July, 2021

• 25 July

  UAE sees 1,455 new recoveries from Covid-19

  

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 189,046 additional Covid-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement, 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 necessary treatment. As ...

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• 25 July

  RTA uses artificial intelligence and high-tech to improve bus services

  

  Dubai / WAM Mattar Mohammed Al Tayer, Director-General, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), revealed that the RTA’s precautionary measures and initiatives applied to the scheduling and operation of public buses, marine transit means, and taxis, had accelerated the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. Such measures contributed to restoring the growth of ...

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• 25 July

  Emirates launches new passenger service to Miami

  

  Dubai / WAM Emirates is connecting global business and leisure travellers with it’s first-ever passenger service between Dubai and Miami. The airline celebrated the inaugural flight of its four times a week service when it touched down in Miami at 1100hrs local time. Emirates flight EK213 was welcomed by Miami International Airport with a water cannon salute, and drew in ...

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• 25 July

  Adihex, The Game Fair in UK sign promising partnership agreement

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi International Hunting and Equestrian Exhibition (Adihex) and ‘The Game Fair’ in the United Kingdom signed a promising multi-range joint partnership between the two leading events. Under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Ruler’s Representative of Al Dhafra Region and Chairman of Emirates Falconers’ Club (EFC), Adihex 18th edition will ...

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• 25 July

  FirstEnergy rises on $230 million settlement in corruption case

  

  Bloomberg FirstEnergy Corp surged the most in more than five months after the Ohio utility reached an agreement with federal prosecutors over a corruption case involving a $1 billion state bailout for nuclear power plants. Under a deferred-prosecution agreement, FirstEnergy admitted that it conspired with public officials and others to pay millions of dollars in bribes. The company agreed to ...

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• 25 July

  China’s power crunches may worsen further

  

  Bloomberg China needs to accelerate its build-out of energy sources such as nuclear and pumped-hydro to stave off worsening power crunches in its industrial centres, according to a government-backed think tank. Some of the big cities that have recently suffered power outages when summer demand for air-conditioning peaks are likely to see widening shortfalls in energy supply, according to the ...

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• 25 July

  It’s back to the 1990s along southern US border

  

  Things aren’t exactly settling down along the US border with Mexico, with the US Border Patrol reporting 178,416 apprehensions in the Southwest in June, its highest monthly total since early 2000. Emergency rules adopted early in the Covid-19 pandemic that allow for the immediate expulsion of most unauthorised border crossers and people who arrive at the border seeking asylum have ...

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• 25 July

  Covid is salt in South Africa’s wounds

  

  Pandemics don’t cause riots. They do, though, create the perfect conditions for turmoil in fragile societies that are already powder kegs of inequality and sky-high unemployment, and where coronavirus has inevitably hit the poor hardest. South Africa’s days of unrest this month, the worst violence since apartheid, were triggered by the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma on contempt-of-court charges. ...

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• 25 July

  Zoom’s new deal muscle sets up cloud showdown

  Salesforce.com Inc helped Zoom Video Communications Inc get off to a good start when it invested in the startup’s IPO roughly two years ago. But with the videoconferencing company now looming as a serious threat in cloud software, Salesforce may regret its initial support. Zoom announced an agreement to acquire cloud call-center software maker Five9 Inc for $14.7 billion in ...

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• 25 July

  Dems are focusing on wrong part of medicare

  It’s good to see that some US politicians are still working on fixing the country’s broken healthcare system. Proposals from Senator Bernie Sanders had some very promising elements, though also some less helpful ones. Unfortunately, it seems that the only piece of his plan likely to make it into the final spending bill is the least helpful part: the expansion ...

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