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DUBAI / WAM Expo 2020 Dubai has urged UAE citizens and residents who wish to act as ambassadors for the country and help welcome millions of visitors to the first World Expo in the region to sign up for the Expo 2020 Volunteers Programme, with applications set to close on March 31. Following a huge response garnered with the support ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The court in charge of the fight against money laundering and tax evasion within the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) convicted four accused persons, all Asians, and a company owned by one of the accused, for committing money laundering and fraud against 4,000 victims of the same nationality and appropriating their money by enticing them with ...

Bloomberg The UK’s oil and gas industry faces a struggle to recover from an investment slump sparked by the coronavirus and in the longer term will have to manage a prolonged decline in output, according to its trade body. Production may decline further this year and next, following a 5% decrease in 2020, Oil & Gas UK said in a ...

Bloomberg The UK plans to bolster its stockpile of nuclear weapons to counter growing threats around the world, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced as he unveiled a radical overhaul of defense and foreign policy. Under a blueprint for the next decade, the UK will cut troop numbers, tanks and some fighter jets, according to a person familiar with the matter, ...

Bloomberg UK trade with the European Union (EU) deteriorated in the first month since the Brexit split, suggesting commercial relations between the two economies will suffer more than the British government advertised. UK goods exports to the EU fall almost 41% in January from a month earlier, while imports from the bloc dropped 29%, data from the Office for National ...

Bloomberg US job listings that tout working remotely as a perk have more than doubled in the past year, signaling that top companies will keep using the benefit to woo employees even as the pandemic winds down, according to job-search site Indeed. As of February, 6.9% of Indeed job postings cited remote work as an option, compared with 2.9% in ...

Bloomberg Canada’s labour market roared back to life in February after authorities began lifting lockdowns, a striking sign of the nation’s economic resilience to the second wave of pandemic. The economy added 259,200 jobs in February, Statistics Canada reported in Ottawa, well ahead of expectations for a 75,000 gain. It’s the first month of gains since November, when a new ...

Bloomberg Facebook Inc. reached a multiyear deal with News Corp. in Australia, agreeing to pay Rupert Murdoch’s publishing arm for access to additional stories. The agreement resolves a dispute in the country between publishers and tech giants over payments for news articles. The deal includes content from News Corp.’s national newspaper, The Australian, as well as the Daily Telegraph in ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Municipality has achieved 100 percent reduction in papers during the year 2020. The total reduction amounted to 20,960,743 papers annually, saving more than AED95 million and more than one million working hours. “The implementation of the improvement measures related to the Dubai Paperless Strategy has led to an increase in the percentage of digital completion to ...

DUBAI / WAM Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, Hessa Bint Essa Buhumaid, Minister of Community Development, officially inaugurated on Monday the 17th edition of the Dubai International Humanitarian Aid and Development Conference and Exhibition (Dihad) at the Dubai International Convention and ...