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Abu Dhabi / WAM Maktaba, the library management department of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), on Sunday opened its Art Hub exhibition at the Khalifa Park Library (KPL), which will be on display until November 25. Featuring multimedia works spanning visual arts, crafts and design, created by 24 UAE-based emerging artists, the exhibition ...

Dubai / WAM Sao Paulo’s Trade Promotion Office in Dubai, which opened a few months ago, made a “great impact” in terms of trade and investment relations between the Brazilian state and the Middle East, the state’s top official told Emirates News Agency (WAM). “Well, the impact (of Dubai office) is great and very positive. We started a new business ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron are heading for a full frontal collision in the next 48 hours that threatens to disrupt the United Nations’ climate summit. Macron’s government is on Tuesday set to introduce additional controls on goods moving across its border with the UK and block British fishing boats from unloading their catches ...

Sharjah / WAM His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, inaugurated on Saturday, the art exhibition “The Other Side of Silence” by Hrair Sarkissian in the Sharjah Art Foundation. The exhibition, organised by the Sharjah Art Foundation in cooperation with Galérie Bonnier Constellation in Stockholm, and the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, ...

Dubai / WAM As global population growth continues to challenge the world’s existing cities and communities, Expo 2020 Dubai brings together leaders, experts and citizens to explore how we must transform the way we move, build, consume and live in the habitats of the future. By 2050, more than 70 percent of the world’s population is forecast to live in ...

NEW DELHI / WAM The UAE will be an important participant in the India International Trade Fair (IITF) to be held in New Delhi from November 14-27, India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry announced on Saturday. The ministry said India’s other trade partners which have confirmed their attendance at the annual exhibition, described as “one of the most awaited business ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Counselor Ismail Madani, Senior Advocate General and Head of Public Funds Prosecution on Saturday affirmed that the Public Prosecution is continuing its unremitting efforts to implement the national strategy to combat money laundering and terrorism financing crimes and put in place a strong financial crime control system in the UAE. He said the Public Prosecution also ...

SHARJAH / WAM Sheikh Fahim Al Qasimi, Chairman of the Department of Government Relations (DGR) in Sharjah, welcomed a French delegation headed by Nathalie Kennedy, Consul-General of the French Republic in Dubai, to discuss the potential of strengthening collaboration between Sharjah and the French capital in vital sectors, including culture, education, and tourism. At a meeting, held in presence of ...

Bloomberg China’s President Xi Jinping urged Group of Twenty (G20) leaders to treat all Covid-19 vaccines equally as he pushed for greater mutual recognition of World Health Organization-approved shots. Addressing the summit via video link, Xi called on nations to back the World Trade Organisation making an early decision on whether to waive intellectual property rights for vaccines and encouraged ...

Bloomberg Joe Biden’s proposed incentives for US electric-car buyers could be challenged as unfair and a violation of the new North American trade pact, a Canadian auto-industry leader warned. The White House plan as part of the president’s latest budget package, would offer buyers of vehicles made by unionised US workers an additional $4,500 in credits above the $7,500 available ...