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In a resolution drafted by the UAE and Japan, the UN Security Council unanimously condemns the Taliban administration's ban on Afghan women working, including for the United Nations in Afghanistan, and calls on Taliban leaders to lift the ban immediately.
2023-04-27

The Houthi government in Sanaa, Yemen, deports several Yemenite Jewish families to the United Arab Emirates after reaching an agreement with the families to leave Yemen. Four elderly Yemenite Jews remain in the country.
2021-03-29

Fifteen people are arrested in Ethiopia over a plot to attack the United Arab Emirates' embassy in the capital Addis Ababa. Several other suspects, who were planning attacks against the UAE's diplomatic mission in Sudan, are also arrested.
2021-02-3

The United Arab Emirates reports 63 new cases of COVID-19. The country extends a curfew and disinfections to April 5.
2020-03-28

The United Arab Emirates tells the UN Security Council that a "state actor" was most likely behind the May 12 attacks on four tankers off its coast, including ones from Saudi Arabia and Norway. UAE did not say who it suspected; the United States blamed Iran which denied the accusation.
2019-06-7

Matthew Hedges, a British academic student studying at Durham University, is sentenced to life imprisonment in the United Arab Emirates after being convicted of spying.
2018-11-21

Human rights activists accuse forces led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE of kidnapping and torturing people during the Yemeni conflict.
2017-06-9

Saudi Arabia announces the formation of a 34-member Islamic Military Alliance against terrorism including Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Malaysia and Pakistan with a joint operations centre based in Riyadh.
2015-12-15

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates say they have arrested seven suspected members of an al-Qaeda-linked "terrorist cell" seeking to carry out operations in the country and the region.
2013-04-18

Two more fake Irish passports are identified by the United Arab Emirates as being involved in the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a senior Hamas official in Dubai, bringing the current total to seven.
2010-02-23