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Bloomberg Lebanon is headed for a showdown after the government suffered its first resignations, as the country enters its fourth day of demonstrations in the largest such unrest in years. Four ministers from a major Christian party, the Lebanese Forces, stood down as Prime Minister Saad Hariri said he was working around the clock to come up with a plan ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice Chairman of Abu Dhabi Executive Council, has inaugurated the Al Hayer residential project in Al Ain City. The AED687 million project includes 300 residential villas were built with typologies of Emirati housing in mind and designed around an ‘Emirati neighbourhood’ concept that meets the needs of Emirati ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Tolerance, has signed the ‘Covenant for Million Tolerant’, launched by the Zayed House for Islamic Culture (ZHIC), last April, at the ministry in Abu Dhabi. Signing on the document is seen in the framework of the ministry’s support to all voluntary efforts and initiatives conducted by individuals, local, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Emirates Authority for Standardisation and Metrology (Esma), revealed the strengths of the UAE Halal system, which enabled it to spread reliably worldwide. It allowed the state to take the leading position in regional and international efforts in the Halal file, and provide advice to raise the technical capabilities of the countries wishing to join the ...

DUBAI / WAM Avid readers in the UAE have donated 3,266 books for underprivileged children during the Big Bad Wolf Book Sale at Dubai Studio City’s Sound Stage. This year, the Big Bad Wolf Book Sale has partnered with Dubai Cares to donate books to underprivileged children in Kenya. The event encourages the public to purchase and donate a book ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump confronted a steady drip of damaging revelations out of the House impeachment hearings, but it was his acting chief of staff essentially confirming one of the central allegations at the heart of the inquiry that could prove the most troublesome. Mick Mulvaney said at a White House briefing the president withheld nearly $400 million in US ...

Bloomberg Renault SA set a gloomy tone for the European automotive sector by slashing its outlook for revenue and profit, saying weakening economies are weighing on car sales and tougher rules on emissions have increased costs. The French carmaker’s shares fell the most since the arrest last year of former boss Carlos Ghosn. Renault reduced its financial guidance for 2019, ...

Bloomberg US lawmakers from both parties slammed Apple Inc and Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook for “censorship of apps” at the “behest of the Chinese government.” Senators Ted Cruz, Ron Wyden, Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio and Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Mike Gallagher and Tom Malinowski expressed concern about the removal of an app that let Hong Kong protesters track police movement ...

Bloomberg Tropical Storm Nestor was set to drop in on the Florida panhandle on Saturday with high winds and rain that will miss the nation’s energy hub along the Gulf of Mexico coast but could bring needed moisture to area crops suffering from drought. Nestor was located in the Gulf about 121 kilometres southwest of Apalachicola, Florida, and moving at ...

Bloomberg Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co warned it may lose customers in overseas markets because of its US blacklisting, underscoring the extent to which curbs on the sale of American technology may hurt the world’s largest video surveillance business. Executives at the Chinese camera provider, which reported profit in line with estimates, said however the company was large enough to ...