Persian Gulf

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Houthi Rebels In Yemen Threatening Strategic Strait

Houthi rebels in Yemen are threatening free movement into and out of the Red Sea with missiles, mines and other...

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Laptop Ban Hits Dubai For 1.1m Weekend Travellers

Dubai International Airport and its flag carrier Emirates began implementing a ban on laptops and tablets on direct...

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Another Policeman Killed In Eastern Saudi

Another policeman has been killed during an upsurge of violence in a Shiite-dominated district of Saudi Arabia,...

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Dubai Hosts Largest Regional Contemporary Art Expo

Dubai on Tuesday prepared to open its 11th annual art fair, billed as the largest contemporary art show in the Middle...

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Iran Successfully Tests Naval Missile

Iran has successfully test-fired a naval missile which hit its target 250 kilometres away, local news agencies reported...

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Iran Accuses US of Stirring Tensions In Gulf

A senior official in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday accused the United States of provoking tensions...

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Iran Blows US Fifth Fleet Out of the Water In Animated Film

A new animated film from Iran shows the US Navy's Fifth Fleet being blown out of the water in the latest effort to...

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Dubai Street Art Turns Urban Sprawl Into Open-Air Museum

The streets of Dubai may be known for architectural superlatives like Burj Khalifa, the highest of the world's...

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Tesla Takes On Gulf Gas Guzzlers

Electric carmaker Tesla announced the opening of a new Gulf headquarters Monday in Dubai, aiming to conquer an oil-rich...

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Dubai Aims To Launch Hover-Taxi By July

Dubai has tested a Chinese prototype of a self-driving hover-taxi, its transport authority said on Monday, with the aim...

Top Stories

Over 16,000 Ghanaians Migrated To the Gulf Region Last Year

A total of 16,367 Ghanaians left the country to the Gulf region in 2016, statistics from the Ghana Immigration Service...

Sports

Ghana To Arrive In Gabon Today For Africa Cup of Nations

Avram Grant and his troops for the tournament will board a chartered flight to the host country Ghana’s squad will...

Sports

Black Stars Complete Day 4 At Al Ain Camping Base

The Black Stars completed their fourth day of training in Al Ain on Friday evening. Coach Avram Grant and his players...

International

Pranksters Change Iconic Hollywood Sign To ‘Hollyweed’

The famed Hollywood sign high in the hills over Los Angeles got a little higher on Sunday, when someone altered two of...

Opinion

NDCs Obsession With Infrastructure and the Circle Interchange Propaganda

I am reliably told Ghana has made a new import from Dubai. This time it is in the looks of an interchange. Well I shall...

International

Iranian Vessel Points Weapon At U.S. Helicopter

A small Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard vessel pointed its weapon at a U. S. military helicopter in the Strait of...

Opinion

Imperial Democracies, Strategic Disorder In A Multipolar World

By 146 B. C., the Mediterranean Sea, a hotbed of endemic battlefield between ancient navies had successfully become the...

Opinion

The Sino-US Relations – Recalibration Or Repetition?

“The Chinese grab for fossil fuels or its military competition for naval control is not a challenge but rather a...

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Dubai Opens Canal In Bid To Boost Tourism

Dubai inaugurated a water canal yesterday after a three-year construction project costing US$735 million, in a fresh...