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Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, on Saturday received General Austin Scott Miller, Commander of Nato’s Resolute Support Mission and US Forces-Afghanistan. During the meeting, held in Al Shati Palace, they discussed cooperation and joint coordination between the two sides ...

Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai visited the Dubai Future Foundation on Saturday and was briefed on the development of work at various projects undertaken by the foundation. Sheikh Mohammed toured Area 2071, which is designed as a collaborative innovation hub that brings ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM A relentless focus on operational efficiency, while balancing market conditions with long-term future growth, requires a careful, calibrated and agile response from the oil and gas industry, according to Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of State and Group CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc). Speaking at the third Atlantic Council Global ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, President of Mali, witnessed the signing ceremony between the Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development and the Malian Government represented by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, on Saturday in Abu ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MOFAIC) on Saturday announced at Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2019 the launch of the third cycle of the $50 million UAE-Caribbean Renewable Energy Fund (CREF), with funding allocated to projects delivered in Jamaica, Cuba, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago. Fully financed by Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), ...

DUBAI / WAM Emirates announced adjustments to its operational schedules in 2019 to minimise the impact of the closure of Dubai International Airport’s Southern Runway between April 16 and May 30, and to respond to global travel demand trends. Sir Tim Clark, President Emirates Airline, said, “The changes we are implementing to our network schedules in 2019 are in line ...

Aden / WAM The Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) teams have started rehabilitation of seven schools in Yemen as part of the UAE developmental and aid programmes during the Year of Tolerance. In continuation of the Year of Zayed initiatives, the new projects include revamping seven schools: Al Wahda, in Al Seimen; Tarek bin Zayed, in Al Shujeirah; Al Fajr, in ...

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), the leading national entity for international development aid, on Saturday signed a $10 million concessionary loan agreement with the Government of Mauritius to fund a solar photovoltaic (PV) kits project. As announced at the eighth session of the Irena Assembly in January 2018, the project that aims to provide ...

Bloomberg The US hasn’t begun withdrawing troops from Syria, the Pentagon said in the military’s most extensive comments yet as questions about President Donald Trump’s timeline and strategy for pulling troops from the eight-year conflict there continue to fuel confusion. “We have taken a number of logistical measures to support an ordered withdrawal,” Commander Sean Robertson, a Defense Department spokesman, ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump lashed out on Saturday following a New York Times report that the FBI had opened a probe in 2017 to determine if the president had been working, knowingly or unknowingly, on behalf of Russia. In a series of early-morning tweets Trump said that the agency had opened a probe “for no reason and with no proof, after ...