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  Dubai / WAM Green Universe has showcased its initiative titled “Creative Solutions for a Sustainable Green Connection of UAE”, in which it has addressed in detail the environmental, economic, health and social effects of the benefits generated from implementing the initiative. The function was attended by Ermal Dredha, ambassador of Albania in the UAE, Xhabir Hamiti, ambassador of Kosovo ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Atlantic Council announced on Friday that the 2022 Global Energy Forum will now be held alongside Expo 2020 in Dubai from March 28-29. The forum, which is part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, will also be hosted in conjunction with the 2022 World Government Summit a major global convening focused on the tools, policies, ...

  DUBAI / WAM Issam Kazim, CEO, Dubai Corporation for Tourism and Commerce Marketing met on Friday with YB Dato Sri Haji Abd Karim Rahman Hamzah, Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports Sarawak, Malaysia and his accompanying delegation, at Dubai’s Department of Economy and Tourism (DET). During the meeting, they discussed a number of topics of common interest ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 384,622 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. ...

  DUBAI / WAM The Department of Community Development (DCD) in Abu Dhabi has concluded the first phase of the Virtual Reality (VR) initiative for the elderly, in cooperation with the Family Development Foundation (FDF). The experiment witnessed the participation of senior citizens and residents and was designed to explore the impact of VR and modern technology in strengthening communication ...

  Bloomberg Italy is trying to lock in historically low financing costs at the start of a year where inflationary and political pressures could spell an end to super easy borrowing conditions. Rome offered a new 30-year bond via banks, kicking off Europe’s first sovereign syndicated deal of 2022. Initial price guidance was at eight basis points above comparable bonds, ...

  Bloomberg Alphabet Inc’s Google was slapped with a record French fine of $170 million by the nation’s privacy watchdog, together with a 60 million-euro fine for Meta Platforms Inc’s Facebook, over the way the companies manage cookies. CNIL, France’s data protection authority, issued the companies with a three-month ultimatum “to provide internet users located in France with a means ...

  Bloomberg Chile’s economic boom is proving more resilient than many had forecast, with activity expanding faster than expected in November for the eighth time in the past nine months. The Imacec index, a proxy for gross domestic product, rises 14.3% in November from the year earlier, above the 12.9% median estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. For the month, ...

  Bloomberg UK automakers expect sales to rebound this year as the semiconductor shortage eases and demand for battery-powered vehicles grows. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) estimates new-car registrations in Britain will climb 19% to 1.96 million in 2022. The group said it will update that forecast — formulated shortly before the emergence of the highly transmissible ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM BBC Travel, a designated BBC portal for travel stories, has praised on Thursday the UAE’s “resilience” during the Covid-19 global pandemic. “Even as the Omicron variant has parts of Europe on lockdown again, the UAE has managed, so far, to stay open to most travellers while keeping infections low,” said the report headlined “Why is ...