Dubai / WAM Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) received a high-level delegation from the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce led by Fritz Horst Melsheimer, President of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, and Dr. Hans-Jorg Schmidt-Trenz, CEO of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce. The delegation is visiting UAE to participate in the 5th ...
Read More »DP World takes part in investment summit in France
Paris / WAM DP World Group Chairman and CEO Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem recently met President of France, Francois Hollande and senior government and business leaders at a major investment summit at the Elysee Palace in Paris. France’s attractiveness as an investment location and DP World’s projects in the country were highlights of the discussions which also covered infrastructure development, ...
Read More »DFM, Hawkamah to support good corporate governance
Dubai / WAM Dubai Financial Market (DFM) and The Hawkamah Institute for Corporate Governance (Hawkamah) have signed a strategic partnership agreement in order to promote best practices of Corporate Governance in the UAE. According to the agreement, the two leading bodies will join hands to organise series of workshops, programmes and training courses as well as launch practical guides to ...
Read More »Brussels resumes hunt for airport bomb blast suspect as flak grows
Brussels / AFP Under-fire Belgian authorities hunted a fugitive bomber on Tuesday, a week after the attacks on the heart of Europe, as the city’s airport warned it could take months to fully reopen despite holding a drill for a partial restart. As Brussels struggled to get back on its feet, criticism of Belgium’s handling of the case mounted after ...
Read More »South Korea: North Korea fired short-range projectile
SEOUL / AP North Korea fired a short-range projectile from an area near its eastern coast on Tuesday, South Korean officials said, in what appears to be another weapons test seen as a response to ongoing military drills between Washington and Seoul. The projectile was fired near the North Korean port city of Wonsan and flew about 200 kilometers (125 ...
Read More »Israeli soldier who shot Palestinian in head in court
Israel / AFP An Israeli soldier caught on video shooting a wounded Palestinian assailant in the head as he lay on the ground appeared in a military court Tuesday as dozens of his supporters protested outside. Prosecutors were seeking to extend the remand of the soldier until April 7 in a case that has gripped the country and sparked political ...
Read More »No terror link to Egypt plane hijacking
Makhmur / AFP A hijacker seized an Egyptian airliner and forced it to land in Cyprus on Tuesday, but nearly all of the passengers were quickly released and officials said the incident was not linked to terrorism. A government source said the hijacker had demanded to see a Cypriot woman, his estranged lover who lives on the island. The EgyptAir ...
Read More »Trump signals he’s ready to fight for every delegate
Bloomberg Donald Trump is signalling that he’s not taking any delegates for granted as he tries to gather the 1,237 required to clinch his party’s presidential nomination. The billionaire Republican front-runner’s campaign saidit was planning to file a formal complaint with the Republican National Committee contesting how Louisiana will allocate its delegates. In a further sign of the possible battles ...
Read More »UN judges to deliver verdict on defiant Serb nationalist
The Hague / AFP UN war crimes judges will deliver another landmark verdict on Thursday, this time against firebrand radical Serb leader Vojislav Seselj—but in the absence of the defiant defendant, who has refused to return to The Hague. Exactly a week after former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was sentenced to 40 years in jail for genocide and nine ...
Read More »UAE, Egypt to host business meet for growth, development
Abu Dhabi / WAM Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, Minister of Economy, discussed economic and trade cooperation with Egypt and Czech Republic, and ways to strengthen the bilateral relationship for greater mutual benefit. This came during Al Mansouri’s separate meetings with Wael Jad, Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt and Alexander Sporish, the Ambassador of the Czech Republic to ...
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