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ABU DHABI / WAM On Monday, the UAE will celebrate the annual Zayed Humanitarian Work Day on 19th Ramadan, which will coincide with the anniversary of the death of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. This year’s celebrations will witness the launch of important humanitarian and charity initiatives, through thousands of government and community events organised by public, ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), on Sunday announced that it expanded its annual Ramadan activities, committing to provide more than one million community members with food, water and power, helping to enhance Muslims’ lives during the Holy Month of Ramadan, across the UAE, on the occasion of the Zayed Humanitarian Day. Adnoc’s Ramadan programme ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai has become the first city in the Middle East and 24th in the world to be appointed a UNESCO Creative City of Design. During a press conference held on Sunday at the Youth Hub in the Emirates Towers, the UNESCO announced the selection of Dubai as the first Creative City of Design in the Middle East ...

Abyan / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), continues to distribute Ramadan iftar meals in the Abyan governorate with the support of HHSheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, wife of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, Crown Prince of Fujairah. The ERC distributed Ramadan iftar meals in Zanzibar and Khanfar districts and started the distribution ...

Bloomberg Even as defense ministers and military chiefs meeting in Singapore called out China for parking missiles on outposts in the disputed South China Sea, a bigger potential China-related hot spot looms. Concern about Taiwan — and recent sparring between Beijing and Washington over the democratically run island — percolated discussions at the annual IISS Shangri-La Dialogue, which was otherwise ...

Bloomberg Samsung Electronics Co. plans to highlight an upgraded camera when it unveils its next Galaxy Note smartphone on August 9, according to people familiar with the matter. The new model, likely to be called the Note 9, will look similar to last year’s model, but will also include an upgraded processor from Qualcomm Inc. for some markets, the people ...

Bloomberg America’s closest allies plan to slap billions of dollars in tit-for-tat tariffs on US goods after the Trump administration announced it’s imposing steel and aluminum duties on them. The reaction was swift after Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced the US will levy new metals duties on imports from the European Union, Mexico and Canada on national security grounds, ending ...

Bloomberg British consumers are worried about prospects for the economy with Brexit on the horizon, and that could spark a shift in behaviour that drags even more on growth. Households have driven expansion for more than a year, but only because they saved less to keep up spending during 2017’s inflation surge. They may be less willing to do so ...

Bloomberg Auto sales were supposed to slow again this year. But with the US economy chugging along, car shoppers keep strolling into showrooms. The pickup in hiring and President Donald Trump’s tax cuts have helped keep new-vehicle demand humming. Almost every automaker’s May results beat analysts’ estimates, and several posted increases, led by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV’s 11 percent jump. ...

Bloomberg North Korea will get relief from international sanctions only when it has shown irreversible moves toward denuclearisation, US Secretary of Defense James Mattis said ahead of a summit next week between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Speaking on Sunday in Singapore at the start of a meeting with the defense ministers of South Korea and ...