Abu Dhabi / WAM A new decree has been set by the Ministry of Human resources and Emiratisation to exempt small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from bank guarantees by the beginning of October 2016. The new decree supports the initiation of fresh projects and classifies them within the ministry’s first category, according to the stipulated conditions. Saqr Ghobash, Minister of ...

WASHINGTON America’s top spymaster offered contrarian assessments of some key issues — warning against “hyping” the threat posed by the Syrian terror group Jabhat al-Nusra, cautioning against administration plans to share intelligence with Russia on Syrian targets, and questioning Turkish claims that last Friday’s coup was organized by a cleric living in America. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper made ...

  Calls for boosting the slowing global economy, dominated G20 forum on Saturday as the declining growth in China and Britain’s vote to leave the European Union (EU) threaten to cut global growth. With their eyes set on turning the slowing economic growth around, central bank chiefs and finance ministers from the world’s top 20 economies met in the southwestern ...