February, 2022

• 5 February

  UAE’s environmental efforts reflect ethical commitment of its vision

  

    ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has affirmed that the UAE’s pioneering environmental efforts reflect the country’s national and ethical commitment as outlined in its vision on sustainable development and climate change confrontation. This comes in line with the UAE’s “Principles of the 50”, and the country’s development strategy and the vision ...

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• 5 February

  Abu Dhabi’s EAD undertakes project to prepare digital maps

  

    Abu Dhabi / WAM The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD), in cooperation with the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, is conducting a hydrogeological mapping project for the UAE, a unique project at the level of the Arabian Gulf region. The project aims to collect, classify, and analyse all available data on ground and surface water, which has been ...

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• 5 February

  Estonia condemns Houthi’s terrorist attack on UAE

  

    ABU DHABI / WAM Saqr Ghobash, Speaker of the Federal National Council (FNC), has received a letter from Eva-Maria Liimets, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia, expressing her strong condemnation and rejection of Houthi terrorist attacks on civil areas and facilities in the UAE. Liimets voiced her country’s full solidarity with the UAE. She also ...

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• 4 February

  UAE removes travel curbs to 12 African countries

    Abu Dhabi / WAM The General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) and the National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Emergency Management Authority (Ncema) have announced the removal of travel curbs to 12 African countries for citizens who are fully vaccinated and who have received a booster dose of the approved Covid-19 vaccines, from Sunday, February 6 at 18:00. These countries are ...

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• 4 February

  UAE announces 1,077 new recoveries from Covid-19

  

    Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 486,936 additional Covid-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement on Friday, the Ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out the ...

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• 4 February

  UAE, Kerala have heart-to-heart relationship, says CM

  

    DUBAI / WAM The UAE and south Indian state of Kerala have “a very close heart-to-heart relationship,” the state’s Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan told the Emirates News Agency (WAM). “Kerala-UAE relations are not something formal. It is a very close heart-to-heart to relationship. All top UAE officials whom I met here told me that Kerala and Keralites occupy a ...

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• 4 February

  UK’s Sunak reveals $12bn plan to offset energy crunch

  

    Bloomberg Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a raft of measures as the UK government sought to get a grip on a burgeoning cost-of-living crisis, with millions of Britons facing record increases in their energy bills. “The government is going to step in to directly help people manage those extra costs,” Sunak said in the House of Commons, saying his intervention ...

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• 4 February

  Joe Biden extends Trump’s solar tariffs with key exemption

  

    Bloomberg President Joe Biden is set to extend tariffs on imported solar equipment but leave in place a critical exemption, a senior administration official said, attempting a middle-ground approach intended to boost domestic manufacturing as well as US renewable energy deployment. The tariffs had been scheduled to expire in early February and will now run for another four years, ...

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• 4 February

  Oil majors close to erasing all losses since pandemic began

    Bloomberg European oil majors are erasing their pandemic slump as tensions between Russia and the West drive Brent crude above $92 a barrel. The Stoxx Europe 600 energy sub-index is outperforming all other sectors on Friday as crude heads for its seventh week of gains. Shell Plc, BP Plc and TotalEnergies SE led the rally, and the companies have ...

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• 4 February

  Royal Dutch Shell finds oil in offshore Namibia field

    Bloomberg Royal Dutch Shell Plc has made an oil discovery in Namibia, an area where previous explorers have largely failed to find commercial resources. Searching for oil and gas in the waters of the southwest African nation has been compared to the early days of the North Sea, where a number of wells were drilled before any significant discoveries ...

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