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  Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, chaired the UAE cabinet meeting, which was held at Qasr Al Watan Abu Dhabi. The meeting was attended by HH Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, ...

  Dubai / WAM Peru’s Trade, Tourism, and Investment Office in the UAE and GCC, has lauded the country’s deepening ties with the UAE, following a bumper year in which the Latin American nation recorded $1 billion in total exports to the UAE. Export levels from Peru to the UAE have increased substantially in the past decade, reaching an aggregate ...

  NOUAKCHOTT / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) has distributed Ramadan ration among residents of 40 villages in Trarza region, Mauritania. The initiative is in implementation of the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and the follow up of HH Sheikh ...

  PARIS / WAM A delegation representing the UAE embassy in Paris has visited Dassault Aviation to discuss opportunities for joint cooperation and means to further develop ties between the two sides. The delegation, headed by Hend Al Otaiba, UAE Ambassador to France, met with Eric Trappier, Chairman and CEO of Dassault Aviation, who praised the existing partnership with the ...

  Bloomberg Benchmark European natural gas prices declined for a seventh consecutive session, with Russian flows to the continent continuing while the war in Ukraine grinds on. Orders for Russian gas shipments via Ukraine edged higher, but remained below capacity, while the Yamal-Europe pipeline continued to flow eastward to Poland from Germany. Gas transiting Russia’s main pipeline link to Europe, ...

Bloomberg The European Union’s top diplomat is urging member states to quickly provide Kyiv with the weapons it has asked for, as Ukraine braces for Russia to step up its campaign in the country’s east, according to people familiar with weekend discussions. Josep Borrell told EU diplomats a decision is needed in days and not weeks, and the bloc must ...

  Bloomberg At the 600-year-old Guildhall in the City of London, key players in a two-decade-old industry looking to remake finance are gathering. Innovate Finance’s summit — part of UK Fintech Week — aims to showcase Britain’s financial technology sector and its global ambitions. Its profile has never been higher, with soaring demand from both customers and investors — even ...

  Bloomberg US consumer borrowing surged in February by the most on record, reflecting outsized increases in both credit-card balances and non-revolving loans. Total credit jumped $41.8 billion from the prior month after a revised $8.9 billion gain in January, Federal Reserve figures showed. The increase exceeded all estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists. On an annualised basis, borrowing ...

  Bloomberg Some of the world’s biggest automakers are linked through their suppliers to labour programs in China’s Xinjiang region that experts have flagged as coercive, according to a new report by Horizon Advisory, a ..-based consultancy. The concerns center around the production of aluminum, raising questions for another key industry about alleged human rights abuses in its supply chain. ...

  Bloomberg The Panama Canal Authority proposed a comprehensive restructuring of its toll system, which would increase rates charged on cargo such as vehicles, oil and gas and soybeans that cross the waterway as ocean shippers rake in record profits. The changes would reduce the current structure to fewer than 60 tariffs from 430 now and focus on vessel capacity ...