Dubai / WAM Emirates is connecting global business and leisure travellers with it’s first-ever passenger service between Dubai and Miami. The airline celebrated the inaugural flight of its four times a week service when it touched down in Miami at 1100hrs local time. Emirates flight EK213 was welcomed by Miami International Airport with a water cannon salute, and drew in ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi International Hunting and Equestrian Exhibition (Adihex) and ‘The Game Fair’ in the United Kingdom signed a promising multi-range joint partnership between the two leading events. Under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Ruler’s Representative of Al Dhafra Region and Chairman of Emirates Falconers’ Club (EFC), Adihex 18th edition will ...

Bloomberg FirstEnergy Corp surged the most in more than five months after the Ohio utility reached an agreement with federal prosecutors over a corruption case involving a $1 billion state bailout for nuclear power plants. Under a deferred-prosecution agreement, FirstEnergy admitted that it conspired with public officials and others to pay millions of dollars in bribes. The company agreed to ...

Bloomberg China needs to accelerate its build-out of energy sources such as nuclear and pumped-hydro to stave off worsening power crunches in its industrial centres, according to a government-backed think tank. Some of the big cities that have recently suffered power outages when summer demand for air-conditioning peaks are likely to see widening shortfalls in energy supply, according to the ...

Things aren’t exactly settling down along the US border with Mexico, with the US Border Patrol reporting 178,416 apprehensions in the Southwest in June, its highest monthly total since early 2000. Emergency rules adopted early in the Covid-19 pandemic that allow for the immediate expulsion of most unauthorised border crossers and people who arrive at the border seeking asylum have ...

Pandemics don’t cause riots. They do, though, create the perfect conditions for turmoil in fragile societies that are already powder kegs of inequality and sky-high unemployment, and where coronavirus has inevitably hit the poor hardest. South Africa’s days of unrest this month, the worst violence since apartheid, were triggered by the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma on contempt-of-court charges. ...

Salesforce.com Inc helped Zoom Video Communications Inc get off to a good start when it invested in the startup’s IPO roughly two years ago. But with the videoconferencing company now looming as a serious threat in cloud software, Salesforce may regret its initial support. Zoom announced an agreement to acquire cloud call-center software maker Five9 Inc for $14.7 billion in ...

It’s good to see that some US politicians are still working on fixing the country’s broken healthcare system. Proposals from Senator Bernie Sanders had some very promising elements, though also some less helpful ones. Unfortunately, it seems that the only piece of his plan likely to make it into the final spending bill is the least helpful part: the expansion ...

Bloomberg Singapore Airlines Ltd’s Indian joint venture expects the last four Dreamliners from its Boeing order to arrive by October 2022, a delay of up to seven months as the US planemaker addresses flaws with the jet and the pandemic weighs on air travel. Vistara, which Singapore Airlines jointly owns with conglomerate Tata Group, has received two Boeing 787 Dreamliners ...

Bloomberg UK retail sales surged unexpectedly in June as consumers spent more in grocery stores to celebrate European championship soccer, adding momentum to the economic recovery. The volume of goods sold in shops and online rose 0.5% from the month before, the Office for National Statistics said. Economists had expected a 0.1% drop. The figures followed an unprecedented jump in ...