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Afra Al Dhaheri working on her installation 'Tasreeha, 2020', from Abu Dhabi Art's Beyond: Emerging Artists show at Manarat Al Saadiyat

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US President-elect Joe Biden leaves the Queen after meeting virtually with the United States Conference of Mayors in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 23, 2020. US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday named the deeply experienced Antony Blinken for secretary of state, also nominating the first female head of intelligence and a czar for climate issues, with a promise to a return to expertise after the turbulent years of Donald Trump. / AFP / CHANDAN KHANNA

Business ownership changes, Trump agrees transition, 1,065 new cases - The Daily Update

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ADNOC's Panorama Digital Command Center. Courtesy Adnoc

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An Ethiopian child who fled war in Tigray region, carries his plate as he queues for wet food ration at the Um-Rakoba camp, on the Sudan-Ethiopia border in Al-Qadarif state, Sudan November 19, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Ethiopia's Abiy Ahmed – from Nobel Peace Prize to the brink of war

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US President-elect Joe Biden will bring considerable experience of foreign policy, including on the Middle East, when he enters the Oval Office in January 2021. Reuters

Beyond the Headlines: How will Joe Biden change US policy in the Middle East?

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A woman tries to clear mud from her house in Honduras after the passage of Hurricane Eta. AFP

Beyond The Headlines: why superstorms are the new normal

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Covid-19 has disrupted transportation and mobility. Antonie Robertson / The National

What mobility looks like post Covid-19

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 15, 2019 illuminated Huawei and 5G signs are on display during the 10th Global mobile broadband forum hosted by Chinese tech giant Huawei in Zurich. A Swedish court has suspended a decision banning Huawei equipment from the country's 5G network while it considers the merits of the case against the Chinese telecoms giant. The ruling by the Stockholm administrative court forced the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS) to announce late on November 9, 2020 that it would postpone an auction of 5G network frequencies that was due to have taken place on November 10, 2020. / AFP / STEFAN WERMUTH

Listen: Huawei CTO says 'there's no back door' on questions of 5G security

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Campaign signs in support of Joe Biden, 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, and U.S. President Donald Trump in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. After striding into the 2020 election year with a white-hot economy and beating Democratic efforts to remove him from office, Trump was ready to cruise to a second term. But then came the coronavirus pandemic and economic devastation. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg

Markets 'pre-positioned' for Biden to beat Trump

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Pocketful of Dirhams
Currently, if non-Muslim expatriates have not registered a will locally, upon their death, their assets in the UAE will be divided as per Sharia. However, the new changes stipulate that in the absence of a locally registered will in the UAE, the deceased’s home country inheritance law would apply at the time of their death. Getty Images

How the new UAE law on wills and inheritance affects you – Pocketful of Dirhams

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Close up of a senior businesswoman using a tablet in the office.Getty Images

Are we saving enough to fund a 100-year life? – Pocketful of Dirhams

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FILE PHOTO: A combination picture shows U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaking during the first 2020 presidential campaign debate, held on the campus of the Cleveland Clinic at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., September 29, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo

How the US election affects your investment portfolio – Pocketful of Dirhams

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Xbox Series XIS - Microsoft's next generation gaming consoles are seen in this handout image dated September 2020. Microsoft/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

Xbox Series X v PlayStation 5 - should you pick Sony or Microsoft in the next-generation console war?

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Cybersecurity firms in the UAE have reacted to a major leak of patient information held by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. EPA

Employees are the biggest threat to cybersecurity

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The science of success

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Lana Nusseibeh making history for the UAE

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Breaking the glass ceiling in the Middle East

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Books of my life
SAINT MALO, FRANCE - JUNE 12: English Author Alexander McCall Smith poses during "Etonnants Voyageurs" book festival on June 12, 2011 in Saint Malo, France. (Photo by Raphael GAILLARDE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Alexander McCall Smith's mysterious case of books

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In this picture taken on November 8, 2018, Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh poses during an interview with AFP in Hong Kong. - Twenty-five years ago Irvine Welsh's debut novel "Trainspotting" burst out of the housing schemes and back alleys of post-industrial Scotland in a whirlwind of drugs, sex and violence that horrified and delighted critics alike. Scotland's most famous ex-heroin addict is still delivering the goods, and is as far as ever from settling for "carpet slippers and a cottage on the coast." (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP)

Irvine Welsh's literary highs

Books of my life
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Mark Thomas/Shutterstock (10011336q) Opera Singer, Sir Bryn Terfel, arrives to perform on 'The Andrew Marr Show' at the BBC Studios. The Andrew Marr Television Show, London, UK - 02 Dec 2018

The story of Bryn Terfel

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Moeen Ali has been dropped by England for the second Ashes Test. PA

Moeen Ali dropped by England for second Ashes Test at Lord's

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Over the years, the UAE has attracted some of the best teams and competitions to the country. Ravindranath K / The National

Pakistan and UAE helped to grow game together: The Cricket Pod

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FILE PHOTO: Cricket - ICC Cricket World Cup - New Zealand v Pakistan - Edgbaston, Birmingham, Britian - June 26, 2019 Pakistan's Mohammad Amir celebrates taking the wicket of New Zealand's Martin Guptill Action Images via Reuters/Andrew Boyers/File Photo

Amir has boosted Pakistan's 2023 World Cup tilt: The Cricket Pod

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EDITOR'S PICKS
Yubraj Bhusal met his newborn daughter for the first time in November, eight months after his wife died shortly after childbirth. Courtesy: Yubraj Bhusal 

Dubai father meets baby daughter eight months after wife died

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Former Secretary of State John Kerry will be the special presidential envoy for climate for US President-elect Joe Biden. EPA

Meet Joe Biden's cabinet picks

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Companies that wish to go public can also sell 70 per cent of their shares, instead of the previously allowed 30 per cent EPA 

Seven key takeaways from UAE's new commercial company ownership laws

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Travellers, wearing protective face masks, line up at Orly Airport during a major weekend of the French summer holidays in August. The International Air Transport Association is working on a mobile app to show travellers are free of Covid-19. AFP 

Iata working on mobile app to show travellers are Covid-free

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Diversity and inclusion are at heart of UAE-Canada relationship

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ADNOC's Panorama Digital Command Center. Courtesy Adnoc

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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, November 11, 2020. Shop owners in Mina Zayed for a piece on how their shops will soon be demolished and replaced by new markets. The Dar Al Ain pillows and mats section. Victor Besa/The National Section: NA Reporter: Haneen Dajani

Dubai police crash, 1,292 new cases, Mina Plaza demolition - The Daily Update

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An Ethiopian child who fled war in Tigray region, carries his plate as he queues for wet food ration at the Um-Rakoba camp, on the Sudan-Ethiopia border in Al-Qadarif state, Sudan November 19, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

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