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Dubai / WAM The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding with Trends Research and Advisory (Trends) during Arab Health 2023, to collaborate on several research projects, studies and polls relating to the health sector in the emirate. The MoU was signed by Fatima Abbas, CEO of Strategy & Corporate Development Sector at the DHA and ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, received Catherine Colonna, French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs. During the meeting, which took place in Abu Dhabi, the two sides discussed their relations and available opportunities for widening their cooperation, under the framework of strategic partnership between the ...

Dubai / WAM The Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), in collaboration with Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), has launched a new book “Al Marmoom” documenting Emirati heritage and life in the largest unfenced nature reserve in the UAE located in Al Marmoom area. The book was written by Emirati writer and researcher Juma Khalifa bin Thalith, was ...

Bloomberg It’s been called a “carbon bomb” and a caribou killer. Now, climate activists have one final, brief window of opportunity to quash ConocoPhillips’s proposed $8 billion oil development in Alaska. In an unexpected twist, some opponents are quietly encouraging President Joe Biden’s administration to actually approve the project, but in such a scaled-back way that it no long makes ...

  Bloomberg Technology bellwethers Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc. posted results Thursday that show an economic slowdown is throttling demand for everything from electronics and e-commerce to cloud computing and digital advertising. Apple’s sales fell more than analysts predicted during the holiday quarter, slammed by slack purchases of iPhones and Macs. Amazon’s revenue was trimmed by soft consumer ...

Bloomberg Google employees staged protests on both US coasts this week to call attention to labor conditions for subcontracted workers and support thousands of co-workers who were recently laid off. Rallies, one held on Wednesday at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, and another Thursday near Google’s corporate offices in New York City, came after the company announced the largest ...

Bloomberg Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended the use of additional tools besides interest rates to rein in inflation, including a more active policy to reduce foreign exchange volatility and the regulation of fuel prices and food stocks. In a 180-page message to lawmakers on Thursday, Lula blamed his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro for abandoning the use of “important ...

Bloomberg Tesla Inc. is expected to announce an investment in Mexico very soon as the country works to expand infrastructure and renewable energy supply to take advantage of a boom in companies relocating, Foreign Affairs Minister Marcelo Ebrard said. The Mexican government has been working with the carmaker led by billionaire Elon Musk to help it find a location to ...

Bloomberg The Pentagon is tracking what it said was a Chinese surveillance balloon over sensitive nuclear sites in the western US, an incident that injected new strain into relations before a planned Beijing visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The balloon was first spotted earlier this week and had been loitering over Montana, where Minuteman III intercontinental-ballistic-missile silos are ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc), a reliable and responsible provider of lower-carbon intensity energy, on Thursday announced it has signed agreements with 23 UAE and international companies for local manufacturing opportunities across a wide range of critical industrial products worth AED17 billion ($4.63 billion). The agreements outline the intention of the companies to manufacture ...