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Saudi suspects same source behind tanker, airport attacks

Bloomberg The same source responsible for a recent missile launch on an airport in Saudi Arabia likely perpetrated attacks on ships near the Strait of Hormuz, according to the Kingdom’s energy minister. Khalid Al-Falih’s comments during a G-20 ministerial meeting on energy and the environment in Japan come after US President Donald Trump blamed Iran for the vessel attacks near ...

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UAE, Australia plan to explore collaboration in energy sector

ABU DHABI / WAM A high-profile delegation from the Abu Dhabi Department of Energy (DoE), led by the DoE’s Chairman Awaidha Murshed Al Marar, is visiting the Australian state of Victoria this week to expand cooperation and reinforce strategic partnerships in energy between Abu Dhabi and other countries of the world. The visit will see the delegation meet with officials ...

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UAE, Germany committed to fight terror, violent extremism

Berlin / WAM The United Arab Emirates and Germany have reaffirmed their joint commitment to the fight against terrorism and violent extremism, in all its forms, at both regional and international levels. In a joint statement issued on Wednesday on the occasion of the visit of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and ...

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UAE signs $100mn deal for power plant in Yemen’s Aden

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation signed an agreement with the Electricity and Energy Ministry of the Republic of Yemen to implement a power plant in Aden at a cost of $100 million. The agreement is part of the continuous programme implemented by the UAE to support the electric power sector in Aden. The agreement ...

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Dewa, Masdar reinforce clean energy partnership

DUBAI / WAM Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa), and a delegation from Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar), have discussed ways of developing their partnership on renewable and clean energy, and the various plans and projects that support the objectives of the UAE Centennial 2071. At the meeting, which was held ...

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Google moves its hardware production away from China

Bloomberg Alphabet Inc’s Google is moving some production of Nest thermostats and server hardware out of China, avoiding punitive US tariffs and an increasingly hostile government in Beijing, according to people familiar with the matter. Google has already shifted much of its production of US-bound motherboards to Taiwan, averting a 25 percent tariff, said the people, asking not to be ...

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India eyes entry to moon landing club with July launch

Bloomberg India will launch a lunar mission on July 15, attempting to become the fourth country to land on the moon and cementing its place among the world’s space faring nations. The Chandrayaan-2 mission aims to deliver a rover to an elevated plane close to the uncharted lunar South Pole on September 6 or 7 and investigate the surface for ...

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UK pledges net zero fossil fuel pollution in first for G-7

Bloomberg Britain is to become the first major economy to adopt laws that require a cut in fossil-fuel emissions to zero by 2050 to fight climate change. Prime Minister Theresa May said legislation to wipe out the UK’s net contribution to rising global temperatures will be put to members of Parliament, endorsing a report from advisers that laid out what ...

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Dassault to acquire Medidata in $5.7b health data push

Bloomberg Dassault Systemes SE, a maker of industrial design software, agreed to buy Medidata Solutions Inc. for $5.7 billion to gain a foothold in the fast-growing market for clinical trial technology. The deal pushes the French company further beyond its design roots into data processing and business analysis. Medidata’s software analyses pharmaceutical and biotech trials for some of the world’s ...

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Europe fears factory slump will infect rest of economy

Bloomberg European industry is in trouble and there’s a risk it will infect other parts of the economy, deepening the slowdown that’s already left the region fragile. Concern is growing in markets and even at the European Central Bank that the services sector won’t be able to withstand a broader manufacturing slump. That would undermine jobs growth and domestic demand, ...

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