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A fire burns on the side of a high-rise building in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, May 5, 2020. A high-rise tower caught fire Tuesday in the United Arab Emirates and authorities said it wasn't immediately clear what caused the blaze. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

High-rise tower catches fire in United Arab Emirates

By JON GAMBRELL and FAY ABUELGASIM - Associated Press

In this Monday, April 27, 2020, photo, an Associated Press journalist examines a gate system made by Guard ME that conducts temperature checks and fogs disinfectants on users, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. As confirmed coronavirus cases spike, the United Arab Emirates is opening up its cavernous malls and restaurants in a gamble to stimulate its economy while still trying to fight off the pandemic. That's led to a new normal here of temperature checks, social distancing monitors at supermarkets and marked-off empty seats on the city's driverless Metro. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

As virus cases rise, UAE adjusts to a new normal in pandemic

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this Sept. 25, 2000, file photo, two workers climb down from one of the tanks in an oil tank-farm in Jebel Ali, 25 miles (40 km) south of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The historic crash in oil prices in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic is reverberating across the Middle East as crude-dependent countries scramble to offset losses from a key source of state revenue. The economies of all the Arab Gulf oil exporters are expected to contract this year. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Mideast economies take massive hit with oil price crash

By Samya Kullab and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

In this Thursday, April 16, 2020 photo, a paramedic speaks to a man at a labor camp in the Al Quoz neighborhood of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Migrant workers in oil-rich Gulf Arab states have long been a lifeline for their families back home but they now find themselves trapped by the coronavirus pandemic. They are losing jobs, running out of money and desperate to return home as COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, stalks their labor camps. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Virus traps, sickens foreign laborers in Gulf Arab states

By JON GAMBRELL and AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

Shopkeepers wearing protective face masks and gloves to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus sit in their shop at the Qazvin old traditional bazaar some 93 miles (150 kilometers) northwest of the capital Tehran Iran, Wednesday, April 22, 2020. Iran is the COVID-19 hardest-hit country in the Mideast and one of the world's worst outbreaks of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran, like wider Mideast, relies on deliveries amid pandemic

By AMIR VAHDAT - Associated Press

The sun sets behind an idle pump jack near Karnes City, Texas, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. Demand for oil continues to fall due to the new coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Global pact to contain oil price crash takes shape

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, April 7, 2020 photo, a delivery truck leaves after dropping off alcohol to a home in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dubai’s two major alcohol distributors have partnered to offer home delivery of beer, spirits and wine as the new coronavirus now threatens a crucial source of tax and general revenue for the rulers of this Islamic city-state. The decision marks yet another loosening of social mores in the skyscraper-studded desert metropolis. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Dubai allows alcohol home delivery as virus shuts down bars

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

A lone taxi cab drives over a typically gridlocked highway with the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, in the skyline behind it in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, April 6, 2020. Dubai, one of seven sheikdoms in the United Arab Emirates, is now under a 24-hour lockdown over the new coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

Dubai’s Emaar sells 80% stake in cooling system for $675M

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CORRECTS TO SAY THAT EMIRATES HAS DRAMATICALLY CUT ITS PASSENGER FLIGHT DESTINATIONS AND NOT SUSPENDED ALL FLIGHTS. -- FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2019 file photo, an Emirates jetliner comes in for landing at Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. On Sunday, March 22, 2020, long-haul carrier Emirates it has dramatically cut its passenger flight destinations from 145 locations to just 13 countries. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

Dubai throws Emirates Air a cash lifeline as travel grounded

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2019 file photo, technicians walk at the under construction site of the Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. On Monday, March 30, 2020, the organizers of Expo 2020 recommended postponing the world's fair until next years over the new coronavirus pandemic. Dubai has already spent billions of dollars on the world's fair, which was supposed to take place in October. The ultimate decision over the event will be made by the Paris-based Bureau International des Expositions, which had awarded the fair to Dubai in 2014. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Expo 2020, the world’s fair in Dubai, set for one-year delay due to pandemic

