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  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business ADNOC Distribution inaugurated the new Al Wathba North service station, located on the Al Ain – Abu Dhabi road near Al Wathba Widening Hall in Abu Dhabi’s Bani Yas area. The opening comes as part of the company’s ongoing expansion strategy that aims to meet the growing demand for its high-quality products and services ...

  Sharjah / Emirates Business The Emirates Publishers Association (EPA) recently organised a seminar titled ‘Basic Principles of Intellectual Property Rights’ in the Sharjah Entrepreneurship Centre (Sheraa) at the American University of Sharjah (AUS), as part of the Emirates Reproduction Rights Forum 2017. The fundamental concepts and principles of creative industries’ intellectual property rights formed the discussion’s central theme. Talking ...

  Sharjah / Emirates Business The pan-UAE Pink Caravan Ride, dedicated to raising breast cancer awareness is embarking on its 7th journey across the emirates. Riding on horseback, stopping at the nation’s famous landmarks and parks, accompanied by physicians and nurses at mobile clinics, these humanitarian ambassadors are all unsung heroes. During the 10-day expedition, the Pink Caravan’s riders, volunteers ...

  Bloomberg The Trump administration plans to open the door to a possible reconsideration of greenhouse gas emission standards for cars and light trucks that has been sought by automakers, according to a person familiar with the plans. The Environmental Protection Agency in the final days of the Obama administration decided to lock in the emissions standards through 2025 that ...

  Bloomberg The UK government said it is leaning toward intervening in 21st Century Fox Inc.’s proposed 11.7 billion-pound ($14.3 billion) takeover of Sky Plc, citing the potential impact on media plurality and broadcasting standards, and will make a final decision within 10 days. “I have concerns that there may be public-interest considerations — as set out in the Enterprise ...

  Bloomberg AT&T Inc., the largest US phone-service provider, will bring about 3,000 jobs back to the US as part of a tentative labor agreement with union employees in Texas and four other states. The Dallas-based phone company has committed to adding the jobs in its Southwest district by the end of 2018, a spokesman said Friday. The Communications Workers ...

  Bloomberg Mexico’s top trade negotiator will grant President Donald Trump this: Nafta is in need of updating. He doesn’t agree, however, that the US auto industry has gotten the short end of the stick. The North American Free Trade Agreement has served the US, Canada and Mexico well, Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said on Friday at a luncheon hosted ...

  Bloomberg PSA Group and General Motors Co. are set to announce on Monday the purchase of the Opel brand by the French company, creating the region’s second-largest automaker and allowing GM to exit the European market, according to people familiar with the matter. The two carmakers, which sent an invitation for a joint press conference in Paris on Monday, ...

  Bloomberg Vitol Group BV is offering to sell Nigerian crude oil from a storage terminal in South Africa, five traders familiar with the matter said, in what may be a signal that the global supply glut is beginning to ease. The world’s biggest oil merchant has been offering 4 million barrels of Nigeria’s Qua Iboe for delivery to Europe ...

  JOHANNESBURG / AP Nigeria wants Royal Dutch Shell to reopen one of its main pipelines but the oil multinational is resisting, analysts say, for fear it could once again be bombed by militants. The Trans Forcados Pipeline, the main feed to the 400,000-barrel-a-day Forcados export terminal, has been shut for all but three weeks of the past year, Lagos-based ...