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Abu Dhabi / WAM The inaugural CNN Academy Abu Dhabi, which will foster the growth of future journalists, is now underway. The first classes took place on January 10, including a two-hour welcome and introductory session with Becky Anderson, Managing Editor of CNN Abu Dhabi and Anchor of Connect the World. Anderson said, “I am thrilled to welcome this talented ...

ABU DHABI / WAM HH Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and President of Iraq, Dr Barham Salih, reviewed the prospects of promoting the fraternal relations between the two nations and accelerating cooperation across all fronts. This came in phone call Sheikh Mohamed received on Monday ...

Sharjah / WAM Arada reported a robust sales performance for 2020, as the developer benefited from a raft of project handovers and the stable Sharjah real estate market to overcome the effects of the pandemic. During a challenging year for the UAE property sector as a whole, the total value of real estate sold by Arada rises by 35 percent ...

DUBAI / WAM Emirates Airline has announced it will resume non-stop services to Seattle (from February 1), Dallas and San Francisco (from March 2), offering its customers connectivity through Dubai to and from popular destinations in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. The addition of these three destinations will take Emirates’ North American network to 10 destinations following the resumption ...

DUBAI / WAM Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower), the world’s largest district cooling services provider, announced that, during 2020, the number of electronic transactions performed by its customers surged noticeably to reach approximately 560,000, with an increase of more than 12 percent compared to the year 2019. This reflects the company’s apparent contributions to the ‘Dubai Paperless Strategy’ that ...

Bloomberg Ship owners facing looming deadlines to use less-polluting fuels have slashed the number of new vessels on order because they don’t know which alternative technology to switch to. Ammonia, hydrogen, biofuels and electrification are some of the many contenders to power the world’s future merchant fleet, but most are only in the trial stage and won’t be scalable for ...

Bloomberg South African plants owned by Glencore Plc and Petroliam Nasional Bhd that make up 43% of the nation’s oil-refining capacity are expected to stay shut until at least 2022, according to energy consultant Citac. Astron Energy Ltd, a unit of Glencore, has yet to restart the 100,000 barrel-a-day Cape Town refinery after a deadly explosion and fire in July. ...

In 2020, civil aviation accidents — thanks largely to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic — dropped to zero for the first time. There’s a grim inevitability that the first crash to break that record should happen in Indonesia. The loss of Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 shortly after takeoff from Jakarta is just the latest in a miserable toll of ...

Twitter Inc has done something that was once thought unimaginable. It shut down one of its biggest attractions — Donald Trump’s account — and in doing so also canceled a sitting US president. The ban and public-safety rationale behind it are part of a wave of crackdowns on the public digital spaces where the president’s most radicalised supporters congregate, and ...

Some whirlwind romances you regret for many years. Isolated from its former European partners during Brexit, the UK looked for succor from the US. Two Conservative prime ministers in succession — Theresa May and Boris Johnson — tried to woo the White House in search of a revived Atlanticism and a fat trade deal. Did Johnson go too far in ...