Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and Edouard Philippe, Prime Minister of France, on Sunday attended the signing of a joint declaration between the UAE Space Agency and France’s Centre national d’etudes spatiales – the National Centre for Space Studies – CNES. The Declaration ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), in cooperation with Next Future Transportation, launched the first tests of world’s first autonomous pods on the sidelines of the World Government Summit. The step is part of RTA’s efforts under Dubai Future Accelerators initiatives. The autonomous pods are designed to travel short and medium distances in dedicated lanes. They ...

Dubai / WAM In the presence of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, United Nations Messenger of Peace and Chairperson of the International Humanitarian City (IHC), Princess Haya bint Al Hussein, wife of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, on Sunday launched the Humanitarian Logistics Databank, a ...

Dubai / WAM The final designs of the Hope Probe, the Arab World’s first interplanetary mission were unveiled on Sunday at the World Government Summit in Dubai. Details of the much-discussed Mars 2117 plan, which aims to create the first human settlement on Mars, and UAE’s astronaut programme, which will train Emiratis in space exploration, were also discussed. The Mohammed bin ...

Dubai / WAM Prominent thought leaders and experts discussed advancements in genome editing and biotechnology, along with their implications on society and healthcare in a series of sessions themed The Future of Health on day one of the sixth World Government Summit (WGS 2018), in Dubai. “Biotech is the transformative technology of the 21st century. We are not just understanding ...

Bloomberg A Russian plane with 71 people on board crashed in the Moscow region on Sunday and prosecutors said there were no survivors. The Saratov Airlines An-148 took off from Moscow’s Domodedovo airport at 2:21 p.m. local time (6:21 a.m. EST) headed for Orsk and disappeared from radar 7 minutes later, Sergey Izvolsky, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Authority, ...

Bloomberg Israel and Iran moved closer to confrontation in Syria as rising tensions erupted into the most serious standoff between the sides since the Syrian civil war began seven years ago. The Israeli military on Saturday said it struck 12 targets in Syria, including four belonging to Iran, in a “large-scale attack” after an Iranian drone penetrated its airspace. An ...

Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong Un deployed a new weapon at the Olympics to fight back against the Trump administration’s sanctions and threats of a preemptive strike against his nuclear program: His sister. Kim Yo Jong shook hands with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, cheered enthusiastically for a unified Korean team, and displayed a sense of humor in weekend ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump decried lives “being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation” at the end of a week that saw the departure of two White House aides amid accusations of domestic violence. “There is no recovery for someone falsely accused – life and career are gone,” Trump tweeted. “Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process?” ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump will appoint Nadia Schadlow to replace Dina Powell as his deputy national security adviser, according to an administration official familiar with the decision. Schadlow, currently a senior director of strategy on the president’s National Security Council, was a driving force behind the writing of the National Security Strategy, a voluminous document released in December that outlines ...