Dubai / WAM The Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, through the Sheikh Zayed Housing Programme, has announced the delivery of newly constructed homes to 1,726 UAE nationals across the emirates of Dubai, Ras Al Khaimah and Ajman. Suhail bin Mohammed Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, said that the programme will continue offering eligible Emirati citizens keys to their ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Maktaba, the library management department of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), on Sunday opened its Art Hub exhibition at the Khalifa Park Library (KPL), which will be on display until November 25. Featuring multimedia works spanning visual arts, crafts and design, created by 24 UAE-based emerging artists, the exhibition ...

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Etihad Airways has announced the launch of flights to the holy city of Medina from November 27. Medina will be served three times weekly from Abu Dhabi using a modern two-class Airbus A321. Fatma Al Mehairi, Vice President Sales UAE at Etihad Airways, said: “We look forward to reconnecting Abu Dhabi with Medina, a city ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 287,876 additional Covid-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement, the ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out the necessary treatment. As part ...

Dubai / WAM Sao Paulo’s Trade Promotion Office in Dubai, which opened a few months ago, made a “great impact” in terms of trade and investment relations between the Brazilian state and the Middle East, the state’s top official told Emirates News Agency (WAM). “Well, the impact (of Dubai office) is great and very positive. We started a new business ...

The world’s air carriers are preparing their cabins for take-off. After 18 months in which passenger planes were laid up in desert boneyards, converted into makeshift medical-supplies freighters, and even flown on short return hops just to maintain their pilots’ certifications, the machinery of the global aviation industry is gradually creaking back into life. Emirates, the biggest carrier by international ...

The supply-chain crisis is driving a wedge through Big Tech. Earlier this week, Microsoft Corp. and Google parent Alphabet Inc. posted robust earnings results, as their software and internet-focused business models allowed them to avoid much of the supply-chain headwinds affecting other industries. But Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc showed how vulnerable they were to the supply-chain mess. And it ...

For five decades, international environmental meetings have been riven by a north-south divide. While the rich nations of the global north have led calls to rein in emissions, their less affluent counterparts have largely remained on the sidelines. The Kyoto Protocol was in essence a treaty between the wealthy Group of Seven nations, the former Soviet Union, Australia and New ...

It doesn’t matter whether Russia couldn’t, or wouldn’t, boost natural gas supplies to Europe in recent weeks. Either way it has undermined its claim to be a reliable supplier. It’s also boosted the case for its most important customers to reduce their dependence on Moscow-controlled supplies and boost domestic renewable energy sources. The well-documented shortage of natural gas currently being ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE boosted its financial targets for the second time this year while confirming a production ramp-up that would cement the European planemaker’s advantage over Boeing Co. The shares rose as much as 3.2% after Airbus said adjusted operating profit will reach $5.2 billion in 2021. The company reversed some of the charges it took for Covid-19 disruptions as ...