Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir announced that the national dialogue’s document has entered into effect starting yesterday.

An Omani court has released two journalists pending an appeal after they were given jail sentences for undermining the state, a colleague said yesterday.

The United States threatened yesterday to retaliate for a missile attack that missed a pair of US warships in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen.

Dubai said on Monday it had started building what would be the world’s tallest tower, another record for the city that is already home to the highest skyscraper – the Burj Khalifa.

The World Heath Organisation said yesterday it had confirmed 11 cases of cholera in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, after the UN announced an outbreak of the disease last week.

More cases of cholera have been registered in the Yemeni capital Sanaa but a World Health Organisation (WHO) official said on Tuesday the epidemic was not yet spreading.

The first Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi will be ready to welcome worshippers by the end of 2017, a businessman overseeing the project said on Tuesday.

Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih will not attend meetings on Wednesday between OPEC and non-OPEC countries in Istanbul but told Reuters he saw signs that countries outside OPEC were willing to contribute to balancing the oil market.

Russian jets resumed heavy bombing of rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Tuesday after several days of relative calm, a rebel official and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday again asked the Security Council to formally request that the International Criminal Court (ICC) begin investigations of war crimes in Syria.

Libyan pro-government forces are advancing into the last area controlled by Islamic State in the coastal city of Sirte, surrounding the militants after a five-month campaign backed by US air strikes, military officials say.

Israeli authorities have arrested dozens of Palestinians after a deadly shooting rampage in Jerusalem raised fears of a surge in violence during this week’s Yom Kippur holiday, police said yesterday.