Dubai / WAM Expo 2020 Dubai has chosen leading global logistics firm UPS to handle the logistics operations for Expo 2020 Dubai, which is expected to attract millions of visitors over its six-month duration. With more than 180 countries expected to participate and hundreds of thousands of visitors on peak days, the next World Expo will be one the most …

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE funded a shipment of basic humanitarian relief items, at a cost of over AED1.6mn, dispatched to Uganda for the displaced South Sudanese there. The gesture follows the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai and his wife, HRH Princess Haya Bint …

  Bloomberg Moon Jae-in declared victory in South Korea’s leadership race, pledging to unify the nation after nine years of conservative rule that culminated in the country’s biggest street protests since the 1980s. With 40 percent of ballots counted in Tuesday’s presidential election, Moon received 39.5 percent of votes, leading conservative Hong Joon-pyo, who had 26.5 percent. Centrist Ahn Cheol-soo …

  GENEVA / WAM Some 250 people are feared dead or missing following two shipwrecks in the Central Mediterranean, according to the UN refugee agency. ”In the last 24 hours we have received alarming information on two new shipwrecks in the Central Mediterranean,” said UNHCR spokesperson Cecile Pouilly in a press briefing in Geneva on Tuesday. ”The first shipwreck took …

  Bloomberg Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s ruling party is discussing using a press clampdown and intimidation in rural areas to thwart a newly united opposition’s challenge to its three-decade rule in elections next year, according to three senior officials with knowledge of the matter. Officials of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front are increasingly concerned the health of Mugabe, 93, …

  Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, received a delegation from the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR), headed by Director-General Jamal Sanad Al Suwaidi, at Qasr Al Bahr in Abu Dhabi. During the meeting, he was briefed by …

  Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, has held a telephone conversation with Gerry Brownlee, Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand, congratulating him on his appointment as the New Zealand Foreign Minister. During the telephone conversation, Sheikh Abdullah expressed his happiness as New Zealand announced that it …

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), has held a ceremony for 7,692 orphans sponsored by the organisation in Khartoum, attended by Hamad Mohammed Humaid Al Junaibi, UAE Ambassador to the Republic of Sudan, and a number of Sudanese Ministers and officials. During the event, the orphans and their guardians received over AED33.8 million in aid which was deposited …

  Abu Dhabi / WAM An innovative e-game dubbed ‘Zayed The Leader’ was officially launched by HH Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, at the Ministry of Interior (MoI) premises on Tuesday to promote awareness among youngsters about the UAE history and its establishment at the hands of late Sheikh Zayed …

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) has requested all entities wishing to administer public subscription to get a prior licence from SCA. The licence can be easily obtained by contacting the department concerned at the authority, said SCA in a circular distributed on May 7 to stock companies operating in the country, underlining the necessity that …