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Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW) the global platform for accelerating sustainable development, will be held from January 18-21, 2021 and reimagined virtually. Ensuring the safety of all participants, ADSW 2021 and related high-level events during the week are set to take place virtually. In addition, partners including its host Masdar will collaborate on all events, including ...

Mokha / WAM A UAE ship carrying tons of food aid supplies has docked in the Yemeni port of Mokha, as part of the second phase of the UAE’s humanitarian drive in Yemen this year. The aid is being distributed by the UAE’s humanitarian arm, the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), in districts that include Bayt Al Faqih, Al Hawak, Ad ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Economy has partnered with noon.com, the region’s leading homegrown digital marketplace, to connect local startups that have a Dubai Economy’s DED Trader licence with customers across the region through its Mahali digital store. The creation of Mahali on noon.com and the partnership with the Dubai Economy reflect the efforts of both entities to further drive digital ...

Bloomberg Quantafuel AS, a Norwegian company turning plastic waste into motor fuels, jumped the most ever in Oslo trading after finally starting operations at its first plant. The company, which was founded in 2014, has more than tripled in value since listing on Oslo’s Merkur Market in February. It’s now valued at more than $1 billion. Quantafuel started production at ...

Bloomberg The embattled Belarusian opposition lost contact with two more members of its coordination council as authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko targets the leaders of the biggest protests of his 26-year rule. Lawyers Maksim Znak and Ilya Saley were targeted in separate raids on Wednesday, opposition spokesman Gleb Germanchuk said. Znak managed to tell him that “someone came to visit us” ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM In its continuous efforts to eliminate risks of financial crimes in the UAE, the National Committee for Combating Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism and Illegal Organisations announced in its sixth meeting, the launch of ‘Fawri Tick ’, a smart system developed by the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR). “‘Fawri Tick’ is under the ...

Dubai / WAM The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Consulate-General of Canada in Dubai discussed opportunities in areas such as digitalisation, logistics, e-commerce, life sciences and sustainable technologies, via videoconference. The meeting, which was chaired by President and CEO of Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hamad Buamim and Consul-General of Canada in Dubai Jean-Philippe Linteau, highlighted ...

Dubai / WAM The Dubai International Financial Centre’s (DIFC) Gate Avenue has been awarded the prestigious LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold accreditation from the US Green Building Council and Green Building Certification Inc. Gate Avenue was awarded the LEED certification for successfully fulfilling the prerequisites and credits across nine measurements for building excellence from integrative design to ...

Bloomberg Egypt has begun talks over plans to sell electricity to Europe and Africa, pressing its advantage as a producer of cheap renewable energy in a bid to become a regional export hub, the head of its sovereign wealth fund said. The nation, which has a surplus of electricity, sees unspecified “power-hungry” countries to the north as possible customers, according ...

Bloomberg India and China accused each other of firing warning shots in the air along their disputed Himalayan border for the first time in more than four decades in a new sign of friction days after top officials on both sides agreed to defuse tensions. Indian troops “illegally crossed the Line of Actual Control on the southern bank of Pangong ...