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With a city skyline view, a DJ wearing a face mask performs music, during brunch, at a hotel in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. The Middle East’s financial hub has shifted its weekend this year from Friday and Saturday to the Western-style Saturday and Sunday along with the rest of the United Arab Emirates. That has thrown Dubai’s beloved institution of Friday brunch — a favorite custom of expats who revel in hourslong booze-soaked, Instagram-worthy buffets — into disarray. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

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Party-hard Dubai ponders new workweek debate: When's brunch?
By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press
Mon,01/24/22-12:11AM , 230 Reads
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Friday will never be the same again.
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This photo released by the U.S. Navy, shows U.S. service members conduct a boarding on a stateless fishing vessel transiting international waters in the Gulf of Oman as a rigid-hull inflatable boat and patrol coastal ship USS Chinook (PC 9) sail nearby, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. The U.S. Navy announced Sunday, Jan. 23 that it seized the boat in the Gulf of Oman carrying fertilizer used to make explosives that was caught last year smuggling weapons to Yemen. (U.S. Navy via AP)

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US detains smuggling ship, UK seizes drugs in Mideast waters
By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press
Sun,01/23/22-3:09AM , 122 Reads
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy announced Sunday it seized a boat in the Gulf of Oman carrying fertilizer used to make explosives that was caught last year smuggling weapons to Yemen. The British royal navy said it confiscated 1,041 kilograms (2,295 pounds) of illegal drugs in the same waters.
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Seoul says it paid Iran's delinquent UN dues to restore vote
By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press
Sun,01/23/22-1:49AM , 93 Reads
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Using Iranian bank funds freed from American sanctions, South Korea has paid Iran's $18 million in delinquent dues owed to the United Nations, Seoul said Sunday. The step was apparently approved by Washington to restore Tehran's suspended voting rights at the world body.
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Bustling bars, surging business: Dubai sees a post-vax boom
By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press
Thu,12/23/21-12:05AM , 130 Reads
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Nations around the world are lurching into lockdown, steeling themselves for a brutal surge as the omicron variant spreads like wildfire.

But in Dubai, Donna Sese is bracing for a very different surge: countless restaurant bookings and meter-long drink bills.
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