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Sharjah / WAM Sharjah Airport welcomed the inaugural flight of Ukraine’s ‘Bees Airlines’, arriving from Kiev International Airport. The flight was greeted by a water salute upon arrival at the Sharjah Airport runway after crossing the traditional water sprinkler arches, in the presence of Ali Salim Al Midfa, Chairman of Sharjah Airport Authority, attended the meeting alongside Sheikh Faisal bin ...

Dubai / WAM Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI) in partnership with the World Business Angels Investment Forum (WBAF), hosted the World Business Angel Investors Week at Dubai Exhibition Centre at Expo 2020 Dubai. As an affiliated partner of G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion, WBAF coordinates the World Business Angel Investors Week, which was held globally from October 18-24 and participated ...

DUBAI / WAM The UAE’s election to the UN’s Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for the third time reflects the country’s “increasing international presence,” the Vice-President of the European Commission for promoting our European way of Life said. In exclusive statements to the Emirates News Agency (WAM), Margaritis Schinas described the UAE as “a pole of power, influence and inspiration.” Schinas ...

Dubai / WAM The UAE Space Agency has held high-level bilateral talks with a delegation of senior government and business officials from the Republic of Estonia to accelerate collaboration and the transfer of space-related technologies and services. Salem Butti Salem Al Qubaisi, Director-General of the UAE Space Agency, met with Kristi Talving, Deputy Secretary-General for Business and Consumer Environment, at ...

DUBAI / WAM Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa), has received Roland Weigert, Bavarian Vice Minister of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, and his accompanying delegation to discuss ways of consolidating cooperation in the areas of clean energy, in addition to strengthening relations and exchanging expertise with the German businesses. The ...

Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has approved the Hatta Master Development Plan, which forms an integral part of the Dubai 2040 Urban Master Plan launched earlier this year to create a roadmap for enhancing infrastructure and implementing a series of development projects ...

DUBAI / WAM Abdul Rahman bin Mohammad bin Nasser Al Owais, Minister of Health and Prevention, has said the UAE represents an exemplary role model in polio control and eradication, stressing the UAE wise leadership has attached the utmost importance to the national programme for polio eradication, as one of the most important health achievements. Al Owais made the statement ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Aviation, aerospace, space and defense leaders from across the planet will meet in-person in Abu Dhabi for the return of the Global Aerospace Summit on May 24 -26, 2022. The theme of the Summit, ‘Digital Driven Resurgence’, will showcase the rapid transformation that has happened across these sectors over recent years and the role of innovation ...

Dubai / WAM The UAE is leading the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) in the adoption of electric vehicles with its charging station to vehicle ratio among the world’s highest, according to a newly released whitepaper. Produced by the Clean Energy Business Council (CEBC) Mena, the whitepaper says the UAE now boasts 240 grid-linked slow charging public stations – ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 299,806 additional Covid-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement, the ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out the necessary treatment. As ...