United Arab Emirates Politics News

Abu Dhabi and Spain have signed an agreement to work jointly to develop renewable energy and technologies related to it. Inaugurating the second investment summit between the two countries, Spain’s Vice-Minister of Trade Alfredo Bonet said the agreement would be...

Iraq’s Parliament passed an investment law on Monday that would allow foreigners to own land for housing projects, and is designed to streamline regulations and applications for foreign investment, lawmakers said. Iraq hoped for a tide of foreign investment as the...

The designs of the Qatar-Bahrain Causeway will be finalised in next 60-days so that construction may begin in the first quarter of next year. The 40-kilometeres long causeway is designed for two lanes in each direction along with an emergency...

October 04, 2009, 23:56 Abu Dhabi: The government on Sunday approved legislation regulating the development of nuclear energy, paving the way for the construction contract to be awarded to one of three known consortia vying to build the UAE's first...

Arab central bankers, grappling with the impact of the global financial crisis and a corporate debt scandal in the Gulf region, want a global “early warning system” for financial institutions, the head of the United Arab Emirates central bank said. But...

Dubai will pay its massive debts and will go ahead with its ambitious development projects, the emirate's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum told an economic conference on Monday. The economic crisis "will not deter Dubai's ambitions of implementing its...

Anti-terrorism laws in the Emirates have been often expanded to muzzle political dissent and have drawn sharp criticism from international rights groups. (AP)    

A group of British IT workers who won £45 million ($81 million) in a record lottery payout feared, when they received the call about the win, they were going to be sacked...But as the nine winners of Britain's largest lottery...