April, 2017

• 16 April

  Europe’s continental divide is market’s game of risk

    Last week and last month and last year we were so close, minutes and moments away, from another Greek debt deal. Every newspaper on the Continent, and every politician quoted in them, told us so. They never said anything else. Consequently, I pay little attention to when they open their collective mouths and repeat the eulogy once again. If ...

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• 16 April

  Facing two-front challenge

  

    DEARBORN / AP In her job as a refugee case manager, Fatimah Farooq would come to work in a hijab and speak with her clients in Arabic. Nonetheless, she found herself being asked whether she was Muslim. It’s not easy, Farooq says, navigating her dual identities as black and Muslim. “I’m constantly trying to prove that I belong,” said Farooq, ...

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• 15 April

  UAE food safety rating rises to 98% in 3 years

    Dubai / WAM Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, issued a press statement on the occasion of the GCC Food Safety Day, marked annually on April 15 by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states as a special day to shed light on food safety issues and to raise public awareness about the importance ...

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• 15 April

  ADM, Desert General Co ink AED172mn deal for community market in MBZ city

    ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi City Municipality (ADM) and the Desert General Transport and Clearance Co. have signed a Musataha Agreement, under which the Company will design, build and invest a community market project in Mohamed bin Zayed City, Abu Dhabi, at cost AED172 million. After signing the agreement, Musabbah Mubarak Al Murar, Acting General Manager of ...

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• 15 April

  Yas Mall to host Abu Dhabi’s first KidZania

  

    Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Aldar Properties PJSC (‘Aldar’), Abu Dhabi’s leading listed property development, investment and management company, and Emaar Entertainment, the leading operator of exceptional and unique leisure and entertainment business of Emaar Properties PJSC, announced a partnership that will see Yas Mall become the home of Abu Dhabi’s first KidZania, the legendary children’s edutainment centre. KidZania®, ...

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• 15 April

  Dozens killed in blast near evacuation buses in Syria

  

    BEIRUT / AP Syrian TV said at least 39 people were killed on Saturday in an explosion that hit near buses carrying people evacuated from a besieged area of government loyalists. A war monitor put the death toll at 24 in the area controlled by opposition fighters. The explosion was caused by a car bomb, according to Syrian TV ...

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• 15 April

  Iraq: IS launches chlorine gas attacks in western Mosul

    Bloomberg An Iraqi military officer says IS militants have launched a gas attack in a newly-liberated area in western Mosul. The officer with the anti-terrorism forces said on Saturday that the attack occurred the night before in the al-Abar neighborhood, when IS fired a rocked loaded with chlorine. He said seven soldiers suffered breathing problems and were treated in ...

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• 15 April

  North Korea flaunts long-range missiles in massive parade

    PYONGYANG / AP North Korea paraded its intercontinental ballistic missiles in a massive military display in central Pyongyang on Saturday, with ruler Kim Jong Un looking on with delight as his nation flaunted its increasingly sophisticated military hardware amid rising regional tensions. Kim did not speak during the annual parade, which celebrates the 1912 birthday of his late grandfather ...

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• 15 April

  Breaking the ice

  

    New York / AP On the island where Lyon Farrell comes from, they cherish the golden sand and hanging 10. In the place where he’d love to land next winter, he’ll need a snowboard, not a surfboard, and will get more mileage out of a backside 1260 than riding waves. Farrell is that rarest of birds — an elite snowboarder ...

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• 15 April

  DWE-DFM tie up to support ‘Women in Boards’ initiative

  

    Dubai / WAM The Dubai Women Establishment (DWE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Dubai Financial Market (DFM to foster bilateral collaboration and further women’s economic empowerment by encouraging their participation on the boards of listed companies. The move follows directives of HH Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, wife of HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed ...

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