Abu Dhabi / WAM The year 2020 should be the start of a ‘decade of action’ to enable the world to work together to meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, UAE ministers and senior business leaders declared on Monday ahead of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW). ADSW 2020, one of the largest sustainability gatherings in the world and a ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company, ADNEC, is set to host major events, at both the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre and Al Ain Convention centre this January. Also taking place in the nation’s capital is Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, ADSW, from 11th to 18th January. The global platform for accelerating the world’s sustainable development brings ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Etisalat announced the launch of a cloud-based business unified communication and collaboration service, ‘CloudTalk’, for small and medium businesses and enterprise customers in the UAE. In a statement, the UAE-based telecommunications services provider said that it had partnered with Ribbon Communications “to provide customers with a secure, scalable, and cloud-native business communication and collaboration solution.” Ribbon ...

DUBAI / WAM The Dubai Land Department (DLD), will organise the 16th edition of the International Property Show (IPS 2020), at the Dubai World Trade Centre from March 24-26, amid high optimism that new government policies and the Expo 2020 Dubai will drive the growth of the emirate’s property market in 2020 and beyond. Dawood Al Shezawi, President of IPS ...

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump and his top aides spent the weekend arguing that the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani would deter future attacks and make the Middle East safer. Instead, US policy in the region seems to be going in the opposite direction of what Trump has long promised — with more US troops going in, not fewer; ...

Bloomberg Venezuelan politics descended into disarray when security forces barred opposition leader Juan Guaido and his backers from entering the National Assembly, allowing loyalists to President Nicolas Maduro to choose an assembly president instead of Guaido. His suit torn from scaling a fence, Guaido and his supporters went elsewhere and re-elected him anyway, drawing backing from Washington and Latin American ...

Bloomberg Masked assailants stormed India’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi Sunday night in a violent attack on students that risked escalating protests against prime minister Narendra Modi’s government. Members of students groups allegedly affiliated with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party attacked hostels in the university with rods and batons, injuring dozens of students and some professors, said N Sai ...

Bloomberg China’s new top official in Hong Kong said he is certain the city will stabilise following months of political unrest, backing leader Carrie Lam and her administration in his first public comments since being appointed. “I am fully confident about this,” Luo Huining, the new director of the Hong Kong Liaison office, said at a media briefing. “Everyone fervently ...

Bloomberg Croatians shot down President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic’s bid for a second term, electing the prime minister who led the nation into the European Union to rebalance politics in the bloc’s newest member. Zoran Milanovic, who ran the Adriatic state’s government from 2011 to 2015, won 52.7% of votes in the presidential runoff. Kitarovic, a former NATO executive whose popularity ...

Bloomberg Stocks extended their losses on Monday and oil built on gains as investors continued to grapple with the aftermath of a US airstrike that killed a powerful Iranian general. Gold surged to the highest in more than six years. Futures for the main American equity gauges retreated for a second session after Iran said over the weekend it would ...