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Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council, said that a persistent focus on innovation and government initiatives to create a variety of new investment opportunities are reinforcing the UAE’s position as the region’s entrepreneurial hub. Sheikh Hamdan added that the UAE has embraced ...

Dubai / Emirates Business The 16th edition of the Middle East and Africa’s (MEA) largest automotive aftermarket trade and networking event opened on Tuesday in Dubai, featuring 1,812 exhibitors from 61 countries. Running for three days and spanning 63,350sqm at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, Automechanika Dubai 2018 was flagged off by His Excellency Mattar Al Tayer, the ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM Strata Manufacturing, the advanced composite aero-structures manufacturing facility wholly owned by Mubadala Investment Company, announced the successful completion of the manufacturing process for the redesigned Airbus A330 Flap Track Fairing. The process was conceived and spearheaded by a team of Emirati engineers who tested the new product at Strata’s state-of-the-art facilities in Al Ain. A team ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Dubai Airport Freezone Authority (Dafza), announced continued growth in the number of automotive, car parts and accessories companies within the free zone. The announcement was made during Automechanika Dubai 2018. The event, which specialises in automotive, automobile parts and accessories, is being hosted at the Dubai World Trade Centre from May 1-3. DAFZA’s sponsorship and ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The space sector will help solve critical issues around renewable energy, transportation, nutrition and water conservation according to His Excellency Dr. Ahmad bin Abdullah Humaid Belhoul Al Falasi, Minister of State for Higher Education and Advanced Skills and Chairman of UAE Space Agency, who spoke at the second day of the Global Aerospace Summit 2018. ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said Monday his administration is considering holding a potential meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un at the demilitarised zone marking the North’s border with South Korea, or in other countries, including Singapore. Trump, speaking at a joint White House press conference with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, also expressed optimism that the summit would take place and ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump assailed as “disgraceful leaks” the publication by the New York Times of four-dozen questions that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is said to want to ask the president concerning Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election and his own actions in response to the probe. “So disgraceful that the questions concerning the Russian Witch Hunt were ‘leaked’ to ...

Bloomberg Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman for President Donald Trump, asked a judge to investigate FBI leaks of secret grand-jury information that came before his indictments. Manafort is seeking a hearing about leaks that he says interfere with his right to a fair trial in Alexandria, Virginia, where Special Counsel Robert Mueller signed an indictment accusing him of bank ...

Bloomberg After Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Iran had misled the world over its atomic programme, he might have expected a swift reaction from UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. Britain is, after all, one of the six signatories to Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. But it was not until 19 hours after Netanyahu’s presentation that Johnson — among ...

Bloomberg The UK is proposing a new plan to kick-start stalled Brexit talks and make progress on the vexed issue of the Irish border as negotiations resume in Brussels this week. Brexit Secretary David Davis said he wanted to “move quickly” when talks restart on Wednesday in order to reach a solution to avoid a hard land border with Ireland ...