January, 2019

• 19 January

  Lifting trade barrier key to Africa’s growth: DP World

  

  DUBAI / WAM The key to African economic emergence lies in the removal of barriers, increased connectivity between nations and infrastructure development, DP World’s Group Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, told African leaders and top executives in Dakar, Senegal. “We believe in viability of Africa, we believe in investing in the continent, during our investment in ...

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• 19 January

  UAE-India bilateral trade to exceed $100 billion by 2020

  

  GANDHINAGAR, India / WAM Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of the Republic of India, today met with Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, and Dr. Ahmed Al Banna, UAE Ambassador to India. They explored prospects for further cooperation between the UAE and India, building on the strong existing ties between the two countries, and discussed ...

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• 19 January

  ERC supports energy sector in Yemen’s Hadramaut

  

  HADRAMAUT / WAM A power generator has been delivered by the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) on Saturday in the Ramah district in Hadramaut Desert, as part of the continuous Emirati support for the energy sector in particular and infrastructure of the entire region in general. Sheikh Mohamed Ahmed Al Menhali, representative of the Ramah Local Council, expressed thanks to the ...

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• 19 January

  Sheikha Fatima Field Hospital opens in Karachi

  

  Karachi / WAM The Sheikha Fatima Field Humanitarian Hospital has been opened in Karachi by Hamad Obeid Ibrahim Salim Al Zaabi, the UAE Ambassador to Pakistan, to provide therapeutic, diagnostic and preventive services to underprivileged segments of society, primarily women, children and elderly people, in Pakistan. Noura Al Suwaidi, Director of the General Women’s Union, said the facility, which provides ...

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• 19 January

  ADFD finances renewables projects worth $1.18bn

  Abu Dhabi / WAM From its inception in 1971 until December 2018, the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), the leading national entity for international development aid, has financed hundreds of development projects worth AED4.4 billion ($1.187 billion) in the renewable energy sector around the world. Driving the objectives of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), these projects have ...

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• 19 January

  Trump agrees to second Kim summit as N-deal stays elusive

  

  Bloomberg US President Donald Trump agreed to hold a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the end of February. What the two leaders hope to achieve remains a mystery. The summit announcement came after a 90-minute White House meeting between Trump and Kim Yong Chol, one of the North Korean leader’s top aides. They discussed “denucleariaation and ...

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• 19 January

  Mexico pipeline explosion kills 66

  

  Bloomberg A pipeline explosion north of Mexico City killed at least 66 people, confronting President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador with the biggest crisis since he took office pledging to crack down on graft and fuel theft. Petroleos Mexicanos said its specialists and local officials were working to deal with a fire caused by the illegal tap on the gasoline line ...

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• 19 January

  Trump vows announcement on border as talks stall

  

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump promised a “major announcement” on the government shutdown as he and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi headed into a long holiday weekend with no sign their increasingly acrimonious standoff is any closer to an end. The president plans to renew his demand for a wall on the US border with Mexico, but also offer incentives for congressional ...

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• 19 January

  Hungary unions hold anti-Orban rallies

  

  Bloomberg Hungarian labour unions are staging nationwide protests and threatening the first general strike since the end of communism to pressure Prime Minister Viktor Orban into repealing a controversial new law on overtime. Rallies were planned in Budapest and more than a dozen other cities on Saturday against what critics have dubbed the “slave law”, which allows companies to ask ...

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• 19 January

  Ex-Interpol chief’s wife seeks asylum in France

  

  Bloomberg The wife of missing ex-Interpol Chief Meng Hongwei has applied for asylum in France because she is scared for her life, Reuters reported, citing her lawyer. Grace Meng was followed by strangers, received suspicious phone calls and had her car license plates photographed by mysterious people, according to the report, which cited an interview she did with France Info’s ...

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