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Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates announced it will launch a daily non-stop flight between Dubai and Tel Aviv, Israel, starting December 6. The move comes as the UAE and Israel continue to develop greater economic cooperation to drive growth across a range of sectors, in addition to boosting trade flows between both nations. With the new daily flights, Israeli travellers ...

GLASGOW / WAM The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MoCCAE) launched two new initiatives, one in collaboration with Majid Al Futtaim and the other is in collaboration with the private sector at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow. The initiatives aim to increase the involvement of the private sector in the UAE’s efforts to reduce greenhouse ...

DUBAI / WAM Hessa bint Essa Buhumaid, Minister of Community Development and Chairwoman of Digital Wellbeing Council, emphasised that the UAE wellbeing indicator achieved accelerated progress in social, healthcare, educational and economic aspects supported by the UAE leadership and its future vision in light of the changes to enhance the new methodology of government action. Coinciding with the year of ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE has expressed its strong denunciation and condemnation of the attempts by the Iran-backed terrorist Houthi militia to target civilians and civilian objects in a systematic and deliberate manner in Jazan and Khamis Mushait in the sisterly Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with two booby-trapped drones, which were intercepted by Coalition forces. In a statement issued ...

Dubai / WAM The newly-established UAE Infrastructure and Housing Council held its first meeting to discuss the challenges, priorities, policies and legislation that serve the direction of the state and contribute to realising aspirations of the government for the welfare of the Emirati people. The council also reviewed the housing plans for the coming years and the provision of multiple ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Emirates Post Group, in cooperation with Dubai Municipality, issued a set of commemorative stamps featuring the Saruq Al Hadid archaeological site in Dubai, one of the most important archaeological discoveries in the UAE. The stamps bear images of a “Golden Ring”, “Gold Crown Model”, and “Pottery Storage Jar”, all of which represent the most prominent unearthed ...

Dubai / WAM More than 120 permanent buildings across Expo 2020 Dubai have been certified by the US Green Building Council in a major sustainability milestone, not only for the mega-event itself, but for its legacy project District 2020, the human-centric sustainable smart city that will repurpose 80 percent of the Expo site. Seven buildings across the 4.38 sqkm location, ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Al Seer Marine, a marine company that is engaged across multiple marine sectors and a subsidiary of International Holding Company (IHC), on Wednesday announced its financial results for the period ending September 30. Over the nine-month period, the company’s net profit jumped to AED2.45 billion from AED25.40 million in the corresponding period a year ago. The ...

GLASGOW / WAM His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and Head of the UAE delegation to the 26th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – UNFCCC (COP26), attended on Wednesday the official launch ceremony of the Energy Transition Accelerator Financing (Etaf) Platform, a new global ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE has announced the provision of AED36.7 million ($10 million) to contribute to the reconstruction of some Turkish regions that were affected by wildfires and floods that swept through these areas. The move follows the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of ...