CAIRO / WAM Adel Abdulrahman Al Asoomi, Speaker of the Arab Parliament, on Wednesday congratulated the UAE’s leadership, government and people on the start of the commercial operation of Unit 1 of Barakah Nuclear Power Plant, the first peaceful nuclear power plant in the Arab region. Al Asoomi stressed that the launch of the plant is a distinguished achievement to ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Mohammed Hilal Al Mheiri, Director-General of Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has held a video conference meeting with Dr Mohammed Shukri Mohammed Saeed, Chairman of the Investment Authority of the Kurdistan Regional Government and Ahmed Al Dhaheri, the UAE Consul General in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. They discussed ways of strengthening economic and ...

Bloomberg Oil traded near $63 a barrel in London as traders awaited weekly US inventory data for the latest steer on the demand recovery. Brent futures climbed 1%, swinging between gains and losses. Attention will shift later to US inventories, after an industry report showed a decline in crude stockpiles but a gain in gasoline holdings. The government data will ...