduce reliance on imported hydrocarbons. Efforts to increase energy independence and step away from imported hydrocarbons h...

In May, Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein was caught red-handed by Prime Minister of UAE Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum when he suddenly visited their London home and found Princess Haya and her lover-cum-bodyguard. The Dubai ruler also found strips of used condoms beside Haya’s bed as well as two glasses, proving the romantic couple were having sex in the bedroom while their children were in the next room. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum was already suspecting his wife Princess Haya had inappropriate relations and the suspicion was proved as the couple were found to having sex. The Dubai ruler unexpectedly returned to London from attending a joint wedding of three sons in Dubai in May. According to sources, he was shocked seeing the 45-year-old Princess Haya with the bodyguard at the lavish residence and demanded her immediate return to Dubai with him. But the Princess refused and abruptly left the house with her two children and flew to Germany. The Dubai ruler and me...

As thousands of final-year pupils in the UAE submit their applications to local universities, we take a look at some of the best higher education options in the Emirates and what they have to offer Where is it from? Noida (or New Okhla Industrial Development Authority), a planned city in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Noida has been described as India’s greenest city. When was it founded? 2003 (parent university); 2011 (Dubai campus) What is it? Amity University Dubai describes itself as the largest multidisciplinary university in the UAE. The parent institution’s original campus is in Noida, but there are now nearly a dozen campuses in India, as well as campuses in London and Singapore. In India, Amity also operates preschools and schools, and internationally it has schools, too, including one in Abu Dhabi. Where is it based? Dubai International Academic City How has it handled the Covid-19 pandemic? “Our 700,000 square foot campus is equipped with the facilities and spac...

 The National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) says the UAE is set for cooler weather at the weekend after a few days of scorching heat. Temperatures hit more than 46°C in parts of the country on Thursday, but temperatures will drop on Saturday and Sunday. Friday will still be hot, reaching 41°C in Abu Dhabi city and 39°C in Dubai. But it will be cooler in the south than it has been in recent days, with temperatures in the lows 40s on Thursday, after reaching 46.3°C in Abu Dhabi's Al Dhafrah region, which borders Saudi Arabia. Temperatures will fall further over the weekend, reaching highs of around 37°C in Abu Dhabi city and Dubai on Saturday and Sunday. The NCM said gusts of wind could kick up dust storms in parts of the country. Conditions in the Arabian Gulf and Sea of Oman will be calm. The slightly cooler weather is set to continue into next week. Temperatures will be pleasant on Monday in Abu Dhabi city and Dubai, hovering around 33°C, but they will rise over the course of the we...

  Banks in the UAE and Saudi Arabia remain relatively insulated from the fallout of the Russia-Ukraine conflict due to their limited dealings with the region, according to S&P Global Ratings. “The conflict will have a limited effect on the UAE’s banking sector, for now. Rated UAE banks have minimal direct exposure to Russian or Ukrainian counterparties. We do not expect to see any significant direct effects of the conflict on their asset quality indicators,” the rating agency said in a report this week. “The government has significant capacity and willingness to provide support if needed,” it said. Lenders in Saudi Arabia, the Arab world's largest economy, share a similar outlook. “Rated Saudi banks have little direct exposure to Russian or Ukrainian counterparties. We do not expect to see any significant direct effects of the conflict on their asset quality indicators,” the report said. “The banking system growth is fuelled by mortgages and corporate lending linked to Vision ...

 A young Emirati woman beat colon cancer after doctors in Abu Dhabi removed a small part of her intestine. Bedoor Jassem, 26, said she had been suffering from abdominal pain for a few years. When the pain became unbearable she went to Sheikh Shkhabout Medical City (SSMC) in Abu Dhabi for a check-up and was told to get her appendix removed. During the appendix surgery in 2019, doctors discovered that she had colon cancer. In the past, colon cancer was called an old person’s disease but more and more young people are getting it now. “Cancer does not respect age. Unfortunately, we are seeing patients in their 20s and 30s with the disease,” said Dr Noura Al Ali, a colorectal surgeon at Sheikh Shkhabout Medical City. “Bedoor was lucky. We took her for an appendectomy (the surgery to remove the appendix when it is infected) and once the appendix was removed we discovered that there was a tumour." "Luckily the tumour did not spread and was in its earliest stages. Apart from robotic ...