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Brazil / Bloomberg Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s top lawyer will present final arguments before an impeachment committee on Monday at the start of a crucial two weeks in the embattled leader’s bid to stay in power. Solicitor General Jose Eduardo Cardozo was due to face the cross-party committee for the last time before it votes on whether to recommend Rousseff ...

Djibouti / AFP A French warship ploughs through the sparkling waters between Africa and Arabia on a joint training drill with the US that highlights Djibouti’s growing strategic role for the world’s militaries. On the sun-blasted rocky shores of the tiny Horn of Africa nation, some 500 French troops march alongside 50 US Marines near the town of Arta, wearing ...

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business FGB, one of the leading banks in the UAE, has received the BS OHSAS 18001 Health & Safety Certification by BSI Middle East and Africa. This makes FGB the first bank in the MENA region to have this title, which recognises its ongoing efforts to ensure occupational health and safety in its business environment. The ...

SHARJAH / WAM HH Dr. Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, has approved the Kalba public park project at Al Ghail district in Sharjah. The project will include shaded rest houses, BBQ areas, sports facilities and public services utilities. Ali bin Shaeen, Chairman of Sharjah Public Works Department, told the Sharjah Radio that ...

ABU DHABI / WAM An advanced light-emitting diode (LED) technology will replace the conventional incandescent light sources in the 710 kilometre-long federal road network as part of the Ministry of Infrastructure Development’s strategic plan to deliver the UAE Vision 2021 and advance the UAE’s ranking in global competitiveness indices, a source at the Ministry of Infrastructure Development has revealed. LEDs ...

Dubai / Emirates Business In the presence of HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Vice Chairman of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy (DSCE), MD and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), and Chairman of the World Green Economy Summit (WGES), DEWA organized, in collaboration with Dubai Carbon Centre of Excellence (DCCE) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), a ...

Sunaina Rana / Emirates Business Emirates most popular entertainment and leisure destination, Yas Island, is now transforming its growth by developing the most luxurious residential destination. This would act as a key component of the Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council’s (UPC) Plan Capital 2030. The global and local economic transformations taking place in the present time, the capital’s real estate ...

Sharjah / Emirates Business The health insurance department of Sharjah Health Authority (SHA) conducted an exhaustive training session for all the human resource and finance heads of various departments to further educate them on health insurance policies. The authority has already streamlined the health insurance policies of over 57,200 government employees including their dependents. Under the directive of His Highness ...

RITIKA SHARMA / Emirates Business Apart from their refined sense of style, Emirati women are known worldwide for their penchant for shopping. Testimony to this conception, a recent poll-survey conducted among women living in the UAE has revealed that one-third of Emirati women spend nearly 60 percent or more of their income on general shopping each month The poll results ...

Dubai / Emirates Business For the first time in the region, dubizzle, the UAE’s leading classifieds platform, has launched a video job application feature allowing job seekers to submit their job applications via a video recording for free. The revolutionary new tool will reinvent the application process for candidates, whilst creating a fast and useful screening filter for recruiters. With ...