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Bloomberg China’s foreign minister expounded Beijing’s increasingly defiant stance on the international stage, taking several swipes at the US and underscoring much of the sentiment from last week’s centennial celebrations speech by President Xi Jinping. In a sweeping speech that touched on topics from the global pandemic to counterterrorism, North Korea to the Iran nuclear issue and Taiwan, Foreign Minister ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (Enec) has signed a Letter of Intent with France’s electricity company EDF to develop a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for cooperation on research and development (R&D) in the nuclear energy sector. The collaboration is part of Enec’s commitment towards progressing the UAE’s nuclear energy industry, supporting innovation, clean electricity production and ...

Dubai / WAM The Emirates Mars Mission (EMM), the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation, on Wednesday released the first global images of Mars in the far-ultraviolet, providing new insights into the discrete aurora phenomenon in Mars’ nightside atmosphere. The images have revolutionary implications for our understanding of the interactions between solar radiation, Mars’ magnetic fields and the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Etihad Airways has extended its “Verified To Fly” travel document initiative, enabling travellers to validate their Covid-19 travel documents before arriving at the airport, to routes across its global network. To use the service – which is available for the vast majority of Etihad flights – passengers sign-up by visiting “Manage my Booking” and following the ...

MOSCOW / WAM Dr Mohammed Ahmed bin Sultan Al Jaber, UAE Ambassador to the Russian Federation, has met with Hassan Hakimov, Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya, and Adam Cherchigov, Director-General of the Sheikh Zayed Foundation, at the UAE Embassy in Moscow. During the meeting, the sides discussed the strong bilateral ties between their countries and ways of strengthening them to ...

SHARJAH / WAM Kalimat Foundation, a UAE-based global non-profit organisation, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with UK-based charity, Book Aid International (BAI), under which both entities will partner to support and enrich the learning resources of refugees and forcibly displaced children in Africa and the Middle East (ME). The agreement formalising the partnership was signed recently, on the sidelines ...

Bloomberg President Vladimir Putin accused the US of involvement in what he termed a “provocation” by a British destroyer in the Black Sea last week, while saying the Russian navy could have sunk the vessel without igniting a new world war. Hours before the HMS Defender engaged in a stand-off with Russian ships and fighter jets off the coast of ...

Bloomberg Central London could lose as many as 835,000 jobs in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, with employees in service industries increasingly able to work remotely and flexibly, according to research by a consulting firm. An analysis of London’s labour market data by Advanced Workplace Associates, a consultancy based in the UK capital, showed that about 41% of people ...

Bloomberg Confidence in the euro-area economy improved to the highest level in more than two decades in June as a reopening of shops, restaurants and other services propelled the region’s recovery from the pandemic crisis. A European Commission sentiment index increased to 117.9, exceeding almost all estimates in a Bloomberg survey. The gain was driven by surging optimism in services, ...

Bloomberg Elon Musk’s satellite network Starlink is on track to beam broadband internet everywhere in the world except the polar regions by August. Space Exploration Technologies Corp has launched more than 1,500 satellites so far and has Starlink operations in about a dozen countries, Musk said during a presentation at the Mobile World Congress conference. That’s costing a lot. SpaceX’s ...