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  Dubai/ Emirates Business INJAZ UAE and Tejar Dubai, joined forces to kick off the annual global Company Program Competition cycle at the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s head office; launching high school teams as part of an entrepreneurship accelerator event. More than 150 enthusiastic Emirati youth took part in the event, which was attended by Dubai Chamber’s Chairman, ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business A household name in Pakistan and amongst the top 5 business conglomerates of the country, Sufi Group of Companies has launched its popular Simply Sufi range of ready-to-cook and fully-cooked chicken products in the UAE. The wide range of delicacies– numbering 21 in total – especially caters to Asian taste buds with products ranging from ...

  Donald Trump boasts that his “America First” trade and economic policies are bringing well-paid manufacturing jobs back to America. That’s probably his biggest “deliverable” to Trump voters. But is this claim true? Trump won the presidency partly because he voiced the anger of American workers about lost jobs and stagnant wages. But in the process, he fundamentally misled the ...

  It’s been 16 years since Air India Ltd. was last on the block. So strong was the political opposition then to privatizing the national carrier that Singapore Airlines Ltd., Emirates Airlines, Delta Air Lines Inc. and Air France SA pulled out of the race. Now, India is again mulling the idea of selling 51 percent of the state-owned carrier, ...

  If South Sudan’s famine is “man-made,” and it is, then maybe man can also unmake it. Given the country’s unstable government and the U.S.’s uncertain global leadership, however, most of the effort will have to come from China. More than 40 percent of South Sudan’s 11 million people don’t have enough to eat not because of drought or other ...

  Mindful of the chaos and confusion in the wake of Trump’s last month executive order barring entry from seven Muslim majority countries and halting refugee program, airport officials and civil rights lawyers across the US are getting ready for Trump’s new travel ban. Trump said that his executive order named seven countries because they had already been deemed a ...

  WASHINGTON / AP President Donald Trump’s new immigration order will remove Iraq from the list of countries whose citizens face a temporary US travel ban, US officials say, citing the latest draft in circulation. Trump is expected to sign the executive order in the coming days. Four officials told The Associated Press that the decision followed pressure from the Pentagon ...

  BERLIN / AP The United States on Wednesday called on the UN Human Rights Council to drop its “obsession with Israel” amid reports that the Trump administration is considering quitting the body. In a speech before the Geneva-based council, US envoy Erin Barclay said the United States’ commitment to human rights “is stronger than ever.” “Regrettably, too many of the ...

  KUALA LUMPUR / AP Appearing calm and solemn, two young women accused of smearing VX nerve agent on Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half brother of North Korea’s leader, were charged with murder on Wednesday. The women, who arrived in court under the protection of masked special forces carrying machine guns, are at the center of a bizarre killing at ...

  BOGOR / AP The first Saudi monarch to visit Indonesia in nearly half a century arrived on Wednesday to an elaborate official welcome and crowds of thousands. King Salman exited his plane at Halim airport in Jakarta using a gold-colored escalator sent from Saudi Arabia for the visit, with a portable lift carrying him the final meter or so to ...