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  Bloomberg Rescue and relief teams are struggling to reach survivors of a deadly earthquake that hit Afghanistan’s remote southeast, killing at least 1,000 people and injuring hundreds more even as the country battles multiple humanitarian crises. The eastern Paktika province, home to some of the country’s most impoverished farmers and cattle herders, was the worst hit, several officials from ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Finance announced that the revenues of federal authorities in the first quarter of 2022 amounted to AED11.339 billion while their expenditures amounted to some AED11.354 billion during the same period. In the financial performance report of the outcomes of the implementation of the general budget of the Federation for the first quarter ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT) signed an agreement with Pure Health, the UAE’s largest integrated healthcare group, to join the National In-Country Value Programme, one of the key pillars of the national industrial strategy. As part of the agreement, that was signed on the second day of the “Make it in the ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM Aldar Properties has announced the launch of apartments at Grove District, a new at Abu Dhabi’s Cultural Epicentre on Saadiyat Island. Grove District sits within Aldar’s flagship Saadiyat Grove development, and its apartments boast partial views of the island’s three landmarks: Zayed National Museum, Louvre Abu Dhabi, and Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. The development, when completed, ...

  Bloomberg At least 1,000 people have been killed and hundreds more injured after a powerful earthquake hit southeastern Afghanistan overnight, setting off a new humanitarian crisis in a country already facing a crumbling economy and hunger. The eastern Paktika province was the worst hit, Sharafuddin Muslim, the deputy state minister for Disaster Management said. The state-run Bakhtar News agency ...

  Bloomberg China sent its third-largest sortie of warplanes towards Taiwan this year, after the US rejected Chinese claims over the Taiwan Strait and reports of arms sales talks with Taipei in Washington. Twenty-nine Chinese aircraft, including six H-6 bombers and an electronic intelligence gathering plane, entered Taiwan’s southwestern air defense identification zone Tuesday, according to a tweet from the ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) announced on Tuesday it has identified AED70 billion ($19 billion) worth of products in its procurement pipeline that could be manufactured locally. Out of this value, Adnoc signed agreements for local manufacturing opportunities worth AED21 billion ($5.7 billion) with UAE and international companies. The agreements, which were signed at ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) has announced the offering of future contracts on the FTSE ADX 15 (Fadx 15) Index for trading on its financial derivatives platform. The Futures are the first index derivatives to be listed on ADX as the exchange accelerates efforts to bolster market liquidity and attract more global investors. Fadx ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM G42 Healthcare, an Abu Dhabi-based leading health tech company and subsidiary of G42, an artificial intelligence and cloud computing company located in Abu Dhabi, signed a letter of intent (LOI) with global biopharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca, in the presence of the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DoH), to expand their collaboration into the domains of ...

Bloomberg The secretary of Russia’s Security Council threatened retaliation in a growing standoff with the European Union after Lithuania blocked the transit of sanctioned goods to the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad. Russia “will certainly respond to such hostile actions” and appropriate measures will be taken soon, Nikolai Patrushev, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, said Tuesday in comments from ...