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  Emirates Business Cairo Now! A City Incomplete captures for the first time under one roof the Egyptian capital’s current design landscape and celebrates innovation and emerging talent in the fields of product, furniture, graphic and typeface design as well as architecture. Curated by Cairo-based architect, independent researcher and writer Mohamed Elshahed, Over 65 Egyptian architects, designers, entrepreneurs and graphic ...

  Dubai / WAM A UAE plane carrying over 100 tonnes of aid will leave for Entebbe, Uganda, early on Sunday to deliver vital relief supplies to more than 60,000 South Sudanese refugees who have flocked to the Ugandan border, fleeing from the conflict in South Sudan. This immediate response follows the directives of Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler ...

  Ras Al Khaimah / Emirates Business Ras Al Khaimah will later this month host the UAE’s World Tourism Day conference which this year has the theme of ‘Tourism for All – Promoting Universal Accessibility’. This is the second World Tourism Day conference being held in Ras Al Khaimah. The conference is aligned with the 2016 United Nations World Tourism ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business For the first time in the UAE, dubizzle – the country’s leading property classifieds platform – has introduced 360° virtual reality tours, allowing property seekers a comprehensive tour of desired properties ahead of contacting agents. Partnering with 360VUZ, winner of best Travel Tech Start-up 2015, dubizzle will integrate the latest virtual reality technology into property ...

  Berlin / AFP More than 160,000 demonstrators thronged seven major cities across Germany on Saturday in protest over a massive transatlantic trade deal, dealing a new blow to the disputed accord. In Berlin, as in Munich, there was a sea of flags as people flocked to join the rallies despite the rain, carrying placards and banners representing dozens of ...

  Lisbon / AFP Portugal’s prime minister said he had called for “clarifications” from European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker that there would be no “discriminatory treatment” of his EC predecessor Jose Manuel Barroso, whose decision to work for Goldman Sachs has sparked controversy. “I asked for clarifications from the president of the Commission on the decision taken in relation to ...

  Bloomberg China General Nuclear Power Corp., the country’s biggest nuclear power operator, has been invited to make a second-round bid for Chevron Corp.’s Asian geothermal energy assets, which could fetch $3 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Jakarta-based PT Medco Power Indonesia is considering joining a separate shortlisted consortium that includes Japanese trading house Marubeni Corp. ...

  Bloomberg Indonesians have declared 117.3 trillion rupiah ($8.9 billion) of assets held in Singapore under the government’s tax amnesty, though only a small proportion of that figure has been brought back home, Indonesia’s Finance Ministry said. Of the total Singapore assets declared to the Indonesian government as of Sept. 15, only 14.1 trillion rupiah, or about 12 percent, has ...

  Slavyansk / AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Syrian rebels on Saturday of using a fragile ceasefire to regroup, as diplomatic tensions between Moscow and Washington simmered over a lack of humanitarian aid access. Fresh shelling and clashes were reported overnight in some areas of the war-torn country, but the US-Russia brokered truce which took effect on Monday appeared ...

  WASHINGTON / AP President Barack Obama will review military strategy against the IS group, press nations to admit more refugees and review progress around the world, despite new challenges, when he makes his final appearance at the UN General Assembly session in New York next week, the White House said. On the sidelines of the session, Obama has scheduled ...