Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, President of Mali, witnessed the signing ceremony between the Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development and the Malian Government represented by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, on Saturday in Abu ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MOFAIC) on Saturday announced at Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2019 the launch of the third cycle of the $50 million UAE-Caribbean Renewable Energy Fund (CREF), with funding allocated to projects delivered in Jamaica, Cuba, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago. Fully financed by Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), ...

DUBAI / WAM Emirates announced adjustments to its operational schedules in 2019 to minimise the impact of the closure of Dubai International Airport’s Southern Runway between April 16 and May 30, and to respond to global travel demand trends. Sir Tim Clark, President Emirates Airline, said, “The changes we are implementing to our network schedules in 2019 are in line ...

Aden / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) teams have started rehabilitation of seven schools in Yemen as part of the UAE developmental and aid programmes during the Year of Tolerance. In continuation of the Year of Zayed initiatives, the new projects include revamping seven schools: Al Wahda, in Al Seimen; Tarek bin Zayed, in Al Shujeirah; Al Fajr, in ...

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), the leading national entity for international development aid, on Saturday signed a $10 million concessionary loan agreement with the Government of Mauritius to fund a solar photovoltaic (PV) kits project. As announced at the eighth session of the Irena Assembly in January 2018, the project that aims to provide ...

Bloomberg The US hasn’t begun withdrawing troops from Syria, the Pentagon said in the military’s most extensive comments yet as questions about President Donald Trump’s timeline and strategy for pulling troops from the eight-year conflict there continue to fuel confusion. “We have taken a number of logistical measures to support an ordered withdrawal,” Commander Sean Robertson, a Defense Department spokesman, ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump lashed out on Saturday following a New York Times report that the FBI had opened a probe in 2017 to determine if the president had been working, knowingly or unknowingly, on behalf of Russia. In a series of early-morning tweets Trump said that the agency had opened a probe “for no reason and with no proof, after ...

Bloomberg Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, the fugitive son of former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, supports holding presidential elections as soon as possible, a representative said, criticising the United Nations envoy to Libya for his proposal to hold the vote only by year-end. “Any delay creates more problems,” Mohamed al-Qailoushi, an aide to Saif al-Islam, said by phone. “The only solution is ...

Bloomberg Two powerful regional parties announced they will fight elections together in India’s most populous state, threatening Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s bid to retain power in federal elections due by May. Mayawati, leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party and Akhilesh Yadav, head of the Samajwadi Party, jointly said they will together contest 38 each of the 80 parliamentary seats in ...

Bloomberg Sweden is nearing an end to a record-long political stalemate after Social Democratic leader Stefan Lofven struck a deal across the aisle to remain in power and deny influence to the country’s growing nationalist party. The accord comes after four months of tumultuous talks, but risks raising the ire of voters who demanded change in an election that handed ...