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KOPIKO, INDONESIA / GULF TIME Sheikh Mohammed bin Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, President of the UAE Marine Sports Federation and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Abu Dhabi Marine Sports Club, met the Emirati teams participating in the first round of Formula 1 World Championship, held in the city of Kopiko on Lake Toba, Indonesia. Sheikh Mohammed ...

DUBAI / WAM HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, First Vice President of the Dubai Council, and Chairman of the Higher Committee for Development and Citizens Affairs, has launched the ‘Emirati’ initiative, a comprehensive single-window platform exclusively designed to offer UAE citizens all the city services they need ...

DUBAI / WAM The UAE Government Media Office announced the success of the third edition of the “World’s Coolest Winter” campaign, launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on December 2022, in Al Zorah Natural Reserve in Ajman. The campaign promoted tourism, natural sites and ...

BLOOMBERG Germany and India agreed to partner on technology to make a transition to renewable energy easier, and deepen defense cooperation and trade during Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s first visit to the South Asian nation as leader. “We want to further strengthen trade ties between the European Union and India,” Scholz said in New Delhi after meeting Indian Prime Minister Narendra ...

BLOOMBERG Apple Inc. has a moonshot-style project underway that dates back to the Steve Jobs era: noninvasive and continuous blood glucose monitoring. The goal of this secret endeavour — dubbed E5 — is to measure how much glucose is in someone’s body without needing to prick the skin for blood. After hitting major milestones recently, the company now believes it ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Tawazun Council signed 11 deals, worth AED2.2 billion, with local and international companies on behalf of the Ministry of Defence on the fifth and final day of the International Defence Exhibition (Idex) and the Naval Defence Exhibition (Navdex) 2023. This makes the cumulative value of the deals Tawazun Council signed on behalf of the Ministry of ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has sent a message of congratulations to President Alar Karis of Estonia on the occasion of his country’s Independence Day, marked on February 24. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, dispatched similar messages ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Non-oil foreign trade between the UAE and Kuwait has grown 87% over the past ten years to reach AED43 billion by the end of 2022, compared to AED23.3 billion in 2013, according to preliminary data issued by the UAE’s Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre (FCSC). The FCSC data showed total trade between the two countries ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Masdar, a leading global clean energy company, has announced a strategic investment in Pertamina Geothermal Energy (PGE), one of the largest geothermal players worldwide. This marks Masdar’s entry into the geothermal energy sector, in the world’s second-largest geothermal market. Dr Sultan Al Jaber, UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, and Chairman Masdar, said, “Achieving ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation; and Ahmed Zeghdar, Algerian Minister of Industry, have discussed prospects for enhancing cooperation between the two countries, especially in the economic, industrial and commercial sectors. In a meeting between HH Sheikh Abdullah and Zeghdar in Abu Dhabi, they reviewed several ...