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Bloomberg Boris Johnson ramped up his campaign to become Britain’s next prime minister, vowing to take the country out of the European Union with or without a deal on October 31 and promising to hold onto money owed to the bloc until terms of the divorce become more favorable to the UK. In an interview with the Sunday Times, Johnson ...

SHARJAH / WAM His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, and President of the University of Sharjah (UoS), affirmed that the students are the pillar and foundation of the University of Sharjah for whom the university exploits all its potential and energies to build them scientifically and behaviourally. Sheikh Sultan’s remarks ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Emirates NBD, a leading financial institution in the region, is celebrating World Ocean Day this year by highlighting its commitment to preserving marine biodiversity, under the bank’s Keep the Creek Clean marine conservation programme. The Keep the Creek Clean initiative was introduced by Emirates NBD Private Banking in 2018, with the goal of helping preserve and ...

Sharjah / WAM For the sixth year in a row, the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCI) is gearing up to participate in the 11th edition of the World Chambers Congress (WCC) of the International Chamber of Commerce. Under the theme “Creating a Shared Future”, the three-day event will be held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil on June 12-14 ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Over 407 million drops of polio vaccine have been delivered to more than 71 million Pakistani children as part of the Emirates Polio Campaign implemented in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan since 2014 till the end of April 2019, the UAE-Pakistan Assistance Programme (UAEPAP) has announced. The aid comes in line with the directives of President ...

Bloomberg Excluding China’s Huawei Technologies Co and ZTE Corp from the next generation of mobile networks would lumber European phone companies with 55 billion euros ($62 billion) in extra costs, the wireless industry’s main lobby group said. A global ban advocated by US President Donald Trump would also delay the rollout of the high-speed 5G networks by at least 18 ...

Bloomberg India plans to return to the negotiating table after President Donald Trump terminated a trade concession, which allowed the country to export almost 2,000 products to the US duty-free, people with knowledge of the matter said. While an option is to raise tariffs on a slew of US goods as retaliation, India may not choose that considering the benefits ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said he would drop plans for tariffs on Mexico that he’d been threatening to impose for the past week after the country promised new steps to stem an influx of illegal migration into the US. “I am pleased to inform you that The United States of America has reached a signed agreement with Mexico,” Trump said ...

Bloomberg Wildfire season has barely started, and PG&E Corp is already warning it could cut service in Napa County and elsewhere in Northern California to prevent power lines from sparking a blaze. PG&E may proactively shut off electricity in several counties this weekend after the National Weather Service said fire risk was high, the San Francisco-based utility said. About 1,600 ...

Bloomberg AT&T Inc.’s DirecTV and Dish Network Corp., suffering the steepest subscriber losses in the pay-TV industry, are open to a merger and both companies believe such a deal could pass muster with US regulators, according to people familiar with their thinking. It’s been 17 years since a proposed combination of the two satellite-TV services was deemed bad for consumers ...