Abu Dhabi / WAM The Centre of Waste Management – Abu Dhabi, Tadweer, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Universal Hospital, which aims to raise awareness of the staff about work related health risks through medical and awareness campaigns. The MoU, signed by Eisa Saif Al Qubaisi, General Manager of Tadweer, and Hamad Ahmad Al Hosani, CEO of Universal Hospital, ...

  Berlin / AFP Germany’s parliament votes Thursday on a resolution that qualifies the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces as “genocide”, despite a strong warning from Turkey. Drawn up by the ruling left-right coalition and the opposition Greens, the resolution entitled “Remembrance and commemoration of the genocide of Armenians and other Christian minorities in 1915 and 1916” also carries ...

  Kuala Lumpur / AFP Half a century after they died, the bodies of 32 Australian soldiers and their dependents, many of whom were killed in the Vietnam War, were returned home from Malaysia on Tuesday. In a sombre ceremony, their flag-draped coffins were loaded onto Australian airforce planes by a military guard of honour as a bugle sounded the ...