Abu Dhabi: Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, representative of the ruler in the Al Dhafra region, the Committee for the Management of Festivals and Cultural and Heritage Programmes in Abu Dhabi announced the launch of the first session of the Liwa Dates Festival and Auction, during the period from 15 to 24 October in the city of Liwa in the Al Dhafra region.

Dubai: The "Travel of Bath" website, a global website specializing in tourism and travel affairs, stated that the government of Dubai decided some time ago to make Dubai a unique global destination for international travellers and developed a plan and strategy to achieve this goal, and indeed it succeeded, and it had what it wanted.

Kuwait (Jahra): The Director of the Supply and Stores Department at the Ministry of Education, Matrouk Al-Mutairi, confirmed that the process of preparing to provide the school’s requirements, including textbooks, furniture and labour, is underway before the start of the new school year.

Bahrain: Minister of Health: Continuing activating efforts and initiatives to develop the nursing sector and deny its workers the necessary resistance.

The UAE has been keen to invest in young people by empowering them in entrepreneurship and small and medium enterprises to drive the economy, in line with consumer needs that play a major role in creating a rising generation dependent on the labour market and the private sector and investing in itself to keep pace with sustainable economic development.

The Acting Director of the Education and Testing Department in the Hawalli Traffic Department, Colonel Sheikh Nawaf Ahmed Al-Nawaf, continues the march of security work and participates in a number of security campaigns to control security and eliminate manifestations of chaos, whether in terms of youth recklessness and endangering the lives of others, or confiscating and impounding cars that are missing Security and safety conditions, in addition to controlling the movement of delivery bikes and other tasks entrusted to him, accompanied by his colleagues in the departments of education, testing and technical examination.

Syria: On Friday, the Syrian Artists Syndicate announced the death of the great artist Bassam Lotfi at the age of 82.

Kuwait: Ahmed Salem, our national karate player, hoisted the UAE flag at the closing ceremony of the fifth edition of the Fifth Islamic Solidarity Games hosted by the Turkish city of Konya during the period (9-18) of this month, with the participation of 6000 athletes from 56 countries, and the UAE participated in it with 53 athletes who competed in 9 different individual sports.

Saudi Arabia: The General Directorate of Traffic in Saudi Arabia introduced new guidelines in which if any expatriate wants to leave a country and needs a final exit visa and return to it again with a new resident identity, they can review the Traffic Department and apply to replace the old driver's license with the new ID number.

Egypt: Governorates in Egypt witnessed painful incidents, which recorded more than 200 cases, between dead and injured, within two weeks.

Syria: People were killed last night as a result of a military escalation in northern Syria, including nine civilians who were killed in artillery shelling by the regime forces, and four girls were killed in a Turkish strike, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

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