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ABU DHABI / WAM Saqr Ghobash, Speaker of the Federal National Council (FNC) during separate meetings at the headquarters of the FNC in Abu Dhabi, received a number of ambassadors of friendly nations to the UAE, including Sharif Al Badawi, Egyptian Ambassador, Ambassador of the Czech Republic; Sherif Mojka Novic, Ambassador of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kwon ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Jarwan, President of the Global Council for Tolerance and Peace, was awarded the ‘Gandhi Peace Prize’, in recognition of his achievements in promoting peace and tolerance around the world. Al Jarwan was awarded the prizeon January 25 at the Ministry of External Affairs of India during the 39th International Convention of NRIs ...

Dubai / WAM Following the vision of the Dubai Blockchain Strategy 2020, announced in October 2016 by HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, Smart Dubai has delivered on its promise of building a thriving Blockchain ecosystem in the city and establishing Dubai as the world capital of ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Abu Dhabi’s efforts to become one of the world’s top sports tourism destination in 2019 have not stopped, nor has its excellence in hosting international and continental sporting events. Abu Dhabi achieved a new record in the sport of fishing, as the Abu Dhabi Grand Fishing Tournament for King Fish and Cobia announced the sale of ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump was recorded during a private meeting in April 2018 saying that the US should “get rid of” then-US ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, according to a video provided by an attorney for Lev Parnas, an associate of the president’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. The iPhone video, which is more than an hour long, shows Trump walking ...

Bloomberg California became the third US state to confirm an infection from the novel coronavirus as China said the pneumonia-like illness is spreading more quickly. The person, who travelled from the Chinese city of Wuhan, is in isolation in a local hospital and in good condition, according to a statement from the Orange County Health Care Agency’s Communicable Disease Control ...

Bloomberg Through some of the coldest nights in a century, the students of New Delhi gathered outside the city’s police headquarters. They chanted anti-government slogans, recited Pakistani resistance poets, and flashed witty posters to make a stand against a new citizenship law that excludes Muslims. As the confrontations continue across the country, though, they’ve morphed into a wider protest against ...

Bloomberg Cultivating an image of just another average guy has served Matteo Salvini well, turning the leader of what used to be a fringe nationalist party into Italy’s most prominent politician, the chief opponent of immigrants and Brussels interference. Mobbed wherever he goes, few dispute he will one day become the country’s PM. That, though, is for public consumption and ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong police fired tear gas to disperse a crowd of protesters who gathered in the crowded shopping hub of Mong Kok at the site of a 2016 protest that marked a violent turn by the city’s pro-democracy movement. Police said in a statement a large crowd had formed and “some rioters blocked roads with miscellaneous objects and trash,” ...

Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s aunt, Kim Kyong Hui, appeared in state media on Sunday, the first time she has been seen in public since her husband Jang Song Thaek was executed in 2013. The 73-year-old sat two seats away from her nephew, according to a photo by Korean Central News Agency. The leader’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, and ...