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• Sharjah Police recover resident’s life savings after bag left in taxi

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• UAE President appoints Hamad Al Kaabi Director-General of UAE nuclear regulator

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• RTA to partially open Dubai Harbour Bridge Project in June

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• UAE strongly condemns Iranian drone, missile attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait

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• UAE sends four more aid convoys to Gaza under ‘Operation Chivalrous Knight 3’

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• UAE suspends new visas for Ebola-hit DRC, Uganda, South Sudan nationals

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• New cohort of diplomats take oath before Sheikh Abdullah

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