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  Dubai / Emirates Business MEED has announced the inauguration of Innovation Live!, the first initiative of its kind designed to converge government and business innovation ideologies and subsequently find solutions in the sustainable energy, smart cities, education, healthcare, transport and industrial diversification sectors. The Innovation Live! Summit, the focal event of the initiative, will be an anchor event in ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Properties (DP), a leading Dubai-based real estate master developer and asset manager has announced townhouses in the Portuguese-inspired community, Casa Dora at Serena in DUBAILAND, will be released soon for sale at the DP sales and customer services centre in Ras Al Khor. Following the success of the first release of townhouses in the ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Ali Ibrahim, Deputy Director General of the Department of Economic Development (DED) inaugurated the second cycle of the ‘Customer Service Week’ organised as part of the Dubai Service Excellence Scheme (DSES) at the Dubai Festival City Mall. Held August 25-27, the Customer Service Week is part of DED’s strategic objective of enhancing service excellence and customer ...

  Dubai / WAM Investing in clean energy will top the agenda of discussions during the 18th Water, Energy, Technology, and Environment Exhibition (WETEX 2016) which will be organised under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), the Emirate’s dedicated entity for heritage, arts and culture, has announced its support for the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) ‘Let’s Make this Summer Green’ environmental awareness campaign. The initiative, which will be implemented at the Dubai Public Library – Al Twar branch this month, will be ...

  Bloomberg For UK consumers, the good times might not keep rolling. Quickening inflation looks set to erode almost two years of real-wage growth, undermining the key driver of the economy. Data due Friday will probably show consumption helped growth accelerate to 0.6 percent in the second quarter, before the referendum on European Union membership. Still, there are challenges ahead ...

  Brasília / AFP The impeachment trial of Brazil’s first woman president, Dilma Rousseff, got underway on Thursday with high expectations that the suspended leader of Latin America’s biggest economy will be sacked within days. The Senate trial was opened by Supreme Court president Ricardo Lewandowski half an hour late in the blue-carpeted chamber at 9:30 am (1230 GMT). The ...

  Kabul / AFP At least 16 people were killed after militants stormed the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, officials said on Thursday, in a nearly 10-hour raid that prompted anguished pleas for help from trapped students. Explosions and gunfire rocked the campus after the attack began Wednesday evening, just weeks after two university professors—an American and an Australian—were kidnapped ...

  JEDDAH / AFP US Secretary of State John Kerry was holding talks with his Gulf counterparts and a British minister in Saudi Arabia on Thursday on the conflicts in Yemen, Syria and Libya. The coordination with Washington’s major Middle East allies came on the eve of Syria talks in Geneva between Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. After a ...

  AP The world’s first self-driving taxis began picking up passengers in Singapore starting Thursday. Select members of the public can hail a free ride through their smartphones in taxis operated by nuTonomy, an autonomous vehicle software startup. While multiple companies, including Google and Volvo, have been testing self-driving cars on public roads for several years, nuTonomy says is the ...