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  WASHINGTON / AP Senior US intelligence officials face questions at a Senate hearing that will be dominated by the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia meddled in the presidential election to help Donald Trump win. The Armed Services Committee’s cyber threats hearing on Thursday comes a day before the president-elect is to be briefed by the CIA and FBI directors ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Executive Committee of Abu Dhabi Executive Council, chaired by Saeed Eid Al Ghafli, approved a number of infrastructure projects worth AED241 million, in line with the wise leadership’s directives to achieve excellence in service provision. The committee approved a development project to increase the capacity of the electricity grid in Al Ain and its suburbs ...

  Dubai / WAM The first phase of the Dubai Street Museum project, being jointly implemented by Brand Dubai, the creative arm of the Government of Dubai Media Office, and Dubai Municipality saw the participation of prominent international mural and graffiti artists. The artists painted a total of 16 murals on themes drawn from the UAE’s history and rich heritage. Artists ...

  ISTANBUL / AP Turkey has identified the gunman in the Istanbul nightclub massacre, the foreign minister said on Wednesday as the president vowed that the country won’t surrender to terrorists or become divided. The gunman, who killed 39 people during New Year’s celebrations at the Reina club, is still at large. But Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said authorities had identified ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) awarded Al Futtaim Carillion (AFC) the contract to deliver Phase 1A6 of One Central, a major integrated Real Estate development located between the current Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre and Emirates Towers in the heart of the city’s Central Business District. This latest phase of One Central has a ...

  DUBAI / Emirates Business The Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government (MBRSG) , a research and educational institution specializing in public policy in the Arab world, on Wednesday announced the launch of a series of new master’s degree programs under the theme ‘The Future Government’. As a knowledge partner of the Government of Dubai, MBRSG developed the new set ...

  WASHINGTON / AP President Barack Obama is traveling to the Capitol to give congressional Democrats advice on how to combat the Republican drive to dismantle his health care overhaul. Vice President-elect Mike Pence is meeting with GOP lawmakers to discuss the best way to send Obama’s cherished law to its graveyard and replace it with — well, something. The ...

  Bloomberg India’s dominant services sector is set to contract for a second straight month, adding to evidence that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise ban on cash will trigger a sharp slowdown in Asia’s No. 3 economy. The Nikkei India Services Purchasing Managers’ Index was at 46.8 in December, a report showed on Wednesday, little changed from 46.7 a month ...

  BEIJING / AP Other investors are wary of Brazil, but when Duke Energy wanted to sell 10 hydroelectric dams there, a Chinese utility shrugged off the country’s economic turmoil and paid $1.2 billion to add them to an energy empire that stretches from Malaysia to Germany to the Amazon. State-owned China Three Gorges Group is spending heavily to buy ...

  Bloomberg Euro-area inflation accelerated in December at the fastest pace since 2013, suggesting that a debate about the appropriate degree of European Central Bank stimulus is about to gather momentum. Consumer prices rose 1.1 percent from a year earlier, following a 0.6 percent gain in November, the European Union’s statistics office in Luxembourg said on Wednesday. That’s above a ...