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Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Department of Health (DoH) and the Abu Dhabi Residents Office (ADRO) launched new packages to support and empower doctors, enabling them to apply for the Golden Visa in Abu Dhabi with added ease and peace of mind. With the new process, doctors nominated by DoH will be offered a VIP package to obtain ...

Dubai / WAM Emirates signed a codeshare agreement with Azul Linhas Aereas Brasileiras S.A (Azul), which will allow customers to seamlessly connect to and from eight cities in Brazil to Emirates’ global network via Sao Paulo. The codeshare agreement has been approved by the Brazilian Federal Aviation Agency (Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil). Under the codeshare, customers will be able ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Pure Salmon, a global land-based salmon aquaculture company, prepares to establish its headquarters in the emirate of Abu Dhabi. A partnership between the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) and Pure Salmon will see the company receive financial and non-financial incentives to expand local food sustainability efforts with its proven salmon farming technology. The partnership is part ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can expect mostly good news from economic data during Canada’s five-week election campaign. But there’s one potential trouble spot for him: consumer prices. A Statistics Canada report is expected to show that price inflation accelerated in July to almost the fastest rate in two decades. Economists estimate that consumer prices jumped 3.4% last month on ...

Bloomberg Ukraine’s economy fell back into recession as fallout from the pandemic continued to weigh and interest rates were lifted to tackle soaring inflation. Second-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) shrank a seasonally adjusted 0.8% after falling 1.2% in the previous three months, preliminary data Monday showed. On an annual basis, it ended more than a year of contraction, advancing by ...

Bloomberg T-Mobile US Inc said an investigation confirmed about 7.8 million current users had information stolen along with more than 40 million records from past or prospective customers who’d applied for credit in a cyberattack. The stolen information included customers’ full names, dates of birth, social security numbers, and IDs such as drivers licenses, the Bellevue, Washington-based company said in ...

Bloomberg Euro-area businesses stepped up hiring during the second quarter when pandemic restrictions started to ease and the economy returned to growth. Employment increased by 0.5% in the three months through June after declining 0.2%. The economy expanded by 2% in the same period, matching an initial estimate. The region’s economic outlook has vastly improved in recent months, after a ...

Bloomberg Twitter Inc is adding an option for users to report misinformation to the company, but says the expanded ability to flag tweets won’t necessarily lead to more fact-checking or labels on problematic posts. The test, only available in a few markets, will let users notify the company about alleged misinformation in the same way they can alert Twitter to ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Mubadala Capital, the asset management subsidiary of Mubadala Investment Company, has closed its third Private Equity fund, MIC Capital Partners III (Fund III), with total commitments of $1.6 billion. Fund III surpassed its initial target and raised capital commitments from a diverse set of new and existing investors including leading pension plans, endowments, insurance plans, government ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Bowardi, Minister of State for Defence Affairs, received a call from Florence Parly, French Minister of Armed Forces, during which they discussed ways of boosting bilateral cooperation regarding regional defence and military issues of mutual interest to serve interests of the two friendly countries. Within the framework of cooperation between two countries, ...