Radio Shoma

The UAE has strongly condemned the Iranian drone and missile attacks targeting Kuwait early Thursday.

Lieutenant General Mohammed Ahmed Al Marri, Director General of the General Directorate of Identity and Foreigners Affairs – Dubai (GDRFA), has carried out an inspection of the Dubai International Airport on the first day of Eid Al Adha.

President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan hosted a special reception for the rulers of the Emirates, Crown Princes, Sheikhs, military personnnel and well-wishers on the occasion of Eid Al Adha. 

The US and Iran have reached an outline agreement to extend their ceasefire pending the approval of President Donald Trump, according to an Axios report, after Iran targeted a US air base in Kuwait in the wake of US strikes on Iranian drone operation.

A fire tore through a dormitory at a girls' secondary school in a town in Kenya's Rift Valley overnight, killing 16 students, the government said on Thursday.

An Israeli strike hit a building in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital on Thursday, the first strike to hit near Beirut in weeks amid a ceasefire that has failed to halt fighting between Israeli troops and Hezbollah in south Lebanon.