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ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority (ADFCA), on Saturday, concluded its participation in the Sheikh Zayed Heritage Festival 2018. Launched in November, the festival was held under the patronage of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander ...

New York / WAM The UAE has called for greater attention from the international community on the link between climate change and insecurity at the UN Security Council Open Debate on the impact of climate-related disasters on international security. Speaking before the Council, Ambassador Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, UAE’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, underscored that while ...

Dubai / WAM Canada confirmed its participation in Expo 2020 Dubai on Saturday, with the aim to explore trade opportunities and access new markets during the next World Expo platform. The G7 nation’s participation was sealed during two separate high-level meetings between Jim Carr, Canada’s Minister of International Trade Diversification, Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs and ...

HODEIDAH / WAM Integrated solar power energy systems have been installed in the villages of Ghalifqa and Taif in Hodeidah, Yemen. The systems, installed by the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), will provide electricity to 230 homes within the Yemeni villages. According Mohammed Al Junaibi, ERC Director of Humanitarian Affairs in Yemen, the solar power energy systems contain two panels and ...

ABYAN / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), responded to an emergency call by civilians in Hammat Sarar in Yemen’s Abyan Governorate. The emergency aid convoy consisted of 250 food parcels to some 200 families in Hammat Sarar, situated via rugged mountain roads four kilometres away from Abyan. Accompanying the UAE aid convoy, Saleh Qasim, Director-General of the Sarar Directorate, ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump agreed to re-open the federal government for about three weeks without any guarantee Congress would provide money for his proposed border wall, his top campaign promise, capitulating to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Trump agreed to a deal hastily negotiated by lawmakers after the 35-day shutdown, the longest in modern US history, began to seriously impact air ...

Bloomberg A tailings dam owned by miner Vale SA broke in the state of Minas Gerais on Friday, hitting a local community near the capital and echoing a similar accident that became Brazil’s biggest environmental disaster three years ago. Approximately 200 people are missing, a spokesperson for emergency services in Minas Gerais state told Bloomberg, adding that poor mobile phone ...

Bloomberg Secretary of State Michael Pompeo takes the US effort to recognise Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s rightful leader to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), part of a broader international campaign to pressure and replace President Nicolas Maduro. The emergency session of the Security Council was called for by the US. With Venezuela’s competing leaders — Guaido heads the National ...

Bloomberg Greece gave NATO and the European Union a boost in the volatile Balkans by ending an almost three-decade dispute over a word: Macedonia. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praised Greek lawmakers for backing a deal that clears the way for the newly-named Republic of North Macedonia to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the EU. Prime Minister ...

Bloomberg Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari suspended Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen just weeks before what’s set to be a tight presidential vote, in a move the main opposition party condemned as an “act of dictatorship.” Buhari, 76, appointed Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad in an acting capacity, he said in a statement. Onnoghen was put on trial by the Abuja-based Code of Conduct ...