October, 2018

• 27 October

  Third phase of ‘Dubai street museum’ project unveiled

  

  DUBAI / WAM Brand Dubai, the creative arm of the Government of Dubai Media Office (GDMO) and the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) have announced a strategic partnership to jointly undertake city beautification projects. The first project that forms part of this partnership is the Dubai Metro Murals Project. The Dubai Metro Murals Project is an initiative that falls in ...

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• 27 October

  UAE committed to contribute to development of Pakistan

  

  ISLAMABAD / WAM Dr Sultan bin Ahmad Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of State, has said that the UAE wise leadership attaches great importance and particular attention to enhancing historic ties with Pakistan, which are based on strong pillars of respect, mutual confidence and conformity on all regional and international issues. He said this while leading a UAE high profile 15-member ...

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• 27 October

  DLD developers meet aims to monitor trends, needs of real estate market

  

  Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Land Department (DLD), organised a real estate developer meeting in cooperation with Cityscape Global in order to identify the results achieved at Cityscape. The meeting was aimed to monitor the trends and needs of the real estate market, and innovative solutions that can be presented at upcoming editions for the benefit of all parties, including ...

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• 27 October

  ERC reopens several roads to cyclone-hit Yemeni villages

  MUKALLA / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), on Saturday re-opened a number of roads in seven villages surrounding the city of Al Mukalla in Yemen. The roads were either closed or damaged following Cyclone Luban which recently hit the Yemeni Governorate of Hadramaut and isolated the villages, inhabited by around 3,000 people. The ERC shovel trucks cleared the debris ...

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• 27 October

  UAE outlines its efforts to build a strong space sector

  

  NEW YORK / WAM The UAE has outlined its efforts in constructing a strong and sustainable space sector that contributes to regional and international efforts to promote space exploration, and its development of advanced technologies to enhance the quality of life and contribute to the overall achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations General Assembly. The UAE’s ...

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• 27 October

  Sri Lanka turmoil deepens as parliament suspended

  

  Bloomberg Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena suspended parliament, deepening a power struggle that has led to the return of former strong-man president Mahinda Rajapaksa and could herald closer ties with China. On Friday evening, Sirisena unexpectedly dismissed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and appointed Rajapaksa—who ruled between 2005 and 2015—as his replacement. Wickremesinghe is contesting his removal and is likely to ...

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• 27 October

  China still poring over little-noticed Pence speech weeks later

  

  Bloomberg In Washington, Vice President Mike Pence’s October 4 speech ripping China was largely lost amid the uproar over the midterms and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation. In Beijing, however, Pence’s address is still reverberating. Some in China’s foreign policy community continue to study it, comparing the rhetoric with Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech in 1946, and trying to ...

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• 27 October

  Trump vows to end violence in wake of ‘bombing attempts’

  

  Bloomberg Donald Trump vowed to end political violence in the US after the arrest of a suspect in a string of bombing attempts aimed at the president’s critics, then used the moment to complain about hostility directed at him. “We must never allow political violence to take root in America,” Trump said at the White House, shortly after the arrest. ...

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• 27 October

  German state vote tests Merkel’s authority

  

  Bloomberg A German state election is putting Angela Merkel’s chancellorship on the line on Sunday as rarely before. Voters in Hesse, a state that includes the nation’s financial center of Frankfurt, are going to the polls amid public antipathy to the bickering coalition government in Berlin. It’s the last electoral test of Merkel’s standing before a Christian Democratic Union convention ...

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• 27 October

  Super Typhoon Yutu threatens Philippines

  Bloomberg Super Typhoon Yutu could rip into eastern Luzon in the Philippines on Tuesday, extending the toll of destruction it left in the US Northern Mariana Islands earlier this week. Yutu was about 731 miles east of Luzon with winds of about 155 miles per hour, equivalent to a Category 4 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, early Saturday US ...

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