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Bloomberg Vladimir Putin’s surprise firing of Russia’s government and unveiling of constitutional changes that would weaken the presidency may only be Plan B for retaining power after his final term ends in 2024. In the month before Putin’s January 15 announcement, he’d pushed hard to convince his longer-serving counterpart in Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, to revive a moribund agreement to create ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Follow-Up Committee of the Initiatives of the UAE President has completed the construction of the AED1.9 billion Mohamed bin Zayed City housing project in Fujairah. The city has been set up in line with the vision of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Department of Community Development – Abu Dhabi (DCD) signed the Global Compact on Inclusive & Accessible Cities “Cities4All (C4All)” during the World Urban Forum Stakeholders Roundtable on Persons with Disabilities. DCD signed the compact with the Mayor’s offices of Barcelona and Helsinki, the International Union of Architects, Special Olympics Saudi Arabia, along with local civil ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the United States International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), an independent agency of the US Government. The areas of collaboration outlined by the MoU include the exchange of knowledge and expertise between the two parties especially in the field of financing private ...

DUBAI / WAM AS World Group – in its capacity as Authorised Ticket Reseller for Expo 2020 Dubai – organised a global roadshow at the 33rd Ordinary Session of the African Union Summit held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to promote the upcoming World Expo to all 54 member countries of the African Union. AS World Group launched special Expo 2020 ...

Bloomberg The UK will need to go further than Canada in its commitments to the European Union (EU) if it wants to trade without tariffs and quotas, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned, further raising the temperature with Britain before negotiations on the future relationship even start. In a direct, personal response to the speech by Prime Minister ...

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc has asked the US Court of Federal Claims to allow it to question President Donald Trump in its lawsuit challenging the loss of a highly lucrative cloud contract. In a court filing made public, Amazon asks to question Trump and top Pentagon leaders about their role in the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract that ...

Bloomberg Prime minister Narendra Modi’s federal ruling party conceded defeat in a hard-fought state election for control of India’s capital Delhi, the most significant test of his popularity after his religion-based citizenship law led to widespread protests across the country. The incumbent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), led-by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, was set to retain power as it swept ahead ...

Bloomberg The Trump administration’s indictment of Chinese military personnel over one of the biggest data thefts in US history highlights a key source of animosity remaining between the two sides after their “phase one” trade deal. The US Department of Justice announced the charges against four People’s Liberation Army members over a 2017 hack of credit reporting agency Equifax Inc, ...

Bloomberg Singapore could see a 25% to 30% decline in tourist arrivals and spending this year because of the coronavirus outbreak, as the industry braces for a worse impact than the 2003 Sars pandemic, the city’s tourism chief said. The city-state is losing about 18,000 to 20,000 tourists a day, and the figures could plummet further if the situation persists ...