ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), the leading national entity for international development aid, on Saturday signed a $10 million concessionary loan agreement with the Government of Mauritius to fund a solar photovoltaic (PV) kits project. As announced at the eighth session of the Irena Assembly in January 2018, the project that aims to provide ...

Bloomberg The US hasn’t begun withdrawing troops from Syria, the Pentagon said in the military’s most extensive comments yet as questions about President Donald Trump’s timeline and strategy for pulling troops from the eight-year conflict there continue to fuel confusion. “We have taken a number of logistical measures to support an ordered withdrawal,” Commander Sean Robertson, a Defense Department spokesman, ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump lashed out on Saturday following a New York Times report that the FBI had opened a probe in 2017 to determine if the president had been working, knowingly or unknowingly, on behalf of Russia. In a series of early-morning tweets Trump said that the agency had opened a probe “for no reason and with no proof, after ...