BUDAPEST / WAM The Organising Committee of the Hungary Masters 2023 judo championship has approved the participation of an Emirati team comprising four male competitors and one female competitor. The Emirati judokas will compete in five categories, which are 52 kilogrammes (kg) for women, 66 kg and 81 kg for men, and under 100 kg and over 100 kg for ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) has begun issuing licenses to owners and breeders of livestock to regulate grazing and all related activities in Abu Dhabi. This is part of efforts to protect natural rangelands and promote sustainable traditional grazing practices. The licensing policy has been introduced to ensure the recovery of vegetation cover and ...

ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidential Court, have sent a message of congratulations to Marcel Ciolacu on the occasion of his appointment as ...

BLOOMBERG Concerns about a lackluster economy and slowing growth among some of the country’s biggest companies sent Singapore’s stock benchmark on track to close at its lowest level since early November. The benchmark Straits Times Index fell as much as 0.7%, before trimming some of those losses. The gauge, which is down about 3.4% this year, comes as investors move ...

BLOOMBERG US stocks slipped after hiring data remained high enough to quash speculation the Federal Reserve would leave interest rates unchanged later this month. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 are on track to end the week lower after data showed a still-resilient labour market, but one that was less robust than implied by the private payrolls report. Tempering any ...

ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan today made a phone call to Santiago Peña, President-Elect of the Republic of Paraguay, to congratulate him on his recent election win. His Highness Sheikh Mohamed wished Peña every success in leading Paraguay and its people to ongoing progress and development, and expressed his hope that the two leaders ...

DUBAI / GULF TIME Carter & White, renowned specialists in luxury clothing and accessories, is thrilled to announce the grand opening of its first international store in the prestigious and picturesque city of Porto Cervo, Sardinia, Italy. This milestone marks a significant expansion for the brand, showcasing its commitment to delivering exquisite craftsmanship to a global clientele. A strategy soon ...

BLOOMBERG Rivian Automotive Inc is ready to take on more commercial partners beyond Amazon.com Inc after a recent bout of production success. “What we saw in Q2 is really the beginnings of the supply chain now running in a healthy way,” Chief Executive Officer RJ Scaringe said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. Rivian sells a consumer pickup truck and ...

BLOOMBERG Meta Platforms Inc’s Instagram officially unveiled Threads, an app designed as a direct rival to Twitter, launching the most serious threat yet to Elon Musk’s struggling social-media site. On Threads, people can post text and links and reply to or repost messages from others. The app will let users port over their existing follower lists and account names from ...

VIENNA / WAM COP28 President-Designate, Dr Sultan Al Jaber, on Thursday delivered a speech to the 8th Opec International Seminar, being held this week in Vienna, in which he urged the oil and gas industry to allocate capital at scale to clean energy solutions. The theme of the seminar “Towards a Sustainable and Inclusive Energy Transition” represents “one of the ...