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  Abu Dhabi / WAM Emirates Defense Industries Company (EDIC) an integrated national defence services and manufacturing platform, announced the establishment of Barij Munitions, specialising in providing world-class ammunition products and services. The company will be a manufacturer of all kinds of ammunition, including small arm, infantry, artillery and air-craft munitions. Announcing the formal launch of the company on the second ...

  Ras Al Khaimah / Emirates Business RAK Properties PJSC, Ras Al Khaimah’s largest property developer listed on the Abu Dhabi Stock Exchange, revealed continued growth and increased profit margins in 2016 following 12 months of key announcements and operational achievements. The company, which has been leading the residential and commercial development of Ras Al Khaimah while rolling out a ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business ADNOC Distribution announced on Monday the opening of a Vehicle Inspection Centre (VIC) for light vehicles within the Motor World service station located in the Al Shamkha area in Abu Dhabi. The opening ceremony was attended by Saeed Mubarak Al Rashdi, Acting Chief Executive Officer of ADNOC Distribution, Brigadier Ali Khalfan Al Dhaheri, Director-General ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Etihad Airways Engineering signed an agreement with Kenya Airways to perform mandatory checks on its Boeing 787-8 fleet. This is part of an integration programme for the newest additions to the airline’s fleet. The first of six scheduled Boeing 787 C-checks begins this month, with the last one planned for October 2017. The airline ...

  Sharjah / Emirates Business The UK’s famous ‘Ministry of Science Live’ is coming to Sharjah with a brand new show and some bizarre new experiments to spread the word that physics is fantastic, chemistry is crazy and that every child has the chance to become a life-changing scientist. Under the theme ‘The world is one classroom’, many elements of ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business “Investing in knowledge is essential in our efforts to reach Mars and explore the universe,” asserted His Excellency Jamal bin Huwaireb, CEO of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation (MBRF) on the sidelines of the second workshop of the third annual Nobel Museum. MBRF – a member of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al ...

  President Trump confronts complicated problems as the investigation widens into Russia’s attack on our political system. But his responsibilities are simple: A month ago, he swore an oath that he would “faithfully execute” his office and “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” That’s apparently easier said than done. In a rambling press conference Thursday and ...

  Speculators have piled back into oil since OPEC announced output cuts in November. But don’t be fooled into thinking that means prices are set to soar. As my Bloomberg News colleague Alex Longley pointed out last week, hedge funds and money managers have placed record trades on an oil rally. Net long positions of so-called oil speculators reached an ...

  Europe’s promise to lower greenhouse-gas emissions looked bright a dozen years ago, when its leaders created the first big market for trading carbon permits. Sadly, though, its system has failed to encourage investment in clean technology and appreciably lower carbon dioxide emissions. Until the European Union trims the number of permits traded enough to drastically raise the cost of ...

  US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in Iraq as forces of the war-torn country embarked on major air-and-ground offensive to drive IS extremists from western Mosul. Iraq’s second-largest city Mosul fell into the hands of the extremists in the summer of 2014, when the group captured large swaths of northern and western Iraq. Iraqi army, special operations forces, and federal ...