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The UAE's national carrier has announced that travellers returning to the capital within 72 hours of their departure need not take a PCR test upon arrival.

The fees for as many as 88 government services in Dubai will be either reduced or cancelled.

The UAE and Austria have signed a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership aimed at expanding relations and launching a new stage of bilateral cooperation.

A pop-up COVID-19 vaccination centre for children aged 12+ will open in Abu Dhabi next week.

His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces is on an official visit to Austria.

Etihad Rail has completed excavating the longest tunnel in the Gulf Region, running for 1.8 km.

The UAE confirmed 1,550 new cases of COVID-19 from 302,236 tests on Thursday.

Authorities in Sharjah have foiled an attempt to smuggle more than 93 kg of drugs into the country.

Saudi Arabia will reopen its borders to fully vaccinated foreign tourists without having to quarantine from August 1.

Sydney's poorest neighbourhoods on Friday braced for military enforcement of the city's toughest and longest lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic as the infection numbers held persistently high, five weeks since restrictions began.

India reported 44,230 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, the most in three weeks, the latest evidence of a worrying trend of rising cases that has forced one state to lock down amid fears of another wave of infections.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday approved the imposition of lockdown measures in the capital region, in a bid to contain the spread of the Delta variant and to shield the country's medical system.

Pakistan has set August 31 as the deadline for all public sector workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

The vessel that blocked the Suez Canal earlier this year has arrived in Rotterdam, months later than scheduled.

Nearly a year after a massive explosion ripped through Beirut, killing more than 200 people, politicians and senior security officials have yet to be questioned in a formal investigation.

An Iraqi army helicopter crashed during a combat operation in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing all five crew members, the Iraqi military said in a statement.