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Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE Cabinet adopted ten strategic resolutions to support Emiratisation on Sunday during a meeting chaired by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, at the Presidential Palace in Abu Dhabi. The new resolutions are part of the outcomes of the committee, chaired by H.H. Sheikh Mansour ...

New York / WAM His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, underlined the central importance of starting “the new decade by protecting the future of our region and the world … and continue to fight terrorist groups and extremist ideologies.” HH Sheikh Abdullah made the statements while delivering the UAE’s statement before ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE has made significant improvements in developing and strengthening its nuclear emergency preparedness and response arrangements for Barakah Nuclear Power Plant since the 2015’s Emergency Preparedness Review (EPREV), Service visit to the UAE, according to experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This came after a five-day follow-up review by IAEA experts to the ...

MOSCOW / WAM Moscow has hosted the second meeting of the UAE-Russian Industrial, Technological and Scientific Cooperation Team. The meeting was chaired by Dr Mattar Hamed Al Niyadi, Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Energy and Industry, and Alexei Vladimirovic, Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce of Russia. During the meeting, both sides highlighted the importance of the ongoing partnership between ...

Bloomberg The largest Indonesian phone operator said it will wait to see how the spat between US officials and Huawei Technologies Co ends before picking suppliers for 5G wireless equipment. Southeast Asia’s largest market for telecom services is still several years from launching 5G services, allowing PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia time to decide whether to pick Huawei as a supplier, President ...

Bloomberg Dressed in a red guard uniform, Gao Hongli and a group of fellow kindergarten principals are laughing and whooping like they’re on a Marxist hen night. They’ve travelled to Jinggang Mountain in Jiangxi province as part of a 100-strong delegation of preschool heads to learn how members of the Communist Party’s first rural “soviet base” lived in the late ...

Bloomberg Nancy Pelosi set House Democrats on a course towards an impeachment of President Donald Trump without a clear road map for where it will go and how long it will take — even as new information comes to light. Democrats accelerated their inquiry, issuing a subpoena and setting plans for witness interviews. But Pelosi, the House speaker, must still ...

Bloomberg Britain’s two largest drugmakers, betting on a new generation of cancer treatments that block tumor cells from fixing their damaged DNA, showed that these medicines work in a broad swath of patients. Women with ovarian cancer treated with GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s drug Zejula had a 38 percent reduction in the risk of dying or seeing the disease progress, the company ...

Bloomberg Social media platforms based in the US including Facebook and WhatsApp will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages with British police under a new treaty between the two countries, according to a person familiar with the matter. The accord, which is set to be signed by next month, will compel social media firms to share information to support ...

Bloomberg Elon Musk gave space fans an outline of plans for “Starship,” the next-generation vehicle his Space Exploration Technologies Corp expects to use to eventually take humans to Mars. The goal is to make “space travel like air travel,” Musk said on stage during a highly technical presentation from the company’s Boca Chica test site near Brownsville, Texas. “We’re really ...