Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, received Abraham Mathai, President of the Harmony Foundation, which awards the annual St. Mother Teresa Awards to prominent global citizens, at the ministry’s headquarters on Thursday. The two parties discussed relations of cooperation between the UAE and the Mumbai-based Harmony Foundation, ...

  HARGEISA / WAM The first stage of the humanitarian missions of the Zayed Giving Initiative convoys in Somali villages has been completed with the diagnostic, surgical and preventative treatment of over 5,000 children and elderly patients in the Emirati-Somali mobile field hospital. The hospital is supervised by an Emirati-Somali volunteer medical team, in line with the directives of President His ...

  Dubai / WAM The Women’s Committee at Dubai Customs, in cooperation with Dubai World Trade Centre, has organised a workshop on food safety in support of the food bank initiative, following the wise vision and directives of Sheikha Hind bint Maktoum bin Juma Al Maktoum, wife of Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Etihad Airways on Thursday announced new roles and responsibilities for four of its most senior UAE nationals. Ahmed Al Qubaisi, who currently holds the position of Vice President Aero Political and Industry Affairs, will be promoted to Senior Vice President and take on responsibility for International Affairs and for Environmental Affairs. Ahmed joined Etihad ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) organised a monthly staff gathering at its head office which highlighted the importance of adopting a healthy and positive lifestyle as a foundation for achieving personal and professional success. During his welcome address, Essa Al Zaabi, Senior Vice-President, Institutional Support Sector, Dubai Chamber, revealed that the Chamber ...

  Dubai / WAM The number of people taking the taxi in Dubai were clocked at 44,883,737, and they took 25,795,251 trips during the first quarter of 2017. The CEO of Public Transport Agency at the Roads and Transport Authority, RTA, Abdullah Yousef Al Ali commented, “Lifting 44,883,737 riders during the first quarter of this year is indicative of the huge ...

  Bloomberg National Front leaders are beginning to acknowledge that Marine Le Pen may be headed for defeat in Sunday’s presidential election after she failed to land the decisive blow she needs to overhaul Emmanuel Macron in Wednesday’s television debate. Scoring 40 percent in the runoff “would be an enormous victory,” the candidate’s niece and a fellow National Front lawmaker ...

  Bloomberg Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he called his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Wednesday “at the behest” of US President Donald Trump to discuss China’s role in promoting peace on the Korean peninsula. In a televised speech from Davao City on Thursday, Duterte said Trump, in a call at the weekend, asked whether Xi “could do something about ...

  Bloomberg Bulgaria’s parliament gave the go-ahead to Prime Minister Boyko Borissov to head his third government in eight years, though uncertainty remains as to whether his coalition with a loose alliance of nationalist parties will last to serve a full term. Lawmakers voted 133-101, without abstentions, to back the Gerb party’s cabinet with the United Patriots, Parliament Speaker Dimitar ...

  It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about Donald Trump’s inability to do either. This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability. It is not merely the result of intellectual sloth but of an untrained mind bereft of information and married to stratospheric self-confidence. In February, acknowledging Black History Month, Trump said that ...