Abu Dhabi / WAM Aldar Properties signed a partnership agreement with Al Fahim Group to bring the world’s first Mercedes-Benz and AMG showroom and state-of-the-art express service centre to Yas Island. The new showroom will be located in close proximity to Yas Mall and opposite the mall’s flagship luxury department store, Tryano. Construction is scheduled to start in the fourth …

  Abu Dhabi / WAM A meeting on carbon capture and storage (CCS), techniques has been hosted by the UAE Ministry of Energy in Abu Dhabi. It was the second biannual meeting of the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum, CSLF, an international climate change initiative focused on the development of improved cost-effective technologies for carbon capture and storage. The forum is aimed …

  Bloomberg Russian President Vladimir Putin continued his diplomatic push for a plan to establish safe zones in Syria backed by peacekeepers as he began talks with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Wednesday. Russia and Turkey can “change the destiny of the whole region” together, Erdogan told Putin, who said relations between …