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Bloomberg The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said millions of courses of Merck & Co’s promising pill for Covid-19 could begin to reach lower-income nations early next year as the charity kicks in as much as $120 million to widen global access to the therapy. The funds will help spur generic-drug manufacturers, some of which have indicated they could produce ...

Dubai / WAM in5, an enabling platform for entrepreneurs, recently reached a new milestone as its start-ups crossed the AED1.4 billion investment mark, reaffirming Dubai’s leading position as an attractive destination for talent and entrepreneurship. The direct investments came through venture capital and angel investors. More than 150 new companies joined in5 since 2020, bringing the grand total of start-ups ...

ABU DHABI / WAM HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, has thanked South Korea for its support to the UAE’s offer to host the Conference of the Parties (COP 28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Abu Dhabi in 2023. In a statement, Sheikh Abdullah said, “We ...

Dubai / WAM The Abu Dhabi Digital Authority (ADDA), the government entity leading the digital transformation in the government of Abu Dhabi, has signed a joint collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) during its participation at Gitex Technology Week 2021, which runs until October 21 at the Dubai World Trade Centre. The collaboration agreement comes as part of ADDA’s ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Taking place immediately after the UN climate meeting COP 26, Adipec will bring together hundreds of ministers, policymakers and business leaders from across the world to share perspectives on how hydrogen can potentially deliver a holistic, clean, integrated approach to the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region’s energy sector. Held under the patronage of President ...

Bloomberg North Korea appears to have fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile for the first time in two years, adding to a series of tests demonstrating Kim Jong Un’s pursuit of nuclear-capable weapons that can evade US interceptors. The regime is suspected of launching an SLBM Tuesday from the eastern port of Sinpo into waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM G42 Healthcare, an Abu Dhabi-based leading healthcare technology company, and Mubadala Health, an integrated healthcare network dedicated to establishing the highest international standards of care in the UAE and the region, on Monday announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to advance healthcare provision in the UAE. The partnership between Mubadala Health and G42 Healthcare ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Sports Council (ADSC) and the European Tour on Monday announced that the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship will move to Yas Island for the first time next year when Yas Links Abu Dhabi hosts the opening Rolex Series event of the 2022 season. Designed by Kyle Phillips and recently ranked 48th in Golf Digest’s global ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) has launched a new supercomputer built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise to advance weather forecasting and overall climate research. The supercomputer, named “Atmosphere”, uses the HPE Cray EX system, an end-to-end high-performance computing (HPC) liquid-cooled platform customised to deliver advanced performance across computing, accelerated computing, software, storage and networking. The combined ...

Dubai / WAM The Ghaf tree is one of the indigenous trees that are abundant in the desert of the UAE and is associated with the heritage and history of the region for its benefits in the lives of ancestors in the past. The Ghaf is a drought-tolerant tree, which can remain green even in harsh desert environments. It is ...