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Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates SkyCargo announced, it has introduced weekly scheduled cargo flights on its Boeing 777-300ER passenger aircraft to Sao Paulo. This will allow for importers and exporters in the region to stay connected with their trading partners across the world with access to around 40 tonnes of cargo capacity on the lower deck of the Emirates aircraft. ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance, praised the call of the Higher Committee of Human Fraternity to all people to make Thursday, May 14, a day to pray to end the coronavirus pandemic. Sheikh Nahyan said that His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme ...

ABU DHABI / WAM As part of its social responsibility programmes and voluntary efforts, Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (Adafsa), represented by its social service program “Auwn”, participated in several charitable and humanitarian schemes performed Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) during the holy month of Ramadan. This participation comes as part of its initiative “from your homes lighting their ...

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business The Authority of Social Contribution – Ma’an has announced its ‘Together We Share’ initiative has already delivered more than more than 3 million nutritious meals to workers across the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Since deliveries started on 1 May, meals have been provided for tens of thousands of workers based in accommodation across 35 complexes ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) announced there has been a continued improvement of air quality in Abu Dhabi due to government efforts to control human and traffic movement in the capital, as part of the precautionary measures undertaken to combat Covid-19. The agency observed that air pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide (NO2) had decreased ...

Bloomberg Euro-area finance ministers agreed to allow the region’s bailout fund to extend credit lines to each of the bloc’s governments on concessionary terms, paving the way for countries including Italy to draw cheap liquidity amid an unprecedented spending spree. The deal struck at a video conference on Friday forms a key part of the bloc’s response to the crisis ...

Bloomberg The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that the global economic outlook has worsened since its latest forecast three weeks ago and the world can expect more waves of financial-market turbulence. Developing nations’ external financing needs probably will be far above the $2.5 trillion that the IMF has previously projected, Chief Economist Gita Gopinath said in a webcast hosted by ...

ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, have discussed bilateral relations, the global Covid-19 crisis and ways to contain the pandemic’s repercussions at various levels. In a telephone call, the leaders addressed the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi’s food and beverage trade value increased to AED2.65 billion in the first two months of 2020, a growth of 2.7 percent compared to AED2.58 billion during the same period in 2019. The growth in the food and beverage trade highlights the fact that the emirate has maintained its commercial activity since the start of ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Khalifa University of Science and Technology has on Thursday announced promising results and findings on its research to develop ‘artificial soil’ with the necessary ingredients and properties required for the growth of plant and vegetation, thus paving the way for the agriculture sector to grow further in the UAE. A provisional patent application has been filed ...