Abu Dhabi / WAM Noura Al Suwaidi, Director of the General Women’s Union (GWU), congratulated HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the GWU, President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation, on the occasion of Mother’s Day celebrated on March 21. In a statement during a GWU ceremony marking the ...

Dubai / WAM Marking the World Water Day on Thursday, the Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation, Empower, announced that it has saved 295 million gallons of potable water in the previous year, equivalent to 537 Olympic-sized swimming pools. World Water Day is a global event that plays an important role in drawing attention to the importance of preserving water. It ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi University (ADU), and Knowledge Group (KG), have entered the Guinness World Records for creating the largest notebook mosaic logo in celebration of the Year of Zayed. The record-breaking initiative also coincides with UAE National Month of Reading that is annually marked in March. ADU received the recognition for its record-breaking effort – one of several ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (ADNEC), has signed a strategic sponsorship agreement with Abu Dhabi Ports to launch the Abu Dhabi International Boat Show (ADIBS, 2018), which will be held from October 17-20, in association with British Marine, the membership organisation for the UK leisure, superyacht and small commercial marine industry. The agreement aims to ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said he expects to meet soon with Russian President Vladimir Putin, after calling to congratulate him on his re-election. “We had a very good call,” Trump said, adding that he expects to meet Putin “in the not too distant future to discuss the arms race, which is getting out of control.” Trump’s call with Putin came ...

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman discussed the situation in war-torn Yemen during a meeting, including Houthi rebel and Iranian activity and the humanitarian crisis, the White House said. “On Yemen, the president and the crown prince discussed the threat the Houthis pose to the region, assisted by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps,” ...

AMMAN / Reuters A Russian-brokered deal has been reached to evacuate a Syrian rebel group from a town in eastern Ghouta, opposition sources and officials said on Wednesday, the first such deal in the remaining rebel bastion near the capital. Fighters from the Ahrar al Sham rebel group in control of the besieged town of Harasta had agreed to lay ...

Bloomberg An Iranian who chairs a Maltese bank has been arrested on US charges that he participated in a scheme to evade US sanctions and funnel more than $115 million paid under a Venezuelan construction contract through the US financial system, federal prosecutors said. Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad, 38, was charged in a six-count indictment filed in federal court in ...

JERUSALEM / Reuters Israel for the first time admitted that it bombed a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007 and said on Wednesday the strike should be a warning to Iran that it would not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. The Israeli military released previously classified cockpit footage, photographs and intelligence documents about its September 6, 2007, air strike ...

Bloomberg Negotiations between the leaders of Italy’s two populist parties, ostensibly focussed on appointing speakers for the new parliament, are prompting conversations about a broader agreement to form the next government, according to party officials. While Five Star’s Luigi Di Maio and the League’s Matteo Salvini work out how to allocate the key posts in the lower house and the ...