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, photo, a group of Chinese tourists some of them with face mask pose for a photo under the world's tallest tower, Burj Khalifa, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak sparked by a new virus in China that has been exported to more than a dozen countries as a global emergency Thursday after the number of cases spiked tenfold in a week. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Dubai’s Emaar posts $1.68B in profit, but revenue slips

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2019 file photo, technicians walk at the under construction site of the Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. On Monday, March 30, 2020, the organizers of Expo 2020 recommended postponing the world's fair until next years over the new coronavirus pandemic. Dubai has already spent billions of dollars on the world's fair, which was supposed to take place in October. The ultimate decision over the event will be made by the Paris-based Bureau International des Expositions, which had awarded the fair to Dubai in 2014. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Dubai Expo 2020 recommends postponing a year amid virus

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2017, file photo, cars pass a giant billboard adverting DAMAC Properties' Trump Estates golf course villas in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. DAMAC Properties, Dubai's largest, fully private real estate developer, on Sunday, March 29, 2020, posted its first yearly loss since becoming a publicly traded company in 2013, a worrying sign for the sheikhdom's already-reeling vital property market now struggling with the new coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Dubai firm tied to Trump posts loss as virus downturn looms

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2009, file photo, cranes off load containers at the Jebel Ali port terminal 2 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dubai-based port operator DP World said Wednesday, March 11, 2020 its profits fell 8.3% to $1.18 billion in 2019, warning that global trade remains threatened by trade wars and the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Port firm DP World sees 2019 profits drop 8.3% as it delists

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

World Health Organization, WHO, workers prepare coronavirus aid items to be shipped, at a warehouse of the International Humanitarian City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, March 5, 2020. In an open expanse of desert in Dubai, seven World Health Organization workers are racing to sort, package and send out hundreds of shipments of medical supplies to countries around the world battling a new virus that has spread fast, disrupting life for millions of people globally. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

WHO racing to send supplies to countries as new virus surges

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

Two women wearing masks dressed as sword-wielding anime characters pose for a photograph at the Middle East Film &amp; Comic Con in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, March 5, 2020. The Middle East Film &amp; Comic Con began Thursday night in Dubai, a city of skyscrapers and nightclubs suddenly subdued by the outbreak of the new coronavirus across the region. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

With hand sanitizer nearby, Dubai Comic Con laughs at virus

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan 17, 2016 file photo, Princess Haya bint al-Hussein, the wife of the Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, attends a press conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. A British court has found that the ruler of Dubai conducted a campaign of fear and intimidation against his estranged wife and ordered the abduction of two of his daughters, documents unsealed Thursday, March 5, 2020 show. (AP Photo/Martin Dokoupil, file)

Judge: Dubai ruler threatened wife, had daughters abducted

By JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press

In this April 20, 2017, file photo, Emirates planes are parked at the Dubai International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Major disruptions due to the new coronavirus have already caused the equivalent of a roughly $100 million loss to airline carriers in the Middle East region, which serves as a connection hub for east-west travel, the industry's main trade association said on Monday, March 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Iran says virus deaths reach 107 amid 3,513 confirmed cases

Associated Press

In this Aug. 13, 2019, file photo taken with a slow shutter speed, Muslim pilgrims circumambulate the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the hajj pilgrimage in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, halted travel to the holiest sites in Islam over fears of the global outbreak of the new coronavirus just months ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage, a move coming as the Mideast has over 220 confirmed cases of the illness. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Saudi Arabia halts pilgrimages over virus; Iran cases spike

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

A policeman and pedestrians wear masks to help guard against the Coronavirus, in downtown Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020. On Sunday, Iran's health ministry raised the death toll from the new virus to 8 people in the country, amid concerns that clusters there, as well as in Italy and South Korea, could signal a serious new stage in its global spread. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

UAE bans Iran flights over virus; at least 15 dead in Iran

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press