Abu Dhabi / WAM Etihad Airways celebrated the arrival of its new Airbus A350-1000 in the United States following the inaugural commercial flight from Abu Dhabi International Airport (AUH) to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) on June 30. The aircraft, which accommodates 371 passengers, is one of five new Airbus A350s to join Etihad’s fleet this ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan witnessed the signing of the UAE-Indonesia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, alongside Indonesian President Joko Widodo in Abu Dhabi on Friday. This is the third such deal signed by the UAE this year, following the CEPAs with India and Israel, and is designed to increase annual bilateral trade ...

  Dubai / WAM The Union Coop on Friday announced its intention to list its shares on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) on Monday, July 18, as the first retail cooperative in the UAE that takes this pioneering step. The listing is a part of the Securities and Exchange Higher Commission strategy aiming at increasing stock market size in the ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Emirates Mars Mission ‘Hope Probe’ has identified new observations, in addition to its nominal set of observations, about Mars’ atmosphere in its fourth batch of scientific data. Collected by the Hope Probe’s instruments during its mission in Mars’ orbit from December 2021 to February 2022, the latest data demonstrate the capabilities of the instruments, ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 300,076 additional Covid-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement on Friday, the ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out the ...

  DUBAI / WAM Emirates Health Services (EHS) announced that it has won the Smart Government Awards 2022 for Digital Government Content, announced by the International Excellence Foundation, which works to advance e-government and smart government websites from its base in Florida, USA. The win was announced at an awards ceremony held on 29th June at M?venpick Grand Al Bustan ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Etihad Airways celebrated the arrival of its new Airbus A350-1000 in the United States following the inaugural commercial flight from Abu Dhabi International Airport (AUH) to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) on June 30. The aircraft, which accommodates 371 passengers, is one of five new Airbus A350s to join Etihad’s fleet this ...

  Bloomberg Natural gas prices in Europe headed for the longest streak of weekly gains this year as a prolonged shutdown of a key export facility in the US further tightens a market that’s already reeling from Moscow’s supply cuts. Benchmark futures rose as much as 6.1% to advance for a third week. The Freeport LNG project now plans to ...

  Bloomberg Russia’s oil output is edging back toward pre-war levels, and a revival in large and small refineries scattered across the country is a major driver of the change. The trend is another example — from rising oil-product exports to higher prices for Urals crude — of how Russia’s energy industry is adapting to trade restrictions imposed after its ...

  Bloomberg About half of South Africa’s record electricity outages this week have been caused by employees staying away from work during illegal protests, the head of the state power utility said. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. was forced to implement Stage-6 power outages — equivalent to cutting 6,000 megawatts from the grid — because of disruptions that have lasted a ...