April, 2018

• 22 April

  Abu Dhabi reviews gender, foreign policy, security issue

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Emirates Diplomatic Academy (EDA), on Sunday organised the Mena Diplomacy Dialogue, discussing ‘The Role of Gender in Foreign and Security Policy,’ to review the role of gender in addressing the role of women in achieving security and maintaining peace. Dr Nawal Al-Hosany, Deputy Director-General of EDA, said that despite relentless international calls for women to ...

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• 22 April

  Summit tackles sustainability challenges facing global community

  

  Dubai / WAM The Sustainable Communities and Climate Change Summit (SCCCS), was held on Sunday, under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, to provide a dedicated platform to discuss major regional and international issues in relation to climate change and other sustainability challenges facing ...

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• 22 April

  US bond traders’ respite from flattening curve may prove brief

  

  Bloomberg Bond traders agonizing over the flattening US yield curve got a bit of a break last week. But with a flood of Treasury supply about to hit the market, they’ll have little time to catch their breath. The US will issue a combined $96 billion of two-, five- and seven-year notes this week, the largest slate of fixed-rate coupon ...

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• 22 April

  Carney’s hint of May rate hike puzzles pound pundits

  

  Bloomberg Money-market traders in the UK may have capitulated, but not the analysts. While currency pundits were jolted by Governor Mark Carney’s surprise hint that a rate increase by the Bank of England next month isn’t a foregone conclusion, they aren’t exactly doing an about-turn on their forecasts. ING Groep NV, Nomura International Plc, Credit Agricole SA, CBA Europe Ltd., ...

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• 22 April

  North Korea to close nuclear site, suspend missile tests

  

  Bloomberg North Korea has achieved its goal of developing a nuclear arsenal and is suspending further tests of atomic weapons or intercontinental ballistic missiles, its state-run media reported, citing leader Kim Jong-un. Kim said the regime’s nuclear test site will be shuttered, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). Punggye-ri, built in a secluded mountain valley northeast of Pyongyang ...

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• 22 April

  Chemical inspectors collect samples from Syria’s Douma

  

  Bloomberg Inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons visited one of the sites of a suspected gas attack in Douma, Syria, on Saturday to collect samples. The samples will be transported to Rijswijk in the Netherlands before being sent for analysis to the group’s designated laboratories, The Hague-based OPCW said. “Based on the analysis of the sample ...

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• 22 April

  Almost half of British voters want new centrist party: Poll

  Bloomberg Almost half the UK public now wants to see a new centrist political party as the Labour opposition party lurches further to the left and Liberal Democrats appear to lose faith in their own party, a new poll showed Saturday. There’s a 49 percent interest in a new party compared with 46 percent a year ago, according to a ...

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• 22 April

  Paraguay elections: Son of ex-dictator’s aide leads race

  

  Bloomberg Paraguay headed to the polls on Sunday, with voters set to elect a new Congress and a new president in one of the fastest-growing economies in South America. Voting stations opened at 7 am with the Electoral Tribunal expected to publish preliminary results on its website as early as 5 pm. About 4.2 million Paraguayans are registered to vote ...

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• 22 April

  ‘Respect’ from Trump could yield prisoner swap: Iran’s Zarif

  

  Bloomberg Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif suggested a show of respect from President Donald Trump could help yield a prisoner swap. “It is a possibility, certainly from a humanitarian perspective, but — but it requires a change of attitude,” Zarif told correspondent Margaret Brennan in an interview with CBS News’s “Face the Nation” that was expected to air in ...

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• 22 April

  Berlusconi helicopters in as rivals seek an edge in tiny region

  

  Bloomberg Italy’s ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi flew in by helicopter, twice in a week. His less affluent allies and rivals took to their cars to brave the roads of the mountainous southern Molise area — it doesn’t have a motorway. Italy’s political leaders, from Matteo Salvini of the euroskeptic League to Luigi Di Maio of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, have ...

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