Overview
- The Mohammed bin Rashid Leaders Forum, attended by about 1,000 public and private sector figures, featured an announcement that projects worth roughly 2.1 trillion dirhams are now under development in Dubai.
- Dubai’s transport authority outlined a three-dimensional mobility plan that includes expanding self-driving surface vehicles, operational urban air taxi trials and study of large-scale underground transit and freight tunnels.
- A new international policing and security master’s program was signed with Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Georgetown University, the NYPD and UNITAR to train leaders, and senior Dubai officials received state honours for leadership and institutional capacity building.
- British Prime Minister Andy Birnham said he received information indicating Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit referendum, reviving a contested issue about foreign influence on that vote.
- The United States tied major reconstruction funding for southern Lebanon to disarmament of Hezbollah, and President Trump defended a temporary easing of limits on Russian diesel exports while facing bipartisan pushback in Congress.