Dubai / WAM The Dubai Municipality on Thursday honoured the winners of the fifth Innovations from Waste contest, which was organised by the Municipality’s Waste Management Department in co-operation with Dubai Educational Zone and the Knowledge and Human Development Authority. The winners were announced at a special ceremony held at the Children’s City in the Creek Park after a special ...

  Sharjah / WAM The Sharjah Department of Statistics and Community Development (DSCD) developed an e-application to help government entities identify different sectors of community for added social assistance. The announcement was made during the UAE Innovation Week, which runs from November 20-26, at the Expo Centre Sharjah. Set to be launched in the near future in collaboration with a software ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Rabdan Academy is participating in providing the latest scientific innovations in safety and security, emergency risk management, crisis management while providing lectures and practical training, during the Emirates Week for Innovation 2016, organised by the UAE government. The event includes a demonstration of the security devices and their latest technology with the participation of Ministry ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business In celebration of the UAE Innovation Week, the Secretariat of the Supreme Legislation Committee (SLC) held a ‘Reading Day’ recently as part of the national efforts to promote science, innovation and reading and place the UAE as one of the leading capitals in culture, knowledge and innovation. This move is part of a series ...

  Istanbul / AFP One year after the crisis that plunged relations between Russia and Turkey to a post-Cold War low, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have overseen a spectacular revival in ties at a time when both are facing new tensions with the West. The shooting down of a Russian military jet over the Syrian border by the ...

  Istanbul / AFP Two people were killed and 21 wounded on Thursday when a car bomb exploded outside a local government building in the southern Turkish city of Adana, the latest attack to rock Turkey this year. The bomb exploded in the car park of the governor’s office for the Adana region, the governorate said in a statement.The explosion ...

  Istanbul / AFP The Turkish army blamed the Syrian regime for an air strike on Thursday in northern Syria that killed three soldiers and wounded 10, it said in a statement. “In the air strike assessed to have been by Syrian regime forces, three of our heroic soldiers were killed and 10 soldiers wounded, one seriously,” said the statement ...

  Seoul / AFP A vote to impeach South Korea’s scandal-hit president could take place as early as next week, lawmakers said Thursday. A growing number of ruling party politicians have endorsed the opposition-led campaign to oust President Park Geun-Hye over the scandal involving her friend Choi Soon-Sil, who leveraged their mysterious ties in milking business companies for cash and peddling ...

  Beijing / AFP All residents in China’s restive region of Xinjiang must hand in their passports to local police stations for “examination and management”, the Global Times newspaper said Thursday. “Anyone who needs the passport must apply to the police station,” an anonymous police officer in Aksu prefecture told the paper, adding that the policy had been implemented throughout Xinjiang. ...

  Lagos / AFP Amnesty International on Thursday accused Nigeria’s security forces of killing at least 150 pro-Biafra protesters and injuring hundreds since August 2015. The army denied the charge. “This deadly repression of pro-Biafra activists is further stoking tensions in the southeast of Nigeria,” Amnesty warned in its report. “This reckless and trigger-happy approach to crowd control has caused at ...