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ABU DHABI / WAM UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has sent a written message to Joseph Aoun, President of the Republic of Lebanon, inviting him to attend the opening ceremony of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, the honouring of the winners of the Zayed Sustainability Prize, and to participate in the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week Summit, …

DUBAI/WAM In his capacity as the Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister, issued Decision No. (25) of 2026, forming the Board of Trustees of the Dubai Appreciation Award for Community Service. The Board is chaired by Abdullah Khalifa Al Marri, while the Director-General of the Islamic Affairs and Charitable Activities …

DUBAI/WAM H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, and Chairman of The Executive Council of Dubai, attended the graduation of the 2025–2026 cohort of the Mohammed bin Rashid Leadership Development Programme, organised by the Mohammed bin Rashid Centre for Leadership Development (MBRCLD). The programme is based on the …

ABU DHABI/WAM UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan today received a phone call from His Excellency Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation. During the call, the two leaders discussed cooperation and joint efforts to further strengthen their strategic partnership with the aim of serving mutual interests. The two sides also exchanged views on regional and …

ABU DHABI/WAM His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Presidential Court, has chaired a meeting of the Ministerial Council for Artificial Intelligence and Development at Qasr Al Watan in Abu Dhabi. The Council reviewed updates on FedAI, the national technical ecosystem for Agentic AI, and the national capabilities building programme, …

DUBAI/WAM The UAE space economy recorded a 27.1% growth in total spending, reaching AED 5.52 billion, according to the latest Space Economic Survey released by the UAE Space Agency in collaboration with the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre (FCSC). The results of the 2025 survey, which measures 2024 activity, also highlight the role of commercial investment and a growing workforce …

DUBAI/WAM The United Arab Emirates is leading a global dialogue, in partnership with the World Economic Forum (WEF), to develop the Global Principles for Strategy in the Agentic AI Era: a framework to guide how governments and institutions redesign strategic planning and decision-making, and use artificial intelligence (AI) to make better decisions. Agentic AI systems can now reason, coordinate and …

ABU DHABI/WAM The sixth annual TRENDS conference called for stronger regional security cooperation, strategic partnerships, stronger economic and cybersecurity foundations, and the protection of critical infrastructure. It also urged translating strategic dialogue into actionable policies and initiatives that help build a safer, more stable Middle East capable of addressing crises and geopolitical shifts. The conference’s concluding recommendations, presented yesterday in …

ABU DHABI/WAM Accelerating electrification powered by renewables must be a priority for the decade to 2035. A genuine energy transition means progressively displacing fossil-fuel systems, not simply adding new power capacity to an unchanged energy mix. Electrification with renewables, combined with more efficient technologies and sustainable fuels, can drive this shift by scaling clean power, unlocking energy efficiency gains, and …

ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi Public Health Centre (ADPHC), an affiliate of the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi, has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding with Ultrahuman Healthcare SP LLC, a global health technology company, to develop and clinically validate a Biological Health Age model that will combine clinical biomarker data with wearable health data to generate …