DUBAI

Despite souring relations between Turkey and some Gulf countries, Turkey's young entrepreneurs are finding incredible opportunities in construction and tourism investments in Dubai. For Haldun Kilit, board chairman and founder of AHK, the Bvlgari Hotel and Residence Project could be the jewel in the crown.

Three tons of smuggled tobacco for shisha were detained by customs officers at the port of Burgas, reports Darik.

Bangladesh is now becoming one of the largest countries of origin for migrants to Italy. What are the reasons behind this, and what routes are they taking?

Qatar Airways announced on July 6 that it had won exemption from a U.S. ban on passengers taking laptops and tablet computers on flights from its Doha hub.

It is the latest carrier after Abu Dhabi's Etihad, Dubai's Emirates and Turkish Airlines to meet new rules imposed by Washington in March for direct flights from 10 airports in Turkey, the Middle East and North Africa.

BELGRADE/DUBAI- Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic discussed in Belgrade on Wednesday "ways of boosting bilateral ties of friendship and cooperation as well as a range of regional and global issues of mutual concern," the Dubai-based English-language daily Gulf News reported.

Sanctions and a Saudi-led campaign to isolate Qatar have resulted in the division of a number of families, some of those affected have told the Hürriyet Daily News. 

Six Arab nations cut diplomatic ties to Qatar early on June 5 morning, further deepening a rift among Gulf Arab nations over that country's support for Islamist groups and its relations with Iran.
     

Engineers, supported by Toyota Motor Corp, demonstrated their flying car on June 3, which they hope will be able to light up the Olympic flame for the opening ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Games.

So this is what happened: we are going to shoot a movie in the summer, so I won't have time to have a holiday, so I thought about going to Kemer on the Mediterranean coast. It rained in Kemer. Then I heard that there was too much wind in the Aegean town of Çeşme. Then I learned that the sea is icy in Bodrum. I did not feel like going to Dubai.

An Istanbul court on May 11 ordered three years in jail for a man who attacked Gezi protesters with a machete in Istanbul in 2013, Doğan News Agency has reported.

The court made its decision on four suspects including the machete-wielding attacker, Sabri Çelebi, over attacking protesters during the Gezi Park protests, stating that the man injured four people with a sharp object.