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Abu Dhabi / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has sent a message expressing his deepest condolences to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia, on the death of Princess Noura bint Fahd bin Mohammed bin Abdurrahman Al Saud. HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice ...

DUBAI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, have reviewed the final preparations of the Emirates Mars Mission team as the Hope Probe is a few ...

ABU DHABI / WAM After successfully establishing air and sea links, Israel is looking into the potential of road traffic with the UAE to further develop the bilateral trade corridor, said the top diplomat at the newly opened Israeli embassy in Abu Dhabi. The air and sea links have already enabled goods traffic on flights within a few hours and ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE has strongly condemned the terrorist attack that targeted a hotel in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, that killed several innocent people and injured others. In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation stressed that the UAE strongly condemns these criminal acts and fully rejects all forms of violence and terrorism aimed at destabilising ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) has appointed Sheikh Zayed bin Suroor Al Nahyan as a member of the Board of Directors of ADCB. At its meeting, board members acknowledged the contribution of Abdulla Khalil Al Mutawa to the bank, who resigned from the board after 24 years of service. Khaldoon Al Mubarak, Chairman of the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 127,572 additional Covid-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement on Monday, 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 ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The central bank of the UAE (CBUAE) has issued a Consumer Protection Regulation, the foundation of its new Financial Consumer Protection Regulatory Framework (FCPRF) and aims to ensure the fair treatment and protection of consumers. The new regulation is supported by Decretal Federal Law No. 14 of 2018 Regarding the Central Bank and Organisation of Financial ...

DUBAI / WAM Enoc Group on Monday announced that the construction of its pavilion at Expo 2020 has been completed. The state-of-the-art pavilion under the theme of ‘Reimagine Energy,’ occupies a plot of approximately 2,060 m2 and comprises five distinct structures. The pavilion was built using 700 tonnes of steel to minimise waste and environmental impact, and to promote environmental ...

Bloomberg India unveiled a spending plan of almost $500 billion as the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to dig Asia’s third-largest economy out of its pandemic-induced slump. His government’s plan relies on taxes, including higher levies on some imports to boost self-reliance, selling state assets and dividend income to partly fund the nearly 35 trillion rupee ($480 billion) ...

Bloomberg Indonesia will receive as many as 23.1 million doses of the AstraZeneca Plc vaccine in the first half, boosting the government’s inoculation efforts as Covid-19 cases and deaths continue to rise by record numbers. The Southeast Asian nation will get the shots of the AstraZeneca vaccine through the World Health Organization-backed Covax initiative, the Indonesian foreign affairs ministry said ...