ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, in a phone call with Annalena Baerbock, German Minister for Foreign Affairs, discussed the strategic relations between the two countries and joint cooperation in all fields. The two sides also reviewed several issues of common interest, including economic integration and ...
Read More »Ma’an, ERC ink deal to support social sector initiatives in Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi / WAM The Authority of Social Contribution – Ma’an and the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) signed a strategic partnership agreement to support social sector programmes and initiatives, allowing both entities to engage in an integrated partnership to deliver a positive and sustainable impact on the society. Demonstrating their shared commitment to supporting social sector programmes, the partnership ...
Read More »SEC directs to build schools in new areas of Sharjah
Sharjah / WAM HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Salem bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Deputy Ruler of Sharjah and Deputy Chairman of Sharjah Executive Council (SEC), chaired the SEC meeting on Tuesday morning, which was held in the Sharjah Ruler’s Office. During its meeting, the SEC discussed a number of governmental issues on its agenda and reviewed the progress of work in ...
Read More »â€˜Malaffi’ reaches 1 billion clinical records
ABU DHABI / WAM Malaffi, the region’s first Health Information Exchange (HIE) platform, a key strategic initiative of the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi (DOH), has achieved a major milestone by connecting one billion clinical records from 7 million patient records in Abu Dhabi, in just three and half years. Malaffi now connects nearly 100% of healthcare connected ...
Read More »Mubadala developing next generation of UAE caregivers
Abu Dhabi / Gulf Time Mubadala Health and its partners welcomed 60 high school students as part of the Junior Caregiver Program this summer. The program aims to catalyse the development of next-generation healthcare talent in the UAE and provides students with real-life exposure to medical, nursing, and other healthcare professions across the Mubadala Health network. The program began ...
Read More »A debate over deficit is just what America needs
With unemployment low, inflation high and interest rates on the rise, the time is right to bring back an old idea: bipartisan talks to reduce the federal budget deficit. I know: Try to contain your excitement. But it wasn’t so long ago — about a decade — that the US was consumed by a mania for deficit reduction. From ...
Read More »Should your buses, trams & trains be free?
Like everybody I know in Germany, I bought the so-called 9-euro ticket this summer. Three, in fact — one each for June, July and August. I put the QR codes in my cell phone’s digital wallet, and was free to hop on and off all buses, trams, local and regional trains nationwide. In a country that specializes in making things ...
Read More »How the US can make apprenticeship work
With the US unemployment rate near a five-decade low and job vacancies close to a record high, businesses say they are scrambling to find workers. Many complain that large and growing skills mismatches prevent them from getting the staff they need. While the Biden administration has pushed for large government spending increases to support college students and former college ...
Read More »World must lean on Putin to avert nuclear disaster
It’s not every day the International Atomic Energy Agency dispatches monitors looking like Hollywood action heroes on a mission to save civilization. But that’s an apt description of the IAEA team now inspecting the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. It’s Europe’s largest nuclear reactor complex and sits right on the front line between the Ukrainian defenders and Russian ...
Read More »Bankruptcy risk higher for Europe’s airlines this winter
Bloomberg Europe’s weaker airlines face a heightened risk of collapse this winter as nations that rescued carriers during the Covid-19 crisis focus support elsewhere amid rising inflation, according to analysts at Sanford C. Bernstein. While the pandemic brought few airline failures in the region amid a deluge of aid payments, carriers now face a squeeze from higher fuel and ...
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