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  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business The outlook for the healthcare sector remains bright with experts forecasting investments to reach $133 billion by 2018, which will mostly be poured into building new healthcare facilities. “However, many challenges need to be addressed, notably the shortage of healthcare staff which is why we’ve organised this event to provide companies and healthcare professionals ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) revealed statistics for the second quarter of 2016 (April 1 to June 30) on the nation’s most popular mobile phone handsets, social networking platforms and applications websites. Investigating the current state of the market, the TRA’s report reveals the market share of mobile phones in the UAE by manufacturer and ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Malabar Gold & Diamonds’ the leading jewellery retailer won Oman’s ‘Most Trusted Award’ in the jewellery category after a long process of voting by the public. The award was handed over by H E Yahya Al Jabri- Chairman, Capital Markets Authority, Chairman, Special Economic Zone Authority, Duqm to Abdul Salam KP- Group Executive Director, Malabar ...

Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) and the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in partnership with Petroleum Institute (PI), Khalifa University of Science Technology and Research, and New York University Abu Dhabi, on Sunday jointly announced they will host the Fourth Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering and Medicine Symposium in Abu Dhabi. The ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business According to Xpress Money, one of the world’s most dependable money transfer brands, the remittance industry is possibly one of the few industries that posts year on year growth, despite global market conditions. In 2008, when the world faced an economic meltdown, the remittance industry remained resilient and since 2010, the remittance industry has ...

  Aleppo / AFP Clashes and air strikes shook the Syrian city of Aleppo, a monitor said on Sunday, as heavy fighting resumed after the end of three-day truce declared by government ally Russia. The unilateral truce ended without any evacuations by the UN, which had hoped to bring wounded civilians out of the rebel-held east and deliver aid after weeks ...

  Ankara / AFP Turkey has arrested more than 35,000 people over alleged links to the group run by the US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, who is blamed for the failed July coup, local media reported on Sunday. Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said the suspects had been placed under arrest since the attempted putsch that fell apart within hours, quoted by ...

  Mogadishu / AFP Fighters from the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group said on Sunday they had retaken control of a town in central Somalia after hundreds of Ethiopian troops serving with the African Union’s AMISOM force withdrew. It was the third time this month that the extremist group moved into a town in the region after the departure of Ethiopian forces. ...

  Aden / AFP The pro-government Arab coalition on Sunday stepped up air strikes on Iran-backed rebels in Yemen and clashes raged on the ground as warring parties ignored a UN call to renew a fragile ceasefire. The 72-hour ceasefire took effect just before midnight (2100 GMT) on Wednesday to allow aid deliveries in Yemen, whose war has killed thousands ...

  Aden / AFP Yemen’s government announced on Sunday that nine people had died of cholera in second city Aden as the infectious disease spread across the war-torn country. Ten other people in the southern port city have been diagnosed with the potentially fatal disease which is transmitted through contaminated drinking water and causes acute diarrhoea, the health ministry said. ...