June, 2016

• 8 June

  Crimes against humanity in Eritrea since 1991: UN

    Geneva / AFP Eritrea’s government has systematically committed crimes against humanity in the last 25 years, with top officials bearing direct responsibility, UN investigators said on Wednesday. The second report of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) on human rights also said there was a “rule of law vacuum” in the secretive Horn of Africa nation. Independent UN ...

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• 8 June

  Austria far-right challenges election result

  

    Vienna / AFP Austria’s anti-immigration Freedom Party filed on Wednesday a legal challenge two weeks after its candidate lost out by the narrowest of margins on being elected the EU’s first far-right president, alleging “terrifying” irregularities. “We are not sore losers. This is about protecting the very foundations of democracy,” FPOe leader Heinz-Christian Strache said in Vienna as he ...

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• 8 June

  New Zealand PM to visit Fiji as coup legacy lingers

    Wellington / AFP Prime Minister John Key will this week become the first New Zealand leader to visit Fiji in a decade, saying the military coup that soured Wellington-Suva relations for years is “ancient history”. But human rights groups say worrying legacies of dictatorship remain in the Pacific island nation, despite elections in 2014 that resulted in a landslide ...

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• 8 June

  UAE ranks 61 in peace index

    LONDON / EMIRATES BUSINESS United Arab Emirates is ranked as the 61st country in the Global Peace Index (GPI) 2016 released on Wednesday, and is ranked third out of the 20 countries in the Middle East and North Africa region. The tenth edition of the GPI highlights a stark and growing inequality in global levels of peacefulness as the ...

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• 8 June

  Julphar launchs CME project

    RAS AL-KHAIMAH / WAM Julphar, Gulf Pharmaceutical Industries, has launched its latest Continuous Medical Education, CME, programme for pharmacists, “JUMP” (Julphar Updates on Modern Pharmacy) at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Dubai. The launch event was attended by over 200 pharmacists from the UAE and was an opportunity for to address the audience on pharmacists’ responsibility in the art ...

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• 8 June

  Mohamed exchanges Ramadan greetings with Kuwait CP, Sheik Al Azhar

    ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, exchanged greetings over the phone with His Highness Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Crown Prince of the State of Kuwait, and the Grand Imam Dr Ahmed Al-Tayeb of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif, on the occasion ...

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• 8 June

  RTA bags int’l award at Smart Cities Summit

    DUBAI / Emirates Business The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) scooped the ‘Leadership Award for Outstanding Contribution towards Building Smart Cities Award’. Abdullah Ali Al Madani, CEO of RTA’s Corporate Technology Support Services Sector, received the award in recognition of his outstanding performance and strenuous efforts towards transforming Dubai into the smartest city worldwide within three years. An announcement ...

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• 8 June

  UAE makes great strides on digital path

  

    ALKESH SHARMA / Emirates Business Digital transformation has been the success mantra for many enterprises in the Emirates. With the region’s digital economy set to surge twice over the next three years, data security and the continuous emergence of digital innovations are predicted to play a remarkable role in the UAE’s efforts to drive its digital economic growth. According ...

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• 8 June

  Life coaching gains ground in country

  

    RITIKA SHARMA / Emirates Business Although, as a term and an occupation, ‘life coaching’ is not a very old profession, but today it is a multi-million dollar industry with an estimated 100,000 life coaches working professionally across the world. Interestingly, it is the second fastest growing industry in the world after Information Technology. As UAE is one of the ...

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• 8 June

  DLD real estate initiative to connect to India

    Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Land Department (DLD) has announced the launch of the Dubai Global Initiative Real Estate Connect programme, a scheme from the Dubai Real Estate Institute (DREI) — the educational arm of the government department. The programme will begin with a visit to Delhi and Bangalore, India from August 12-17. The inception of the programme will ...

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