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DUBAI / WAM Emirates Airlines announced that is has returned over AED5 billion in Covid-19 related travel refunds to date, making strong and steady progress on its commitment to customers to complete pending refunds. More than 1.4 million refunds requests have been completed since March, representing 90 percent of the airline’s backlog, the airline said in a statement on Monday. ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Etihad Airways is introducing Covid-19 global wellness insurance cover as part of Etihad Wellness, the airlines new health and hygiene programme. The insurance will cover up to EUR150,000 of medical costs and up to EUR100 a day of quarantine costs in case of a positive diagnosis for 14 days, according to a press release of the ...

CAIRO / WAM The UAE has reiterated that terrorism poses a significant threat to international peace and security, stressing that terrorist acts often begin with the use of extremism and violence as means to create change. This statement was made by Mariam Khalifa Al Kaabi, Acting UAE Ambassador in Cairo, during a seminar on efforts to combat terrorism and extremism ...

Bloomberg Oil extended its retreat below $40 a barrel after Saudi Arabia cut pricing for October crude sales as demand stuck below pre-Covid levels. Futures in New York dropped 1.7% after Saudi Aramco reduced its key Arab Light grade more than expected for shipments to Asia, a signal that fuel consumption in the largest oil-importing region is wavering. The company ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Waste Management Center (Tadweer) announced the opening of the second phase of the solar power plant project at the Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling Facility in Al Dhafra region of Abu Dhabi. Aimed at lowering the facility’s carbon footprint, Al Dhafra C&D Waste Recycling Facility, the first of its kind in the world ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Dr Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, held his first meeting with the members of the Industrial Coordination Council (ICC) outlining the leadership’s vision to advance the nation’s industrial sector and the critical role the ICC plays in supporting the ministry’s mandate. Dr Al Jaber, who was joined in the virtual ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE has strongly condemned the terrorist attack that targeted two police officers in Tunisia, killing one and wounding the other. In a statement on Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation underscored the UAE’s utter condemnation of such criminal acts and full rejection of all forms of violence and terrorism aimed at undermining ...

Sharjah / WAM Salam Beirut, an international emergency aid campaign launched in the UAE to support the victims of the devastating explosion that struck Port Beirut, has announced an estimated allocation of $100,000 for the repatriation of migrant workers who are facing increasing hunger and homelessness in the Lebanese capital. Launched in August by HH Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Federal Authority for Human Resources (FAHR) revealed that the number of UAE citizens working for the federal government until June 2020 totalled 57,109, of whom 31,486 were women. According to FAHR’s recent statistics, Emirati employees in leadership and managerial positions numbered 2,421, with 1,324 being men and 1,097 being women. The 30 to 39-year-old age ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Dr Hang Dai, Assistant Professor in the Computer Vision department at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) achieved first and second place in the Commands 4 Autonomous Vehicles (C4AV) Workshop Challenge, part of the recently-held 2020 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2020) one of the top conferences in computer vision and machine ...