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Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 224,887 additional Covid-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement, the ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out the necessary treatment. As ...

Dubai / WAM Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs, has emphasised the UAE leadership’s keenness on enhancing cooperation and strategic partnerships to modernise government work with Arab and international governments, expand horizons for sharing experiences, success stories, and knowledge exchange aimed at raising levels of efficiency and government performance and improving living standards of societies. Al Gergawi ...

Sharjah / WAM Sheikha Bodour Al Qasimi, Founder and CEO of Kalimat Group (KG) and President of International Publishers Association (IPA), has launched her latest work in children’s literature, World Book Capital, at the 12th edition of the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival (SCRF). Published simultaneously in Arabic and English by Kalimat Publishing, an imprint of the Kalimat Group that specialises ...

Dubai / WAM The Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced that the Dubai Investment Park Station and Expo 2020 Station on Route 2020 of the Dubai Metro, which runs from Al Rashidiya Station on the Red Line to Expo 2020 Station, would be opened on June 1. The opening of the two new stations comes six months after the ...

Bloomberg The first handful of trades in the UK’s new carbon market indicates that polluting will be more expensive for everyone from power plants to factories than it is under the European scheme. The launch of the UK’s own carbon system is a replacement for the country’s participation in a nearly identical EU program that’s been going since 2005. Putting ...

Lately, India has had very little to smile about. Something that Colgate-Palmolive Co’s tepid growth in the world’s pandemic epicenter amply demonstrates. The toothpaste maker’s results offer a fresh look at a puzzle: the Indian stock market’s apparent disregard for the country’s worst humanitarian disaster in almost 75 years. Scientists are forecasting 1.2 million deaths by end-August, hospitals are running ...

Epic Games Inc, the maker of Fortnite, may pull out a surprising last-minute victory in its court battle against Apple Inc with potential wide-ranging ramifications for how millions of iOS app developers make money. First, a brief recap: The conflict that spawned the trial began last August when Epic deliberately broke Apple’s App Store rules by updating its Fortnite video ...

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, back in 1987, called for the Arctic to be a “zone of peace” — and it has been. Yet warmer temperatures are heralding ice-free summers, opening up all sorts of economic opportunities from potential oil and gas riches to new shipping routes. Military might is being cranked up, too. Decades of harmonious exceptionalism may be coming ...

The Biden administration’s decision to begin sharing US-authorised Covid-19 vaccines with the rest of the world is welcome news. Now coronavirus czar Jeff Zients, who will lead US efforts to fight the pandemic abroad, must swiftly craft a global vaccine strategy that’s as focused, ambitious and effective as the one that’s worked so well domestically. Those who ask whether the ...

Bloomberg Airline entrepreneur David Neeleman’s newest carrier will begin flying from May 27 with an initial network of 16 cities, making it the year’s second US startup looking to use discount fares to grab a piece of a much-anticipated resurgence in leisure travel. Breeze Airways started selling tickets, and the first flights will connect Charleston, South Carolina; Tampa, Florida; and ...