Emirates Business A Dubai Cares delegation led by Chief Executive Officer, Tariq Al Gurg visited Ethiopia for the closing of Dubai Cares’ Home Grown School Feeding (HGSF) program. The program, launched in September 2015, is a component of the philanthropic organization’s wider Enhanced School Health Initiative (ESHI) pilot program that is being implemented by the World Food Program ...

  For 32 years, a group of Republican and Democratic foreign-policy experts has gathered here each summer to debate strategic issues facing the country. This year the bipartisan group had a strange imbalance: None of the Republicans was prepared to argue the case of the GOP nominee, Donald Trump. Trump would probably be pleased to know that he failed to ...

  Donald Trump did it again. He kicked up yet another controversy. This time over his reckless comments interpreted by some as a threat of violence against presidential campaign rival Hillary Clinton. Trump comment at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, about ‘Second Amendment people’ stopping a President Hillary Clinton from appointing judges has been blasted. He accused Hillary Clinton ...

  Vivint Solar was on fire. Think of this as a sudden flare rather than the start of a long, balmy afternoon, though. There’s no doubt the distributed solar-power company’s second-quarter results, released on Monday, took the market by storm. But context is all, and you don’t have to go back too far in Vivint’s history to get that context. ...

  It’s hard to overstate the amount of money that has been rushing into the debt of developing nations. The biggest exchange-traded fund focused on emerging-markets bonds has almost doubled its assets this year, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Dollar-denominated debt of developing economies is poised for its best annual return since 2009. Yields on the debt have dropped to ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE offered AED4.34 billion (US$1.2 billion) in foreign aid to Yemen from April 2015 to July 2016 as part of its humanitarian and development aid to support the Yemeni people and its ongoing efforts to lay down the foundations for development, security, stability and peace in the Arab Republic of Yemen. The massive foreign aid ...

  Dubai / WAM Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) honoured sectors, agencies, firms and individuals selected as winners of the 7th RTA Safety Award 2015. The award, which is presented annually and recognises the best safety practices of all RTA processes, aims to honour the best consultant, ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM In a first in UAE, a team of doctors at Mafraq Hospital in Abu Dhabi succeeded in removing 15 cancerous tumours from the lungs of a young man in an eight-hour surgery that followed chemotherapy for several weeks. The size of the eradicated tumours ranged between 0.8 cm and 8 cm. Doctors did not have to remove ...

  Dubai / WAM The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) on Wednesday announced that 19 UAE national undergraduates engaged in scientific exploration at its research laboratories as part of its Ektashif summer programme this year. The Ektashif Summer 2016 programme offered undergraduates majoring in science, engineering or information technology, an opportunity to experience the advanced technology environment at Masdar ...

  Sharjah / WAM The Big Heart Foundation (TBHF) a Sharjah-based humanitarian charity dedicated to helping refugees and people in need worldwide, is funding a medical clinic at the Zaatari camp in Jordan which when completed, will provide refugees living there 24-hour access to essential healthcare services. Launched in collaboration with the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR, and the Jordan Health ...