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            <title><![CDATA[An Abu Dhabi court ordered a bank to refund a customer Dh92,854, clear his credit card debt and issue a no-liability certificate after it could not prove he agreed to the interest and fees.]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The bank said the card application and fee terms were lost in a fire; the court expert then recalculated at simple legal interest, removing compound interest and unproven fees: Dh1.605 million paid against Dh1.403 million drawn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[UAE real GDP fell 2.1% year on year to Dh476.9 billion in Q2 2026, leaving first-half growth at 0.4% (Dh961.9 billion), the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre said.]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[GDP grew 6.2% in 2025. In Q2 non-oil activity fell 1.1%, with tourism, transport and trade hit hardest, while finance and insurance grew 14.8% in the first half.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Etihad Rail confirmed demand-based fares: Abu Dhabi–Dubai Comfort tickets now cost Dh39–59 and Premium Dh109–149, against launch fares of Dh39 and Dh109.]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Rises fall mainly on afternoon, evening and weekend trains, and the time of booking also sets the price; many Abu Dhabi–Dubai and Abu Dhabi–Fujairah trips sell out in advance.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The UAE's economic partnership agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia) entered into force on 6 October, cutting or removing tariffs.]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It covers more than 86% of tariff lines and about 96% of the value of goods now traded; UAE-EAEU non-oil trade was $33.6 billion in 2025, up 16% on 2024.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dubai Police arrested two suspects accused of phone scams in which callers posed as staff of official and international bodies and got residents to send money abroad; losses were Dh11,877,532.]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The script, per police: your name is in a case abroad, transfer funds for &#39;verification&#39; and they come back; some victims were then told to sell gold jewellery and cut contact from a hotel room.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[UAE non-oil firms raised output prices in September at the steepest rate since May 2011, S&P Global's PMI survey showed; the index held at 55.3, unchanged from August.]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Dubai output price inflation was the fastest since January 2014 as firms passed on higher input costs; S&amp;P Global says volatile oil and constrained shipping may keep prices elevated.]]></description>
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