Karachi / WAM The Sheikha Fatima Field Humanitarian Hospital has been opened in Karachi by Hamad Obeid Ibrahim Salim Al Zaabi, the UAE Ambassador to Pakistan, to provide therapeutic, diagnostic and preventive services to underprivileged segments of society, primarily women, children and elderly people, in Pakistan. Noura Al Suwaidi, Director of the General Women’s Union, said the facility, which provides ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM From its inception in 1971 until December 2018, the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), the leading national entity for international development aid, has financed hundreds of development projects worth AED4.4 billion ($1.187 billion) in the renewable energy sector around the world. Driving the objectives of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), these projects have ...

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump agreed to hold a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the end of February. What the two leaders hope to achieve remains a mystery. The summit announcement came after a 90-minute White House meeting between Trump and Kim Yong Chol, one of the North Korean leader’s top aides. They discussed “denucleariaation and ...