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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 ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM As part of the road safety campaign, the Abu Dhabi Police (ADP) urged pedestrians to respect road safety rules by only crossing at allocated places, as well as use bridges and tunnels and follow pedestrian light signals at crossroads that operate in conjunction with traffic lights. The ADP also warned about risks posed by crossing roads ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM A new research finding on radiation will support the UAE’s ambitious project to build the first human settlement on Mars by 2117, a scientist told Emirates News Agency (WAM). “Radiation is one of the biggest roadblocks in planning long-term space missions, especially the project to establish a human presence on Mars [UAE’s Mars 2117 project],” said ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) sent a relief plane to Sudan to provide the necessary and urgent humanitarian needs to support those affected by floods in several Sudanese states. This came in line with the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the ...

Bloomberg Saudi Arabia cut pricing for oil sales in October, a sign the world’s biggest exporter sees fuel demand wavering amid more coronavirus flare-ups around the globe. The kingdom’s state producer, Saudi Aramco, reduced its key Arab Light grade of crude by a larger-than-expected amount for shipments to Asia, its main market. It also lowered pricing for US buyers. Aramco ...

RIYADH / WAM The G20 education ministers held a virtual extraordinary meeting to emphasise the central role of education in enabling people to seize the opportunities of the twenty-first century especially during the coronavirus pandemic, reported the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). The ministers expressed their support for individual and collective efforts to mitigate the unprecedented consequences of the novel coronavirus ...