WASHINGTON / WAM The UAE Embassy in Washington has launched a new campaign “50 Years | 50 Faces,” honouring the country’s 50th anniversary and telling the story of the UAE’s friendship with the US across five decades. The groundbreaking campaign is part of the UAE’s “Year of the 50th” celebration, which is taking place through March 2022. The celebration will ...

Dubai / WAM In the presence of His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, Chairman of Dubai Airports and Chairman and Chief Executive of Emirates Airline and Group, FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. and the world’s largest express transportation company, has signed an agreement with Dubai South to build its new ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union (GWU), President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation (FDF), and the “Mother of the Nation”, congratulated the UAE leadership and people on the occasion of the UAE Flag Day, which is observed on November 3 ...

Dubai / WAM The Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Tom de Bruijn, arrived in the UAE on Tuesday, leading a 50 Dutch company representatives. The minister wants to “make new partners for solving global challenges and deepen relations with existing partners in the UAE and broader Gulf region,” a press release by the Consulate General of the ...

Two and a half months since the fall of Kabul, the international community has yet to figure out how to stop Afghanistan’s new masters from imposing harsh restrictions on women’s freedoms. Yet one shift in the way negotiators handle their dealings with the Taliban would go a long way toward holding the regime accountable. Having promised to make the Taliban ...

“I don’t even know what is going on,” President Vladimir Putin complained to ministers last month, exasperated that even “well-educated people, with higher degrees” continue to refuse Russia’s Covid-19 vaccination. “Why wait for the disease and its severe consequences?” For an administration obsessed with demographics, scientific reputation and global status, the blow has been devastating. With far too few citizens ...

After decades of sustaining a relatively modest nuclear arsenal, China is moving swiftly to build more and better doomsday weapons. The trend would be dangerous at any time. But given the precipitous decline in relations with the US, a catastrophe is becoming all too likely. Both sides need to restore stability to this relationship before the world faces a devastating ...

Ten years of extend and pretend over the Monte Paschi crisis are coming home to roost. Talks for a sale of the troubled 500-year-old lender — nationalised in 2017 — collapsed on October 24. That’s when the Italian state apparently balked at the some 7 billion-euro ($8.1 billion) capital injection that Milan-based UniCredit SpA demanded to take on the troubled ...

Bloomberg President Emmanuel Macron backed away from his imminent threat to punish the UK for restricting the access of French fishing boats to British waters, saying he would give negotiations more time. “The British are going to come back to us tomorrow with further proposals. We’ll see where we are at the end of the day,” Macron told reporters in ...

Bloomberg Ceasefire violations are steadily intensifying in war-ravaged eastern Ukraine as reports increase that Russia is building up its military forces across the border of the former Soviet satellite nation. There were almost 1,000 violations of the agreement to cease hostilities in Ukraine’s Donetsk region between the evenings of October 29 and October 31, according to the Organisation for Security ...