SHARJAH / WAM The Emirates National Oil Company Group (Enoc), plans to open five service stations in 2019, with the number of stations in the emirate reaching 25 over the next five years. The stations will include the latest technologies and equipment and will operate according to the highest standards to develop the services provided to residents of the emirate. ...

Dubai / Emirates Business With the new boat show season that has just started in Cannes, Azimut Yachts, the world’s leading yachts manufacturer with seven offices in the Middle East including UAE, achieved an excellent year as Azimut Benetti Group closed the accounting period with value of production estimated at €850 million (+18% on the previous year at constant exchange ...

Al AIN / WAM Focused on empowering small and medium sized business and startups, the third edition of the Al Ain SME 2018 will be held under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Chairman of Abu Dhabi Executive Council, at the Al Ain Convention Centre on September 17-18. The event’s 2017 edition was hugely successful ...

VIENNA / WAM The Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna has launched the first National Nuclear Science for Development Student Competition in cooperation with the UAE Ministry of Education, the Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) and Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (Enec). Targeting high-school students from the age of 14 ...

Bloomberg Florence weakened to a tropical storm, trudging through the Carolinas at 5 miles per hour as it unloaded pelting rain and floods that killed at least five people. Its implacable advance threatens as much as $20 billion in damage, a toll that likely will unfold through the weekend. “Florence is still grinding its way across North Carolina,” Governor Roy ...

Bloomberg Super Typhoon Mangkhut battered the Philippines with gales and torrential rains, leaving at least three people dead and thousands homeless, triggering landslides and damaging an airport before heading toward China. The most powerful storm of the year ripped into Cagayan province in the northern Philippines with winds of up to 269 kilometres (167 miles) per hour. By US standards ...

Bloomberg Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team scored a significant victory as President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman pleaded guilty to conspiring against the US and agreed to cooperate in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The former campaign aide, Paul Manafort, admitted to a decade of crimes related to his work as a consultant for pro-Russia politicians ...

Bloomberg After Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was castigated in the European Parliament this week over what he calls his “illiberal democracy,” the very public rebuke was hailed as a breakthrough for Europe. For opponents of the continent’s embrace of populism, finally there was a united show of strength against a leader who has railed against the European Union’s core, ...

Bloomberg Leftist presidential candidate Fernando Haddad jumped in the first Datafolha opinion poll published since he officially replaced ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as the Workers’ Party candidate on Tuesday. In the poll published on Friday evening Haddad rose to 13 percent of vote intentions, up from 9 percent in the last poll conducted on September 10. Far-right ex-Army ...

President Donald Trump claimed to have a “magic wand” that allowed him to push the economy’s growth rate above an annual rate of 4 percent in 2018’s second quarter. This is one of the president’s more colorful public statements taking credit for the economy’s performance. Such statements are as common as they are overstated. Trump isn’t alone in exaggerating the ...