Abu Dhabi / WAM Tadweer, the Center of Waste Management, Abu Dhabi, implemented a social awareness initiative for citizens who were granted new residential units as per the President’s recent decree. Tadweer representatives were present at the Abu Dhabi Municipality during the handing over of keys to the new owners in order to educate them on maintaining proper cleanliness, public ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Cisco announced that Smartworld, an Etisalat and Dubai South joint venture company, has deployed the Cisco Digital Ceiling framework to create a smart, highly secure and connected indoor space at its new headquarters in Dubai South. The implementation brings together Cisco’s secure IT network with an advanced LED connected lighting system from Philips Lighting to enable ...

Dubai / Emirates Business As part of its efforts to support creative and commercially-minded youth and to help them turn their business ideas into reality, the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry initiative, Tejar Dubai entrepreneurship development programme, launched three commercial projects. These include ‘Video Tube’, offering services in marketing and digital media; Redjani‘E-Shop’ for trading online; and ‘Etihad OS’, ...

REUTERS Kuwait’s Jazeera Airways said on its major shareholder had no current plans to divest its stake in the airline. The carrier was responding to press reports that Boodai Corporation, an investment holding conglomerate, hired HSBC Bank Middle East Limited to advise it on a possible stake sale. Sources had confirmed this to Reuters early last week. Jazeera Airways’ major ...

Istanbul / AFP Turkish authorities on Saturday raced to set up reception centres to process Syrian and other migrants two days ahead of the implementation of a hugely controversial deal with the EU for them to be sent back from Greece to Turkish soil. Turkey is due to start receiving migrants who crossed the Aegean Sea for EU member Greece ...

Bloomberg President Barack Obama said he was concerned that crackdowns against the press by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could lead his nation down a “troubling” path. The comments, which represented a rare pointed critique of the leader of a NATO ally, came the day after Turkish security officials clashed with protesters and reporters before Erdogan delivered a speech in ...

Bloomberg The Argentine government is asking China to revise a nuclear reactor accord signed by the previous administration as it seeks uranium providers from the US ahead of resuming output, two people with knowledge of the situation said. China is open to amending dam and nuclear energy contracts that it signed with the previous Argentine government administration, La Nacion reported. ...

Bloomberg President Barack Obama said recent statements by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump about letting South Korea and Japan have their own nuclear arsenals demonstrate he doesn’t know much about foreign policy “or the world generally.” Trump has suggested he’d be willing to overturn decades of US security policy by considering withdrawing US troops from Japan and South Korea if ...

United Nations / AFP The UN Security Council unanimously backed a resolution that lays the groundwork for deploying a UN police presence in Burundi to help quell nearly a year of violence. Drafted by France, the resolution tasks UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with drawing up within 15 days a list of options for the proposed police force, in consultation with ...

Bloomberg Azerbaijan stepped up attacks against Armenians in a disputed region of South Caucasus on Saturday, using artillery, tanks and air raids. One child was killed and two others wounded. The attacks, targeting civilian areas and military units across the contact line of Nagorno-Karabakh, came in response to Armenian shelling of Azeri areas, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said on its website. ...