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Israeli president presses on with Dubai visit after UAE intercepts missile

Sheikh Nahyan Mubarak Al Nahyan, UAE Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence speaks during Israel's National Day ceremony at Expo 2020 Dubai, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, January 31, 2022. REUTERS/Christopher Pike

Israel's president spoke at Dubai's Expo 2020 world fair on Monday on the first presidential visit to the United Arab Emirates, despite the Gulf state overnight saying it had intercepted a ballistic missile fired by Yemen's Houthis.

The UAE became the first Gulf state to normalise relations with Israel under a U.S.-brokered normalisation agreement, dubbed the "Abraham Accords," in 2020. Gulf neighbour Bahrain then followed.

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