ABU DHABI / WAM Ali Mohammed Alblooshi, Attorney-General of the emirate of Abu Dhabi, received in his office Stefan Blatler, Attorney-General of Switzerland; Massimo Badji, ambassador of Switzerland to the UAE; and the accompanying delegation. The meeting discussed opportunities for cooperation between the Abu Dhabi Public Prosecution Office and the Swiss Public Prosecution Office and the means to develop the ...

ABU DHABI / WAM In commemoration of the 50-year anniversary of the longstanding diplomatic relationship between the UAE and the Republic of Malta, the Louvre Abu Dhabi announced two remarkable loans from the National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta, Malta, and Musée du Louvre in Paris. For the first time in more than 240 years, a pair of ornamental pillars, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT) and First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) on Thursday entered a partnership by signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the sidelines of the ‘Make it in the Emirates Forum’. Themed “Investment, Sustainability, Growth”, the forum takes place at the Abu Dhabi Energy Centre in Abu Dhabi from May ...

VIENNA / WAM The Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) is co-chairing this week the Open-Ended Meeting of Technical and Legal Experts for Sharing Information on States’ Implementation of the Code of Conduct on the Safety and Security of Radioactive Sources, which is being organised by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Austria. More than 270 legal and technical ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) has participated as a strategic partner in the second edition of the “Make it in the Emirates” forum focussed on “Investment, Sustainability, and Growth.” As one of the most significant industrial gatherings in the UAE, as well as the wider Middle East and North Africa region, the forum brought together ...

ABU DHABI / WAM HH Lt General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, presided over the meeting of the Ministry of Interior’s (MoI) Happiness and Positivity Council at the ministry’s headquarters. The session commenced with a thorough review of the Government Services Observatory findings. Mohammed bin Taliah, the Head of Government Services ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA), organised by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC), part of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), is welcoming submissions to its 18th edition and will be receiving submissions from June to October 1. This year, the award will receive submissions across ten categories, ...

DUBAI / WAM The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) on Thursday  announced that two ham radio sessions with astronaut Sultan AlNeyadi from the International Space Station (ISS), under the “A Call from Space” event were successfully completed over the course of two days, in collaboration with the Emirates Amateur Radio Society (EARS) and Emirates Literature Foundation (ELF). Ham radio, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE’s various industrial zones have a critical role to play in the country’s sustainable industrial development and broader economic prospects, according to the leaders of several major national industrial zones. Speaking at the second Make in the Emirates Forum on Thursday, Mohamed Al Khadar Al Ahmed, CEO of the Khalifa Economic Zones Abu Dhabi (Kezad) ...

BLOOMBERG Deutsche Lufthansa AG is about to embark on a tough journey to pull off a quick turnaround of Alitalia’s successor ITA Airways and overcome two decades of constant losses. Lufthansa agreed to buy a minority stake in ITA, and its executives think they can succeed where other managers failed: wringing a profit from the airline that long flew the ...