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Abu Dhabi's Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities has received the International Quality Accreditation (IQA), an institutional accreditation awarded by the UK Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA).

The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MoHESR) has revoked the institutional licence and programme accreditation of Ajman-based Horizon University College following "severe and repeated violations of licencing and accreditation requirements".

The United Arab Emirates on Monday expressed its solidarity with Ghana and Ivory Coast regarding the victims of last week's floods caused by heavy rains, which resulted in a number of deaths and injuries.

Russia hammered Ukraine with missiles and drones early on Monday, killing at least 20 people and exposing Kyiv's critical shortage of US-made interceptors, officials said, just days after the deadliest attack on the Ukrainian capital this year.

Twenty-five people were killed and about 100 injured as security officials struggled to contain two days of clashes between rival groups of inmates at a prison in Sri Lanka, authorities said on Monday, marking the deadliest such violence in years.

At least six people have been killed when a group of buildings collapsed in the eastern suburbs of India's Mumbai on Sunday, the latest casualties of heavy rains that have disrupted travel and shut down schools in the city.