ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Football fans across the region are gearing up for the start of what looks set to be an explosive season of football as the Arabian Gulf League (AGL) starts on Friday, September 16. All matches can be watched on Abu Dhabi Sports and Dubai Sports channels, exclusively on OSN the region’s leading pay-TV network. …

  Slavyansk / AFP The German and French foreign ministers made their first visit to Ukraine’s war-torn east on Thursday, saying they wanted to push a new bid for peace after a recent surge in violence. Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault visited the Donetsk region and viewed a bridge destroyed in fighting between separatist and government forces …

  Brussels / AFP European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Thursday he opposed his predecessor Jose Manuel Barroso’s decision to work for Goldman Sachs because of the firm’s role in the global financial crisis. Barroso’s appointment in July as a non-executive chairman and advisor at the US investment bank has caused a furore in the European Union, with French …