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Updated 05 November 2020
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1,161 new COVID-19 cases in UAE as death toll reaches 505

  • Abu Dhabi announces new entry rules from Nov. 8
  • Kuwait records 763 cases and 5 deaths, Bahrain reports 327 cases and 3 deaths
Updated 05 November 2020
Arab News

DUBAI: Health authorities in the UAE on Tuesday announced a further 1,161 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and two additional deaths from conditions related to the disease.
The Ministry of Health and Prevention said the total number of cases in the country now stands at 137,310, and the death toll has reached 505. A further 1,493 patients have recovered, bringing the total number of recoveries to 134,983.
During daily inspections, teams from Dubai’s economic authority issued fines to three shops in a shopping center for not adhering to COVID-19 precautionary measures.
Authorities in Abu Dhabi have announced new entry requirements that will apply to people entering the emirate from Nov. 8 to enhance early-detection efforts. 

The Abu Dhabi Crisis, Emergency and Disasters Committee said residents and visitors who arrive and remain in the emirate “for four or more consecutive days must take a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test on the fourth day (after) entry. If they stay for eight or more consecutive days, they must take another PCR test on the eighth day.”
Residents and visitors will continue to be allowed to enter the emirate if they can provide evidence of a negative PCR test or laser-based DPI (diffractive phase interferometry) test within 48 hours of receiving the result.
Abu Dhabi has also announced the formation of a Scientific and Technical Advisory Group for Emergencies as part of its efforts to enhance and assist the health-care sector’s response to emergencies. 

It has a number of Emirati, regional and international COVID-19 specialists from the public and private sectors, including experts from academic, technical and scientific fields from the US, Britain, South Korea and Saudi Arabia.
Sheikh Abdullah Al-Hamed, the head of Abu Dhabi’s Department of Health said: “We are working in the department to harness all available resources and capabilities to move forward in strengthening the health sector, enriching its outputs and empowering its workers, which is part of our vision aimed at making Abu Dhabi a healthy society.”
Meanwhile, the director-general of Abu Dhabi Police, Maj. Gen. Maktoum Ali Al-Sharifi, and sector directors were given doses of a COVID-19 vaccine as part of a national program and to promote the use of the vaccine.
Kuwait recorded 763 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total there to 128,843. The death toll stands at 794 after five more patients died.

Oman’s health ministry reported 319 new cases and 11 deaths, bringing the totals to 116,847 and 1,275 respectively.

In Bahrain, three deaths were reported, bringing the death toll to 327, while 261 new infected cases were confirmed.

 

Topics: UAE dubai economy Abu Dhabi Crisis Emergency and Disasters Committee Abu Dhabi COVID-19 vaccine COVID-19 Coronavirus Maj. Gen. Maktoum Ali Al-Sharifi Abu Dhabi Police Ministry of Health and Prevention Kuwait Oman Bahrain

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Lebanon PM to visit new Damascus ruler on Saturday

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Lebanon PM to visit new Damascus ruler on Saturday

  • Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati will on Saturday make his first official trip to neighboring Syria since the fall of president Bashar Assad, his office told AFP
Updated 52 min 56 sec ago
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BERUIT: Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati will on Saturday make his first official trip to neighboring Syria since the fall of president Bashar Assad, his office told AFP.
Mikati’s office said Friday the trip came at the invitation of the country’s new de facto leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa during a phone call last week.
Syria imposed new restrictions on the entry of Lebanese citizens last week, two security sources have told AFP, following what the Lebanese army said was a border skirmish with unnamed armed Syrians.
Lebanese nationals had previously been allowed into Syria without a visa, using just their passport or ID card.
Lebanon’s eastern border is porous and known for smuggling.
Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah supported Assad with fighters during Syria’s civil war.
But the Iran-backed movement has been weakened after a war with Israel killed its long-time leader and Islamist-led rebels seized Damascus last month.
Lebanese lawmakers elected the country’s army chief Joseph Aoun as president on Thursday, ending a vacancy of more than two years that critics blamed on Hezbollah.
For three decades under the Assad clan, Syria was the dominant power in Lebanon after intervening in its 1975-1990 civil war.
Syria eventually withdrew its troops in 2005 under international pressure after the assassination of Lebanese ex-prime minister Rafic Hariri.

