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  Dubai / WAM Dubai Municipality has confirmed that the air quality in the emirate characterized by high quality conforms to the approved international standards. The confirmation is on the basis of the data emanated from the air quality monitoring stations spread over different areas of the emirate. The level of air quality in Dubai had reached 88% by the end ...

  Sharjah / Emirates Business ‘Sharjah is open for business’ – that was the message delivered by HE Marwan bin Jassim Al Sarkal, CEO of Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) during his closing address at the Sharjah Foreign Direct Investment Forum (Sharjah FDI Forum 2016), which concluded on Thursday at Al Jawaher Reception and Convention Centre in Sharjah in ...

  SAO PAULO / WAM A new survey conducted by the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency, Apex-Brasil, shows that exploring the fruit market can be a way for Brazil to expand as a foodstuffs supplier in the UAE and Gulf states. “It’s a buyers’ market, we have the fruits to sell and we’re not the main suppliers,” said the coordinator ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai Exports has participated in the ‘WorldFood Moscow’ exhibition for the third year in a row. The exhibition featured a 52-member team comprising local exporters and manufacturers joining the UAE pavilion under the Dubai Exports umbrella. Over the past three years, Dubai Exports has facilitated and supported an increasing number of exporters and manufacturers from varied industry ...

  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 ...