The Blue Zone entrance at the Dubai Exhibition Center ahead of the COP28 climate conference at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. More than 70,000 politicians, diplomats, campaigners, financiers and business leaders will fly to Dubai to talk about arresting the world's slide toward environmental catastrophe. Photographer: Annie Sakkab/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesDubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday hit back at what it described as "fake news" designed to undermine its work as the host of the COP28 climate conference. "This press release was not issued by the COP28 team, has no basis in truth, and must be entirely disregarded as fake news," the official COP28 UAE account said Wednesday in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. "Official COP28 news will only be published via our verified social media and our press office," it added.

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