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UAE says Qatari fighter jets intercept civilian aircraft

The United Arab Emirates' civil aviation authority said two Qatari fighter jets flew dangerously close to two Emirati civilian aircraft while they were in Bahrain's airspace Monday, the UAE's state news agency WAM reported. The General Civil Aviation Authority condemned the "provocative...

British editor in UAE gets 10 years for wife's slaying

 A British newspaper editor in Dubai was found guilty Sunday of bludgeoning his wife to death with a hammer and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Francis Matthew, the former editor of the English-language Gulf News, had faced the possibility of the death penalty in the July 2017...