Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and Chairman of the Supreme National Committee for Tolerance, has launched the Zayed Tolerance Pledge campaign which aims to consolidate the values of tolerance and coexistence established by the Founding Father, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. On his ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The United Arab Emirates, represented by the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), provided emergency humanitarian assistance worth AED10 million to Venezuelan refugees in Colombia, including 75,000 food parcels, medical supplies, and medicines benefiting 375,000 refugees. The move follows the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme ...

Dubai / WAM The UAE ranked 8th on the Positivity Index of Nations, an annual global report published by the Positive Economy Institute since 2013, which measures positive economy indicators in OECD member countries. The UAE, which is being included in the Index as a non-OECD country for the first time since its creation, outperformed 27 out of the 34 ...

Dubai / WAM The UAE’s bid to become one of the world’s top 10 food secure nations took a major step forward when Mariam Almheiri, Minister of State for Food Security, released an innovation-driven food security roadmap for the Middle East. Designed to further the objectives of the UAE’s National Food Security Strategy and to support regional improvement in this ...

Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron seemed to have overcome the worst of the Yellow Vest protests. One Saturday of renewed violence has put him back in crisis management mode. Shops on Paris’s iconic Champs Elysé es were torched and 200 people were arrested, prompting Prime Minister Edouard Philippe’s office to note the police actions had shown “inadequacies.” Recent protests had ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Cabinet resolved on Monday to overhaul New Zealand’s gun laws after the nation’s worst mass shooting in modern history left 50 people dead. Ardern told reporters in Wellington that ministers had made “in-principle decisions around the reform of our gun laws” and would make an announcement on the proposed changes before Cabinet meets again next ...

Bloomberg A tropical cyclone that tore across Mozambique at the weekend may have killed more than 1,000 people, President Filipe Nyusi said as heavy rains continued to pound neighbouring Zimbabwe where flooding left dozens more dead. “It’s clear that the next few days could be worse,” Nyusi said in comments broadcast on state radio. “If more than 1,000 lives have ...

Bloomberg Brazilian Armed Forces maintain an open communication channel with Venezuela’s military even though Brasilia no longer recognizes Nicolas Maduro as president of the neighbouring Latin American country, according to Brazil’s Defense Minister. “It’s always useful to maintain this channel,” General Fernando Azevedo said at an interview in his office. “It’s part of the military diplomacy.” The dialogue is held ...

Bloomberg The European Union has to worry about one fewer member, for now, sliding into the nationalist-populist rising that’s roiling its post-communist wing. As the bloc’s executives wrangle over democratic standards with governments in Hungary, Poland and Romania, the presidential election in euro-member Slovakia propelled a supporter of deeper integration and a top EU diplomat into a runoff. The vote ...

Bloomberg Fidelity National Information Services Inc. agreed to acquire Worldpay Inc. for about $34 billion in cash and stock, the biggest deal ever in the booming international payments sector. FIS, based in Jacksonville, Florida, will also assume Worldpay’s debt, bringing the enterprise value of the deal to about $43 billion, the companies said on Monday. FIS’s current shareholders will own ...