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Zijin to buy Nevsun for $1.41bn cash

Bloomberg Zijin Mining Group Co., a Chinese gold and base metals producer, agreed to buy Nevsun Resources Ltd. for $1.41 billion in cash, just days after winning a tender for a Serbian copper miner. The Fujian-based company will acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Nevsun for C$6 per share in cash, they said. The cash consideration represents ...

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Typhoon damage may shut Kansai Airport for a week

Bloomberg Regions around Osaka, Japan’s second biggest population centre, struggled to recover from damage left by Typhoon Jebi, which left 10 people dead, hundreds of thousands of buildings without power and the area’s main airport closed. Kansai International Airport, a key transport and cargo hub that lies on an artificial island in Osaka Bay almost directly in the typhoon’s path, ...

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Ford focusses on Mustang as ‘cars’ fade from showrooms

Bloomberg Ford Motor Co. has stopped running national ads for the Fusion and Focus sedans it’s killing and put more marketing muscle behind the Mustang, a decision that paid off with a 35 percent sales jump for the pony car last month. “Those are the kind of things you’re able to do when you narrow the focus of your lineup,” ...

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Bayer CEO has ‘no regrets’ for $63bn Monsanto purchase

Bloomberg Bayer AG’s $63 billion Monsanto purchase has suffered regulatory delays, mounting legal claims and now will yield lower earnings for the year than earlier forecast. Still, the company’s CEO says he has “no regrets.” The German company lost out on revenue from Monsanto’s busy spring season, when farmers in the Northern Hemisphere plant the bulk of their crops, because ...

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Germany, UK to drop key Brexit ask, easing path to deal

Bloomberg The British and German governments have abandoned key Brexit demands, potentially easing the path for the UK to strike a deal with the European Union, people familiar with the matter said. The pound rose. Germany is ready to accept a less detailed agreement on the UK’s future economic and trade ties with the EU in a bid to get ...

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Abu Dhabi hosts meeting of UAE-Chad Joint Committee

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi on Tuesday hosted the ministerial meeting of the Joint Committee between the UAE and Chad, under the co-chairmanship of Dr. Sultan bin Ahmad Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of State, and Ashtah Saleh Daman, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, African Integration, International Cooperation and Diaspora Affairs. Dr. Al Jaber stated that the political ties ...

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DMCC officially opens representative office in Germany

DUBAI / WAM DMCC, the world’s flagship Free Zone and Government of Dubai Authority on commodities trade and enterprise, has announced the official opening of its representative office operated by the German Arabian Advisory GmbH in Dusseldorf, Germany. Opening a representative office in one of Germany’s economic and trade centres, brings DMCC to the doorstep of European clients, and will ...

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UAE world’s top donor of direct humanitarian relief to Yemen

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE spends more on direct emergency humanitarian aid to Yemen in 2018 than any country on earth, according to the Financial Tracking Services. Established in 1992 as a follow-up to UN General Assembly Resolution 46/182, FTS is managed by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to track humanitarian aid flow. The ...

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‘Construction industry one of the key pillars of UAE economy’

Dubai / WAM Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al-Zeyoudi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, on Tuesday officially inaugurated the Middle East region’s premier B2B event for the natural stone, marble and ceramics industry. Welcoming recognised industry brand names from around the world, Dr Thani Al-Zeyoudi toured the exhibition and met many company representatives who have gathered in Dubai for the ...

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Trump warns Assad against reckless assault on Syria’s Idlib

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian and Iranian allies against “recklessly” attacking the northwestern province of Idlib, the last major holdout of rebels in the country’s seven-year-old civil war. Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump President Bashar al-Assad of Syria must not recklessly attack Idlib Province. The Russians and Iranians would be making a grave ...

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