Dubai

Dubai roads, airport reel from floods after record rains

By Talek Harris, Sahar Al-Attar and Amanda Mouawad DUBAI, April 17, 2024 (AFP) - Dubai's giant highways were clogged by…

Dubai airport diverts flights as ‘exceptional weather’ hits Gulf

https://youtube.com/shorts/L6XBv74ucmM?feature=share By Talek Harris with Rasha Al Ebrahim in Manama Dubai's major international airport diverted scores of incoming flights on…

COP28 fails to regulate the Wild West of carbon credits

By Mathilde DUMAZET PARIS, Dec 15, 2023 (AFP) - Two weeks of relentless negotiating at COP28 failed to produce an…

Fury as climate draft deal falls short of fossil fuel phase-out

By Laurent Thomet and Benjamin Legendre DUBAI, Dec 12, 2023 (AFP) - UN climate negotiations dragged into the early hours…

China protests calls to include Taiwan in climate talks

DUBAI, Dec 9, 2023 (AFP) - China on Saturday lodged a protest after calls at the UN climate talks in…

2023 to be hottest year on record after ‘extraordinary’ November

By Daniel Lawler with Benjamin Legendre in Dubai PARIS, Dec 6, 2023 (AFP) - This year will be the hottest…

Walkout, no-shows at COP28 as Israel-Hamas war resumes

By Talek HARRIS and Sahar AL-ATTAR DUBAI, Dec 1, 2023 (AFP) - Iran's delegation walked out and Israel's president cancelled…

US ‘intensely focused’ on hostages despite end of Gaza truce: Blinken

DUBAI, Dec 1, 2023 (AFP) - The United States remains "intensely focused" on freeing hostages held in Gaza despite the…

King Charles urges ‘genuine’ climate action at COP28

By Laurent Thomet, Nick Perry and Talek Harris DUBAI, Dec 1, 2023 (AFP) - King Charles III told world leaders…

2023 shatters climate records, set to be hottest year ever: UN

  GENEVA, Nov 30, 2023 (AFP) - This year is set to be the hottest ever recorded, the UN said…

Mystery in Dubai as mega-wheel stops turning

By Amanda Mouawad The much-touted Ain Dubai (Dubai Eye) was designed as a tourist-luring landmark in the United Arab Emirates'…

Dubai apartment block fire kills 16: reports

Dubai, United Arab Emirates | AFP | Sunday 4/16/2023 A fire in a residential building in Dubai killed 16 people…

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