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Bloomberg The race to lead Germany was thrown wide open on Monday when Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer announced that she will step down as leader of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and won’t run as the party’s candidate for chancellor in the next election. Kramp-Karrenbauer, widely known by her initials AKK, has struggled to stamp her authority on the party since ...

Bloomberg China’s consumer prices rose the fastest in more than eight years last month, with the outbreak of the coronavirus and subsequent shutdowns of transport links across the country making further gains in the coming months likely. Consumer prices rose 5.4%, with food prices jumping the most since 2008 in January. Even before the coronavirus, prices were likely to have ...

Bloomberg Jaguar Land Rover announced that its supply chains outside China could be impacted by the coronavirus outbreak in an updated presentation to investors. The luxury carmaker wrote that it expects the virus to affect its fourth quarter but that it’s too early to quantify. Though the company issued an update to add that if disruption continues, supply chains outside ...

Bloomberg Hollywood producers eager to dramatise the life of Carlos Ghosn, the former Nissan Motor Co chairman who staged a cinematic escape from Japan in December, are likely to get a simple response: call my agent. Not just any agent. Ghosn is working with Michael Ovitz, the founder of Creative Artists Agency and former president of Walt Disney Co, to ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE on Sunday celebrated the participation of its brave sons in the Arab Coalition Forces in Yemen. The ceremony was attended by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Airports has partnered with the Etihad Aviation Group (EAG) to begin training 17,000 employees to operate the new Midfield Airport Terminal at the Abu Dhabi Airport. The programme is supported by a campaign designed to capture the imagination of the airport community, ensuring that employees of all airport organisations are Familiarised, Inducted and Trained ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Volunteering Programme has completed four million local and international community volunteering hours, in keeping with the humanitarian message of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. Noura Al Suwaidi, Director of the General Women’s Union (GWU) stated that the programme’s volunteers have helped achieve progress in the areas of volunteer ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) has announced that it will highlight how it is protecting biodiversity and preserving the quality of life for a sustainable future by participating at this month’s World Urban Forum 2020. Hosted by UN Habitat until February 13 at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, (Adnec) the event will see EAD ...

Bloomberg President Rodrigo Duterte plans to order the termination of a longstanding military pact with the US, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported, though the US State Department reiterated that relations between the nations remain strong. The Inquirer report, citing presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo, follows Duterte’s threat in January to end the agreement after Washington cancelled a visa for a senator ...

Bloomberg The coronavirus disease spreading around the world has killed more than 810 people, exceeding the toll from the global outbreak of Sars that started in China almost two decades ago. Less than two months after surfacing in late December in Wuhan, China, cases of the coronavirus have topped 37,000. The fast-spreading disease long ago eclipsed the 8,100 total cases ...