Radio Shoma

The UAE's air defence systems are currently responding to incoming missile and drone threats from Iran.

Abu Dhabi authorities have reported that they have controlled a fire that broke out at Abu Dhabi’s old airport, following successful interception by air defence systems.

His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and the UAE's Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister, met with a group of donors and contributors to the Edge of Life campaign aimed at rescuing five million children from hunger.

An Israeli strike hit an apartment block in central Beirut on Wednesday, Lebanese authorities said, further widening Israeli attacks in the capital beyond the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs where heavy bombardment continued.

At least six people have died, and three others were injured in a bus fire on Tuesday in a small town in western Switzerland, in what police said may have been a deliberate act following reports that a person on board set fire to themselves.

Thailand's Phuket airport said on Wednesday it had temporarily closed its runway to remove a disabled Air India Express plane after it experienced a malfunction upon landing.