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  Abu Dhabi / WAM The largest ever Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (Adipec), opened on Monday, marking the start of four days of high-level industry discussions that will shape policies and strategies for the new energy landscape. The event was inaugurated by HH Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chief of the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince’s Court. Held ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Ducab, UAE-based leading manufacturer of high-quality cables and cabling products, will be showcasing its products for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry at the ADIPEC. The company, owned equally by Abu Dhabi’s Senaat and by Investment Corporation Dubai (ICD) and, has been at the forefront of innovation in delivering technologically advanced products to meet ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business DubaiSat-2, owned and operated by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), has captured a high definition photos of the Dubai Water Canal full of water. The photos show the new waterway flowing from Dubai Creek down towards the Arabian Gulf. The image also show the various facilities built to run along both banks of ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, (MIST) an independent, research-driven graduate-level university focused on advanced energy and sustainable technologies, announced it is showcasing its research activities that contribute to the UAE’s oil and gas exploration and recovery at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) 2016. As a research-based institution mandated to ...

  Sharjah / Emirates Business A rare example of the passenger aircraft that is synonymous with early jet air travel in the UAE made its final journey when it arrived in Sharjah this month. The front section of a Vickers VC10, fondly nicknamed ‘The Queen of the Skies’, recently arrived from the UK by boat before being driven through the ...

  Ain Issa/ AFP A US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance pushed closer to Raqa and Iraqi forces seized a key town near Mosul as offensives advanced on Monday against the two IS group strongholds. After announcing the start of the long-awaited offensive on Raqa on Sunday, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance said it had moved south towards the city despite fierce extremist ...

  Ankara /AFP Turkey on Monday warned the United States not to allow demographic changes in the Syrian city of Raqa after Kurdish-Arab forces launched a US-backed operation to capture the extremist bastion. Turkish forces are conspicuously absent from the operation, even though they are present in northern Syria in their own incursion in support of pro-Ankara Syrian rebels against ...

  Moscow / AFP Russia on Monday said its air force was continuing to hold off on strikes against war-ravaged Aleppo, after rebels snubbed Moscow’s offer to quit Syria’s second city. “The ceasefire in the operation of the Russian air force is continuing,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists. Russia has halted air strikes on rebel-held eastern Aleppo since October 18, ...

  Bamako / AFP A peacekeeper from Togo and two Malian civilians were killed in an attack on a military convoy in Mali, rounding off a bloody week for foreign forces stationed there, a UN statement said. Seven other peacekeepers, also from Togo, were wounded in the attack in the central Mopti region on Sunday, according to the statement by ...

  Kabul /AFP The United Nations is investigating claims that up to 32 civilians were killed in a US airstrike in the volatile Afghan province of Kunduz last week, calling any loss of civilian life “unacceptable”. The strike early last Thursday triggered angry protests in Kunduz, with local officials saying at least 30 people had been killed, many of them ...