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BLOOMBERG The plan for greater US military access in the Philippines has drawn opposition from politicians who raised concerns the Southeast Asian nation might be embroiled if tensions with China over Taiwan escalate. Senator Imee Marcos, the president’s sister, said the move to allow American troops in more Philippine sites is geared at bolstering the US’ possible defense of Taiwan ...

BLOOMBERG Finland’s parliament ratified Nato’s treaties as the Nordic nation prepares to join the defense alliance, seeking to put momentum back in the bloc’s enlargement. Nine months after Finland submitted its application for membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) simultaneously with neighbouring Sweden, lawmakers in Helsinki on Wednesday signed off on the paperwork, voting 184 in favour of ...

BLOOMBERG Chinese President Xi Jinping welcomed Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, a close Russian ally, in talks watched closely for signs that Beijing is expanding coordination with Moscow and its supporters in their standoff with the West. Belarus “fully supports the initiative put forward by you,” Lukashenko told Xi in Beijing Wednesday, according to state-run news agency Belta. He was referring ...

BLOOMBERG Russia’s war in Ukraine is expected to dominate discussions at the Group of 20 foreign ministers’ meeting in New Delhi as the conflict enters its second year. A meeting of the grouping’s finance ministers and central bank heads over the weekend failed to reach a consensus on the language to describe Russia’s aggressions in Ukraine, forcing host India to ...

BLOOMBERG Russian critics of President Vladimir Putin have spent the past year pressing the US and its allies to impose sanctions on thousands of Kremlin officials and business tycoons. Now they want a clear way for those who come out against the war to get off the blacklists. Exiled businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who spent years in a Russian prison after ...

ABU DHABI / GULF TIME The Emirati company “Markab Capital” signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Italian company “Super Jet International” to establish a factory for the assembly, installation and production of civil aircraft in UAE. The factory, which is scheduled to be completed in 2025, is the first of its kind in the Arab world, through which civil ...

ABU DHABI / GULF TIME As one of the UAE’s leading institutions in the field of finance, Al Fardan Exchange under the umbrella of Al Fardan group has now ventured into the education sector with the inauguration of the Al Fardan Banking Training Institute. With corporate social responsibility at its core, the institute is aimed at developing and empowering UAE ...

DUBAI / WAM The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives (MBRGI) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have signed two agreements amounting to $12.5 million (approximately AED46 million) to address the nutrition needs of forcibly displaced people. These bring MBRGI’s cumulative support for refugees to $27.2 million (AED100 million) in two years. The agreement is part ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Emirates Development Bank (EDB), a key financial engine for the economic development and industrial advancement of the UAE, conducted a board meeting to review its results for the period ending December 31, 2022. The board discussed the bank’s milestone achievements over the course of the year, in addition to its ambitions for 2023 as the bank ...

BLOOMBERG Ghana’s cedi, the world’s second-worst performing currency this year, is heading for more pain after the West African nation missed a self-imposed deadline to restructure its bilateral debt and move closer to tapping foreign aid. Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta wanted to reach a restructuring agreement with bilateral creditors by the end of February to help qualify for a $3 ...