US Senator Elizabeth Warren has proposed a bill — the Accountable Capitalism Act — that would require large companies to create corporate charters that take account of the interests of workers, customers and communities in addition to shareholders. To enforce this dictum, it would give each company’s employees the power to elect 40 percent of the corporate directors. Right now, ...

DUBAI / WAM HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre and the General Supervisor of its projects and plans, said launch of KhalifaSat is an important step towards achieving UAE’s space strategy. Highlighting the efforts of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre team, he said ...

VIENNA / WAM The Opec Fund for International Development (OFID) signed pu-blic sector loan agreements totalling $37.5 million with Gui- nea Bissau, Burundi and Uga-nda to support socio-economic development and living standards in the African continent. OFID’s $20 million loan to Burundi will help fund the ‘Rumonge-Nyanza Lac Road Rehabilitation Project’. Improvements to 52km stretch of road will promote development ...