United Arab Emirates

A fire swept through an apartment building in an older neighborhood of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, killing at least 16 people and injuring another nine, authorities said Sunday.

Dubai again is planning for the takeoff of flying taxis in this futuristic city-state on the Arabian Peninsula.

Long-haul carrier Emirates has successfully flown a Boeing 777 on a test flight with one engine entirely powered by so-called sustainable aviation fuel.

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry backs the United Arab Emirates’ decision to appoint the CEO of a state-run oil company to preside over the upcoming U.N. climate negotiations in Dubai

The United Arab Emirates has named a veteran technocrat who both leads Abu Dhabi’s state-run oil company and oversees its renewable energy efforts to be the president of the upcoming United Nations climate negotiations in Dubai. The announcement on Thursday naming Sultan al-Jaber highlights the balancing act ahead for this crude-producing nation. Al-Jaber is a trusted confidant of UAE leader...

A Tokyo company is aiming for the moon with its own private lander.

Europol says law enforcement authorities in six different countries have joined forces to take down a “super cartel” of drugs traffickers

An ancient Christian monastery possibly dating as far back as the years before Islam spread across the Arabian Peninsula has been discovered on an island off the coast of the United Arab Emirates.

The United Arab Emirates has sentenced an American citizen and the former lawyer of Jamal Khashoggi — the dissident Saudi journalist who was killed at Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul in 2018 — to three years in prison on charges of money laundering and tax evasion. The lawyer, U.S. citizen Asim Ghafoor, will be deported after serving his sentence, the...