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DUBAI/ WAM University students across the UAE who believe they have an idea that could make a real difference to society are being urged to apply for a new grant scheme launched on Wednesday by Expo 2020 Dubai’s Expo Live programme. Expo Live has an allocation of $100 million to back projects that offer creative solutions to pressing challenges that ...
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September, 2017
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27 September
DEWA to offer great prizes at GITEX
Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), is getting ready to participate at GITEX Technology Week 2017, which will take place from October 8-12 at the Dubai World Trade Centre. DEWA will have its own stand, S2-D1, and will be also part of the Dubai Smart Government pavilion, the technology arm of the Smart Dubai initiative, to transform ...
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27 September
UAE water security strategy 2036 launched
ABU DHABI / WAM The Ministry of Energy unveiled on Wednesday the UAE Water Security Strategy 2036, which aims to ensure sustainable access to water during both normal and emergency conditions in line with local regulations, standards of the World Health Organisation, and the UAE’s vision to ?achieve prosperity and sustainability. The announcement was made at the UAE Annual Government ...
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27 September
EGA scoops ‘safety idea of the year’ award
ABU DHABI / WAM Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), announced that it won Safety Idea of the Year, at Ideas America 2017, an annual awards programme that recognises people for engaging with their work in creative and outstanding ways. The winning submission for Safety Idea of the Year was developed by Dileepan Soundararajan, who works in Casthouse Maintenance at EGA in ...
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27 September
Corbyn tells May ‘let Labour govern Britain’
Bloomberg  Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn closed his party’s conference in Brighton with a call to Prime Minister Theresa May to step aside and an appeal to his followers to prepare to take over the government of Britain. After a four-day conference that has cemented his position as leader of a socialist revival in the UK, Corbyn promised a radical ...
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27 September
Unions target Zuma in anti-graft strike
Bloomberg Workers from South Africa’s biggest labour group joined a one-day strike in cities across the nation’s nine provinces to protest against corruption that it says is thriving under President Jacob Zuma’s administration. The Wednesday shutdown marks a new low in relations between Zuma and the 1.7-million-member Congress of South African Trade Unions, which helped him win control of the ...
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27 September
Trump spurned by voters’ rejection of his candidate
Bloomberg President Donald Trump was rebuffed by the same Alabama voters who turned out en masse for him in November when they rejected his choice for the US Senate in favour of an unabashed religious conservative who ran against the Washington establishment. Roy Moore, a former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court who was removed from office for his ...
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27 September
Opposition protests in Kenya as vote standoff deepens
Bloomberg Kenya’s main opposition group began protests in the capital to press its demand for changes to the electoral commission before next month’s presidential election rerun, as it accused the body of working with the ruling Jubilee Party to prepare another fraudulent vote. Police fired teargas to disperse hundreds of National Super Alliance supporters who gathered outside the Independent Electoral ...
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27 September
Uganda bans broadcasts as president-age debate likely
Bloomberg Ugandan authorities told broadcasters to stop airing some live coverage as the East African nation nears a parliamentary debate on a constitutional amendment that would let President Yoweri Museveni attempt to extend his three-decade rule. The Uganda Communications Commission directed all broadcasters to refrain from airing “live feeds which are in breach of the minimum broadcasting standards,†according to ...
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27 September
Saudi Aramco to venture into non-Saudi crude oil trading
SINGAPORE / Reuters Saudi Aramco’s trading arm will start trading non-Saudi crude oil to mainly feed its international joint ventures as the world’s largest oil exporter seeks to optimise profits, industry sources familiar with the move said. The expansion into crude comes as Saudi Aramco is working to boost its valuation ahead of the planned listing of up to 5 ...
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