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  Abu Dhabi / WAM A meeting on carbon capture and storage (CCS), techniques has been hosted by the UAE Ministry of Energy in Abu Dhabi. It was the second biannual meeting of the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum, CSLF, an international climate change initiative focused on the development of improved cost-effective technologies for carbon capture and storage. The forum is aimed ...

  Bloomberg Russian President Vladimir Putin continued his diplomatic push for a plan to establish safe zones in Syria backed by peacekeepers as he began talks with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Wednesday. Russia and Turkey can “change the destiny of the whole region” together, Erdogan told Putin, who said relations between ...

  Bloomberg President Donald Trump welcomed Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas to the White House on Wednesday as the U.S. president weighs how to approach a Middle East conflict that has eluded resolution for seven decades. “It’s a great honor to have the president with us,” Trump said in an Oval Office photo session with reporters. “Hopefully something terrific can ...

  Bloomberg Prime Minister Theresa May struck back at European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, accusing his team of leaking details of their Brexit discussions to sabotage Britain’s election. Standing outside her 10 Downing Street office — after returning from visiting Queen Elizabeth II to mark the formal start of the campaign — May expressed her fury at seeing a long ...

  Here’s a shocking statement: President Trump is basically right that the world is too dangerous and that the US should hold peace talks with, let’s see, Chinese President Xi Jinping, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Russian President Vladimir Putin and any other autocrats who are making trouble. American values tell us to oppose the undemocratic policies of these ...

  Mortgages are perhaps the only specialist lending that will survive in India. Every other form of credit, especially subprime, is made so risky by the country’s fickle policies and populist politics that it must eventually lose its independence in the safety of a deposit-taking bank. Bharat Financial Inclusion Ltd., India’s biggest micro-lender, is a good example. Bad loans at ...

  British Prime Minister Theresa May recently surprised the country — and most of her ministers — by calling an election for early next month. Up against self-imposed deadlines, and anxious to increase her majority in Parliament, she’s scrambling to devise a policy platform. With Brexit looming, this isn’t a normal election, and the usual litany of detailed proposals won’t ...

  First, the sandpaper-tongue US president called him a “smart cookie.” Then Trump says he is open to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un if conditions allow. Although Trump has made many policy U-turns, this is a classic one and steeped into irony. “If it would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would absolutely, I would be ...

  Thiruvananthapuram / Emirates Business Etihad Airways is celebrating 10 years of flying to the southern Indian state of Kerala with the introduction of additional flights to the popular destination. The airline has launched a fourth daily non-stop service between Kozhikode and its Abu Dhabi hub offering convenient onward connections to cities worldwide. The extra capacity takes to 63 the ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business wasl Asset Management Group, one of the largest real estate development and management companies in Dubai – has announced the launch of the city’s second luxury Mandarin Oriental hotel, which is due to open in November 2020. The new location in Dubai’s Commercial District of Sheikh Zayed Road will complement wasl’s Mandarin Oriental hotel on ...