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ABU DHABI / WAM Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, has committed to purchasing carbon offsets, to completely neutralise the CO2 emissions of its flagship “Greenliner” 787-10 aircraft for a full year of operations in 2021. The initiative is the start of the airline’s journey to reduce CO2 emissions to 50 percent of 2019 levels by 2035, and ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will head to Brussels within days for urgent talks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, amid growing fears on both sides that Brexit trade talks will fail. The two agreed to meet after they concluded a deal remained far off, despite frantic attempts by their negotiators to break the deadlock as time ...

Bloomberg States including New York and Nevada used outdated federal estimates showing many more doses of Pfizer Inc’s vaccine would be available as they planned for the initial inflow of shots, said a spokesperson for the US Department of Health and Human Services. The estimates given to states in October for planning purposes said there could be 20 million doses ...

Bloomberg France is poised to miss a coronavirus goal set by President Emmanuel Macron as a condition for lifting the country’s lockdown next week, with daily new Covid-19 cases holding at more than twice the targeted level. The government is worried about the pandemic indicators, and is mulling alternatives to a planned end of stay-at-home measures on December 15, Liberation ...

Bloomberg Nokia Oyj is leading a group of companies and universities in a European Union funded wireless project called Hexa-X to help jump-start a new generation of mobile technology that’s already being called 6G. The group includes wireless gearmaking-peer Ericsson AB, mobile carriers Orange SA and Telefonica SA, and technology companies including Intel Corp. and Siemens AG. They’re joined by ...

Bloomberg Uber Technologies Inc sold its self-driving car division to Aurora Innovation Inc and took a stake in the startup, creating a larger competitor to the leader in the field, Alphabet Inc’s Waymo. The deal will value Aurora at $10 billion, according to people familiar with the discussions who asked not to be identified discussing private information. In exchange for ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abraham Accords proves that decades-long disputes can be solved through negotiations, which could be possible in the Korean peace process as well, South Korea’s top diplomat told Emirates News Agency. “I think looking at the breakthrough here with Abraham Accords, you realise how with bold decision making, you can really make big changes. We have also ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (Enec) has announced that its operating and maintenance subsidiary, Nawah Energy Company (Nawah), has successfully achieved 100% of the rated reactor power capacity for Unit 1 of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant. This major milestone brings the Barakah plant one step closer to commencing commercial operations, scheduled in early 2021. 100% ...

ABU DHABI / WAM A medical team at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC) has successfully performed a breakthrough life-saving surgery on an infant, Adam, suffering from complex congenital heart defect. The complex corrective heart surgery, first of its kind in the UAE, was performed at the Seha-affiliated hospital, with the use of the latest imaging devices and 3D printing technology ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Media, the UAE’s leading public service broadcaster, and i24NEWS, an international news network based in Israel that broadcasts in Arabic, English and French from studios in Jaffa Port, the US and Europe, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will see both media companies collaborate on multiple fronts including shared reporting and library content, ...