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The specialty coffee chain’s 2022 sales reached £21.3m ($27m) as it continues to scale across the UK and prepares for international debuts in the US and UAE this year Black Sheep Coffee has grown to 75 UK sites, with a further 25 in development | Photo credit: Moonglow Trading UK-based Black Sheep Coffee is poised for […]
Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser of UAE’s President, speaks during a joint news conference with Cypriot Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides, Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi in Paphos, Cyprus April 16, 2021. Iakovos Hatzistavrou/Pool via REUTERS Acquire Licensing Rights . . .
DUBAI, Sept 4 (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates has set up a federal entity to regulate gaming and hired veterans of the U.S. gambling industry to lead it, state news agency WAM said. Years-long speculation that the UAE would allow gambling – illegal across the conservative Gulf region – was put to rest when […]
Creators of acclaimed TV thriller “Fauda,” Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff, are embarking on an innovative endeavor – a television writer’s lab – in collaboration with “Image Nation Abu Dhabi,” a production company based in the Emirates. The purpose of this collaboration, as defined by officials, is to promote 13 writers at the beginning of […]
(CNN) About 2,100 Afghan refugees remain held in a sprawling compound in the United Arab Emirates more than 18 months after they were evacuated from Afghanistan largely by private groups working with the State Department. They are what’s left of as many as 20,000 Afghans who were hastily relocated to the camp during the chaotic […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. spies caught Russian intelligence officers boasting that they had convinced the oil-rich United Arab Emirates “to work together against US and UK intelligence agencies,” according to a purported American document posted online as part of a major U.S. intelligence breach. U.S. officials declined to comment on the document, which bore . […]
Former Mad magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee died Monday at the age of 102. Jaffee, one of the magazine’s longest contributors, had delighted millions of kids with such fixtures as the Fold-In and “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions.” With its cheeky, sometimes pointed send-ups of politics and culture, Mad was essential reading for teens and preteens […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Thursday, including the first person from the Arab world going up for an extended monthslong stay. The Falcon rocket bolted from Kennedy Space Center shortly after midnight, illuminating the night sky as it headed up the East Coast. […]
WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department’s top sanctions official on a trip to Turkey and the Middle East next week will warn countries and businesses that they could lose U.S. market access if they do business with entities subject to U.S. curbs as Washington cracks down on Russian attempts to evade sanctions […]
WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) – Over two dozen U.S. representatives on Friday called on top U.S. climate envoy John Kerry to urge the United Arab Emirates to withdraw its appointment of the head of its state oil company as president of the COP28 climate summit it will host this year. The 27 Democratic members of […]