ABU DHABI / WAM Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence, has said that under the leadership of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE leads global efforts to promote the values of tolerance and coexistence. In his keynote speech on the second day of the Global Media Congress marking the International ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai International (DXB) added a new connection to its growing list of destinations with the launch of SunExpress’ direct flights between Dubai and the Turkish city of Izmir recently. This is the second Turkish route the carrier now operates into DXB after it launched scheduled operations to Antalya in September earlier this year. SunExpress is operating ...

  Dubai / WAM Arada will once more take part in Cityscape Dubai, which is taking place between November 21-23 at the Dubai World Trade Centre. During the show, which brings together some of the region’s largest developers, Arada will showcase its existing projects, Aljada and Masaar, as well as announcing new expansion plans that cater to the exceptionally strong ...

  Sharjah / WAM Air Arabia has announced the launch of a new route from Sharjah to Namangan in Uzbekistan. The new direct flights will connect Sharjah International Airport with Namangan Airport with three weekly flights starting from November 27. Adel Al Ali, Group Chief Executive Officer of Air Arabia, said, “We are glad to further expand our reach to ...

  Last week, while inaugurating a new aircraft factory in western India, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned to a slogan he coined a few months after taking power in 2014: “Make in India.” This time, however, he added: “Make for the world.” This isn’t the first time Modi has gestured toward India’s need to increase manufacturing exports. Still, the ...

There’s a lot of focus on Elon Musk’s Twitter Inc. purchase and plans to turn around the troubled social network. Most debates around the acquisition miss a crucial tenent of Musk’s glittering track record: He uses software to drive previously unimaginable advances in difficult problems, and then creates a virtuous spiral with investors and users. This approach is critical to ...

  For much of the past year, interest rate doves have been eager to make excuses for inflation, blaming obscure methodological quirks in the US’s consumer price index for a stretch of concerning reports. Now, another of those peculiarities is pulling reported inflation down, but the doves are happy to look the other way. While there were certainly positive developments ...

  Sam Bankman-Fried has in the past enjoyed media treatment akin to walking on water. Even amid the brutal cryptocurrency selloff, his exchange FTX was hailed as the buyer of last resort amid the wreckage. His geeky image, supposedly philanthropic motivations and crude online gags softened the edges of a billionaire whose business is risky crypto trading — most of ...

  Bloomberg Airbus SE said production concerns have shifted from a shortage of jet engines to smaller suppliers struggling to cope with spiralling energy costs, with the squeeze expected to become most acute next spring. The world’s largest planemaker is working to mitigate the impact of the energy crisis for component makers by being flexible with its aircraft production sequencing ...

Bloomberg Air France-KLM’s French arm faces possible strikes throughout the year-end holiday as workers step up pressure to adjust salaries in the face of spiralling inflation. Two Air France cabin crew unions issued a strike notice from December 22 to January 2, according to statements posted on their websites. Air France said it questions the logic of the strike notice, ...