Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE has strongly condemned the terrorist attack that targeted two police officers in Tunisia, killing one and wounding the other. In a statement on Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation underscored the UAE’s utter condemnation of such criminal acts and full rejection of all forms of violence and terrorism aimed at undermining ...

Sharjah / WAM Salam Beirut, an international emergency aid campaign launched in the UAE to support the victims of the devastating explosion that struck Port Beirut, has announced an estimated allocation of $100,000 for the repatriation of migrant workers who are facing increasing hunger and homelessness in the Lebanese capital. Launched in August by HH Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Federal Authority for Human Resources (FAHR) revealed that the number of UAE citizens working for the federal government until June 2020 totalled 57,109, of whom 31,486 were women. According to FAHR’s recent statistics, Emirati employees in leadership and managerial positions numbered 2,421, with 1,324 being men and 1,097 being women. The 30 to 39-year-old age ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Dr Hang Dai, Assistant Professor in the Computer Vision department at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) achieved first and second place in the Commands 4 Autonomous Vehicles (C4AV) Workshop Challenge, part of the recently-held 2020 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2020) one of the top conferences in computer vision and machine ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM As part of the road safety campaign, the Abu Dhabi Police (ADP) urged pedestrians to respect road safety rules by only crossing at allocated places, as well as use bridges and tunnels and follow pedestrian light signals at crossroads that operate in conjunction with traffic lights. The ADP also warned about risks posed by crossing roads ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM A new research finding on radiation will support the UAE’s ambitious project to build the first human settlement on Mars by 2117, a scientist told Emirates News Agency (WAM). “Radiation is one of the biggest roadblocks in planning long-term space missions, especially the project to establish a human presence on Mars [UAE’s Mars 2117 project],” said ...

With tensions between the US and China heating up, there are increasing calls for expelling or barring Chinese nationals from US universities and corporations. Whatever the national security justification for these moves, policy makers should be aware of the potential downsides — loss of economic vitality, and the potential for a wave of racial discrimination. Over the past few years, ...

As the financial behemoths of Wall Street and the City of London reassess how they’ll operate in the post-pandemic world (assuming we get there), change is certain. Even with Covid-19 in check, staff working away from an office building will no longer be an exception. Banks will be thinking about saving on their huge urban real-estate costs, and employees about ...

The much-anticipated US jobs report answered some important questions about the state of the labour market. Yet by also leaving some important issues outstanding, it will not serve as the much needed outside catalyst to resolve both the policy stalemate on Capitol Hill and the increasingly visible tug-of-war in financial markets. The narrow message of the jobs report came through ...

All things green tech are seeing the light of day as the global economy digs its way out of the pandemic slump. Valuations have been skyrocketing, with makers of electric cars and solar glass panels the stocks du jour. But there’s room for skepticism. Dubbed the Green-Shaped Recovery, the trend is projected to draw trillions of dollars of funding for ...