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  Dubai / WAM A massive turnout of leading international energy companies is expected at the 18th Water, Energy, Technology, and Environment Exhibition (WETEX 2016), from 4th to 6th October, at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. WETEX 2016 is being organised as part of the Green Week by the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), in conjunction with the ...

  Ras Al Khaimah / Emirates Business Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority (RAKTDA), which develops the emirate’s tourism infrastructure and plans, initiates and drives its domestic and overseas promotions, on Thursday hosted the annual UAE World Tourism Day conference for the second year in a row. The half-day UAE World Tourism Day Conference, held at the Al Marjan Island ...

  New Delhi / AFP Indian commandos carried out a series of lightning strikes on Thursday along the de facto border with Pakistan in Kashmir, provoking furious charges of ‘naked aggression’ from its nuclear-armed neighbour. Amid anger in India over a recent deadly assault on one of its army bases in Kashmir, officials said troops had conducted “surgical strikes” several ...

  Bloomberg Dutch investigators said Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was brought down in 2014 by a Buk missile system that was fired from rebel-held territory in Ukraine and shuttled back and forth from Russia, stoking renewed tensions over the crash that killed 298 people. About 100 people were involved in shooting down the flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, the ...

  Kabul / AFP Notorious Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar called for peace as he appeared by video to sign a deal with President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday, marking a symbolic victory in Kabul’s struggle to revive talks with the Taliban. The deal paves the way for Hekmatyar, who heads the now largely dormant Hezb-i-Islami militant group but has been in ...

  United Nations / AFP Rights group Amnesty International on Thursday accused Sudanese government forces of killing scores of civilians, including many children, in suspected chemical weapons attacks in a mountainous area of war-torn Darfur. More than 30 such attacks are believed to have been carried out on several villages as part of a massive military campaign against rebels in Darfur’s ...

  Bloomberg British Airways parent IAG SA and its largest shareholder Qatar Airways agreed to set up a joint business that will see them code-share on flights linking dozens of destinations while operating a joint timetable and sharing revenue and costs on services between London and Doha. The deal, which comes into effect on Oct. 30, will see British Airways ...

  Bloomberg Mitsubishi Aircraft Corp., the builder of Japan’s first domestically made passenger jet, said its first test aircraft arrived in the US after two aborted attempts last month, ready to start certification testing. The plane arrived at Grant County International Airport at Moses Lake, Washington, at 5:44 p.m. local time from Anchorage, said Reiko Iechika, a spokeswoman for the ...

  Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Michael O’Leary said the fallout from Britain’s decision to quit the European Union will weigh on the discount carrier’s profit for as long as four years. The process of the UK negotiating its way out of the bloc, which could take two to four years, is set to depress yields, a measure ...

  AFP Air Berlin Plc announced the most sweeping job cuts in almost 40 years of flying in a bid to rescue its ailing business, slashing its fleet by half as 40 jets are leased to arch-rival Deutsche Lufthansa AG and 35 others are deposited in a new tourism arm with an uncertain future. About 1,200 of 8,650 staff may ...