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ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE Cabinet formed a committee, chaired by HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, with several ministers and officials as members, to implement the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, to the ministers, government officials ...

DUBAI / WAM Mohammed Abdulla Ahli, Director-General of the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority (DCAA), and CEO of Dubai Air Navigation Services (dans), stressed that the aviation sector, which accounts for some 30 percent of Dubai’s GDP, will play a significant role in the success of Expo 2020 by providing superior facilities and logistics services to exhibitors and visitors. He noted ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Make-A-Wish Foundation on Sunday launched a childhood cancer awareness campaign that will also help realise the wishes of children with the disease by raising donations through SMS. The 30-day awareness campaign titled, ‘Cancer Steals Childhood and A Wish Returns it’, was fulfilled as per the directives of Shaikha Shaikha bint Saif Bin Mohammad Al Nahyan, Honorary ...

DUBAI / WAM Construction on the Warsan residential project is well underway for a timely delivery for Expo 2020 Dubai, the project’s developer wasl properties announced on Sunday. The Warsan project will comprise 35 buildings in a community-style layout that when completed will provide – 3,866 residential units, 3,380 shared units, 360 studio units, and 126 one-bedroom apartments – spread ...

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged billions of pounds for education, social care and transportation, and warned Conservative lawmakers to get behind his Brexit plan or face losing their party affiliation. Prime minister tells Sunday Times: “The fundamental choice is this: are you going to side with Jeremy Corbyn and those who want to cancel the referendum?” Michael Gove, ...

Bloomberg The US and Poland are poised to sign an agreement on 5G security as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to persuade European nations to block Huawei Technologies Co and other China telecommunications firms from their networks. A joint declaration on the technology could be signed as Vice President Mike Pence travels to Warsaw, according to a senior administration official ...

Bloomberg Volkswagen AG will revise fuel economy labels on several gasoline-powered models and pay $96.5 million to drivers after an investigation discovered software that could optimise efficiency during government tests but not during real-world driving. A joint investigation between the US Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board discovered the automaker had equipped roughly 1 million vehicles with ...

Bloomberg India’s path to economic recovery faces another obstacle, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking the state road builder to stop constructing highways after its debt ballooned almost seven-fold over the past five years. “National Highways Authority of India totally logjammed with unplanned and excessive expansion of roads,” the prime minister’s office wrote to NHAI in a letter. “NHAI mandated ...

Bloomberg On a steamy summer morning, dozens of buses pull up outside a cluster of low-slung, blue buildings in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Women dressed in colourful salwar kameezes disembark, their dupatta body scarves billowing as they make their way past hibiscus bushes and posters proclaiming, “Our aim, no accident.” The night shift at Foxconn Technology Group’s ...

Bloomberg Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, running in an election that could be the fight of his political life, said he hopes to annex all Jewish West Bank settlements. Israel will build more settlements and won’t uproot settlers, Netanyahu said in a speech in the West Bank settlement of Elkana. “With God’s help, we will extend Jewish sovereignty to ...