January, 2019

• 14 January

  Mubadala buys Amana Healthcare

  

  ABU DHABI / WAM Mubadala Investment Company, through its healthcare investment team, Mubadala Healthcare, on Monday announced the acquisition of Amana Healthcare, the region’s leading provider of long-term care, specialised rehabilitation, and home healthcare services. Amana Healthcare, founded in Abu Dhabi and US-accredited, is the first healthcare provider in the Middle East to offer an integrated continuum-of-care to patients across ...

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• 14 January

  AED73mn to be invested in Clix 2019

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, stated that AED73 million is expected to be invested in the Climate Innovation Exchange Clix, Forum. The forum will provide an opportunity for young innovators and entrepreneurs to develop innovative environmental concepts and solutions, to guarantee a better future for humankind and create realistic ...

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• 14 January

  US delegation reviews Dubai’s realty projects

  

  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Land Department (DLD) welcomed a US real estate delegation comprising several governmental and private institutions in response to an invitation sent to brokers, developers, licensed real estate agents, and a large number of investors to visit Dubai. The visiting delegation included more than 150 real estate agents and 11 investors who will review the investment ...

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• 14 January

  N Korea’s nuclear programme advances, pressuring Trump

  

  Bloomberg Kim Jong-un told the world this month that North Korea took steps to stop making nuclear weapons in 2018, a shift from his earlier public statements. The evidence shows production has continued, and expanded. Satellite-imagery analysis and leaked American intelligence suggest North Korea has churned out rockets and warheads as quickly as ever in the year since Kim halted ...

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• 14 January

  Trump says he ‘never worked for Russia’

  

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump said on Monday he “never worked for Russia,” after reports that the FBI grew so concerned by his actions towards Moscow that they quietly began a counterintelligence investigation into whether he was working on its behalf. Trump, speaking to reporters as he left the White House for an agriculture event in New Orleans, said the investigation ...

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• 14 January

  Russia’s Lavrov warns Japan on islands dispute

  Bloomberg Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on Japan to avoid “one-sided rhetoric” as talks resumed on reaching a deal to end a territorial dispute over four islands that’s prevented the countries from signing a peace accord to end World War II. Negotiations should take place “professionally, without trying to distort agreements that are reached at a particular stage, without ...

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• 14 January

  Europe crisis of confidence opens door to Bannon-style chaos

  

  Bloomberg Steve Bannon had a front-row seat to see Belgium’s liberal-led government disintegrate last month after delivering a fiery, anti-migration speech to local lawmakers just hours earlier. President Donald Trump’s former adviser is now eying Spain as the next domino to fall in his drive to disrupt European integration. Belgium joins two other European Union members operating without a full ...

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• 14 January

  Regional states seek vote recount in DRC

  

  Bloomberg Regional heads of state backed a call by Martin Fayulu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) opposition leader, for a recount of last month’s presidential election, as the country’s Constitutional Court prepared to consider his challenge against the result. Opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi was declared the surprise winner of the December 30 poll. If the Constitutional Court validates the electoral ...

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• 14 January

  Nigeria oppn slams trial of top judge ahead of vote

  Bloomberg Nigeria’s chief justice is due to go on trial for alleged improprieties in declaring assets in what the opposition said is an attempt to intimidate the judiciary and spark a constitutional crisis a month before presidential elections. The Nigerian Bar Association described the decision by the West African nation’s Code of Conduct Tribunal to put Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen ...

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• 14 January

  Saudi, Canadian cuts leaving world hungry for heavy crude

  

  Bloomberg Output cuts in oil-rich Alberta and Saudi Arabia are combining to leave heavy-crude refiners from the Gulf of Mexico to Asia in a bind. While curtailments in the Canadian province have propelled local prices to their strongest level in almost a decade, other grades like Arab Heavy and Heavy Louisiana Sweet are also surging. The Saudis are expected to ...

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