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Bloomberg Turkey is threatening to veto Nato membership for Sweden and Finland even as the military alliance formally paved the way for the two Nordic countries to join. Turkey will not ratify membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for the applicants if they don’t fufill their promises to combat terrorism and extradite suspects under a memorandum of understanding reached ...

Bloomberg Dozens of Venezuelan opposition figures, who turned Colombia into their unofficial headquarters in recent years, say the election of Gustavo Petro as Colombia’s first leftist president puts them at risk, and they plan to leave. Activists, party leaders, former officers and military deserters are making the move, according to seven people with knowledge of the plans. They’re afraid they’ll ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has directed the restructuring of the Social Welfare Progarmme of low-income citizens into an integrated programme worth AED28 billion instead of AED14 billion. The move aimed at raising the annual social support allocation from AED2.7 billion to AED5 billion. The directive of President His Highness Sheikh ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Dr Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of State for Foreign Trade, said the comprehensive economic partnership agreements (CEPA) signed by the UAE with India, Israel and Indonesia in the first half of 2022 will help grow the national economy by 2.6 percent by 2030. In his statement to the Emirates News Agency (WAM), he ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (Added) on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with GE Digital to accelerate the digital transformation of the emirate’s manufacturing sector by leveraging innovative solutions to strengthen the UAE’s position as a global hub for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0). The agreement was signed by Sameh ...

  Bloomberg Russia’s seaborne crude exports in the seven days to July 1 rebounded from the previous week’s plunge, but shipments to Asia are slipping, even as flows are diverted to the country’s Black Sea terminal to cut the voyage distance to India. Aggregate crude flows from Russian ports were up week-on-week by 23%, recovering most of the volume lost ...

Bloomberg After a dismal first six months, things are finally looking up for initial public offerings in Hong Kong as several large Chinese firms line up to list in Asia’s financial hub in the second half. Battery materials producer Tianqi Lithium Corp just opened its books for what is set to be the city’s first billion-dollar deal this year while ...

  Bloomberg Advanced Info Service Pcl, Thailand’s biggest mobile phone operator, plans to expand its network by acquiring Triple T Broadband Pcl and an infrastructure fund for a total of 32.4 billion baht ($908 million). The Bangkok-based company will buy internet provider Triple T from Jasmine International Pcl for 19.5 billion baht, Chief Financial Officer Tee Seeumpornroj said. It will ...

  Bloomberg Bankrupt Sri Lanka is offering a guaranteed fuel quota to any company that can pay in dollars. Potential purchasers must pay as much as a month in advance to open a consumer account at state-run Ceylon Petroleum Corp, Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera tweeted. Fuel will be issued on a daily or weekly basis from July 12, according to ...

Bloomberg The US ambassador to China called on the Foreign Ministry in Beijing to stop spreading Russia’s “lies,” in an unusually direct and public rebuke by the top American diplomat in the country. Ambassador Nicholas Burns made the “request” in response to a question at a government-backed forum Monday about what China could do to resolve the crisis over Russia’s ...