UAE News from Tuesday, August 19th, 2025

Parkin, Dubai's largest paid parking services provider, has partnered with a subsidiary of e& to roll out 200 ultra-fast electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in the city, and reduce charging time to under 30 minutes. 

Dubai Humanitarian on Tuesday convened a community gathering alongside some UN offices to honour the "sacrifices of humanitarian workers" and to reaffirm that aid workers must never be a target, as the globe marked World Humanitarian Day.

A UAE taskforce has been dispatched to support efforts to extinguish the wildfires in Montenegro, under the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Archeologists in Abu Dhabi discovered a Christian faith cross moulded onto a plaque that has been dated to the 7th or 8th century on Sir Bani Yas Island, as the emirate reignites efforts to unearth its history.

The UAE’s National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) has announced some scattered areas of the country are expected to experience rainfall on Wednesday and Thursday.

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has announced the start of trial operations of electricity export from the pumped-storage hydroelectric power plant in Hatta to Dubai.

The UAE's "Lifeline" water project that aims to supply clean, drinkable water to over 600,000 Palestinians in the southern parts of the Gaza Strip is progressing well.

The UAE has provided critical humanitarian aid to Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) after devastating floods in May displaced hundreds of people and left several parts damaged.

UFC world champion Khamzat Chimaev was accorded a special reception in Abu Dhabi after lifting the middleweight world title in Chicago. 

The UAE rescue team has carried out 18 aerial operations using two Black Hawk helicopters as they work alongside Albanian authorities in containing raging wildfires in the country.