April, 2016

• 11 April

  Marina Mall attracts thousands of visitors

  

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Marina Mall, the capital’s leading shopping destination, attracted over 2,500 visitors of all ages to the Tom and Jerry show and activity area during its ‘15 Years of Inspiring Moments’ festival. Over the course of the two-week festivities, visitors experienced 15 days of fun-filled activities at Abu Dhabi’s favourite mall. Thousands of visitors across the ...

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• 11 April

  DFM gets ‘Networking Project of the Year’ award

  

  Dubai / Emirates Business The Dubai Financial Market (DFM), the leading exchange in the region, powered by Avaya’s SDN FX fabric networking technology, was awarded ‘Network Project of the Year 2015’ at the Network World ME Awards. The exchange selected Avaya’s scalable and high security network to effectively cater to its growing requirements and to provide a reliable, stable and ...

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• 11 April

  Untapped ‘pop-up-cinema’ concept comes to UAE

  

  RITIKA SHARMA / Emirates Business For the first time, UAE is all set to get a taste of an untapped but creative side of film industry – the pop up cinema. Named ‘Film in a Box’, the new concept will showcase non-dialogue films at various locations across the UAE, and cater towards enhancement of the region’s film and art industry. ...

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• 11 April

  Kerry pays gut-wrenching visit to Hiroshima site of A-bomb

  

  HIROSHIMA / AP A gut-wrenched John Kerry said Hiroshima’s horrible history should teach humanity to avoid conflict and strive to eradicate nuclear weapons as he became the first US secretary of state to tread upon the ground of the world’s first atomic bombing. Kerry’s emotional visit on Monday to the Japanese city included him touring its peace museum with other ...

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• 11 April

  CIA chief: No waterboarding, even under new prez orders

  Washington / AFP CIA Director John Brennan promised that the US spy agency won’t use so-called “enhanced interrogation” techniques, including waterboarding, against terror suspects—not even under a new president’s orders to do so. Brennan’s comments may have an impact on this year’s White House race, after Republican frontrunner Donald Trump said he would authorize waterboarding—which President Barack Obama banned shortly ...

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• 11 April

  US ready to raise pressure on N Korea, open to talks

  Hiroshima / AFP The United States is prepared to “ratchet up” pressure on North Korea after its latest provocations but remains open to talks, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday. “It is still possible we will ratchet up (the pressure) even more depending on the actions of the DPRK (North Korea),” Kerry told reporters after a G7 ...

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• 11 April

  ‘3 suicide bombers’ attack police station in south Russia

  Moscow / AFP Three suicide bombers blew themselves up outside a police station in southern Russia on Monday as they tried to storm the building, police said, but no other casualities were reported. “We were holding a meeting in the morning when five explosions went off,” Sergei Karamyshev, a senior police officer in the village of Novoselitskoye in the southern ...

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• 11 April

  Greece blasts Macedonia for using ‘excessive force’ on migrants

  

  Greece / AFP Greece on Monday lashed out at Macedonia for using “excessive force” after police fired tear gas and rubber bullets on migrants trying to breach the closed border to enter the EU. Macedonian police accused crowds of hurling stones and other objects at them on Sunday in a bid to break down a fence at the border with ...

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• 11 April

  Brazil impeachment commission votes on president Rousseff fate

  

  Brazil / AfP An impeachment commission was due to vote on the fate of Brazilian President DilmaRousseff ahead of a vote by the lower house of Congress to decide whether she should go to trial. Bad-tempered debate, interrupted by heckling and chanting, kicked off in the commission in Brasilia while security forces mounted a huge operation outside to separate rival ...

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• 11 April

  After protests, French PM vows to help youth get jobs

  

  Paris / AFP French Prime Minister Manuel Valls unveiled measures on Monday to help young people find work, aiming to quell weeks of protests against the government’s proposed reforms to labour laws. Young people have been at the forefront of mass demonstrations against the reforms over the past month, which the government argues are aimed at making France’s rigid labour ...

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