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MUKALLA / WAM The UAE, through its humanitarian arm, the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), provided 80 tonnes of food and relief assistance to needy Yemeni families in eastern Mukalla, Hadramaut Governorate, as part of the UAE’s efforts to ease their suffering and improve their living conditions. ERC teams distributed 1,000 food baskets that benefitted 5,000 members of local families. The beneficiaries …

Bloomberg Saudi Arabia is considering selling a dollar-denominated Islamic bond as early as next month as the kingdom seeks to take advantage of lower borrowing costs, according to reports. The government is close to hiring banks for the possible sukuk sale. A sale would come just weeks after attacks on the kingdom’s oil facilities slashed Saudi Aramco’s crude output by …

Bloomberg Oil investors piled into short positions as oil markets shook off the disruption from attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities. Bets that West Texas Intermediate crude prices would decline surged 33%, just before prices briefly dipped below pre-attack levels. Money managers are still net long, according to data released September 27 by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, but …

Bloomberg The company behind a major tourism destination on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast that will include an archipelago of more than 90 islands as well as desert and mountain scenery hopes to award up to $2.7 billion in construction contracts by the end of 2020. “Between now and the end of the year, we hope to award another two …

Bloomberg Saudi Arabia is recovering faster than expected from the biggest attacks ever on its oil industry, beating its own target for restoring capacity by about a week. State oil producer Saudi Aramco has boosted total production capacity to more than 11 million barrels a day, according to people with knowledge of the situation. The news helped to push crude …

Bloomberg The European Union (EU) is weighing an aggressive new approach to its trade dispute with the US, signaling a willingness to engage in the combative tactics embraced by President Donald Trump and risking a further deterioration in transatlantic relations. The EU is considering imposing tariffs on more than $4 billion of US exports, citing as justification a 22-year-old World …

Bloomberg Incoming European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said the global economy is likely to dodge an outright contraction, though the trade tensions remain the top threat to the growth outlook. “It is not in the baseline to have a recession,” Lagarde said in a Bloomberg Television interview on Tuesday. “That said, it’s mediocre growth, it’s at risk because of …

Bloomberg Saudi Arabia will waive the fees it requires industrial companies to pay for their foreign workers for a period of five years, lightening a burden on the private sector. Since January 2018, businesses have been required to pay fees for foreign workers they employ, part of the government’s strategy to raise non-oil revenue. In February, King Salman approved a …

DUBAI / WAM UAE entities are expected to invest up to $7 billion in India’s food sector in the next three years as part of the UAE-India food corridor project that aims to secure the UAE’s food security, an Indian minister told Emirates News Agency (WAM). These entities, coordinated by Dubai-based Emaar Group, plan to invest up to $5 billion …

ABU DHABI / WAM Dr Sultan bin Ahmad Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of State and Chairman of the National Media Council, said that relations between the UAE and Saudi Arabia set an exemplary model for brotherly relations in the region, reinforced by the leadership of both countries. In a statement on the occasion of the 89th Saudi National Day, the …