SHARJAH / WAM The Electricity Distribution Department of the Sharjah Electricity, Water and Gas Authority (Sewa) carried out 35 road and street lighting projects during 2021. The projects included the installation of 7,132 new lighting poles, laying 215 km of cables, installing 97 lighting boxes, 30,497 lighting network maintenance works carried out, and 114,97 lighting units installed, the majority ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The total number of electronically filed applications completed remotely before the courts during the first quarter of this year reached 150,507, in addition to 25,222 requests completed during the same period by the Public Prosecution and 24,643 handled by the Notary Public, Youssef Saeed Al Abri, Undersecretary of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD), said. ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque has been a leading destination for visitors of the major international events hosted by the UAE over the past six months, most notably Expo 2020 Dubai, the FIFA Club World Cup, the 5th Umex and SinTex, the International Defence Industry Technology and Security Conference, Global Goals Week, which was held ...

Bloomberg Europe can reduce energy dependence on Russia quicker than previously estimated, Mario Draghi said in an interview with Corriere della Sera. “Diversification is possible and feasible relatively quickly, shorter than we imagined just a month ago,” the Italian prime minister said after reaching an agreement to increase gas imports from Algeria. “We have gas in storage and will have ...

Bloomberg President Emmanuel Macron vowed to end the use of fossil fuels in France if re-elected, eight days before he faces far-right leader Marine Le Pen in a run-off election. Speaking at a campaign rally in the southern city of Marseille, Macron said he would appoint a minister of energy planning whose mission “would be to make France the first ...

Bloomberg Gazprom PJSC’s average daily exports to key foreign buyers so far in April fell to lowest in three months, as warmer weather and lower spot prices started to lure European clients away from Russian gas. The gas giant exported an average of 407 million cubic meters a day to countries outside the former Soviet Union in the first 15 ...

  Bloomberg Jeep, the iconic American SUV brand, wants to convince the world it’s going green, even if it doesn’t yet have the electric vehicles to show it. The itinerary of Christian Meunier, the global head of Jeep, shows the two worlds the brand is straddling. For a few days, he was off-roading in Moab, Utah, in electric concept versions ...

Russia has invaded and devastated Ukraine without the smallest provocation. Most North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) nations, led thank goodness by the US — two years ago, we could have expected nothing from the White House — join in condemning President Vladimir Putin’s aggression. Some are supplying military aid. Yet there is nothing like unanimity in Europe, never mind elsewhere, ...

California has become the focus of a battle over how companies should address the lack of diversity on their boards: Should they actively seek out directors who aren’t White males, or should they simply seek to treat all candidates equally? A Superior Court judge has ruled in favour of the latter approach, declaring unconstitutional a law requiring publicly traded companies ...

  W Somerset Maugham’s 1925 novel “The Painted Veil” features a harrowing description of a cholera outbreak in a provincial Chinese city. “The great city lay in terror; and death, sudden and ruthless, hurried through its tortuous streets … The people were dying at the rate of a hundred a day, and hardly any of those who were attacked by ...