United Arab Emirates

Both Qatar and the UAE have been in the firing line for human rights violations and eyes to imrove their image in the US with help of football Gulf States seeking to polish images tarnished by allegations of violations of human rights and their critics are employing football in an effort to shape American perceptions.

Turkey has emerged as one of the top destinations for medical tourism, ranking sixth in the world for medical tourism, according to fresh figures.

BELGRADE - Serbian Agriculture Minister Snezana Bogosavljevic-Boskovic and acting Vojvodina province secretary for agriculture Branislav Bugarski expressed differing views on lease of arable land in the northern Serbian province.

UAE warplanes secretly bombed Islamist militia targets in Libya, apparently catching Washington off guard, as turmoil in the North African country deepened with the Islamists naming a rival premier.
      
American officials said on Aug. 25 that the United Arab Emirates' jets launched two attacks in seven days on the Islamists in Tripoli using bases in Egypt.
      

Informer on Wednesday wrote that journalists from the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, and Serbia’s Centre for Investigative Journalism, CINS, had been stalking Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, causing him to cancel his summer holiday - its second highly critical report about BIRN following the high-profile airline contract investigation.

OBRENOVAC - The restoration and rebuilding of flood-damaged houses goes according to plan, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Tuesday in the Belgrade municipality of Obrenovac, one of the areas worst affected by the May floods.

BELGRADE - The Executive Board of the National Bank of Serbia (NBS) gave the preliminary approval for the foundation of a bank from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Serbia which will operate under the name of Mirabank, Belgrade joint-stock company, the central bank released.

UAE bank gets approval to operate in Serbia

BELGRADE -- The Executive Board of the National Bank of Serbia (NBS) gave the preliminary approval for the foundation of a bank from the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

It will operate under the name of "Mirabank, joint-stock company, Belgrade," the central bank said.

A week after BIRN published the draft agreements between the Serbian government and UAE’s Etihad airway, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on Thursday made public some of the contracts at a press conference, blaming journalists for not having the right version and questioning their intentions.

Vučić presents agreement with Al Rawafed

BELGRADE -- Aleksandar Vučić has presented to the public the joint venture agreement between Serbia and the UAE company Al Rawafed concerning an investment in agriculture.