Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi’s digital economy will be boosted through the launch of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud infrastructure region in the UAE, as part of the Abu Dhabi Investment Office’s (ADIO) efforts to attract investments that build technology capabilities. The arrival of the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region in the first half of 2022 will accelerate cloud ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM In a step that confirms the UAE global position as a regional and global hub for digital economy and digital transformation, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that it will open data centres in the UAE in the first half of 2022. Through its data centres, AWS will provide a variety of innovative services and solutions for ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Wizz Air Abu Dhabi, the newest national airline of the United Arab Emirates, will fly two times per week from the UAE capital to one of Greece’s most stunning travel destinations: the island of Santorini. With Greece and the United Arab Emirates having opened a travel corridor earlier in May, vaccinated travellers can visit the alluring ...

Moscow / WAM The Director-General of Emirates News Agency (WAM), Mohammed Jalal Al Rayssi, met Maya Manna, the Editor-in-Chief of RT Arabic, in the Russian capital, Moscow. The meeting, held at the RT Arabic headquarters, is part of WAM’s keenness to develop cooperation with Russian media institutions and exchange experiences between the two sides. Al Rayssi highlighted the importance of ...

More than 85% of the world’s central banks are working on central bank digital currencies, according to the Bank for International Settlements. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has already implemented a digital yuan, and the European Central Bank (ECB) wants to launch a digital euro by 2025. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that the central bank will launch ...

Everybody loves the Olympic Games. Except when you’re the host nation in the middle of a pandemic. Unfortunately for Japan’s government, it’s not really up to them to decide whether the Games of the 32nd Olympiad get cancelled. While Tokyo could theoretically pull the plug right now — two months from the rescheduled start date — the city is contractually ...

Ocean conservation was once a goal for Democrats and Republicans alike. In Congress, they collaborated to ensure that US fisheries would be sustainably managed, to protect imperiled marine creatures by banning the use of driftnets and shark finning, and to set aside large areas of the ocean for special protection. While he was president, George HW Bush designated six National ...

The double standards defense is the Kremlin’s go-to device whenever it’s accused of wrongdoing: “You Westerners have no moral right to point fingers because you do it too.” It’s telling that Russia has unfolded the double standards umbrella over Belarussian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, who on May 23 scrambled a fighter jet to land a Ryanair Holdings Plc plane in Minsk ...

Bloomberg Mexico’s aviation-safety ranking has been downgraded by the US, prohibiting an expansion of flights from the nation’s carriers to its northern neighbor. The move by the Federal Aviation Administration is a symbolic blow to Mexico at a time when it has become by far the biggest international market with the US and may force an end to business agreements ...

Bloomberg The European Union’s air-safety regulator told airlines to avoid flying over Belarus, saying the diversion of a Ryanair Holdings Plc flight raised doubts about the Eastern European nation’s respect for international aviation rules. The safety bulletin issued by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) unifies the region after several of its member states and the UK issued similar ...