DUBAI / WAM The Dubai Diamond Exchange (DDE) is open for business and ready to host regular activities, including tenders, in line with the easing of restrictions across the emirate, it was announced. In a statement, DDE said the facility where it is located, DMCC (the world’s flagship Free Zone and Government of Dubai Authority on commodities trade and enterprise), ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF’s) Virtual Session series came to an end with an interview with fashion journalist and author Hafsa Lodi about her new book Modesty: A Fashion Paradox. During the talk, titled ‘How Journalism, Social Media and Storytelling Combine in Modesty: A Fashion Paradox’, Lodi examined how the modest fashion trend has ...

Dubai / WAM The UAE Space Agency and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) held a digital signing ceremony on Monday to discuss the creation of an international UNOOSA project office in Abu Dhabi. The meeting comes in an effort to increase collaboration on the long-term sustainability of space activities and promote the use of space for ...

Bloomberg Extraction Oil & Gas Inc filed for bankruptcy with plans to hand ownership to its creditors, becoming the latest producer to succumb to the energy industry’s slump. Some of Extraction’s noteholders agreed to swap unsecured debt for equity, according to a statement. The Denver-based company sought court protection in Delaware after skipping a May 15 interest payment on its ...

Bloomberg South Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy took another step towards building a new nuclear-power program. The department issued a request for information for 2,500 megawatts of capacity, the ministry said in a statement. Submissions will close on September 15. “This will enable the department to gain insight into the cost of the program, possible ownership structures, cost ...

Dwight Eisenhower’s cultured despisers, whose number was less impressive than the number of electoral votes Eisenhower reaped (899 of a possible 1,062), complained that his grin was his political philosophy. Ronald Reagan, who remained a Democrat for 10 years after he cast his first Republican presidential vote, for Eisenhower in 1952 (Reagan later won 1,014 of a possible 1,076 electoral ...

It has been a while since I thought back to that week in 2012 when I received news that three close family members had been diagnosed with cancer — two in my household. Newly published figures on how Covid-19 has delayed cancer referrals and treatments brought the memory back. I’m grateful those cases didn’t arise in the middle of a ...

Protests across America have prompted discussion about the value of different types of political action. There is even debate about how useful voting is. Unfortunately, our political culture and (mostly non-existent) civics education do a really poor job of explaining the role of voting in the US and how it relates to democracy. Our political culture envisions voting as the ...

Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics briefly united the world in Anglophilia. The Britain celebrated there seemed amused, multicultural, cool — the Britain of the Beatles, the National Health Service, Shakespeare and Mr Bean. There was, however, one strong dissonant note: the moment when, as a camera follows the Queen’s supposed helicopter from Buckingham Palace to the ...

Bloomberg EasyJet Plc said a travel restart in the UK is lagging behind the rest of Europe because a 14-day quarantine for people arriving in Britain puts off would-be travellers from flying. The Luton, England-based carrier is seeing strong demand away from its home market, Chief Executive Officer Johan Lundgren said in a Bloomberg TV interview on Monday. EasyJet, which ...