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BEIJING/WAM On behalf of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, H.H. Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah attended the official opening of the Third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation at the Great Hall of the People in the Chinese capital, Beijing. Held under the theme ‘High-quality ...

ABU DHABI/WAM UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan received a telephone call on Wednesday from His Excellency António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations. During the call, they discussed the urgent need to implement measures that prevent further deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. The conversation emphasised intensifying diplomatic efforts to open critical humanitarian corridors and ...

ABU DHABI/WAM President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has received a written message from Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President of Germany, inviting His Highness to make a state visit to Germany to strengthen the relations between the two friendly countries. The message was received by Dr. Anwar Gargash, Diplomatic Adviser to the UAE President, as he received Alexander Schönfelder, the ...

ABU DHABI/ GULF TIME Art therapy, alongside music, drama, dance, and movement therapy, offers the invaluable advantage of expression without words. The MENA region’s pioneering Art Therapy Conference, themed “Empowering through Creativity,” launched its inaugural edition in Abu Dhabi with a spotlight on art’s transformative influence on trauma. The conference, organized by the Abu Dhabi Center for Sheltering and Humanitarian ...

ABU DHABI/ GULF TIME Bloom Holding, one of the UAE’s foremost real estate development companies, has announced the appointment of Edrafor Emirates LLC as the enabling work contractor for Casares, phase three of the fully integrated and all-inclusive residential community, Bloom Living. Scheduled to be completed in Q1 2026, all of Casares’ units that range from two-and three-bedroom townhouses, are ...

BLOOMBERG Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc plans to eliminate as many as 2,500 positions worldwide and will streamline operations, enacting the deepest job cuts yet under Chief Executive Officer Tufan Erginbilgic. The reductions will target 2,000 to 2,500 employees, or about 6% of the global staff, the company said in a regulatory statement, confirming reports of job losses. As part of the ...

SHARJAH / WAM HH Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, directed the Sharjah Electricity, Water and Gas Authority (SEWA) to treat the children of female citizens like citizens on scholarships, who currently number 72 male and female students, and to return the amounts paid to those who paid them, through the Amiri ...

FUJAIRAH / WAM HH Sheikh Hamad bin Mohammed Al Sharqi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Fujairah, received at Al Rumaila Palace, Dr Jamal Sanad  Al-Suwaidi, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies & Research (ECSSR) and received a copy of his new book entitled “President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Ahmet Burak Daglioglu, Head of the Investment Office of the Turkish Presidency, said that the cumulative foreign direct investment from the United Arab Emirates to Turkiye has surged to $5.6 billion (AED20.6 billion) from 2002 through August 2023. Speaking exclusively to the Emirates News Agency (WAM) during the eighth edition of the World Investment Forum in ...

DUBAI / WAM Moro Hub, a subsidiary of Digital Dewa, the digital arm of Dewa, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Digital Dubai Authority (DDA) to deliver state-of-the-art cyber security services to various government entities across the emirate of Dubai. The MoU was signed in the presence of Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of Dubai Electricity and ...