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  Male / WAM HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, on Sunday met the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Maldives, Dunya Maumoon. During the meeting, they discussed issues of mutual interest and ways to enhance cooperation and bilateral relations which would contribute to achieving the joint interests of the two countries. Sheikh ...

  Dubai / WAM Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) received a delegation from engineering firm ASEA Brown Boveri (ABB). The delegation included Claudio Facchin, President of the Power Grids division and Member of the Group Executive Committee, Noaman Amjad, Group Senior Vice President, Global Head of Marketing and Sales and Global Head ...

  Dubai / WAM As part of its strategy to reach out to the promising markets of the world, especially the African markets and to promote Dubai and the competitiveness of its business community globally, the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry opened its third international office in Africa in the Mozambican capital of Maputo recently. The new office, which is ...

  Dubai / WAM In his capacity as Ruler of Dubai, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has issued Resolution No. (4) of 2016 pertaining to the formation of the Board of Emirates Racing Authority. The Resolution named Saeed bin Humaid Mattar Al Tayer, as a Chairperson of the board and ...

Cairo / WAM The UAE on Sunday chaired the second meeting of experts at the Arab League to discuss arrangements for the Arab Media Day 2017, at the Arab League headquarters. The meeting was attended by Deputy Executive Director of the Emirates News Agency (WAM) Mohammed Jalal Al Raisi, Ambassador Dr. Haifa Abu Ghazaleh, Assistant Secretary-General of the League of Arab ...

  Sharjah / WAM Sharjah Health Authority (SHA) in corporation with University Hospital Sharjah (UHS) has been offering free health screenings at the Sharjah Directorate of Town Planning and Survey, where staff and visitors were able to obtain free tests for blood-sugar levels, cholesterol, blood pressure and their body mass index, BMI. A team of specialist nurses from UHS undertook the ...

  Canberra / AFP Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Sunday called an election for both houses of parliament on July 2, as he seeks his own mandate with the public just eight months after deposing predecessor Tony Abbott in a party coup. The widely expected announcement was the latest chapter in the turbulent world of Australian politics, where a ...

  Hanoi / AFP Vietnamese police detained scores of people on Sunday as they broke up a protest against a Taiwanese company accused of being behind a toxic leak that has caused mass fish deaths off the central coast. The protest in Hanoi, which follows a similar demonstration last weekend, was swiftly dispersed by authorities on Sunday morning, an AFP ...

  Tokyo / Bloomberg Honda Motor will recall an additional 20 million Takata-made airbags globally, a newspaper said on Sunday, in a widening scandal that has led to the biggest auto recall in US history. Tokyo-based auto parts giant Takata is struggling to deal with a defect that can send metal and plastic shrapnel from the inflator canister hurtling toward ...

  Tokyo / Bloomberg China’s trade shrank in April in a sign government stimulus is failing to jolt the world’s second-largest economy out of a prolonged slowdown. Exports contracted by 1.8 percent from a year earlier to $172.7 billion, falling back into negative territory after March’s temporary burst of 11.5 percent growth, customs data showed on Sunday. Imports plunged 10.9 ...