Discover potential long weekends with our guide to public holidays, including Eid celebrations and National Day.

Food shortages are worsening, and although a more cooperative social and scientific vision offers hope, if the crisis is comprehensive and global, the measures to counter it must be as well ...

If you're thinking of maxing out your UAE public holidays, you've got to be quick to get the right dates booked off.

Dubai Customs celebrates the UAE’s 54th Eid Al Etihad with a vibrant programme of activities that embodied unity, loyalty, and national pride. Events were held at the main headquarters and customs ...

The Sharjah Department of Civil Aviation (SCAD) and the Sharjah Airport Authority (SAA) celebrated the UAE’s 54th Eid Al Etihad with a festive ceremony held at the airport’s administration building.

The war in Sudan took an alarming turn when the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces seized the city of el-Fasher in Darfur this week. Mass killings and torture followed. It’s an emergency many experts ...

A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration must release the money for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in its contingency fund “as soon as possible for the Nov. 1 payments ...

The U.S. Mint on Wednesday officially ceased production of the one cent coin after more than 225 years of use. The last pennies were struck at the mint in Philadelphia, where they have been produced ...

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