Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi has been selected as the host destination for the next edition of the International Council of Nurses Congress. The event, held every four years, is organised by the International Council of Nurses, ICN, the 2021 edition will be hosted by the Emirates Nursing Association, ENA, and supported by Abu Dhabi Convention Bureau, a division ...

Bloomberg Russia’s cyberattack on the US electoral system before Donald Trump’s election was far more widespread than has been publicly revealed, including incursions into voter databases and software systems in almost twice as many states as previously reported. In Illinois, investigators found evidence that cyber intruders tried to delete or alter voter data. The hackers accessed software designed to be ...

Bloomberg A record number of Britons took German citizenship in 2016 as the UK voted to leave the European Union, according to the German Federal Statistics Office. German authorities granted citizenship to 2,865 UK nationals last year, compared with about 600 in 2015, the agency said in a statement Tuesday. Only 3.9 percent of Britons who have lived in Germany ...

Bloomberg German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said that the UK would be welcomed back to the European Union if the British decided they no longer wanted to quit the bloc. In his first public comments on the matter since the U.K. election, Schaeuble said that “it’s up the British government to take their own decisions” on Brexit. He said he ...

Bloomberg Helen Zille, the former leader of South Africa’s main opposition Democratic Alliance, will remain as premier of the Western Cape province after giving a public apology for tweets that appeared to defend colonialism. Zille will be excluded from all party structures and the DA will control her communications, including her use of social media, DA leader Mmusi Maimane told ...

Bloomberg Panama is opening diplomatic relations with China, the latest blow to Taiwan as Beijing’s leaders seek to isolate the self-governed island. Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela announced the move in a national address. China is the second-biggest user of the Panama Canal and has played a key role in sectors from banking to telecommunications, he said, adding that Taiwan ...

Bloomberg Most of the hundreds detained at Monday’s anti-Kremlin protests in Moscow were released overnight, while opposition leader Alexey Navalny was sentenced to 30 days for his role in organizing the unsanctioned rally. Of the more than 800 people detained in Moscow, at least 32 were still being held at 4 a.m. local time, according to OVD-Info, a group that ...

Bloomberg Finland’s Prime Minister Juha Sipila could face a tight squeeze to avoid a snap election after the biggest opposition parties quickly ruled out giving him any help in the current political impasse. Sipila put a new election into play on Monday after he and the National Coalition dumped their junior coalition partner, The Finns, in a bid to find ...

Bloomberg General Electric Co. and Baker Hughes Inc. have cleared a second major antitrust hurdle in their effort to create the world’s second-biggest oilfield services provider. GE won approval from the US Justice Department to combine its oil and gas business with Baker Hughes. The clearance follows by two weeks a similar decision by European regulators, and comes just hours ...

CAIRO / Reuters Egypt’s gross domestic product is projected to grow 5.3 percent by 2019, suggesting the economy of the most populous Arab state is recovering after years of turmoil, the World Bank has said. In its monthly Global Economic Prospects report for June, the Bank estimated Egypt’s GDP would grow 3.9 percent in the 2016-17 fiscal year, which ends ...