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Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has marked another breakthrough by achieving the Guinness World Records title for the second time for owning and managing the Largest Single-Site Water Desalination Facility in the World with production capacity of 490 million Imperial Gallons of water per Day, which is equivalent to 2,227,587 cubic metres per day. This is ...

Bloomberg Food importers from Africa to Asia are scrambling for dollars to pay their bills as a surge in the US currency drives prices even higher for countries already facing a historic global food crisis. In Ghana, importers are warning about shortages in the run up to Christmas. Thousands of containers loaded with food recently piled up at ports in ...

  Dubai / Gulf Time Emirates’ flagship A380 made a landmark touchdown at Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport, marking the first commercial flight to the South Indian city’s airport of the world’s largest passenger aircraft. The special service from Dubai to Bengaluru, operating as EK562 and greeted with a procession of follow-me vehicles, arrived ahead of the launch of scheduled A380 ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has marked another breakthrough by achieving the Guinness World Records title for the second time for owning and managing the Largest Single-Site Water Desalination Facility in the World with production capacity of 490 million Imperial Gallons of water per Day, which is equivalent to 2,227,587 cubic metres per day. This ...

Dubai / WAM The 1 Billion Meals initiative, the region’s largest food donation drive to support the underprivileged and undernourished in 50 countries across four continents, announced the completion of the distribution of more than 2.5 million meals across seven Asian countries, in collaboration with the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Humanitarian and Charity Establishment (MBRCH). Organised by Mohammed bin ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Foreign Experts Court of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) has managed to maintain high adjudication rates in the cases brought before it over three years since it started operating in 2019, achieving a 90 percent disposition rate out of a total number of about 200 commercial cases submitted to its consideration, and totalling a ...

  Dubai / Gulf Time Emirates’ flagship A380 made a landmark touchdown at Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport, marking the first commercial flight to the South Indian city’s airport of the world’s largest passenger aircraft. The special service from Dubai to Bengaluru, operating as EK562 and greeted with a procession of follow-me vehicles, arrived ahead of the launch of scheduled A380 ...

Dubai / WAM Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced the commencement of e-scooters operations in 11 new residential areas from the start of 2023. As such, the total number of districts in which e-scooters are permitted to operate increases to 21, and the total length of tracks dedicated to ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE strongly condemned the bombing that took place in central Mali and targeted a passenger bus, which resulted in death and injury of dozens of civilians. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation affirmed that the UAE expresses its strong condemnation of these criminal acts, and its permanent rejection of all forms of ...

  Dubai / WAM Al Dahra Holding company, one of the most prominent Emirati Companies working in the agricultural field, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Valmont Industries, a leading American manufacturer of irrigation systems and agricultural technologies for the purpose to regulate the relationship between the two companies by establishing global relationship model in many areas of ...