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DUBAI / WAM A high level Italian delegation led by Italian Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Manlio Di Stefano, explored ways to build closer ties in energy and water sectors with the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa). This came during a meeting held by Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Managing Director and CEO of Dewa, with the delegation. ...

DUBAI / Emirates Business The strategic partnership between Dubai’s two airlines, Emirates and flydubai, continues to open up the world for travellers since its launch 14 months ago, and is set to grow even further in 2019 with new codeshare destinations to be added. The partnership, which came into effect at the end of October 2017, has since delivered a ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Masdar, the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, has positioned itself in the commercial off-grid energy sector by increasing its capacity to rapidly deploy solar kits in off-grid communities around the world. Building on the company’s extensive experience delivering renewable solutions in remote communities, the Masdar-branded kits named “Noor” – displayed at the Masdar stand throughout Abu ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation is donating AED18.4 million ($5 million) in urgent relief aid to Syrian refugees in Lebanon who are facing harsh winter conditions. The move follows the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the support of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince ...

New York / WAM Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry led a delegation of UAE retail leaders to New York to participate in NRF 2019: Retail’s Big Show, the world’s largest retail expo and conference, where the delegates explored the latest trends and technologies reshaping the future of the global retail sector. The delegation was headed by Majid Saif Al ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The Sustainable Bioenergy Research Consortium (SBRC), a non-profit entity established by Masdar Institute that is part of Khalifa University of Science and Technology, on Wednesday announced the world’s first commercial flight using locally produced sustainable fuel on an Etihad Airways Boeing 787 powered by GE’s GEnx-1B engines. The flight from Abu Dhabi to Amsterdam marked ...

Bloomberg The UK stands at its most dangerous crossroads in decades after Parliament emphatically rejected Theresa May’s Brexit deal and left her facing an uncomfortable vote to oust her government. The humiliating defeat on Tuesday evening, the biggest for any government in modern history, leaves May’s divorce agreement with the European Union all but dead and opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn ...

Bloomberg The US and South Korea are discussing “corresponding measures” to reward North Korea’s steps towards denuclearisation, South Korea’s foreign minister said, as President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un prepare for a possible second summit. Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha told a news conference in Seoul that the allies were reviewing various packages of incentives that Washington could bring to the ...

Bloomberg China is likely developing a long-range bomber capable of delivering nuclear weapons and a space-based early warning system it could use to more quickly respond to an attack, according to a new report from the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). The development of the bomber, when combined with China’s land-based nuclear weapons programme and a deployed submarine with intercontinental ...

Bloomberg The attack on an upmarket hotel complex in Kenya’s capital that claimed at least 14 lives may impact the East African nation’s key tourism industry, which was recovering from a wave of extremist assaults earlier this decade. Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia have claimed responsibility for the terror attack on 14 Riverside in Nairobi, their first significant assault in Kenya ...