ABU DHABI / WAM Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation, Empower, has announced that the total number of buildings connected with its district cooling services in Dubai has increased to 1,180 in 2019, marking 8.25 percent growth from 2018. The company’s performance shows an impressive growth of 269 percent in a span of seven years, from 320 buildings in 2012 to ...

Bloomberg North Korea launched two unidentified projectiles off its eastern coast, South Korea’s defense ministry said, a move that comes just after the year anniversary of the failed Hanoi summit between leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump. The projectiles were launched on Monday from an area near the North Korean coastal city of Wonsan, the South Korean defense ...

Bloomberg Iraq’s Mohammed Tawfik Allawi declined to form a cabinet and stepped down as designated prime minister, ending weeks of squabbling and returning the country to a political vacuum. In a televised address on Monday in Baghdad, Allawi said he was quitting because of what he called “pressures from political parties seeking their own interests.” Allawi, a former communications minister, ...