April, 2017

• 9 April

  Iron Mountain achieves first acquisition in Mideast

  

    Dubai / Emirates Business Iron Mountain Incorporated acquired a controlling stake in Endless Document Storage Services LLC. The acquisition is in line with Iron Mountain’s strategy to expand its presence in fast-growing international markets by investing in well-established local or regional businesses that can provide similar services and have a similar business ethos. The move into the Middle East ...

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• 9 April

  Fragrance firms to spread sweet smell at Expo 2020

  

    Dubai / WAM Manufacturers of Arabic perfumes, essential oils, bukhoor and other fragrances from across the GCC will have a unique global platform to showcase their talents by producing scents for Expo 2020 Dubai. The Expo on Sunday launched its search for producers of fragrances, from international brands to small, artisan producers in the Gulf, which could be offered to ...

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• 9 April

  Shurooq coordinates efforts to protect Sharjah’s cultural heritage

  

    Sharjah / WAM Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) Sharjah Antiquities Authority, Sharjah Institute for Heritage and Sharjah Museums Department have met to discuss ways to organise and protect cultural heritage in Sharjah. The meeting was held at Shurooq’s main office in Al Qasba, in the presence of Marwan bin Jassim Al Sarkal, CEO of Shurooq, Manal Ataya, Director-General of ...

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• 9 April

  Israa, Miraj holiday for pvt sector announced

    Abu Dhabi / WAM The official holiday marking Israa and Miraj will be on Saturday, April 22, for all workers in private sector enterprises, institutions and companies in the country where Friday is the only weekly day off, while Sunday April 23 will be the official holiday marking the Islamic occasion for those who have Fridays and Saturdays as their ...

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• 9 April

  DLD offers job vacancies at ‘Careers UAE 2017’

    Dubai / WAM Dubai Land Department (DLD) put its slogan – ‘Moving Towards a Successful Career’ – into action on the second day of its participation in the 17th edition of the ‘Careers UAE 2017’ fair, by providing free real estate scholarships for UAE nationals as well as a number of vacancies and training courses for young job seekers. In ...

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• 9 April

  Egypt stocks fall on bomb blasts, most Mideast markets down

  

    DUBAI / Reuters Egyptian stocks fell on Sunday, hurt by bomb blasts in the country, while most other Middle East stock markets also ended lower as geopolitical tensions weighed on investor sentiment. Some of the Middle East markets started the day in positive territory as higher oil prices briefly offset concerns about a US missile strike on a Syrian ...

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• 9 April

  US stocks resilient in week of surprises as VIX stays quiet

  

    Bloomberg A week marked by surprises, from a US missile strike in Syria to a jobs report that was the weakest in almost a year, did little to rattle US equities sitting near record levels. Against a backdrop of rising geopolitical tensions and uncertainty over the Donald Trump administration’s approach to financial regulation, volatility remained muted in the stock ...

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• 9 April

  On Syria, Trump confronts a moral test

  

    Even for a president who advertised his coldblooded pragmatism, the moral dimensions of leadership find a way of penetrating the Oval Office. In the case of President Trump, the emotional distance seems to have been shattered by simple, indelible images of suffering children in Idlib, Syria. “When you kill innocent children, innocent babies — babies! — little babies … ...

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• 9 April

  Modi is a different nationalist than Putin or Trump

  

    Over the past year, Russia’s Vladimir Putin has emerged as the ideological patron of a certain brand of conservatism worldwide. Politicians from France’s Marine Le Pen, to Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, to Donald Trump appear drawn to Putin’s vision of a world marked by weaker transnational power blocs, fewer meddlesome liberals and a harder line against radical Islam. ...

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• 9 April

  Making the Syria strikes count

    In the span of just a few days, US President Donald Trump appears to have met both his first true foreign policy crisis and his most challenging bilateral summit more smoothly than many had feared he might. Whether this turns out to be anything more than a symbolic victory, and whether it has an effect in the fight against ...

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