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ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Interior (MoI) successfully completed trials on K9 police dogs in enhancing its preventive and precautionary measures and efforts aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19. The new move, which comes after successful completion of practical experiments and scientific studies, will contribute to promoting the community’s safety and security. It also shores up the ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates announced it will resume flights to Geneva (from July 15), Los Angeles (from July 22), Dar es Salaam (from August 1), Prague and Sao Paulo (from August 2), and Boston (from August 15), offering customers even more travel options. This will take the airline’s network to 58 cities by mid-August, including 20 points in Europe ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi (EAD) signed an official agreement with the largest aquarium in the Middle East – The National Aquarium – to help create the largest and one of the most innovative rehabilitation schemes of its kind to protect and rehabilitate wildlife in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. According to the agreement, both parties will ...

Bloomberg Discussions about how to fight climate change almost always conclude with a lament over the “lack of political will.” It’s as if the roadblock preventing these clean-tech visions and white-paper dreams from becoming market-driven reality is an irrational, unforeseen hiccup. That’s a comforting fallacy. The lack of political will is the whole point: Climate change is a problem caused ...

Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai, on Wednesday launched the Dubai Cyber Index, an initiative aimed at supporting the efforts of Dubai’s government entities to ensure the highest standards of cybersecurity. The first initiative of its kind in the world, the ...

Bloomberg Oil was anchored below $41 a barrel with an industry report signalling a surprise gain in US crude stockpiles, while concerns linger about the threat to demand from rising coronavirus infections. The American Petroleum Institute reported inventories rose by 2.05 million barrels last week, before government data on Wednesday. The virus is setting records across the US, with Texas’s ...

Bloomberg Poor diets in developing countries are costing businesses as much as $850 billion a year in lost productivity, underlining the need for companies to play a bigger role in tackling a problem that’s being compounded by the coronavirus pandemic. Those are the findings of a study by Chatham House and Vivid Economics, the first to analyse the impact of ...

Dubai / WAM The cost of the Hope Mars Mission reached $200 million, which is considered among the lowest in the world when compared with similar programmes, said Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs. Addressing a media briefing in Dubai, Al Gergawi detailed the achievements of the Emirates Mars Mission team, including development of 200 new designs, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM M/V Safeen Tiger made its maiden call to Abu Dhabi at Khalifa Port on inaugural voyage from India. The UIG service covering two loops from the UAE to Indian Sub-Continent and the Arabian Gulf is jointly operated by Abu Dhabi Port’s Safeen Feeders and Bengal Tiger Line. The vessel will leave Khalifa Port on Wednesday, heading ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Housing Authority (Adha) reported that it has achieved a quantum leap in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies by launching its Robotic Process Automation (RPA) system, a form of AI technology and one of the most important technical systems adopted by the authority to develop and improve its services. The RPA system ...