March, 2022

• 21 March

  Sheikha Fatima pays tribute to Emirati mothers

    ABU DHABI / WAM On the occasion of Mother’s Day, HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union, President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation, has paid tribute to Emirati mothers, mothers of martyrs and all mothers around the world. In a statement on the occasion, ...

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• 21 March

  Cybersecurity experts to gather at Gisec Global 2022

  

    Dubai / WAM Gisec Global 2022, the region’s largest and most influential cybersecurity event, opens on Monday, and will host government leaders, the world’s top cybersecurity companies and international experts who will collaborate to curate regional cybersecurity agendas. Gisec Global will focus on this year’s key theme of “Enabling Future Cybercities: Everything Enabling, Everything Secure.” Featuring more than 300 ...

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• 21 March

  Gisec Global features 300 exhibitors from 70 nations

  

    Dubai / Gulf Time Gisec Global 2022, the region’s largest and most influential cybersecurity event, opens on Monday and will host government leaders, the world’s top cybersecurity companies and international experts, who will collaborate to curate regional cybersecurity agendas. Featuring more than 300 exhibitors and attracting 10,000 industry professionals, business leaders and changemakers from more than 70 countries, Gisec ...

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• 21 March

  Mother’s Day: Sheikha Fatima pays tribute to Emirati mothers

  

    Abu Dhabi / WAM On the occasion of Mother’s Day, HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union, President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation, has paid tribute to Emirati mothers, mothers of martyrs and all mothers around the world. In a statement on the occasion, ...

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• 21 March

  Canada celebrates its National Day at Expo 2020 Dubai

  

    Dubai / WAM Canada celebrated its Honour Day at Expo 2020 with unique cultural performances and fun activities hosted by the pavilion throughout the day. Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence and Commissioner General of Expo 2020 Dubai welcomed Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada. Sheikh Nahyan said, “Canada’s participation features its achievements as ...

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• 21 March

  Louvre Abu Dhabi set to explore journey of paper

  

    Abu Dhabi / WAM Louvre Abu Dhabi has announced its latest international exhibition, “Stories of Paper”, organised in partnership with Musée du Louvre and France Muséums, in collaboration with 16 French and international institutions and private collections. To run from April 20 to July 24, the exhibition explores the vast range of artistic expressions of paper, with the aim ...

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• 21 March

  EU may refrain from stepping into energy market as nations split

  

  Bloomberg European Union leaders may hold off on endorsing intervention in the bloc’s wholesale energy market as member states are divided on the most effective emergency options to curb soaring power and gas prices, exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Instead, at a summit in Brussels, the EU heads of government may agree on immediate actions to replenish depleted natural ...

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• 21 March

  Italy to hit energy firms with 10% levy to fund support plan

  

  Bloomberg Italy will impose a windfall profit tax of 10% on some energy companies to finance a 4.4 billion-euro ($4.9 billion) package of measures to protect consumers and businesses from soaring prices. The levy will be calculated on the increase in profit that energy companies reported between October 2021 and March 2022, compared with the same period the previous year. ...

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• 21 March

  What Ukraine can learn from Finland’s stand

  

  In November 1939, soon after Hitler’s Germany invaded Poland, another massive European country likewise attacked a smaller neighbour: Russia invaded Finland. After vicious fighting through a long and bitter winter, the war ended with the Moscow Peace Treaty, in which Finnish concessions fell far short of what Stalin had hoped for in launching his invasion. Despite being heavily outgunned and ...

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• 21 March

  And PE finds another steal in Britain

  

    Private equity firms feasted on the cheap UK stock market for as long as they could in 2021. Eventually, investors bid up the share prices of much of their potential prey. But one target — educational publisher Pearson Plc — just kept falling. Now buyout firm Apollo Global Management Inc. is circling. Pearson investors must be desperate to sell, ...

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