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Dubai / WAM  Mageed Yahia, UN Resident Coordinator ad interim for the UAE, and WFP Director in the UAE and Representative to the GCC, said that this year’s celebration of the United Nations Day coincides with the 50th anniversary of the UAE’s membership in the international organisation, highlighting the country’s prominent role in hosting international organisation offices in the country. ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Edge group has announced that it will participate in the Indo Defence Expo and Forum in Jakarta from November 2-5. As one of the world’s top 25 advanced technology groups for defence and beyond, Edge has seized the opportunity of exhibiting at a major international industry event to showcase its products and solutions to the Indonesian ...

Dubai / WAM DP World Limited handled 59.6 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units) across its global portfolio of container terminals in nine months of 2022, with gross container volumes increasing by 2.0% year-on-year on a reported basis and up 2.5% on a like-for-like basis. On a Q3 2022 basis, DP World handled 20.1 million TEU, up 1.5% year-on-year and up ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The choice of Italy as the guest of honour at the Sharjah International Book Fair this year is an eloquent reflection of the interest the UAE people have in Italian culture, a top Italian diplomat told the Emirates News Agency (WAM). In an exclusive interview, Lorenzo Fanara, the new ambassador of Italy to the UAE, said ...

Matthew A. Winkler Gavin Newsom is as familiar as anyone with the media narrative of earthquakes, persistent wildfires, droughts, homelessness and companies fleeing California to Texas for a tax- and regulation-free lifestyle. This is nothing new. California’s governor recalls a 1994 Time Magazine cover story citing “a string of disasters rocks the state to the core, forcing Californians to ponder ...

Flair Airlines Ltd, a low-cost Canadian airline, is in talks to go public through a merger with New Vista Acquisition Corp., a blank check-firm backed by a former Boeing Co. chief executive officer. New Vista may seek to raise additional financing to support a transaction. The special purpose acquisition company is led by Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing’s CEO from 2015 to ...

Unilever Plc recalled popular brands of aerosol dry shampoo, including Dove, after discovering they were contaminated with a chemical called benzene that can cause cancer. The recall also covers brands such as Nexxus, Suave, Tresemmé and Tigi, which makes Rockaholic and Bed Head dry shampoos, according to a notice posted on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) website. Unilever’s recall ...

President Jair Bolsonaro’s momentum in opinion polls seemed to stall after a series of blunders and incidents over the past few days, including the arrest of one of his most outspoken supporters —an episode that turned violent and shook Brazilians ahead of Sunday’s presidential runoff. Leftist challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 76, would take 54% of valid votes, which ...

President Joe Biden’s advisers are working on setting up a meeting with Xi Jinping and maintaining a dialogue after the Chinese president emerged from the Communist Party congress last week with a tighter grip on the country, a White House spokesman said. John Kirby, a spokesman for Biden’s National Security Council, said the US would have no official comment on ...

Six Palestinians were killed in the West Bank overnight, and more than 30 were injured, in an Israeli military operation. The operation against the Lion’s Den group, which the military says was planning a number of attacks against Israelis, was the deadliest night of violence in the West Bank and Jerusalem since the start of the year. It comes a ...