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Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood (SCMC), and The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), agreed to focus more on providing children with protection against maltreatment, violence and abuse. In their consultative meeting, held on Wednesday at the Headquarters of the UAE General Women’s Union (GWU), the two parts reviewed the UNICEF Country Programmes of ...

Dubai / WAM On the second day of the Arab Media Forum (AMF) proceedings, a session entitled ‘Jerusalem at the Heart of Media’ was held, where Arab media representatives discussed the situation in Jerusalem, especially after the recent US decision to consider the city as the capital of Israel and its implications on the peace process. The session, moderated by journalist ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The newly launched Google News Initiative together with Google News Lab will offer free training to 4,000 journalists in the Middle East and North Africa region to help journalists advance their editorial, research, writing, fact-checking and editing skills, over the next 12 months, a senior Google official told delegates at the Arab Media Forum. “We have ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Seeking to forge cultural solutions for today’s global challenges, delegates from more than 80 countries will attend CultureSummit 2018 in Abu Dhabi on April 8, making it the largest global gathering of top government officials, philanthropists, arts administrators, business leaders, technologists and artists in the world. The summit’s action-driven programme of expert panels, discussions and workshops ...

Bloomberg The Pentagon says it’s received 1,089 comments—including submissions from 46 companies—on its plans for a multibillion-dollar cloud computing contract in a sign of the intense interest and sharp debate over a winner-take-all award that competitors say will favour Amazon.com Inc. Industry comments and questions, but not the names of the companies making them, will be posted along with the ...

Bloomberg Tesla Inc. needs to brace for another setback after China included electric cars among American products that it’s targeting with additional tariffs in its counter-punch to the US. While other autos imported from the US were also on the list, including most types of SUVs, Tesla is at a particular risk because it relies on American-made vehicles for all ...

Bloomberg PSA Group Chief Executive Officer Carlos Tavares played down concerns about Brexit as he unveiled a plan by the French carmaker to invest in a factory near London in a bid to revive the Vauxhall brand it acquired last year. “We are hearing many remarks from the UK government that make us think that they are negotiating with the ...

Bloomberg Martin Sorrell’s once-undisputed control of the advertising giant he’s assembled over more than 30 years may be slipping away. The firm, WPP Plc, is investigating allegations of personal misconduct by the 73-year-old Sorrell. The company statement—along with a denial by Sorrell—was released after news of the probe was leaked to the Wall Street Journal, which reported that the accusations ...

Bloomberg At least four US pipeline companies have seen their electronic systems for communicating with customers shut down over the last few days, with three confirming it resulted from a cyberattack. Oneok Inc., which operates natural gas pipelines in the Permian Basin in Texas and the Rocky Mountains region, said it disabled its system as a precaution after determining that ...

GAZA / Reuters The Palestinians are seeking to sell a 45 percent stake in a gas field off Gaza to help to develop the project, its main stakeholder, the Palestine Investment Fund, said on Wednesday after Royal Dutch Shell announced it had pulled out. Gaza Marine, about 30 km (20 miles) off the Gaza coast, has long been seen as ...