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Bloomberg President Jair Bolsonaro’s relentless attack on Brazil’s voting system soured his relationship with the Supreme Court, leaving the country on the brink of an institutional crisis. Top Justice Luiz Fux canceled plans for a meeting with Bolsonaro and the heads of congress that was intended to defuse rising tensions between them. The move came a day after the court ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Sports Council and Dubai Department of Economic Development (Dubai Economy) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to help boost the business of sports in Dubai. The MoU, which was signed by Sami Al Qamzi, Director-General of Dubai Economy, and Saeed Hareb, Secretary-General of Dubai Sports Council, on Wednesday at the headquarters of the Council, will ...

DUBAI / WAM In his capacity as Ruler of Dubai, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum issued decree No. (24) of 2021 regulating the use of 3D printing in the construction sector in Dubai. Dubai Municipality is tasked with overseeing the implementation of the new decree. The new legislation supports ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Wizz Air Abu Dhabi, a UAE national airline, has announced adding two new destinations to its network, by providing flights to Tirana in Albania and Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, bringing its network to a total of 31 routes. The flights to each destination will commence on September 11 and October 03 respectively. The flight to ...

SHARJAH / WAM The Sharjah Economic Development Department (SEDD) and the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure discussed ways of boosting their cooperation, in light of their mutual keenness to help achieve their strategic goals and establish effective relations. This came as part of a meeting between Sultan Abdullah bin Hedah Al Suwaidi, Chairman of SEDD, and Sharif Salim Al Olama, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Voting for the UAE Pro League Awards, which is scheduled to end on August 05, has been witnessing wide participation and tight competition between nominees over the past 72 hours, creating a thrilling atmosphere as the winners are set to be revealed at the UAE Pro League Awards ceremony on August 16. The awards honour the ...

DUBAI / WAM The National Programme for Coders and Facebook announced on Wednesday the launch of the “Facebook AI Camp”, available for the first time in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region. The camp, slated to be held between August 15-26, will equip students with a variety of digital skills and train them in programming languages. The initiative ...

Bloomberg China’s broadest Covid-19 outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic in late 2019 is hampering tourism and spending during the peak summer holiday, prompting analysts to review their economic growth projections as risks escalate. Authorities rushed to close tourist sites, call off cultural events and cancel flights, as the outbreak linked to the highly-infectious delta variant spread to nearly ...

Bloomberg The technological level of China’s exports increased through the trade war with the US, according to a new ranking, which predicts the Chinese economy will grow faster than India’s over the next decade. China ranked 16th globally when judged by the complexity of its exports in 2019, moving up three places ahead of countries including Ireland since the onset ...

Bloomberg Indonesia has reached a grim milestone as more than 100,000 people died from the coronavirus, becoming the second country in Asia to breach that threshold. After weeks of topping the world’s tally of daily Covid-19 deaths, Southeast Asia’s largest economy added 1,747 fatalities on Wednesday, according to data from the health ministry, bringing its total number to 100,636. Indonesia ...