April, 2016

• 12 April

  Total launches new products at its annual dealer meet

  

  Dubai / Emirates Business The Annual Dealer Meet organised by Total Marketing Middle East (TMME) — a subsidiary of Total — saw more than 150 dealers from across the UAE participating. The meet began with a warm welcome message from David Kalife, the Managing Director of TMME, in which he reiterated Total’s trust in its partners and thanked them for ...

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• 12 April

  MEA sees dip in PC shipments by 28% in Q4

  

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Middle East and Africa (MEA) PC market suffered a 28.7 percent year-on-year slump in shipments in the final quarter of 2015, according to the latest insights from global technology research and consulting firm International Data Corporation (IDC). Shipments fell for the third consecutive quarter in Q4 2015, with the decline representing the steepest ever recorded ...

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• 12 April

  Govt charges 2 new suspects over deadly Brussels attacks

  

  Brussels / AFP Belgium has charged two new suspects over last month’s deadly Brussels airport and metro attacks, as police pursue the investigation “night and day”, the federal prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday. A statement said Smail F and Ibrahim F were “charged with participation in the activities of a terrorist group, terrorist murders and attempts to commit terrorist murders, ...

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• 12 April

  EU renews Iran rights sanctions

  Brussels / AFP The European Union on Tuesday renewed sanctions against Iran over its human rights record, even as it relaxes damaging measures imposed on Tehran to force it to rein in its disputed nuclear programme. “The Council (of member states) decided to extend until April 13, 2017 its restrictive measures against 82 people and one entity in view of ...

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• 12 April

  Austria prepares for migrant influx at Italian border

  Vienna / AFP Austria sparked consternation in Rome on Tuesday with preliminary construction work at the Brenner pass in the Alps to prepare for a possible new influx of migrants coming north from Italy. A police spokesman in Tyrol state said that work started on Tuesday on concrete foundations for a planned control area in a layby off the northbound ...

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• 12 April

  Taiwan says Kenya guards used tear gas to force deportations

  

  TAIPEI / AP Armed Kenyan guards used tear gas to dislodge a group of Taiwanese citizens from a detention center and force them to board a flight to China, a top Taiwanese diplomat said on Tuesday, amid a complicated diplomatic tussle that threatens to cause further rifts between Taipei and Beijing. Director General of the Foreign Ministry’s Department of West ...

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• 12 April

  Battle heats up for last votes to seal Brazil’s Rousseff impeachment fate

  

  Brasília / AFP Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s fate rested on Tuesday on the loyalties of the last 100 or so congressional deputies yet to declare how they will vote in a looming impeachment showdown. In a ruthless and complex contest, supporters and opponents of Brazil’s first female president raced to amass the magic number that will make history when the ...

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• 12 April

  Ukraine parliament weighs major government overhaul

  Kiev / AFP Ukraine’s parliament was weighing on Tuesday whether to approve the resignation of embattled Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk as furious backroom talks raged about the makeup of a new pro-EU government. The volatile political situation in the former Soviet republic took a new twist when the man tipped to replace Yatsenyuk—condemned by President Petro Poroshenko for losing the ...

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• 12 April

  ASOS on track to meet year targets as first-half profit rises

  

  LONDON / Reuters British online fashion retailer ASOS met forecasts with an 18 percent rise in first-half profit and said it was on track to achieve its sales and margin guidance for the full year. Established in 2000 for fashion-conscious twenty somethings, ASOS was an early ecommerce success story, but is seeing growing competition from the likes of Germany’s Zalando ...

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• 12 April

  FNAC urges Darty shareholders to wait as it considers deal options

  Reuters French retailer Groupe Fnac on Tuesday urged shareholders of takeover target Darty to take no action after South African retail conglomerate Steinhoff launched a rival $975 bid through its Conforama unit. “Fnac is currently considering its options and urges Darty shareholders to take no further action at this time,” Fnac said in a statement issued by Darty, noting the ...

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