ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE has obtained support from member states of the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Regional Commission for the Middle East for its candidature for the organisation’s Executive Council for the first time. The voting process to ratify candidacy will take place during the UNWTO General Assembly meeting in Morocco next October. The UAE submitted its nomination ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden’s proposed tax hikes are forecast to bring in $3.6 trillion over the next decade, the Treasury Department said, a key funding source for the $4 trillion he hopes to spend remaking the American economy and social safety net. The figure, representing the sum of all tax increases if enacted by Congress, came as is part of ...

Sharjah / WAM Under the directives of HH Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, wife of HH the Ruler of Sharjah, Chairperson of The Big Heart Foundation (TBHF) and Eminent Advocate for Refugee Children at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), TBHF has mobilised $1 million to fulfill critical medical and psychological needs of children severely affected by ...