Abu Dhabi / WAM HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidential Affairs, and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD), issued Decision No. 8 of 2022 approving the Regulations for the implementation of the Civil Marriage and Divorce Law No. 14 of 2020 in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Youssef Saeed Al ...
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Dubai Customs scores 91.8% on customer happiness index
Dubai / WAM Business and trade groups in Dubai highly applauded the vital role Dubai Customs plays in stimulating business and supporting trade through its innovative and smart services, which follow the highest international standards. In a virtual ceremony organised by Dubai Customs to celebrate winning the second place on the Dubai Government Customer Happiness Index 2021, representatives of ...
Read More »Energy firms defend net-zero after report of UK wavering
Bloomberg Companies are defending Britain’s net-zero plans as the best way to resolve the energy crisis in the long term, after a report that close advisers to the prime minister are warning that a rethink of the policy is needed. Chief executives of SSE Plc and the UK arm of Siemens AG said that a faster pivot toward renewables ...
Read More »Pence says Trump was wrong to say he could overturn election
Bloomberg Mike Pence rejected Donald Trump’s claims that as vice president he had the power to void the 2020 election result and refuse to certify President Joe Biden’s victory, breaking from his old boss as both men weigh possible White House bids in 2024. “I heard this week that President Trump said I had the right to ‘overturn the ...
Read More »UAE’s environmental efforts reflect ethical commitment of its vision
ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has affirmed that the UAE’s pioneering environmental efforts reflect the country’s national and ethical commitment as outlined in its vision on sustainable development and climate change confrontation. This comes in line with the UAE’s “Principles of the 50”, and the country’s development strategy and the vision ...
Read More »Abu Dhabi’s EAD undertakes project to prepare digital maps
Abu Dhabi / WAM The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD), in cooperation with the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, is conducting a hydrogeological mapping project for the UAE, a unique project at the level of the Arabian Gulf region. The project aims to collect, classify, and analyse all available data on ground and surface water, which has been ...
Read More »Estonia condemns Houthi’s terrorist attack on UAE
ABU DHABI / WAM Saqr Ghobash, Speaker of the Federal National Council (FNC), has received a letter from Eva-Maria Liimets, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia, expressing her strong condemnation and rejection of Houthi terrorist attacks on civil areas and facilities in the UAE. Liimets voiced her country’s full solidarity with the UAE. She also ...
Read More »UAE, Kerala have heart-to-heart relationship, says CM
DUBAI / WAM The UAE and south Indian state of Kerala have “a very close heart-to-heart relationship,” the state’s Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan told the Emirates News Agency (WAM). “Kerala-UAE relations are not something formal. It is a very close heart-to-heart to relationship. All top UAE officials whom I met here told me that Kerala and Keralites occupy a ...
Read More »UK’s Sunak reveals $12bn plan to offset energy crunch
Bloomberg Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a raft of measures as the UK government sought to get a grip on a burgeoning cost-of-living crisis, with millions of Britons facing record increases in their energy bills. “The government is going to step in to directly help people manage those extra costs,†Sunak said in the House of Commons, saying his intervention ...
Read More »Putin, Xi close ranks against West on Ukraine and Taiwan
Bloomberg Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping closed ranks against the US and its allies on key security issues as they declared that there’s no limit and “no forbidden zones†in the friendship between Russia and China. At their first in-person meeting in more than two years Friday, Putin and Xi said in a joint statement that China “treats with ...
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