Arabic News Weekly Edition for United Arab Emirates, 8/4/1997
Weekly Edition, United Arab Emirates - Week of August 4, 1997
- Emirates decides to boycott Doha economic conference
Sheikh Zaid Bin Sultan of United Arab Emirates announced that Emirates decided to boycott the Middle East and North Africa economic conference. United Arab Emirates, Politics, 8/8/1997 - 20 projects to cut water costs
20 projects studying ways to cut the costs of producing water in the largely arid Middle East region have been approved. United Arab Emirates, Science, 8/7/1997 - United Arab Emirates youths stranded in Palestine
The United Arab Emirates' foreign minister has asked Egypt and the Palestinian Authority to help six youth teams, stranded in Gaza by an Israeli closure, return home. United Arab Emirates, Politics, 8/7/1997 - aChristian man gets 39 lashes and one year in jail for marrying a Muslim - is free
Lebanese Christian was jailed for adultery in the United Arab Emirates after he married a UAE Muslim woman. United Arab Emirates-Lebanon, Religion, 8/6/1997 - UAE oil profits pay for fighters
The UAE has earned enough from high oil prices to finance a multi-billion dollar deal for the purchase of up to 80 fighters planes, defense sources said. United Arab Emirates, Military, 8/4/1997