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  Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, separately received Macky Sall, President of Senegal, and Kentaro Sonoura, Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan, in Dubai on Sunday, as part of the World Government Summit. He welcomed both delegates and wished them ...

  Chisinau / Emirates Business Eng. Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy, recently met Moldovan Prime Minister Pavel Filip as part of an extended high-level Emirati visit to Moldova. Representatives from the government and the private sector, investors, and entrepreneurs invited to attend the UAE-Moldova Business Forum were also present during the meeting set to discuss potential collaborative ...

  North Korea / AP North Korea appeared to fire a ballistic missile early Sunday in what would be its first such test of the year and an implicit challenge to President Donald Trump, who stood with the Japanese leader as Shinzo Abe called the move “intolerable.” There was no immediate confirmation from the North, which had recently warned it ...

  Bloomberg The chief executives of 18 automakers asked President Donald Trump to reinstate a US Environmental Protection Agency review of fuel efficiency regulations through 2025 that they say was unfairly cut short during the final days of the Obama administration. In a February 10 letter, executives including Mary Barra of General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co.’s Mark Fields and ...

  Bloomberg Investors buying into Snap Inc.’s much-anticipated initial public offering won’t have any say on how much the company pays its executives. Snap will not be subject to the say-on-pay provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act, the company said in an updated deal prospectus. The act was put in place after the 2008 financial crisis to help investors throttle outsized ...

  Bloomberg India’s politicians are promising everything from smartphones to pressure cookers in a free-for-all that could signal the start of a spending spree in the country’s hinterland. In Uttar Pradesh, a state of 200 million people voted in legislative elections on Saturday, parties including Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party offered a range of freebies — which have ...

  SEOUL / AP South Korean prosecutors investigating the corruption scandal involving impeached President Park Geun-hye said on Sunday that they plan to summon Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong again as they look into bribery allegations between Park and the country’s largest busi- ness group. Lee, the billionaire vice chairman of technology giant Samsung Electronics, will be summoned along with two ...

  Bloomberg Microsoft Corp. persuaded a judge not to let the US government out of a lawsuit alleging the company’s free-speech rights are violated by a law that blocks it from alerting users to the clandestine interception of their e-mails. The judge said Microsoft has at least made a plausible argument that federal law muzzles its right to speak about ...

  Bloomberg New York Times Co., looking for ways to persuade readers to pay for news, is working with Spotify Ltd. to give new digital subscribers to the newspaper free access to the world’s largest music-streaming service. Readers who buy one-year online subscriptions to the Times will also get unlimited access to Spotify’s premium service, which costs $120 annually, the ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, attended the prestigious The UAE President Endurance Cup, held at the Emirates International E ndurance Village, Al Wathba, Abu Dhabi. Present at the 160-km ride was HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai Crown ...