US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he expected Saudi Arabia to join the agreement announced last week by Israel and the United Arab Emirates to normalize diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship. "I do," Trump replied when asked at a White House news conference if he...
A nuclear power plant in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates has been connected to the country's power grid, authorities said Wednesday. The Barakah nuclear power plant in the Emirates’ far western desert near the border with Saudi Arabia began sending out electricity, according the...
An increase in the number of coronavirus cases over the past two weeks is "alarming" and may herald further increases in the near future, the United Arab Emirates' health minister said Tuesday. The UAE registered 365 new cases and two deaths over the last 24 hours, the government said,...
The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi movement in Yemen said Sunday in a statement carried by state news agency SPA that it had intercepted and downed a ballistic missile launched towards civilian targets in southern Saudi Arabia. Cross-border attacks by Iran-aligned Houthi forces...