DUBAI / WAM The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) has showcased its agrifood innovation and manufacturing capabilities to strengthen further its ties with the UAE at a dinner event held at the Australia Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai. The event was led by the newly appointed Vish Padmanabhan, NSW Senior Trade Commissioner to India and the Middle ...

  The worst, it seems, has now happened in Ukraine. In a pre-dawn televised address, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he had ordered an operation aimed at demilitarising Ukraine. It’s a dark moment for Russia, for Ukraine, for Europe — the darkest in Putin’s two decades at the helm. It is also a point of no return for Russia’s leader, ...

A leadership handover is normally time for refreshment and renewal at companies: new directions, exciting targets. Not so right now at Barclays Plc, where Jes Staley was recently pushed out prematurely as chief executive officer by UK regulators concerned about how he’d presented his personal ties with Jeffrey Epstein. The British bank’s new CEO, CS Venkatakrishnan, and Chief Financial Officer ...