Dubai / WAM The number of people taking the taxi in Dubai were clocked at 44,883,737, and they took 25,795,251 trips during the first quarter of 2017. The CEO of Public Transport Agency at the Roads and Transport Authority, RTA, Abdullah Yousef Al Ali commented, “Lifting 44,883,737 riders during the first quarter of this year is indicative of the huge …

  Bloomberg National Front leaders are beginning to acknowledge that Marine Le Pen may be headed for defeat in Sunday’s presidential election after she failed to land the decisive blow she needs to overhaul Emmanuel Macron in Wednesday’s television debate. Scoring 40 percent in the runoff “would be an enormous victory,” the candidate’s niece and a fellow National Front lawmaker …

  Bloomberg Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he called his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Wednesday “at the behest” of US President Donald Trump to discuss China’s role in promoting peace on the Korean peninsula. In a televised speech from Davao City on Thursday, Duterte said Trump, in a call at the weekend, asked whether Xi “could do something about …