Bloomberg Oil declined as a renewed increase in China’s virus cases fed into weakness across global markets. West Texas Intermediate dropped near $102 a barrel. Covid-19 cases continued to climb in Shanghai and other regions, with new sub-variants posing a challenge to the country’s Covid Zero strategy. Oil also fell on a stronger dollar, and on the cancellation of a ...

  MAKKAH / WAM Roboting, a newly-introduced state-of-the-art service, has been launched at the Grand Mosque this year to distribute Islam’s holy book of Quran to worshippers as they finish their Hajj journey in Makkah, SPA reported. Giving an account on the device, the Under-Secretary of the General President for the Two Holy Mosques Affairs for the Guiding Affairs of ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE government and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) signed an agreement to establish an office for the ICRC in Abu Dhabi. This step aims at strengthening cooperation and partnership between the two sides. The agreement was signed by Reem bint Ibrahim Al Hashemy, Minister of State for International Cooperation, and by ...