ABU DHABI / WAM Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) announced it has reached the milestone of 40 million tonnes of hot metal produced since its start-up in 1979. This means almost three percent of all the aluminium ever made has been produced by EGA in the UAE. Aluminium is an essential material for human progress, and EGA’s metal is used ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM Etihad Airways, the UAE national airline, and Garuda Indonesia, the national flag carrier of Indonesia, announced they are strengthening their partnership between Abu Dhabi and Jakarta and beyond their respective hubs. The scope of the partners’ codeshare agreement, first signed in 2012, will be significantly expanded to nearly double the number of combined destinations Etihad ...

The Group of 20 countries meet in Bali against the backdrop of heightened tension between the world’s great powers, nuclear threats and a looming global recession. With his military campaign in Ukraine faltering, Russia’s Vladimir Putin will be absent. A joint statement is unlikely, a significant breakthrough to solve concurrent crises in energy, climate and food would be a miracle. ...