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Abu Dhabi / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has received a letter from the Amir of Kuwait His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, dealing with fraternal relations and issues of mutual interest. The letter was delivered to His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and ...

DUBAI / WAM TECOM Group, Dubai’s leading business enabler and a member of Dubai Holding, on Monday announced the development of its industry management team, to ensure the company is able to continue championing industry growth, as well as focus on Dubai’s innovation-related initiatives and customer centricity. These changes reflect TECOM Group’s ongoing efforts towards providing an attractive and smart ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has organised the DEWA Robotics Competition Ceremony, to honour the winners and participants of the DEWA Robotics Competition, which was held during Innovation Week 2015, at the Future Dome in DEWA’s head office. Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of DEWA, was present along with Executive Vice Presidents and Vice ...

DUBAI / WAM The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment joins the global celebration of World Water Day, which is being held under the slogan, ‘Water and Jobs.’ This worldwide celebration aims to showcase the ability of the water sector to provide job opportunities, thereby helping out in the move to eradicate global poverty while also enhancing work environment conditions ...

Astana / AFP President Barack Obama arrived in Havana for a visit that he hopes will help end a hostile US policy toward Cuba that he views as futile, lifting one of the biggest impediments to closer US alliances across Latin America. Air Force One touched down at Jose Marti International Airport at about 4:19 pm. Obama took an evening ...

Donetsk / AFP A court in southern Russia on Monday found Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko guilty of murder over the killing of two Russian journalists in war-torn east Ukraine, at a trial condemned by Kiev and the West as a political sham. Savchenko “committed the premeditated murder as part of a group of people from the motives of hatred and ...

Astana / AFP Energy-rich Kazakhstan’s ruling party has secured a landslide win in parliamentary polls that never threatened to trouble autocrat President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s long reign, official results confirmed Monday. According to the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) Nazarbayev’s Nur Otan party won 82 percent of votes in Sunday’s election and will share parliament with the pro-government People’s Communist Party and ...

Brasília / AFP Brazil’s struggling leftist government is fighting on two fronts as impeachment proceedings threaten President Dilma Rousseff and legal battles harry her predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Rousseff’s presidency appears to be in peril as she fights impeachment, protests, recession and scandal, and her decision to call Lula to the rescue backfired last week when a judge ...

Tortosa / AFP Spanish investigators on Monday sought to establish the cause of a weekend coach crash that killed 13 female students from six countries, most of them Italians, as they were returning from a festival. The vehicle was carrying students from about 20 countries, many of them on the European Erasmus exchange programme in Barcelona, the seaside capital of ...

In this bitter campaign, one area of agreement unites the major candidates: trade. Bernie Sanders brags that he’s opposed all recent trade agreements; Hillary Clinton now rejects the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), President Obama’s signature trade success that she once supported; and Donald Trump blames incompetent US trade negotiators for devastating job losses to China that might be cured by a ...