Abu Dhabi / WAM As part of the road safety campaign, the Abu Dhabi Police (ADP) urged pedestrians to respect road safety rules by only crossing at allocated places, as well as use bridges and tunnels and follow pedestrian light signals at crossroads that operate in conjunction with traffic lights. The ADP also warned about risks posed by crossing roads ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM A new research finding on radiation will support the UAE’s ambitious project to build the first human settlement on Mars by 2117, a scientist told Emirates News Agency (WAM). “Radiation is one of the biggest roadblocks in planning long-term space missions, especially the project to establish a human presence on Mars [UAE’s Mars 2117 project],” said ...

With tensions between the US and China heating up, there are increasing calls for expelling or barring Chinese nationals from US universities and corporations. Whatever the national security justification for these moves, policy makers should be aware of the potential downsides — loss of economic vitality, and the potential for a wave of racial discrimination. Over the past few years, ...

As the financial behemoths of Wall Street and the City of London reassess how they’ll operate in the post-pandemic world (assuming we get there), change is certain. Even with Covid-19 in check, staff working away from an office building will no longer be an exception. Banks will be thinking about saving on their huge urban real-estate costs, and employees about ...

The much-anticipated US jobs report answered some important questions about the state of the labour market. Yet by also leaving some important issues outstanding, it will not serve as the much needed outside catalyst to resolve both the policy stalemate on Capitol Hill and the increasingly visible tug-of-war in financial markets. The narrow message of the jobs report came through ...

All things green tech are seeing the light of day as the global economy digs its way out of the pandemic slump. Valuations have been skyrocketing, with makers of electric cars and solar glass panels the stocks du jour. But there’s room for skepticism. Dubbed the Green-Shaped Recovery, the trend is projected to draw trillions of dollars of funding for ...

Bloomberg Chinese authorities delayed renewing the press credentials of some journalists working for American media outlets, including Bloomberg News, CNN and the Wall Street Journal, in response to the Trump administration limiting visa terms for Chinese reporters in the US. The journalists in Beijing were told their residence permits will at this stage be extended until November 6, which appears ...

Bloomberg Three of the Belarusian opposition’s top organisers were reported missing on Monday, the day after tens of thousands joined protests in the country’s capital that kept up pressure on President Alexander Lukashenko to hold new elections. Contact with Maria Kalesnikava, one of the few leading opposition figures still in Belarus, has been lost, as well as with two other ...

Bloomberg Two of Boris Johnson’s senior ministers laid bare the competing pressures facing the UK government as it attempts to drag the economy out of its worst recession in at least a century without triggering a new wave of coronavirus infections. Hours after Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab reiterated the government’s push to “get people back to work” and lamented the ...

Bloomberg Democrat Joe Biden holds a 10-point lead over President Donald Trump two months before the November 3 election, with support for each candidate getting more solid as voting day approaches, a new CBS News poll shows. Among the survey’s findings were that four in 10 Democrats say Biden isn’t campaigning enough; half of independents agree. The top issue for ...