EcoWASTE to highlight solutions for cleaner, healthier environment

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Leading international experts will share practical experience to create a cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable environment, at the fourth EcoWASTE conference and exhibition to be held from January 16-19 as part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW). Hosted by Masdar in strategic partnership with Tadweer, EcoWASTE highlights the business opportunities available by adopting the ...

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Where gastronomy is used as a social weapon!

  Lima / DPA Astrid Gutsche actually only wanted to open one restaurant in the Peruvian capital Lima. Now, when asked how many restaurants she has around the world, she has difficulty remembering; “I don’t want to know, it stresses me out,” she says. Her name and that of her husband Gaston Acurio are now a synonym for culinary excellence ...

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‘Musical tips to blind dressers’

  DPA Birgit Kaiser fingers the shiny pullover carefully, checking out first the material and then the neckline. “Low-cut necklines don’t suit me,” says the 39-year-old. But the jumper her friend Gabriele Weck has picked out for her has a high neckline and therefore it makes the shortlist. She’s been blind in her right eye since childhood. Until a few ...

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Trump: Only ‘fools’ see good relations with Russia as bad

  Bloomberg Facing calls to strike back at Russia for what US intelligence agencies have termed Moscow’s interference with the 2016 US presidential election campaign, Donald Trump instead suggested warmer relations between the two countries. The president-elect took to Twitter on Saturday to discuss the potential US-Russia relationship under his administration, a day after US spy chiefs briefed him on ...

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US official says 300 Marines will deploy in Afghanistan

  KABUL / AP Approximately 300 United States Marines will be deployed to train, advise and assist Afghan security forces in the southern province of Helmand. A Resolute Support Mission spokesman, US Navy Capt. Bill Salvin in Afghanistan, said on Sunday that the deployment will take place in the spring. Salvin said in a statement that the marines are scheduled to ...

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Truck ramming kills 4 in Jerusalem

  JERUSALEM / AP A truck rammed into a group of Israeli soldiers who were disembarking from a bus in Jerusalem on Sunday, killing four people and wounding 15 others, Israeli police and rescue services said. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the truck veered off course and rammed into the group. She said the attacker was shot dead. The attack ...

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Extreme cold weather continues to batter East Europen nations

  BELGRADE, / AP Blizzards and dangerously low temperatures have left villages cut off and caused power outages as extremely cold weather continues for fourth day in most of Eastern Europe. Dozens of villages in the remote Pestar region of Serbia were sealed off Sunday by heavy snow, prompting the evacuation of some 100 people by emergency crews. Numerous villages ...

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Suicide bomber kills 6 in Baghdad

  BAGHDAD / AP A suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden car on Sunday in a bustling commercial area in the Iraqi capital, killing at least six civilians and wounding 10 others, an official said, the latest in a recent bout of violence claimed by the IS group. Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Saad Maan said a member of the security ...

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Beijing creates new environmental police

  BEIJING / AP Officials in Beijing have announced a new environmental police squad to root out illegal burning in the city, the latest government response to the widespread public anger over China’s persistent problems with smog. Beijing’s acting mayor, Cai Qi, said at a meeting that the force would target open-air barbecues, garbage incineration and the burning of wood and ...

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