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UN says 3 million Sudan children facing acute malnutrition

Updated 10 January 2025
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UN says 3 million Sudan children facing acute malnutrition

  • Famine has already gripped five areas across Sudan, according to a report last month
  • Sudan has endured 20 months of war between the army and the paramilitary forces
Updated 10 January 2025
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PORT SUDAN, Sudan: An estimated 3.2 million children under the age of five are expected to face acute malnutrition this year in war-torn Sudan, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
“Of this number, around 772,000 children are expected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition,” Eva Hinds, UNICEF Sudan’s Head of Advocacy and Communication, told AFP late on Thursday.
Famine has already gripped five areas across Sudan, according to a report last month by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a UN-backed assessment.
Sudan has endured 20 months of war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), killing tens of thousands and, according to the United Nations, uprooting 12 million in the world’s largest displacement crisis.
Confirming to AFP that 3.2 million children are currently expected to face acute malnutrition, Hinds said “the number of severely malnourished children increased from an estimated 730,000 in 2024 to over 770,000 in 2025.”
The IPC expects famine to expand to five more parts of Sudan’s western Darfur region by May — a vast area that has seen some of the conflict’s worst violence. A further 17 areas in western and central Sudan are also at risk of famine, it said.
“Without immediate, unhindered humanitarian access facilitating a significant scale-up of a multisectoral response, malnutrition is likely to increase in these areas,” Hinds warned.
Sudan’s army-aligned government strongly rejected the IPC findings, while aid agencies complain that access is blocked by bureaucratic hurdles and ongoing violence.
In October, experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council accused both sides of using “starvation tactics.”
On Tuesday the United States determined that the RSF had “committed genocide” and imposed sanctions on the paramilitary group’s leader.
Across the country, more than 24.6 million people — around half the population — face “high levels of acute food insecurity,” according to IPC, which said: “Only a ceasefire can reduce the risk of famine spreading further.”

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Turkiye says France must take back its militants from Syria

Updated 10 January 2025
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Turkiye says France must take back its militants from Syria

  • Ankara is threatening military action against Kurdish fighters in the northeast
  • Turkiye considers the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces as linked to its domestic nemesis
Updated 10 January 2025
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ISTANBUL: France must take back its militant nationals from Syria, Turkiye’s top diplomat said Friday, insisting Washington was its only interlocutor for developments in the northeast where Ankara is threatening military action against Kurdish fighters.
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan insisted Turkiye’s only aim was to ensure “stability” in Syria after the toppling of strongman Bashar Assad.
In its sights are the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) which have been working with the United States for the past decade to fight Daesh group militants.
Turkiye considers the group as linked to its domestic nemesis, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
The PKK has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkiye and is considered a terror organization by both Turkiye and the US.
The US is currently leading talks to head off a Turkish offensive in the area.
“The US is our only counterpart... Frankly we don’t take into account countries that try to advance their own interests in Syria by hiding behind US power,” he said.
His remarks were widely understood to be a reference to France, which is part of an international coalition to prevent a militant resurgence in the area.
Asked about the possibility of a French-US troop deployment in northeast Syria, he said France’s main concern should be to take back its nationals who have been jailed there in connection with militant activity.
“If France had anything to do, it should take its own citizens, bring them to its own prisons and judge them,” he said.

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Lebanese caretaker PM says country to begin disarming south Litani to ensure state presence

Updated 10 January 2025
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Lebanese caretaker PM says country to begin disarming south Litani to ensure state presence

  • Najib Mikati: ‘We are in a new phase – in this new phase, we will start with south Lebanon and south Litani’
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DUBAI: Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Friday that the state will begin disarming southern Lebanon, particularly the south Litani region, to establish its presence across the country.
“We are in a new phase – in this new phase, we will start with south Lebanon and south Litani specifically in order to pull weapons so that the state can be present across Lebanese territory,” Mikati said.

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Tanker hit by Yemen militia that threatened Red Sea spill has been salvaged

Updated 10 January 2025
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Tanker hit by Yemen militia that threatened Red Sea spill has been salvaged

  • The Sounion had been a disaster in waiting in the waterway, with 1 million barrels of crude oil aboard
  • The Houthis have targeted some 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones since the war in Gaza started
Updated 10 January 2025
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DUBAI: An oil tanker that burned for weeks in the Red Sea and threatened a massive oil spill has been “successfully” salvaged, a security firm said Friday.
The Sounion had been a disaster in waiting in the waterway, with 1 million barrels of crude oil aboard that had been struck and later sabotaged with explosives by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi militia. It took months for salvagers to tow the vessel away, extinguish the fires and offload the remaining crude oil.
The Houthis initially attacked the Greek-flagged Sounion tanker on Aug. 21 with small arms fire, projectiles and a drone boat. A French destroyer operating as part of Operation Aspides rescued its crew of 25 Filipinos and Russians, as well as four private security personnel, after they abandoned the vessel and took them to nearby Djibouti.
The Houthis later released footage showing they planted explosives on board the Sounion and ignited them in a propaganda video, something the militia have done before in their campaign.
The Houthis have targeted some 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones since the war in Gaza started in October 2023. They seized one vessel and sank two in the campaign that has also killed four sailors. Other missiles and drones have either been intercepted by a US-led coalition in the Red Sea or failed to reach their targets, which have included Western military vessels as well.
The Houthis maintain that they target ships linked to Israel, the US or the UK to force an end to Israel’s campaign against Hamas in Gaza. However, many of the ships attacked have little or no connection to the conflict, including some bound for Iran.

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