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Their world was the oyster: Oldest pearl town found in UAE
•The pearling town sits on Siniyah Island, which shields the Khor al-Beida marshlands in Umm al-Quwain, an emirate some 50 kilometers (30 miles) northeast of Dubai along the coast of the Persian Gulf
Beyond The Lines | Why meddle in the muddle: Middle Kingdom in the Middle East?
Probal Dasgupta •By building influence in the Middle East, China aims to cultivate global constituencies and garner support in its favour — critical for Xi’s larger projects in due course
Explained: How World Cup host Qatar is relying on desalination to fulfil its water demand
•The energy cost of desalination and Qatar’s heavy reliance on it add to questions about Qatar and FIFA’s promise that the World Cup will have almost no effect on the climate
Magnitude of 5.9 earthquake strikes southwestern Iran; 5 injured but no major damage, reports State TV
•State news agency IRNA reported that the quake and several aftershocks caused power blackouts and cut phone lines nearby, but no damage at the Bushehr nuclear complex
Bahrain becomes second nation after UK to allow emergency use of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine
•In November, Bahrain had already granted emergency-use authorization for a Chinese vaccine made by Sinopharm and has inoculated some 6,000 people with it
Saudi Arabia halts entry to Mecca over fears of coronavirus outbreak; move comes just months ahead of annual hajj
•Saudi Arabia halted travel to the holiest sites in Islam over fears about a viral epidemic just months ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage, a move that came as West Asia has over 220 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus.
Iran fails to put satellite into orbit for third time since 2019; setback comes amid US’ worry over advancement in Tehran’s ballistic missile program
•An Iranian rocket failed to put a satellite into orbit on Sunday, state television reported, the latest setback for a program the US claims helps Tehran advance its ballistic missile program
Drone attacks on Saudi Arabia's Aramco facility, oilfield spark major blaze; investigation underway, says State media
•Drones attacked the world's largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia and a major oilfield operated by Saudi Aramco early Saturday, the kingdom's interior ministry said, sparking a huge fire at a processor crucial to global energy supplies
US-Iran tensions: Tehran says it has breached stockpile limit on low-enriched uranium under 2015 nuclear deal
•Iran acknowledged it had broken the limit set on its stockpile of low-enriched uranium by the 2015 nuclear deal, marking its first major departure from the unraveling agreement a year after the US unilaterally withdrew from the accord.
Diplomats say Iran on course to exceed nuclear pact limit within days, but hasn't done so yet
•France said it would ask US president Donald Trump to suspend some sanctions on Iran to allow negotiations to defuse the crisis.