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DUBAI / WAM Close to 600 exhibitors featuring some of the world’s leading education-focused brands have confirmed to attend and showcase the latest innovations in education technologies at the 13th edition of GESS Dubai. A leading global education show, part of the GESS portfolio of international education conferences and exhibitions, GESS Dubai will feature the largest gathering of edtech companies ...

AJMAN / WAM As part of its commitment to support the digital transformation plan in the emirate of Ajman and improve the quality of all electronic payments, Ajman’s Department of Finance announced that self-service kiosks will be a part of Ajman Pay’s payment channels and customers will be able to register and top-up through MBME’s smart kiosks. Under this agreement, ...

Bloomberg YouTube secured the exclusive rights to broadcast some of the biggest esports leagues, giving Google a boost in its efforts to push into the lucrative world of video games. The deal, signed between Alphabet Inc’s Google and video game publisher Activision Blizzard Inc, gives YouTube the rights to broadcast the new Call of Duty League and the already-popular Overwatch ...

Bloomberg Attorneys general from nine states urged a federal judge to toss out Google’s $13 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit blaming its Street View mapping technology for a massive violation of consumer privacy. The proposed accord in a debacle that became known as “Wi-Spy” doesn’t offer compensation for millions of people whose confidential data was captured off their Wi-Fi ...

Bloomberg The House impeachment managers wrapped up their case against President Donald Trump by warning senators that they will cause sustained damage to the Constitution and the nation’s system of government if they don’t hold him accountable. “That will be an unending injury to this country,” Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff said in his summation. “The balance of power that our ...

Bloomberg A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Turkey’s eastern Elazig province killed at least 21 people and injured hundreds. About 30 people remain under the rubble of collapsed buildings, the NTV news channel said. Four buildings were wrecked in the Elazig city centre, the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) said. Twelve of the hundreds of aftershocks had a magnitude of ...

Bloomberg The US urged India to release political leaders detained without charge in its portion of Kashmir and to grant American diplomats regular access to the restive region. “I was pleased to see some incremental steps, including the partial return of internet service in Kashmir,” Alice Wells, the US State Department’s Acting Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, ...

Bloomberg Four months after the shock dissolution of Peru’s Congress, President Martin Vizcarra’s gamble looks set to pay off once new lawmakers are elected on Sunday. Polls suggest the parliament will emerge more fractured but influenced by a set of centrist parties more open to the president’s path of political and judicial reform. At the same time, the opposition movement ...

Bloomberg Russian President Vladimir Putin’s longtime Kremlin aide Vladislav Surkov, who was responsible for handling separatist forces in Ukraine, quit over unspecified policy differences, said his longtime ally Alexei Chesnakov. The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there was no official decree on Surkov’s resignation and that there had been no change in policy. The contradictory statements come at a time ...

Bloomberg The conflict between Poland and the European Union over democratic principles escalated overnight as the bloc’s highest official in Warsaw was summoned to the Foreign Ministry. Following an “unacceptable comment” by EU Commission spokesman Christian Wigand, the head of the commission’s office in the country was summoned to a meeting at the Polish Foreign Ministry, Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel ...