His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, has issued a Cabinet Resolution on community plantation and agriculture.

According to the new resolution, the Ministry Of Climate Change and Environment is tasked to implement the new decree, which includes 14 clauses, a Wam news agency report said.

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A delegation of the People’s Assembly participated on Thursday in the World Trade Organization (WTO) Parliamentary Conference on the Facilitation of Trade and Investment in the Western Balkans and the Mediterranean Region in the Serbian capital of Belgrade.

On the sidelines of the Conference, the delegation held a meeting with the head of the Serbian-Syrian Friendship Association in the Serbian Parliament Miroslav Lazanski, according to SANA.

Syria backs the Palestinian people's rights, particularly to return to their homeland and establish the Palestinian state on the land of Palestine, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Faysal al-Mikdad has stressed, reiterating that Syria is against all schemes aiming to terminate the Palestinian cause, mainly the so-called 'the Deal of the Century'.

During a meeting with a delegation representing the Executive Committee"...

The U.S. Treasury Department said on Monday it had sanctioned a Malaysia-based sales agent for Mahan Air, an Iranian airline already under U.S. sanctions in connection with Iran’s alleged support for international terrorism.

“As a result of today’s action, all property and interests in property of Mahan Travel and Tourism Sdn Bhd that are or come within U.S. jurisdiction are blocked,” the department said in a statement.

Apart from a few cars parked near the deserted gates, there is barely a sign of life in what was once one of the busiest regional trade routes along the Jordan-Syria border.

It was only a few years ago when a steady stream of goods and people moved through the Nasib-Jaber crossing, a major commercial artery connecting Syria, Turkey and Lebanon"...

India is one of the main markets of focus for China's major cross-border e-commerce players due to high potential for economic growth, according to a report today.

Five of the top 10 best performing cross-border e-commerce Chinese apps in the first five months --- such as Club Factory, SHEIN, ROMWE and JollyChic - focussed on the Middle East and India markets, according to a report from app data provider App Annie.

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Siemens and Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today to partner to foster the industrial Internet of Things (IoT) in China. The two companies will leverage each other’s technology and industry resources to build a unique IoT solution to support Industrie 4.0, China’s manufacturing upgrade and transformation and other industrial Internet initiatives. Joe Kaeser, President and CEO of Siemens AG and Simon Hu, Senior Vice President of Alibaba Group and"...

China’s broad economic growth was expected to ease to around 6.6 per cent in the second half of this year, the State Information Centre said on Saturday.

The official China Securities Journal quoted the State Information Centre (SIC) saying the Chinese economy is likely to experience a mild slowdown in the second half of the year as financial market risks become “obvious” and demand is expected to decline.

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A preliminary report by the world’s chemical weapons watchdog said “various chlorinated chemicals” were found at the site of an attack in Douma, Syria, in April that killed dozens of civilians and prompted air strikes by Britain, France and the United States, it said on Friday.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) sent a fact-finding mission to Douma in mid-April, roughly a week after the April 7 attack"...

Israel yesterday threated to strike Syrian government forces if they breach the demilitarised border zone near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

Israel’s Public Security Minister, Gilad Erdan, said that “we must do everything to clarify, vis-a-vis the Russians, the Assad government, that we will not accept any armed presence by the Assad regime in the areas which are meant to be demilitarised,” according to Reuters."...