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ABU DHABI / WAM Alpha Condé, President of Guinea, has received Major General Dr Ahmed Nasser Al Raisi, Inspector General of the Ministry of the Interior (MoI), and his accompanying delegation. During the meeting, the sides discussed means to enhance relations between Guinea and the UAE in police and security fields. President Condé stressed the depth of the UAE-Guinea relations, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Khalifa University (KU) is now a member of the Global Engineering Education Exchange Program (Global E3 Consortium), a consortium-based exchange programme established in 1995 that provides undergraduate engineering students an opportunity to study in leading universities from around the world while being able to pay tuition at their home university. As a top ranked university in ...

Bloomberg The world’s biggest platinum miners are ramping up plans to build renewable energy plants to free them from power outages that have plagued South Africa for more than a decade and to reduce their carbon footprint. Sibanye Stillwater Ltd, the No. 1 platinum miner, Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd and Anglo American Platinum Ltd said they plan to scale up ...

Bloomberg President Vladimir Putin used a Navy Day parade to deliver his latest reminder of Russia’s military muscle, touting the nation’s hypersonic nuclear weapons at a ceremony in his hometown of St Petersburg. “Today the Russian navy has everything it needs to defend our homeland, our national interests,” Putin said in a speech in front of a monument to the ...

Bloomberg London’s jobs market has sprung back to life, becoming a hot spot for the first time since the pandemic closed vast sections of the economy, two separate surveys showed. The Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) said London had six of the top 10 areas in the UK for new job postings in the week ending July 18. Consulting and ...

Bloomberg Canadian retailers started to recover from the third major Covid-19 shutdown, which stunted shopping earlier this year. Receipts fall 2.1% in May, when many provinces had restrictions on businesses to combat the virus, Statistics Canada reported in Ottawa. But retailers bounced back in June with sales rising 4.4% as rules eased, a preliminary estimate from the agency shows. Even ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he’s expecting Apple Inc to ramp up investments in his country after meeting with Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Tim Cook at company’s headquarters. Wrapping up a three-day tour of the US on the West Coast, Sanchez said that Apple will be particularly interested in developing artificial intelligence, television production in Spain. “We expect to have ...

Bloomberg The US and Mexico failed to resolve a dispute over trade rules for cars during a meeting this week, threatening the goal of boosting regional manufacturing under their new trade pact. US Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Mexican Economy Minister Tatiana Clouthier discussed the topic in Washington but couldn’t reach a resolution, according to people familiar with the talks, ...

Dubai / WAM Mattar Mohammed Al Tayer, Director-General, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), revealed that the RTA’s precautionary measures and initiatives applied to the scheduling and operation of public buses, marine transit means, and taxis, had accelerated the recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. Such measures contributed to restoring the growth of ...

Dubai / WAM Emirates is connecting global business and leisure travellers with it’s first-ever passenger service between Dubai and Miami. The airline celebrated the inaugural flight of its four times a week service when it touched down in Miami at 1100hrs local time. Emirates flight EK213 was welcomed by Miami International Airport with a water cannon salute, and drew in ...