Abu Dhabi / WAM The International Fund for Houbara Conservation (IFHC) participated in the President’s Falconry Cup in Abu Dhabi, where it has held an awareness workshop for the falconers competing in this year’s championship. The workshop was organised as part of a seasonal program aligned with the Fund’s efforts to enhance the UAE’s role in wildlife conservation, sustainability and …

  Dubai / Emirates Business Al Ansari Exchange, the UAE-based foreign exchange and worldwide money transfer company, unveiled the winners of its Winter Promotion 2016 under the theme ‘Win Your Dream Home in Your Country’ held from November 1 to December 31, 2016. Mrs. Seba Dabik won the Grand Prize of a ‘dream home’ worth AED 400,000. Gold coins were …

  Dubai / WAM Twenty Japanese companies from the healthcare industry will join Japan pavilion at Arab Health exhibition at Dubai World Trade Centre. Japan will be promoting its top companies and manufacturers during the show from January 30 February 2. Masami Ando, Managing Director of Japan External Trade Organisation, JETRO Dubai and MENA noted that the participation of Japanese health …

AP Male and female styles mixed with US television and music stars at Paris Fashion Week on Sunday for the final installment of fall-winter menswear shows as the City of Light prepares to notch up a gear for Monday’s couture week. Here are the highlights: LANVIN STAYS EDGY Grey’s Anatomy star Jesse Williams in a woolen coat and stylish calfskin …

  AP Colorful fall-winter menswear shows in Paris mixed high culture, androgyny and streetwear, as Paris Jackson, the daughter of the late pop icon Michael Jackson, stepped out for the cameras at Givenchy’s library show— fittingly in the City of Light. PARIS IN PARIS The budding 18-year-old model and daughter of music royalty posed with a black Givenchy knit sweater …

  AP Shopping for jewelry for a loved one ahead of Valentine’s Day can be stressful. But learning some tricks should help anyone have an easier time finding the perfect gift. That means understanding a partner’s tastes, shopping at reputable jewelry stores and learning what the wording means in terms of how gemstones are graded. And there’s plenty of opportunity …

  WASHINGTON / AP President Donald Trump has barred all refugees from entering the United States for four months, and indefinitely halted any from Syria, saying the ban is needed to keep out “radical terrorists.” The order immediately suspended a program that last year resettled in the US roughly 85,000 people displaced by war, political oppression, hunger and religious prejudice. …

  Bloomberg A group of Republicans in the U.S. Senate is intensifying calls on President Donald Trump to keep sanctions on Russia in place ahead of his planned call with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin. Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio and others were responding to media reports that Trump administration officials are considering taking executive actions to lift sanctions imposed …

  BERLIN / AP German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that there’s no solution yet to the problem of how to fairly share the burden of migration in the European Union, an issue that has weighed on Berlin’s relations with other members of the 28-nation bloc ever since the migrant influx of 2015. The impasse has given ammunition to …

  WASHINGTON / AP Prime Minister Theresa May went to Washington, and President Donald Trump extended the hand of friendship. Literally. May left Washington after a 24-hour visit as Saturday’s British newspapers splashed front-page photos of the two leaders touching hands as they walked at the White House before a strikingly collegial news conference. May wanted her meeting, Trump’s first as …