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Expo 2020: Adnoc grants 6-day paid leave to staff

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) announced on Saturday, a special six-day paid leave for all its employees across the Adnoc Group to enable them and their families to visit Expo 2020 Dubai, in line with the directives of the Abu Dhabi Government. The leave can be used at any time during Expo 2020, which ...

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Sheikh Khalifa issues decree to adopt UAE’s 10 principles for next 50 years

ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has issued decree No. 15 for 2021 on the adoption of UAE’s 10 principles for the next 50 years. The decree stipulates that all ministries, federal and local government authorities, and institutions in the country should adhere to these principles and use them as guidelines in all ...

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Emirates Mars Mission shares unique new images of Mars

Dubai / WAM The Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation, Saturday released unique new images of Mars that challenge existing conception of how the planet’s atmospheric gases behave and interact. Taken by the Mars Hope probe’s EMUS instrument, the observations show dramatic variations in the concentrations of both atomic oxygen and carbon monoxide in ...

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Dubai Customs shares business model, latest practices with Senegal team

Dubai / WAM Dubai Customs received a delegation from Senegal headed by Habdul Rahman Diyay, Director-General of Senegal’s Customs. The visit aimed at learning about Dubai Customs’ business model and the latest practices they follow in processing transactions and implementing advanced inspection systems. Ahmed Mahboob Musabih, CEO of Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation, Director-General of Dubai Customs, and the ...

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International travel is starting to recover now

International travel is finally starting to recover from the Covid-19 slump. As of August, demand for cross-border flights was still down about 69% relative to 2019 levels, according to the International Air Transport Association. But that marked a notable improvement from the prior month — the sixth straight, in fact. That’s despite a wave of Covid-19 linked to the Delta ...

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Johnson’s housing issues not over yet

For a week that ended with a crowd-pleasing speech from the Conservative Party leader but little new policy substance, there was one notable exception. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government seems to have done a U-turn on its controversial “once in a generation” reforms to Britain’s house-building plan announced in August 2020. Whatever comes from the policy rethink will have ...

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A shade of Evergrande in UK’s energy crisis

Barely a week goes by without a UK electricity and gas supplier being toppled by soaring commodity prices. Millions of British customers face an unsettling wait to learn if their power provider will survive, who’ll take over their contract, and whether their energy bills will increase. Britain’s energy regulator Ofgem — the Office of Gas and Electricity Management — has ...

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Will the US Supreme Court bail out Trump?

Will the Supreme Court save the Republican Party from Donald Trump? Congress is finally starting to pick up the pace of its investigations into the events of January 6, and more broadly into the efforts by then-president Trump to subvert the 2020 election. A Senate committee has reported in detail on Trump’s efforts to improperly influence the Justice Department, and ...

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Tata wins control of Air India again with $2.4 billion offer

Bloomberg Tata Sons Pvt was selected as the winning bidder for India’s flag carrier, ending decades of attempts to privatise a money-losing and debt-laden airline, and potentially ending years of taxpayer-bailouts that’s kept the company alive. Tata Sons, which originally launched Air India Ltd with a namesake branding in 1932, bid 180 billion rupees ($2.4 billion) as an enterprise value ...

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