DUBAI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, honoured 250 graduates of the UAE Government Leaders Programme at a special ceremony held on Sunday. The graduates included UAE citizens employed within more than 120 federal, local, and private sector institutions. “The real bet for ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD), issued a decision granting the capacity of judicial officers to 127 child protection specialists in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, empowering them to ascertain any violation of the provisions of ...

  DUBAI / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has completed the construction of the first stage of the Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) project for desalinated water and has started the operations and testing stage. The full scale of the ASR project can store up to 6,000 million imperial gallons of water once completed by 2025 as a ...

  DUBAI / WAM The Knowledge Summit is set to begin on Monday at the Expo 2020 Dubai, to examine the challenges to building a knowledge society. The summit has been organised by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation (MBRF) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The five-day summit, running under the theme ‘Knowledge: Protecting ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The Arab Youth Council on Climate Change (AYCCC), one of the initiatives of the Arab Youth Centre, and HSBC signed a memorandum of understanding to implement a “Sustainability Education” initiative, to train higher education students in the Arab world on climate action, build their capacities, and develop their skills in the sectors of sustainability and ...

  Sharjah / WAM Sharjah is gearing up to host the 49th edition of the Watch & Jewellery Middle East Show (WJMES), the largest event of its kind on the agenda of specialised trade fairs in the UAE and the region, from March 23-27. From the finest jewellery to hottest trends, latest products, special deals and accessories, the Watch & ...

  Bloomberg BP Plc is trying to block development of part of a giant wind farm in waters off England’s east coast, according to Denmark’s Orsted A/S. Both companies have secured rights to the seabed about 70 kilometres (44 miles) from the Yorkshire coast. Orsted, the world’s largest developer of offshore wind, is seeking to build a project using the ...

Bloomberg UK households face a 38 billion pounds ($50 billion) hit from a surge in electricity and gas costs exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Financial Times newspaper reported. The increase for the 2022-23 year will be equivalent to a six pence rise in the basic rate of income tax, it said, citing an estimate by Aurora Energy Research ...

The great Nato enlargement debate never ends. In the 1990s, US officials and academics argued about whether pushing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) into Eastern Europe was likely to sustain the post-Cold War peace or prematurely end it. More recently, critics have charged that Russia’s war in Ukraine is a natural response to the aggressive expansion of America’s most ...

We are now in Covid limbo. Cases are down and still falling, yet scientists aren’t willing to declare the pandemic over — or, conversely, to predict when the next wave might come. But perhaps it’s a good thing that public health officials are displaying a little less confidence. Researchers don’t really know why pandemic waves rise or fall, so it ...