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  Dubai / WAM The Shams Dubai Initiative will highlight at the Water, Energy, Technology, and Environment Exhibition (WETEX 2016), the latest innovations and provide unique platforms to build partnerships among government and private sectors for sustainable energy solutions. Shams Dubai aims to encourage the use of renewable energy and increase its share in the energy mix. Organised by DEWA from ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has been awarded the ‘Airline of the Year’ award for the third consecutive year by UK magazine, Travel Trade Gazette (TTG). The awards were announced on Monday night at a prestigious ceremony at the Lyceum Theatre in London’s West End. The airline was nominated in two ...

  Dubai / WAM Dubai Business Events has secured 15 percent more events in the first eight months of this year than the whole of 2015, and is poised to capitalise on increasing demand from international meetings, conferences, and incentives organisers, according to internal auditing at the city’s official convention bureau. The events secured this year will be held over the ...

  Sharjah / WAM A delegation of senior representatives of different companies and six countries from Europe toured the Sharjah Airport International Free Zone (SAIF Zone). The tour was part of the UAE-Europe Business Forum that was organised by the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SCCI) in co-operation with the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The six countries were ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business HE Hamad Obaid Al Mansoori, Director General of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), discussed the contents and implications of the ‘State of Broadband 2016: Broadband Catalyzing Sustainable Development’ report and the role of a wide range of telecommunication technologies in supporting growth in various countries during his participation in the regular meeting of the Broadband ...

  Dubai / WAM An economic forum addressing the challenges and prospects of the industry in light of future oil price forecasts, the state of the Middle East economy and the effect of the Chinese trade slowdown on the region’s maritime sector, will open the eighth edition of the biennial Seatrade Maritime Middle East (SMME) exhibition and conference in Dubai, from ...

  Kirkuk / AFP Iraqi forces launched an operation on Tuesday to retake a northern town from the IS group in the latest move to prepare a broad offensive on extremist bastion Mosul. Army and tribal forces pushed towards Sherqat, a town IS extremists took more than two years ago when they swept across Iraq’s Sunni Arab heartland. The town ...

  Manila / AFP A pilot of a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight accidentally pressed a hijack alarm, triggering a major security response at Manila airport on Tuesday, authorities said. Police isolated and surrounded the Saudia flight after it landed on Tuesday afternoon just after one of its pilots released a distress signal indicating a hijack incident was underway, the Philippine ...

  New York / AFP Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton met Egypt’s president in New York as the two US presidential candidates tried to bolster their diplomatic credentials at the United Nations. Democratic standard-bearer Clinton said last week that she would meet Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, along with leaders from Japan and Ukraine on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. ...

  Abuja / AFP Two suspected Boko Haram attacks in northeast Nigeria have left up to 14 people dead and three soldiers wounded, the army and local residents said. On Monday afternoon, six people were killed in an ambush of a commercial convoy escorted by the military in the Sanda district of Borno state. “Suspected elements of the remnants of ...