Abu Dhabi / WAM A new council has been formed to reinforce the UAE’s policies and strategies on climate change, environmental and sustainable development. The UAE Council for Climate Change and Environment was constituted on Sunday by Dr. Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment through a Ministerial Decision No (795) of 2016. The council will develop ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Zayed Giving Initiative (ZGI) launched the world’s first state-of-the-art mobile city for humanitarian and charitable work as part of a series of initiatives it plans to roll out in the Year of Giving in 2017. “The word’s first makeshift city for humanitarian work was launched in consistence with President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s ...

  Bob Gates has worked in senior national-security positions for the last five presidents, Republican and Democratic. So it’s noteworthy — and to me, encouraging — that he is advising President-elect Donald Trump, too. Gates, a former defense secretary, CIA director and deputy national security adviser, spoke with me by telephone on Wednesday about the advice he’s giving Trump and ...