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  "path": "/news/1974182/uae-president-reemerges-in-video-with-us-senator-after-rumours-about-health",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-18T15:43:44.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.dawn.com",
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  "textContent": "United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has appeared in a meeting with US Senator Lindsey Graham for the first time after rumours about his health spread following a now-deleted Turkish presidency statement.\n\nEarlier this month, Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan went to Saudi Arabia and was meant to later visit the neighbouring United Arab Emirates, amid an ongoing rift between the two Gulf powers.\n\nBut on Sunday, Erdogan said he was postponing his Abu Dhabi trip because the Emirati leader had a “health problem” — in a statement that was later deleted.\n\nThe incident fuelled rumours online about Sheikh Mohamed’s health, with his Wikipedia page even briefly being edited to say he had died.\n\nOn Wednesday, the presidential court shared video footage of the Emirati president, smiling alongside powerful US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham during a meeting at Qasr Al Shati in Abu Dhabi.\n\nThe UAE’s official _WAM_ news agency also shared photographs of the meeting, in which Sheikh Mohamed appeared alongside Graham.\n\nThe Emirati leader’s team on Saturday evening released photos taken the same day showing Sheikh Mohamed, known as MBZ, smiling and apparently in good health, with Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the emir of Qatar.\n\nGraham, writing on X, said he met the UAE president for an hour-and-a-half and dismissed those perpetuating false narratives against the UAE and President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed as “full of it”.\n\n> ",
  "title": "UAE president reemerges in video with US senator after rumours about health"
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