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  Vienna / AFP Major powers, including the United States, met in the Austrian capital on Monday to discuss the expanding presence of the IS extremist group in conflict-ridden Libya, just across the Mediterranean from Europe. IS has taken advantage of the chaos left by the toppling and death of longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi in 2011, which led to rival ...

  WASHINGTON / AP President Barack Obama cast Donald Trump’s positions on immigration, trade and Muslims as part of an ignorance-and-isolation philosophy that the president says will lead the US down the path of decline. Obama used his commencement speech Sunday at Rutgers University to tear into the presumptive Republican nominee, without ever mentioning his name. Time and again the ...

  Our Correspondent / Emirates Business One of the most strategically positioned housing communities located on the picturesque outskirts of Abu Dhabi, Hidd Al Saadiyat has announced commencement of the construction of its private marina. This community boasts of around 1.5 million square meters of natural beachfront land and 7-kilometer of waterfront and the marina construction project, which is awarded ...

  ALKESH SHARMA / Emirates Business Strongly backed by prosperous economy and sturdy rise in the per capita income of the residents, the food services industry in the GCC region promises to grow significantly in the coming years. According to Al Masah Capital Ltd, region’s leading investment firm, GCC food services market stayed at US$18.8 billion in 2014 and it ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business dubizzle — the UAE’s leading property classifieds platform — reveals its first ever property report for the UAE’s Northern Emirates, comparing Q1 2016 data to Q1 2015. dubizzle.com has over over 5 million unique visitors a month, with an average of two visits per week, per visitor and an average duration of 16.5 minutes per ...

  Seoul / AFP South Korea said on Monday it will fine Nissan for manipulating emissions data on a popular diesel sports utility vehicle, bringing the Japanese car giant into a widening global scandal that has already ensnared Volkswagen and Mitsubishi. Seoul said it would order recalls of hundreds of Qashqai model SUVs after tests revealed an emission defeat system ...

  Beijing / Bloomberg China’s record daily output in April bodes ill for an embattled global steel industry already reeling from a deluge of exports from the world’s top producer. Crude steel output over the month rose 0.5 percent to 69.42 million metric tons from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said. The gains came after mills ramped ...

  Bloomberg Britain’s biggest business lobby cut its growth forecasts for the U.K. economy and said the referendum on European Union membership has put a “dark cloud of uncertainty” over the outlook. The warning on Monday from the Confederation of British Industry follows an intense week of back and forth between both sides of the debate before the June 23 ...

  London / AFP French oil and gas company Total officially launched a project off Britain’s remote Shetland Islands on Monday, hailed by London as a “vote of confidence” in the flagging Scottish North Sea oil and gas industry. The Laggan-Tormore fields are located 600 metres (1,970 feet) under water off Britain’s northernmost outpost. They began production on February 7 ...

  Bloomberg Oil climbed to a six-month high as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said the market moved into a deficit earlier than expected due to disruptions in Nigeria and higher demand. Futures rose as much as 2.1 percent in New York. The shift to a supply deficit this month happened one quarter earlier than forecast, Goldman Sachs said in a ...