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RAS AL KHAIMAH/ WAM H.H. Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, has emphasised that working to address climate change in the world is an opportunity to achieve social and economic development in the UAE, and based on this well-established approach, Ras Al Khaimah attaches great importance to sustainability, and sets its ...

DUBAI/ WAM Dubai Financial Market (DFM) today welcomed the successful listing of Dubai Taxi Company PJSC (DTC), a leading provider of comprehensive mobility solutions in Dubai. The Offering saw significant demand from international and regional institutional investors and retail investors in the UAE, with total demand for the Offering amounting to over AED150 billion (equivalent to approximately US$41 billion), implying ...

ABU DHABI/ WAM Abu Dhabi Airports announced today a deal between Abu Dhabi Airport Free Zone (ADAFZ) and Abu Dhabi-based Grand Move, to develop a 35,000-square-metre community mall in the new Al Falah district. The deal, sealed at the BIG5 construction event in Dubai, is structured as a Musataha agreement for a term of 29 years and carries an initial ...

DUBAI / WAM The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) in partnership with the Museum of the Future hosted Senator Bill Nelson, Nasa Administrator, for a session titled “Space and Beyond: The Future of Space Exploration,” during his official visit to the UAE. The session featured astronauts Sultan AlNeyadi and Hazzaa AlMansoori and was attended by Martina Strong, Ambassador of ...

DUBAI / WAM Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar) and VERBUND Green Hydrogen GmbH have signed a deal to explore developing a green hydrogen plant in central Spain and drive efforts decarbonise Europe’s hard-to-abate sectors. As world leaders negotiate at the UN’s Climate Change Conference COP28 in the UAE, clean energy pioneers Masdar and VERBUND Green Hydrogen GmbH moved forward ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE Modern Pentathlon Federation has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with its Saudi counterpart to promote and develop the sport in the two brotherly countries. The agreement also facilitates the exchange of expertise and knowledge transfer across various fields. The MoU was signed by Dr Huda Al Matroushi, President of the UAE Modern Pentathlon ...

ABU DHABI / WAM HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, discussed developments in the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and their humanitarian repercussions on a call with António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan stressed the importance of strengthening the international community’s efforts to end extremism, tensions, and ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Municipality and Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) have signed an agreement on the sides of the UN Climate Conference (COP 28) to cooperate in a project to generate electricity from biogases extracted from the landfill in Muhaisnah 5. The signing supports Dubai’s leading sustainability practices and supports the realisation of the UAE Net Zero Strategy ...

DUBAI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Presidential Court, on Thursday met with Dr Maeen Abdulmalik, Prime Minister of Yemen, on the sidelines of the 28th UN Climate Change Conference (COP28), which is being held at Expo City Dubai. The meeting discussed UAE-Yemen relations and ways to ...

DUBAI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, has announced Prof Fadel Adib, Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as the winner of the first Great Arab Minds (GAM) award in the engineering and technology category, in recognition of his remarkable contributions and inventions in wireless ...