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ABU DHABI / WAM Middle East Design and Build Week (MEDBW) and Middle East Manufacturing and Technology Expo (MEMT) kicked off on Monday at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (Adnec), UAE. The events support the national objectives of reforming the UAE’s industrial sector to achieve economic growth and strengthen the country’s footprint in the global manufacturing landscape. The events were ...

Bloomberg Russia hit power plants deep behind Ukrainian lines, causing blackouts across the northeast of the country as Kyiv’s forces pressed a lightning offensive that’s reversed months of Moscow’s advances. More than 30 settlements, including Kramatorsk and Dnipro, suffered Russian missile and air strikes over the past day, Ukraine’s General Staff said in its regular update on Facebook Monday. Kharkiv ...

ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan discussed with Aleksandar Vucic, President of the Republic of Serbia, the various areas of the cooperation between their countries and prospects for enhancing it to advance their mutual interests, in addition to a number of regional and global issues and developments of mutual concern. The talks took ...

ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, chaired the UAE Cabinet meeting held at Qasr Al Watan Abu Dhabi. The meeting was attended by HH Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Finance; ...

  DUBAI / WAM The Dubai Investment Development Agency (Dubai FDI) at the Department of Economy and Tourism (DET) gained international recognition for its successful efforts in capturing FDI trends and patterns towards positioning the city as a global investment destination. The ‘Dubai FDI Monitor’ open data initiative was recently recognised as a best practice among investment promotion agencies (IPAs) ...

  Bloomberg Germany is increasingly getting vital chemicals from abroad as the country’s industrial giants like BASF SE struggle with sky-rocketing energy prices from Russian gas cuts. Chemical import volumes have almost doubled this year as the crisis deepened. Germany imported around 2.8 billion tonnes of inorganic chemicals in the first half of 2022, according to Germany’s federal statistics office. ...

  Bloomberg Ukraine’s forces continued their rapid advance in the Kharkiv region on Sunday, exploiting an extraordinary collapse of Russian defenses and raising the question of how far they can go. Unconfirmed reports overnight suggested Kyiv’s troops had taken Velykyi Burluk, a town about 90 kilometers (56 miles) east of Kharkiv and not far from the Russia-Ukraine border. The town ...

ABU DHABI / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, have witnessed the signing of a landmark gas sales agreement between Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) and Dubai Supply Authority (Dusup). The agreement showcases the ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development has officially announced that its membership programme has been enhanced and updated with a variety of business add-ons, which will further encourage and enable entrepreneurship. The membership updates includes an unlimited amount of trade license business registrations, which was originally 1 license per entrepreneur; fewer age restrictions, with anyone being ...

  Sharjah / WAM American University of Sharjah (AUS) is one of the top five institutions worldwide for community engagement in sustainability, according to the 2022 Sustainable Campus Index (SCI) issued by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). A publication from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, the SCI highlighted innovative ...