Dubai / Emirates Business Government officials from more than 150 countries including 75 ministers, and leaders from international organisations, the private sector and civil society are gathering this week for the Seventh Assembly of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). The Assembly will bring together energy leaders to set the global renewable energy agenda and take concrete action to ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) will participate in the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) 2017 in Abu Dhabi, which is part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week. DEWA is efficiency sponsor of WFES, which is organised by Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s multi-faceted renewable energy company, from January 16-19 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre. HE ...

  Bloomberg Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. will expand its footprint in the US oncology market with the $4.66 billion purchase of Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc., adding one potential blockbuster in lung cancer and another already on-the-market therapy. Takeda will pay $24 a share for Ariad, the companies said in a statement, 75 percent more than its Friday close of $13.74. The deal ...

  Bloomberg Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., Itochu Corp. and Chinese builders are among companies that may bid for a $5 billion contract to build a network of roads and a suspension bridge across Turkey’s Dardanelles waterway, according to people familiar with the matter. At least five bidding groups may compete in the January 26 auction, the people said, asking ...

  Bloomberg Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer is among six directors who plan to leave the board of the investment company that will be left after the closing of the proposed sale of Yahoo’s main internet properties to Verizon Communications Inc. The new company, a shareholder in Alibaba Group Holding Inc. and Yahoo! Japan, will change its name ...

  Bloomberg Toyota Motor Corp., whose investments in Mexico have drawn criticism from US President-elect Donald Trump, said it plans to invest $10 billion in the US over the next five years, maintaining the pace of spending it established during the last half decade. Jim Lentz, Toyota’s chief executive officer for North America, outlined the company’s intentions during an interview ...

  Bloomberg Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc., the embattled Canadian drugmaker, agreed to sell about $2.1 billion in assets to get cash to streamline its businesses and begin easing its debt burden. L’Oreal SA will pay Valeant $1.3 billion for three skin-care brands, the Paris-based company on Tuesday said in a statement. Earlier in the day, Valeant said it would sell ...

  NEW YORK / AP President-elect Donald Trump has appointed his influential son-in-law Jared Kushner as a White House senior adviser, putting the young real estate executive in position to exert broad sway over both domestic and foreign policy, particularly Middle East issues and trade negotiations. Trump has come to rely heavily on Kushner, who is married to the president-elect’s ...

  GENEVA / AP The leaders of Cyprus have begun a second day of talks aimed at reunifying the island split along ethnic Greek and Turkish lines, addressing issues of how power could be shared, ties with the European Union and economic matters. Greek Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci were meeting at UN offices in ...

  BERLIN / AP Germany’s interior and justice ministers hope to thrash out initial plans for a response to last month’s truck attack on a Christmas market, with a tougher stance expected towards suspected extremists who don’t have asylum. Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the December 19 attack in Berlin demands a swift response that guarantees both security and civil ...