Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), the leading national entity for development aid, has approved a $33 million (AED121 million) concessionary loan for the development of a waste-to-energy facility in the emirate of Sharjah. The facility is the flagship project of Emirates Waste to Energy Company, a joint venture between Masdar, a regional leader in ...

Bloomberg The UK charged two Russian nationals over the attempted murder of a former spy and the use of a Novichok nerve agent on British soil, a move that will further sour ties with the Kremlin. Police named Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov as the aliases of the two key suspects in the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter ...

Bloomberg Syrian troops are readying an offensive against the last remaining opposition bastion, an assault that could draw in the US, displace hundreds of thousands of civilians and cement President Bashar al-Assad’s hold over the country if his forces prevail. The attack on the northwest province of Idlib is expected soon, weeks after government troops—whose march from possible defeat to ...