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HSA pledges $1.2m to UN drive to avert tanker oil spill

  Dubai / Gulf Time HSA Group, Yemen’s largest private company, has announced a $1.2 million donation to support the United Nations’ (UN) efforts to avert a major humanitarian, economic, and ecological disaster in the Red Sea. The donation is the first committed by a private sector organisation. The FSO SAFER oil tanker is one of the world’s largest shipping ...

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Imran Khan’s street politics sets up showdown with army

  Bloomberg Pakistan’s military-backed establishment faces a dilemma: The more they seek to boot Imran Khan out of politics, the greater the risk he becomes even more popular. Since his ouster in a no-confidence vote in April, Khan has sought to rally his supporters in the world’s fifth-most populous country to hit the streets and push for a fresh national ...

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Abu Dhabi Airports sees 6.3m passenger traffic in H1 2022

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi Airports, the operator of the five airports in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, on Wednesday released its passenger traffic report for the first half of 2022. The report revealed healthy figures for passenger traffic of 6,299,725 across Abu Dhabi International, Al Ain International, Al Bateen Executive, Delma and Sir Bani Yas Island airports ...

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Sharjah Ruler presents new batch of books to Holy Quran Academy

  Sharjah / WAM His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, has presented to Holy Quran Academy (HQA)  new batch of precious books concerned with the Quran sciences and the Prophet’s Sunnah. The manuscripts are considered among the valuable scientific and historical treasures, as they are added to the academy, along ...

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ADJD: 2,200 civil marriages registered in eight months

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Judicial Department (ADJD) has registered more than 2,200 civil marriage applications before the Abu Dhabi Civil Family Court for foreigners in less than eight months, at a rate of 25 applications per day, or four new marriages per hour, since the Abu Dhabi Emirate Civil Marriage Law came into force in January ...

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RTA upgrades automated system for assessing roads condition

  Dubai / WAM Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has upgraded the automated system for assessing the condition of roads, managing their maintenance and pavement to achieve the relevant strategic objectives. The system constitutes a comprehensive programme for automating and governing the assessment of the performance of the functional and construction pavement condition of the road network through software ...

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Biden pledges $3b to Ukraine in largest military aid package yet

Bloomberg US President Joe Biden announced a $2.98 billion weapons and equipment package for Ukraine on the six-month anniversary of Russia’s invasion, the biggest tranche of American security assistance to date. The announcement came as Ukraine celebrates the anniversary of its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. The White House said the latest package will allow Ukraine to purchase ...

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UAE President attends fraternal consultative meeting in Egypt

  AL ALAMEIN, Egypt / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, attended on Tuesday the fraternal consultative ‘Al Alameim Meeting’ which was called by Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, with the participation of King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain and King Abdullah II of Jordan. During the meeting, held in Al Alamein City, Mersah ...

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Dewa sets new world record for gas turbine, desalination units’ overhaul

  Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has announced breaking its own world record in major inspection outage duration for the overhaul of gas turbines and desalination units, recorded in 2019. This achievement promotes Dewa’s position as a globally leading sustainable model for overhauling gas turbines and desalination units. Dewa has reduced the maintenance outages for critical ...

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Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka joins NYU Abu Dhabi faculty

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Wole Soyinka, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, has been appointed Arts Professor of Theater at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) effective September 1. A multifaceted artist-dramatist, poet, essayist, musician, philosopher, teacher, human rights activist, and global artist and scholar, Soyinka joined the NYUAD Theatre Programme as a full-time faculty member, thereby offering ...

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