Sharjah / WAM Khorfakkan will host a range of festivities, including headline performances from artists Eida Al Menhali and Diana Haddad at the Khorfakkan Amphitheater on December 3 as part of the UAE 51st National Day celebration. On this occasion, Rashid Khamis Obaid Al Naqbi, Head of the Khorfakkan Municipal Council, stated, “Our joy in our nation, the UAE, ...

  Abu Dhabi / Gulf Time Football fans flying with Etihad Airways during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 can watch every match live onboard while in the air on Etihad’s E-BOX entertainment channels Sport 24 and Sport 24 Extra. The live TV service is available onboard the airline’s fleet of wide-body aircraft connecting destinations in Europe, North America, Australia, ...

  Bloomberg Oneworld, the global airline alliance led by American Airlines Group Inc. and British Airways, is in discussions about bringing China Southern Airlines Co. into its ranks. China Southern is the nation’s largest airline with dual hubs in the capital Beijing and the southern city of Guangzhou, where it is headquartered. Bringing it into the oneworld alliance could provide ...

  Bloomberg Portugal’s state-owned airline TAP SA will cancel 360 flights during a two day cabin-crew strike scheduled for December 8-9 after the carrier failed to reach a new agreement with unions. “The cancellation of the flights is happening now,” Chief Executive Officer Christine Ourmieres-Widener said at a press conference in Lisbon on. The strike will affect about half of ...

Bloomberg Nike Inc. female workers who accuse the company of gender discrimination failed to persuade a federal magistrate they should be allowed to join together to sue the athletic shoe maker as a group. Magistrate Judge Jolie A. Russo in Portland, Oregon, recommended that the women’s request for class-action status be denied, but her findings were sealed from public view, ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG is evaluating a solo bid for Alitalia successor ITA Airways after talks between the Italian government and other potential suitors collapsed, according to people with the matter. The German airline group is looking through ITA’s data room and could make a bid to acquire the carrier on its own, said the people, asking not to ...

  Bloomberg Arrive at the airport early — the Thanksgiving travel rush is back. More people are traveling through US airports in the pre-holiday period than in 2019, according to the TSA. On November 22, 2,299,346 people were screened in security in American airports versus 1,968,137 passengers on the comparable day in 2019. The travel figures were higher as well, ...

  Bloomberg The CEO of Walmart US, John Furner, says there is not currently “any reason to believe there is a continued threat to our Chesapeake store or any other Walmart facility” following the mass shooting at a store in Virginia. Details are still emerging, Furner said in a statement posted to the Walmart blog. Authorities confirmed six fatalities before ...

Bloomberg Rishi Sunak faces another delicate Brexit decision after he was asked by senior civil servants to delay a planned “bonfire” of legislation dating from the UK’s membership of the European Union. The request by officials to shift the current 2023 deadline to remove some 4,000 EU laws from the British statute books by three years is a headache for ...

  Bloomberg Germany’s defense minister dismissed a surprise request from Poland to station surface-to-air Patriot missiles in western Ukraine, saying such a deployment would have to be agreed by Nato. The request, disclosed late on Wednesday in a post on Twitter by Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak, came just days after the countries struck an air-defense deal that would see ...