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Dubai / WAM Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, the capital’s first low-cost carrier, announced the introduction of two new destinations — Kabul in Afghanistan and Dhaka in Bangladesh with direct flights from Abu Dhabi commencing on August 7. Air Arabia Abu Dhabi was formed following an agreement by Etihad Airways and Air Arabia to establish the capital’s first low-cost carrier that ...

Bloomberg Oil edged below $40 a barrel in New York as Opec and allied producers started supplying more crude to a global market where many countries are still struggling to contain the coronavirus. Opec+ will pump about 1.5 million barrels more this month than in July as it starts to unwind its historic virus-driven output curbs, with Russia already having ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA), the regulatory body for Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO), on Monday announced it has successfully upgraded its existing Integrated Building Management System (IBMS) that looks after 40 buildings within Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO) to an Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled IBMS. The system connects almost 60,000 points of control from all the buildings ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates announced that it will deploy its iconic A380 aircraft to Guangzhou from August 8. The airline has also restarted its A380 operations to Amsterdam and Cairo this week, and introduced a second daily A380 service to London Heathrow, serving market demand and offering customers more travel options. Emirates has so far resumed A380 services to ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, chaired the first physical meeting of the new cabinet at the Presidential Place in Abu Dhabi, after a series of remote meetings. At the beginning of the meeting, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid hailed UAE’s ...

Sharjah / WAM Arada has awarded a major contract to build East Village, the second phase of Sharjah’s AED24 billion mixed-use district, Aljada. “Located in the heart of Aljada, the East Village community is targeted at the younger generation and comprises a series of apartment blocks that are characterised by fresh and bold designs. Featuring just under 2,000 units in ...

HADRAMAUT / WAM The UAE has launched its 5th annual Adahi project (Eid sacrifices) in Yemen, which saw meat being distributed to thousands of underprivileged families around the country. Sheep from local markets were arranged for slaughter and distribution by the Emirates Red Crescent in the governorates of Hadramaut, Shabwa, Hodeidah and Taiz. Beneficiaries — which included widows and orphans ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The DIFC Academy and LexisNexis MENA are strengthening their strategic partnership with two new initiatives: “The Annual Technology Adoption Index” and “The Legal Tech Glossary.” These projects follow five years of fruitful collaboration, including the publication of the official DIFC Law Commentaries and Law Reports book collections. Through a joint training programme, the DIFC Academy and ...

Bloomberg The Trump administration will announce measures shortly against “a broad array” of Chinese-owned software deemed to pose national-security risks, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said. The comments suggest a possible widening of US measures beyond TikTok, the popular music-video app owned by ByteDance Ltd., one of China’s biggest tech companies. President Donald Trump told reporters that he plans ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iranian Foreign Minister, exchanged Eid Al Adha greetings. This came during a video call, wherein the ministers reviewed efforts of the countries to contain repercussions of Covid-19 pandemic. In this regard, HH Sheikh Abdullah and Zarif noted the importance of ...