Etihad puts 787 Dreamliner on Abu Dhabi-Riyadh route

  Riyadh / Emirates Business Etihad Airways is to deploy a Boeing 787 Dreamliner on one of its twice-daily scheduled flights between Abu Dhabi and Riyadh, with effect from October 30. The upgrade from a single aisle Airbus A321 aircraft will cater to strong demand to and from the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, offering guests more seats ...

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Dubai Customs to take part in Hamdan bin Mohammed Award

  Dubai / WAM Dubai Customs is taking part in various categories of the 4th edition of Hamdan Bin Mohammed Award for Smart Government (HbMPSG), organised by ‘Dubai the Model Centre’, a subsidiary of the General Secretariat of the Executive Council. A host of smart, customer-focussed initiatives will make Dubai Customs’ submissions salient and stand out this year. Such initiatives stem ...

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DAMAC Properties bags 4 industry awards

  Dubai / Emirates Business DAMAC Properties, one of the region’s largest luxury real estate developers, bagged four awards at the Africa and Arabia Property Awards hosted in Dubai, reaffirming its position as an award-winning developer of distinctive and cutting edge luxury properties. It was also nominated twice for the global International Property Awards to be held in London, UK, ...

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RTA to introduce smartphone top-up for NOL cards

  Dubai / WAM The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) is gearing up for the launch of the final version of the Smart Fare project to the public in October this year, having gone through the trial version this September. Accordingly, new services will be added to the Public Transport App, and the smart services on the app will be upgraded ...

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DIP, MWH sign pact to design stormwater and groundwater drainage network

Dubai / Emirates Business Dubai Investments Park (DIP), the largest integrated commercial, industrial and residential community in the Middle East, has signed an agreement with MWH, now part of Stantec and a global leader in wet infrastructure, to design a new stormwater and groundwater drainage network within the development. The scope of the agreement covers the design of the drainage ...

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Clinton boosted by debate as candidates rally support

  White Plains / AFP Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton jumped back onto the campaign trail on Tuesday after a bitter first head-to-head debate in which Clinton frequently forced her prickly opponent on to the back foot. The White House hopefuls sparred over temperament, stamina, judgment, and other issues in a televised match-up Monday night that seemed to have gone ...

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New York launches drive to combat Islamophobia

  New York / AFP New York unveiled a major public campaign to fight Islamophobia, stressing the equal rights of the city’s hundreds of thousands of Muslims. The campaign — launched in the wake of a Manhattan bomb attack blamed on a radicalized Afghan-American — initially will use social media to spread the message under the hashtag #IAmMuslimNYC. “Now more than ...

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German mosque bombed ahead of unity celebrations

  Dresden / AFP Bomb attacks hit a mosque and an international convention centre in the eastern German city of Dresden, police said on Tuesday, adding that they suspected a xenophobic and nationalist motive. No one was injured in the blasts in a city that has become a hotspot for far-right protests and hate crimes following Germany’s huge migrant influx. “Although ...

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US owes blacks reparations over slavery: UN experts

  Geneva / AFP The United States should give African Americans reparations for slavery, UN experts said on Tuesday, warning that the country had not yet confronted its legacy of “racial terrorism.” Amid a presidential election campaign in which racial rhetoric has played a central role, the UN working group on people of African descent warned that blacks in the US ...

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Excessive air pollution affects 92% people: WHO

  GENEVA / AP More than nine out of 10 people worldwide live in areas with excessive air pollution, contributing to strokes, heart disease, lung cancer and other problems, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. The UN health agency said in a new report that 92 percent of people live in areas where air quality exceeds WHO limits, with ...

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