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Dubai / WAM Gulf Pharmaceutical Industries (Julphar), one of the largest pharmaceutical manufacturers in the Middle East and Africa, is participating in Expo 2020 Dubai as a strategic partner of Fazaa Pavilion. During its participation, Julphar is showcasing its future vision towards a sustainable future for the pharmaceutical industry, introducing new trends, holding discussion panels with the participating parties and ...

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 ...

Bloomberg Oil posted the longest stretch of weekly advances since 2015 as Opec+ producers only modestly supply the market and as US crude supplies shrink. Crude futures rise 1.5% in New York, up for a ninth straight week. President Joe Biden said that Americans should expect high gasoline prices to continue into next year because of supply being withheld by ...

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 ...

Bloomberg A blueprint for how developed countries will contribute $100 billion a year to poor nations confronting climate change is set to be unveiled on Monday despite objections from the US and other nations that almost derailed the announcement. The plan is seen as critical to the success of the United Nations COP26 climate summit scheduled to begin October 31 ...

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 ...