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The United Arab Emirates announced that it  will invest $35 billion in clean energy by 2021 as it seeks to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels following crude’s global price slide. Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazrouei said “By 2021, our investments in nuclear and solar projects will reach $35 billion ” He added that the UAE’s four nuclear reactors currently under …

The United Arab Emirates announced that it  will invest $35 billion in clean energy by 2021 as it seeks to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels following crude’s global price slide. Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazrouei said “By 2021, our investments in nuclear and solar projects will reach $35 billion ” He added that the UAE’s four nuclear reactors currently under …

Leading United Arab Emirates businessman Abdullah Ahmed al-Ghurair has donated a third of his assets to an educational foundation as part of a charity drive, he said on Tuesday. Ghurair is the father of billionaire Abdulaziz al-Ghurair, chief executive of Dubai-based Mashreq bank , one of the emirate’s biggest lenders. Ghurair said in a  news conference that  The foundation will …

A 7-month extension for nuclear talks between the P5+1 and Iran was announced in late November after the two sides failed to reach an agreement in Vienna. The parties now have until the end of June 2015 to reach a deal. 84 percent of American Jews polled by J-Street said they would favor a nuclear deal with Iran that would …

The United Arab Emirates shocked many western charities by placing them on its blacklist of “terrorist groups”, alongside radical groups like Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda. The list, released earlier in the month, was topped by the Muslim Brotherhood, but also included organizations like Islamic Relief UK, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and large Muslim associations in Sweden, Norway, Finland …

The UAE on Wednesday said that it was dedicated to improving the protection of human rights, and criticized Amnesty International for its “one sided and inaccurate” accusations. “The UAE will continue its work to strengthen the protection of human rights. There is no freedom here: Silencing dissent in the UAE”, the foreign ministry said, referring to the rights watchdog’s report …

On Wednesday, Egypt hailed a “new era” in Arab solidarity after the Gulf nations agreed to welcome Qatar back into the fold following a dispute over it support of Islamists. Egypt said that it had offered its full support to the move, which it called as “huge step towards Arab solidarity”. “We look forward to a new era that would …

Human rights group Amnesty International on Tuesday published a report titled “There Is No Freedom Here: Silencing dissent in the UAE”, criticizing the nation for its treatment of activists and use of repressive tactics to silence the government’s critics. In the report, the NGO reveals how dissidents are harassed, arrested, and even tortured, maintaining a climate of fear since 2011, …

By Rafia Zakaria It is often offered as a solution to the problem of destitute women. If every man married four of them, some have stated, then all women would have a male guardian, a protector, someone to support them. The reality of polygamy, however, is often neither this neat nor this simple. Last week, The National, a leading newspaper …

On Monday, the UAE tried 15 extremists charged with joining and financing the Syrian wing of al-Qaeda and a rebel group, the official WAM news agency reported. Eleven of the fifteen defendants, whose nationalities have not been disclosed, appeared at the preliminary hearing in the Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi, WAM reported. It is not clear why the other …