Dubai / WAM Belarus and the UAE enjoy longstanding excellent bilateral relations that will help them further strengthen cooperation during Expo 2020 Dubai in areas such as trade, investment, tourism, and education, a top Belarusian official said. In an interview with Emirates News Agency (WAM), Aleksandr Guryanov, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, and Commissioner ...
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Dubai / WAM The Ghaf tree is one of the indigenous trees that are abundant in the desert of the UAE and is associated with the heritage and history of the region for its benefits in the lives of ancestors in the past. The Ghaf is a drought-tolerant tree, which can remain green even in harsh desert environments. It is ...
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Sooner or later, all UK Chancellors of the Exchequer have a choice to make: Are they the prime minister’s executive assistant for financial affairs? Or their successor in waiting? It’s a question that comes up because of the relative might of the UK Treasury and the ghosts of great Chancellors past, from William Gladstone to Winston Churchill to Gordon Brown. ...
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Prime Minister Mario Draghi of Italy is being heralded as a new leader for Europe in the post-Angela Merkel era. With German politics in the deep freeze and France’s Emmanuel Macron facing presidential elections, Draghi, who’s credited with saving the euro with three words, looks like an unequalled pair of safe hands. To get an idea of why Europe’s elites ...
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Long a source of resilience in the world economy, China joins the list of vulnerabilities that threaten to upset a shaky recovery. The slowdown in Chinese growth, exacerbated by debt crises in the property sector and an energy shortage that is closing factories, makes the global rebound even more dependent on the US Beijing doesn’t look like it’s ready to ...
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Executives from Barclays Plc, BlackRock Inc, JPMorgan Chase & Co and other big names in finance will gather with hundreds of investors at a UK summit on October 19 to extol the virtues of green investment and fighting climate change. But how many of these leaders are directly and personally invested in cutting emissions or cleaning up portfolios through their ...
Read More »India, China deadlocked over troops in key Himalayan area
Bloomberg Chinese and Indian military commanders are deadlocked over the best way to pull back troops from a strategic area in the Himalayas, people familiar with the discussions said, raising the prospect for another tense winter along the border. China insisted last week that India pull back thousands of reserve troops and weaponry it brought to the border last year, ...
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Bloomberg China said the mystery object launched into space earlier this year was a reusable space vehicle, describing a more innocuous incident than a report over the weekend that Beijing sent a hypersonic missile into orbit. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a regular news briefing on Monday that the test had “great significance for reducing the cost†...
Read More »Myanmar junta chief blasts Asean for exclusion
Bloomberg Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing blasted other Southeast Asian countries for demanding that his military end worsening violence at home, after he was excluded from a big ticket regional summit later this month over civil strife. Allies of ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi were driving the repeated calls, the coup leader said on state-broadcaster MRTV on ...
Read More »Hungarian primaries send conservative shock winner against Viktor Orban
Bloomberg A conservative mayor will lead Hungary’s united opposition against Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the most fiercely contested election in more than a decade. Peter Marki-Zay dominated the six-party alliance’s primary runoff, defeating Klara Dobrev, a European Parliament vice president and the candidate of DK, the biggest opposition party. The victory gives him a chance to take on the ...
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