April, 2019

• 29 April

  UAE officially opens its pavilion at Expo 2019 Beijing

  

  Beijing / WAM Mansour Ibrahim Al Mansouri, Director-General of the National Media Council (NMC), officially opened the UAE Pavilion at the Expo 2019 Beijing, taking place in the Chinese capital from April 29 to October 7. Managed and supervised by the NMC, the Pavilion bears the theme ‘Greening the Desert’. This participation, which is the UAE’s first at the Expo’s ...

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• 29 April

  Anadarko Q1 profit beats estimates on rise in oil, gas sales

  

  Bloomberg Anadarko Petroleum Corp, the oil producer at the center of a bidding war, posted adjusted earnings for the first quarter that beat analysts’ estimates as oil and gas sales rose versus last year. The Texas-based driller said it earned 53 cents a share, excluding one-time items that included a $316 million loss attributed to the settlement of commodity derivatives. ...

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• 29 April

  Sanchez wants options open for center-right deal in Spain

  

  Bloomberg Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez is looking to keep his options open as he prepares for talks with potential allies over his next government. And that includes Ciudadanos, the center-right party that spent the last few months saying that he must be kicked out of office. Spainish election delivered a clear victory to Sanchez’s Socialist party, but no straightforward route ...

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• 29 April

  Cyclone death toll in Comoros rises to 42

  

  Bloomberg The death toll from Tropical Cyclone Kenneth increased to 42 as the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros struggles to restore power supplies and torrential rains causes flooding in Mozambique. At least 182 people were injured by the hurricane-strength storm that swept across the two nations, the United Nations humanitarian office said. Kenneth was the second cyclone to hit Mozambique ...

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• 29 April

  ‘Eiffel Tower bomb plot terrorist can be deported’

  Bloomberg An Algerian convicted in 2015 for his involvement in an unsuccessful terrorist plot to blow up the Eiffel Tower and Louvre Museum in Paris can be deported to his home country without a credible risk of torture or other inhuman treatment, Europe’s top human rights tribunal has ruled. Ali Meguimi was sentenced in 2015 to a six-year prison term ...

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• 29 April

  US warships sail by Taiwan once again

  

  Bloomberg American naval vessels transited through the Taiwan Strait for the second straight month, highlighting the US’s strategic rivalry with China as Taiwanese presidential hopeful and Foxconn founder Terry Gou called for the island to adopt high-tech defense mechanisms. The destroyers USS Stethem and USS William P Lawrence conducted a transit through the waters on Monday, US Seventh Fleet public ...

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• 29 April

  Trump ally calls for more sanctions on Moscow

  

  Bloomberg Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of Donald Trump, called for more sanctions on Russia and criticised presidential adviser Jared Kushner’s statements downplaying the significance of that country’s interference in the 2016 election. “I like Jared a lot, but he’s leaving out a big detail,” Graham said on CBS, noting that Russia hacked into the emails of Democratic ...

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• 29 April

  Jokowi leads Indonesia’s vote count

  

  Bloomberg Indonesian President Joko Widodo led his challenger by about 12 percentage points midway through an official tally of votes cast in the election, weakening his rival’s claim of victory. Widodo, known as Jokowi, secured 56.2 percent of the votes, compared to 43.8 percent for challenger Prabowo Subianto with ballots from 52 percent of the polling stations tallied, according to ...

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• 29 April

  Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam defends extradition law

  

  Bloomberg Hong Kong’s leader said she would press ahead with legislation to end a ban on extraditions to mainland China, despite opponents staging one of the largest mass protests since the 2014 Occupy movement. Chief Executive Carrie Lam reaffirmed her plan to pass by the end of the legislative session in July a bill allowing one-time transfers of criminal suspects ...

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• 29 April

  Who’s afraid of robots at workplaces, and why

  

  An unsettling specter haunts the world economy: a future of ubiquitous robots that destroy millions of jobs. Sometimes this is called “artificial intelligence”; sometimes it isn’t. Either way, it threatens the social stability of the United States and other advanced countries, which depend on most people working most of the time. Well, don’t believe it, says a massive new report. ...

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