ABU DHABI / WAM The Arab Trade Financing Program (ATFP) approved 117 requests for financing trade deals worth US$249 million during its board meeting on Wednesday, which was dedicated to reviewing trade finance activities during the first quarter of the year. With the latest approvals, the cumulative volume of financing made available by the Abu Dhabi-based ATFP since inception in ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business The second batch of graduates of the world’s pioneering Internal Auditing training programme were honoured at the recent graduation ceremony by UAE IAA in collaboration with the Higher Colleges of Technology and Protiviti at HCT, Abu Dhabi Men’s college and was attended by Abdulqader Obaid Ali, UAE IAA President, Ahmed Al Khouli, HCT Head of ...

  Geneva / AFP IS extremists are still committing genocide against the Yazidi minority in Iraq and Syria, United Nations rights investigators said on Thursday. “Genocide has occurred and is ongoing,” Paulo Pinheiro, head of the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) for Syria, said in a statement. “ISIS has subjected every Yazidi woman, child or man that it has captured to ...