Myanmar's military is charging families $85 to retrieve the bodies of relatives killed by security forces in a bloody crackdown on Friday, according to activists. [...]

US and China deploy aircraft carriers in South China Sea as tensions simmer

Military activity in the South China Sea spiked over the weekend a Chinese aircraft carrier entered the region and a US Navy expeditionary strike group wrapped up exercises. [...]

Dubai to get 4,000 driverless vehicles by 2030

The plan is to have 4,000 self-driving vehicles by 2030. [...]

UAE's 100 million meals drive: How far can your Dh1 go?

More than 1.5 million meals have already been donated a day after the launch. [...]

UAE reports 1,928 Covid cases, 1,719 recoveries, 2 deaths

The new cases were detected through 193,896 additional tests. [...]

China’s use of Coast Guard, Navy to chase PHL boat alarming, violated PHL sovereignty, says expert

Incident has legal implications, says Prof. Batongbacal (Eagle News) – China’s recent use of its Coast Guard and Navy ships in the Philippines’ Exclusive Economic Zone is a “violation of Philippine sovereign rights” and its recent actions of chasing a Philippine civilian boat show’s China’s increasing hubris to enter Philippine waters, according to a maritime law expert. The director of the University of the Philippines Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea, […] [...]

AstraZeneca suffers setback for its diabetes drug Farxiga in treating Covid patients

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca on Monday said that following a trial, its diabetes drug Farxiga was not successful in treating Covid patients at risk of severe complications. AstraZeneca, whose separate Covid vaccine rollout has been hampered by health concerns, said its trial “assessing the potential of Farxiga to treat patients hospitalised with Covid-19 who are at risk of developing serious complications… did not achieve statistical significance”. The trial was carried […] [...]

JUST IN: Two injured in shooting outside Paris hospital: investigating source

PARIS, France (AFP) — Two people were injured in a shooting outside a Paris hospital on Monday, a source close to the investigation said. No further details were available about the incident at the Henry Dunant private hospital owned by the Red Cross in the upmarket 16th district of the capital. © Agence France-Presse [...]