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Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, visited the Special Olympics World Games, Abu Dhabi 2019, at the Abu Dhabi ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, on Wednesday held talks with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia, on bilateral relations between the two countries. During the meeting held in Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed and Prime Minister Abiy reviewed ...

NEW YORK / WAM The UAE was ranked first in the Arab region in the World Happiness Report (WHR) for the fifth consecutive year. According to a statement issued by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), which produces the World Happiness Report, “In 2016, the United Arab Emirates committed to implementing a happiness and wellbeing policy agenda within ...

ABU DHABI / WAM At Etisalat’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) shareholders have backed the board’s recommendation to pay full-year 2018 dividends of 80 fils per share and approved the proposal of lifting restrictions on the voting rights of foreign shareholders. Etisalat Group consolidated revenues reached AED52.4 billion while consolidated net profit after Federal Royalty reached AED8.6 billion, an increase of ...

Dubai / WAM With less than six months to go until the start of the 24th World Energy Congress, Suhail bin Mohammed Faraj Faris Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy and Industry, outlined a Congress that will bring together the entire global energy ecosystem – government and industry leaders from Asia and Africa, investors, innovators, students and young professionals among many ...

Bloomberg Oil’s rally stuttered as uncertainty over the status of trade negotiations between the US and China stoked concerns over global economic growth. Futures for May fell as much as 1.2 percent in New York. China was said to be pushing back against American demands, raising speculation that trade tensions between the world’s biggest economies will persist. Still, the price ...

Bloomberg Petrobras is expected to receive more than $18 billion from a mixture of government and private sources as payment for oil reserves, people familiar with the matter said, potentially resolving a dispute that has dragged on since 2013. Brazil’s government anticipates that companies seeking to join in deep-water oil projects would need to pay Petrobras more than $9 billion, ...

Bloomberg Viacom Inc. is warning pay-TV customers of AT&T Inc. that they could lose access to channels such as Nickelodeon and MTV unless the companies reach a new programming agreement. The current contract between the parties expires on Friday, Viacom said in an email. The media company began activating a “crawl” message on its networks, alerting customers of the looming ...

Bloomberg Norsk Hydro ASA said it made progress in securing its computer systems after the Norwegian aluminum maker was hit by a ransomware cyber attack. The company plans to restart overnight some systems in divisions that make finished metal, which should help it continue deliveries to customers. It has detected the “root cause” of the attack, but doesn’t know how ...

Bloomberg Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s role as a trailblazer for resurgent nationalist forces in the European Union faces a reckoning as the bloc’s largest political family weighs whether to expel or suspend his illiberal party two months before crucial EU elections. The verdict by the European People’s Party (EPP) due on Wednesday afternoon was expected to signal whether the ...