Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Emergency, Crisis and Disaster Committee for Covid-19 pandemic, in coordination with the Department of Education and Knowledge (Adek) has approved plans to reopen private schools with physical attendance for the new academic year. This allows parents and students to opt for online learning for the whole first term of the upcoming academic year, ...

Bloomberg The US West Coast is set to have its hottest two weeks in 70 years, putting even more strain on power grids after California imposed rolling blackouts for the first time since 2001. Excessive heat warnings and watches stretch from the Pacific Coast inland to Montana, Utah and Arizona, according to the National Weather Service. Sacramento is forecast to ...

Bloomberg Hitachi Ltd subsidiary Horizon Nuclear Power has been holding detailed conversations with UK government officials in recent weeks to revive plans for a proposed nuclear power plant in north Wales, the Financial Times reported. Horizon has been trying to convince ministers that plans for the Wylfa Newydd plant on Anglesey could be quickly restarted if they can produce a ...

For very different reasons, both Indians and US conservatives are emphasizing Senator Kamala Harris’s Indian heritage. This shouldn’t be entirely surprising. Indians have always been quick to appropriate successful members of their diaspora. And right-wing commentators and even US President Donald Trump are seeking to spread suspicions about the Democratic vice presidential candidate’s citizenship by emphasizing her mother’s Indian background ...

Who should be at the front of the line if an effective Covid-19 vaccine emerges from testing? The answer depends on what we learn from the kind of field trials Russia is skipping. Some vaccines might not be that good at preventing infection, but would prevent severe cases. Those should be given to those most likely to die from the ...

King dollar still reigns supreme. And that means there are two ways for banks to go: the US way, or the highway. Hong Kong and Chinese officials scoffed when the Trump administration imposed sanctions last weekend on 11 individuals deemed to have played a role in undermining the city’s autonomy. Luo Huining, director of the central government’s Liaison Office, noted ...

The intense debates over school openings are missing something crucial: numbers. Without them, it’s essentially impossible to know what to do, or to evaluate what is being proposed. Here’s an analogy. Suppose that the Food and Drug Administration is contemplating a new food safety regulation, or that the Department of Transportation is considering new restrictions on railroads. The White House ...

Bloomberg On the surface the rebound in US retail sales is a V-shaped recovery, but the overall figure obscures lingering economic pain across many of America’s businesses. After a third straight monthly increase, albeit a weaker gain than expected, the total value of US retail sales has rebounded above pre-pandemic levels. But the composition of spending looks substantially different than ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG’s cabin crew voted in favour of a 500 million-euro ($592 million) savings pact, its union said in a statement, a day after talks with ground staff collapsed. Members of the UFO union agreed to two collective agreements, and also voted in favour of clarifying rules around state wage support and severance payments, according to the statement. ...

Bloomberg JetBlue Airways Corp’s top executive is joining an industry push for additional federal help as passenger totals plateau at about a quarter of year-earlier levels. Airlines are “in a very, very critical situation right now,” said Chief Executive Officer Robin Hayes as he called on the Trump administration and Congress to resolve a stalemate over a new economic stimulus ...