Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE on Sunday announced the first five projects under the $50 million UAE-Caribbean Renewable Energy Fund across Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The projects will significantly reduce energy costs in the region, as well as improve resilience to natural disasters, such as Hurricane Irma. Announced in January 2017, ...

Al Ain / WAM HH Sheikh Hazza bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, Under-Secretary of the Court of the Abu Dhabi Ruler’s Representative in the Al Ain Region, opened the ninth edition of the Al Ain Book Fair, which displays literature, poetry and history books by Emirati writers. The exhibition opened with a musical performance entitled, “Paradise of Zayed,” by a group ...

Bloomberg Chancellor Angela Merkel was chastised by German voters who elected her to a fourth term with her party’s worst result since 1949, after an election that lifted a far-right party into parliament in a sign of the growing polarisation in Europe’s biggest economy. Sunday’s federal ballot saw support for the two main parties— Merkel’s Christian Democrat-led bloc and Martin ...