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The UAE will contribute $100 million to climate disaster fund arrangements, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan said on Thursday.

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, met the UK's King Charles III on the sidelines of COP28 on Thursday.

Parking will be free across most public spaces in Dubai during the upcoming holidays to mark the UAE's 52nd Union Day.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for faster construction of fortifications in key sectors under pressure from Russian forces, particularly in eastern Ukraine, the focal point of Moscow's advances 21 months into its invasion.

Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend the pause in hostilities to facilitate a hostages-prisoners swap in Gaza for a seventh day.

All 41 men who were rescued from a collapsed tunnel in the Indian Himalayas earlier this week are well and will return to their homes in coming days after being discharged from the hospital where they were undergoing treatment, doctors said on Thursday.