Brussels /AFP The EU warned Turkey on Wednesday that “backsliding” on rights after a coup attempt was putting its membership bid at risk and urged Ankara to decide whether or not to commit. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan however hit back at the “shameless” European Union and challenged it in return to make a final choice on Turkey’s long-stalled application ...

  Denpasar / AFP An Australian woman and her British boyfriend went on trial on Wednesday accused of beating a policeman to death on a popular beach on the Indonesian resort island of Bali. David Taylor and Sara Connor appeared separately in court accused of murdering Balinese policeman Wayan Sudarsa, whose battered body was found on Kuta beach in August. ...

  London / AFP Political novice and former reality TV star Donald Trump has defeated Hillary Clinton to take the US presidency, stunning America and the world in an explosive upset fueled by a wave of grassroots anger. The Republican mogul immediately pledged to unite a deeply divided nation. But global markets had already plunged into turmoil and the long-standing ...

  Marrakesh / AFP Stunned participants at UN climate talks in Marrakesh insisted on Wednesday that climate change denier Donald Trump cannot derail the global shift to clean energy, although some called his victory in US presidential elections a “disaster”. Trump “cannot prevent the implementation” of the landmark Paris pact, inked in the French capital last December, said Segolene Royal, ...

  Brussels / AFP Vladimir Putin was the first global leader to welcome Donald Trump’s stunning election victory, which left much of the rest of the world anxious at the prospect of the businessman and reality-TV star at the helm of the world’s biggest economy and most powerful military. Putin sent a congratulatory telegram to Trump, and said later at ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Oil companies that invest during the current downturn in oil prices stand to profit the most when supply and demand comes back into balance, according to the UAE’s Energy Minister, His Excellency Suhail Mohamed Faraj Al Mazrouei. Speaking on the sidelines of His Excellency’s Q&A discussion at ADIPEC’S VIP Programme on the UAE’s future ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Germany’s oil and gas producer Wintershall has spudded the first offshore well at Abu Dhabi’s sour gas and condensate field Shuwaihat, it said. Wintershall successfully completed the first onshore drilling at Shuwaihat together with its partner ADNOC and the Austrian OMV in July, 2015. After compiling and analyzing the data from the onshore field SH-5, Wintershall ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Turbine Services & Solutions Industrial, TS&S Industrial, today announced it has expanded new capabilities for the repair and overhaul of the Siemens Industrial Trent 60 WLE variant. The new services have established TS&S Industrial as the first independently owned, specialised and independent maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider with the capability to support the Industrial Trent ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM ADNOC, Abu Dhabi’s integrated oil and gas company, said on Wednesday it will make significant investments in new projects to further increase its refining capability and expand its petrochemicals business over the next five years – as part of its recently announced ‘2030 Strategy’. The new projects will focus on gasoline and aromatics production and additional ...

  Gregg Petersen special to emirates business We’ve all heard about fantastic new data centre technologies, but all too often it looks like these technologies only seem to apply to the largest organizations with a wealth of centralized resources. Because data doesn’t just live in the data centre, we often face daily challenges when data is put to use in ...