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  Sharjah / WAM HH Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, wife of H.H. the Ruler of Sharjah, Chairperson of the Supreme Council for Family Affairs, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Eminent Advocate for Refugee Children and Chairperson of the Big Heart Foundation, has called for concerted efforts to help people who are affected by wars and disasters. Sheikha ...

  Sharjah / WAM More than 1,200 freshmen and their parents were welcomed to an orientation session held at the American University of Sharjah (AUS) on August 19. The event was aimed at enabling new students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the university and to familiarise them with life at AUS. The new students, who come from the top 20 ...

  ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Ten Emirati students have returned to the UAE from the South Korea where they gained invaluable hands-on experience, nuclear industry insight, and an introduction to Korean culture through the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) summer internship program, organized in partnership with KEPCO International Nuclear Graduate School (KINGS). The students from Khalifa University of Science, ...

  Sharjah / Emirates Business City Centre Sharjah, owned and operated by Majid Al Futtaim — the leading shopping mall, retail and leisure pioneer across the Middle East and North Africa — will celebrate education and International Literacy Day in September. In line with ‘the year of reading’ initiative, the mall offers a range of education enhancing initiatives, culminating in ...

  Bloomberg A two-month advance in U.S. equities ran out of steam amid signs investors are again growing skeptical of the long-awaited rebound in corporate profits. Stocks didn’t fall by much — at its close of 2,183.87, the S&P 500 Index slipped 0.01 percent over the five days — but that was enough to make it the second-worst week since ...

  Berlin / AFP Embattled automaker Volkswagen has been forced to suspend manufacture of the popular Golf model at its main production plant in Germany, a spokesman said on Saturday. But the decision by the car giant, locked in a legal battle with parts suppliers, will not affect its annual production target. Production of the Golf will be suspended “from ...

  Hasakeh / AFP Syrian government warplanes were in the air again on Saturday over the flashpoint northeastern city of Hasakeh, despite a US warning against new strikes that might endanger its military advisers. In another escalation of the five-year war, regime planes this week bombarded positions held by US-backed Kurdish forces in the city fighting the IS extremist group. ...

  Shanghai / Bloomberg China Investment Corp., the $814 billion sovereign fund, is leading a Chinese investor group in talks for a multibillion-dollar iron-ore streaming deal with Brazil’s Vale SA, people familiar with the matter said. The consortium is negotiating the potential purchase of a portion of Vale’s future iron-ore output for as long as 30 years, two of the ...

  Bloomberg Origin Energy Ltd., the Australian energy producer and retailer, plans to start the sale of an Australian wind farm project after gauging interest from potential buyers, people with knowledge of the matter said. The Sydney-based company will ask next week for expressions of interest for its planned Stockyard Hill project west of Melbourne, one of the people said, ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE is deeply committed to protecting humanitarian workers and providing emergency relief to more than 130 million people affected by humanitarian crises in over 40 countries, Reem bint Ibrahim Al Hashemi, Minister of State for International Cooperation, said on Thursday on the occasion of World Humanitarian Day. In a statement to mark World Humanitarian Day, ...