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Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced on Sunday that it has received three prestigious ISO certifications in the fields of data quality management, health informatics and data analysis. The ministry’s Statistics and Research Centre was awarded certificates after meeting the requirements of the three ISO standards, and passing comprehensive audits conducted by a specialised ...
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10 May
Macron’s major test awaits in Sahel’s ‘forever war’
In pursuing its “forever war†in Africa, France has tolerated autocrats and warlords in exchange for commitment to its counterterrorism goals. But President Emmanuel Macron is beginning to discover that the former often undermines the latter. At the start of the year, Macron entertained the fantasy of scaling back Operation Barkhane. The campaign, which began in 2013 in the band ...
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10 May
Earning from supply-chain bottlenecks
Supply chains have rarely been under greater strain, but that upheaval is helping generate massive profits for shipping and postal companies. Two European logistics giants — AP Moller-Maersk A/S and Deutsche Post AG (owner of courier DHL) — delivered record earnings, just as US delivery giant United Parcel Service Inc did the week before. On the face of it, logistics ...
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10 May
Google’s main business could use moonshots
When Google renamed itself Alphabet Inc in 2015, co-founder Larry Page revealed that one of the new name’s meanings was a pun: alpha-bet, as in “a bet on investment returns above a benchmark.†This implied that the so-called “Other Bets†in Google’s financial reports — subsidiaries that work on projects ranging from self-driving cars to cancer cures — aren’t just ...
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10 May
Brazil, India need own Operation Warp Speed
Covid-19 is crushing developing countries such as India, Brazil and South Africa, and it won’t help to simply tinker with the patents on life-saving vaccines made by a handful of pharmaceutical companies. It’s more crucial that the pharmaceutical industry’s manufacturing and distribution expertise be brought to bear on this epic challenge, as Bloomberg Opinion’s editorial board has noted. Access to ...
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10 May
UK election results spark Scottish debate, hurt Johnson’s opposition
Bloomberg The battle for the future of Scotland has begun after a dramatic set of British election results left the UK starkly divided. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative party cemented its grip on Labour’s former heartlands in northern England, while in Scotland parties pushing to split away from the UK won a historic majority. That threw Johnson and Scottish National ...
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10 May
Gunmen kill 12 police officers in Nigeria’s oil-producing hub
Bloomberg Gunmen killed 12 police officers in weekend attacks targeting security agents in two of Nigeria’s oil-producing states in the Niger River Delta in an escalating conflict fuelled by secessionist tensions. Seven of the officers were killed in Rivers State in the southern part of the country, the police confirmed in an emailed statement. Authorities have blamed previous incidents on ...
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10 May
Johnson vows to save crisis-hit UK health service after Covid
Bloomberg The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is facing a fresh crisis when the pandemic recedes, with 4.7 million people stuck waiting for care, and will require significant spending and reform to survive, the government will say this week. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will vow to tackle the unprecedented backlog — which officials say is likely to get worse as ...
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10 May
France threatens UK on financial services in fisheries dispute
Bloomberg France’s junior minister for European affairs threatened the UK on financial services if Britain failed to grant licenses to French fishermen. Clement Beane said France would retaliate in sectors like banking in the European Union to which the UK wants access, according to an interview published on Sunday in the Journal du Dimanche. French fishermen are still owed 40 ...
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10 May
World’s powerful economies bet vaccine passports can save tourism
Bloomberg The world’s most powerful economies agreed to back plans for so-called vaccine passports in a bid to pull the travel and tourism industry out of a pandemic-fuelled slump. Tourism ministers from the Group of 20 threw their weight behind the new certificates, stressing that a resumption of normal activity for the sector is crucial to global economic recovery, according ...
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