Month: March 2019

Turkey retaliates in Syria following murder of soldier

One Turkish soldier was killed and another was wounded in a mortar attack on their position in northwest Syria on Sunday and Turkey’s military launched retaliatory fire, the Turkish Defense Ministry said. It said the attack was carried out by the Kurdish YPG militia in the Afrin region, where Turkey-backed Syrian rebels drove out YPG […]

Arab League condemns Trump decision, despite disagreements

Arab leaders papered over long-running regional rivalries on Sunday to condemn a U.S. move to recognise Israel’s sovereignty over the Syrian Golan Heights and said stability in the Middle East hinged on creating a Palestinian state. Arab leaders, attending a summit in the Tunisian capital, have been grappling with regional splits over Iran’s influence in […]

Petrobras heading towards Israeli gas tender

Israel’s energy minister said on Sunday that Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras will take part in a tender to explore for oil and gas off Israel’s shore. “It was agreed that Petrobras ... will take part in a process of oil and gas exploration in Israel,” Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz told Army Radio as Brazilian […]

Fleeing Algerian businessman arrested, Bouteflika ally

Leading Algerian businessman Ali Haddad, who was part of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s inner circle, has been arrested at the Tunisian border, a close associate said on Sunday, as pressure mounted on the long-standing leader to resign. During weeks of protests demanding an end to his 20-year rule, Bouteflika has been abandoned by several close allies […]

Saudi Arabia issuing $31.5 billion in debt for deficit purposes

Saudi Arabia plans to issue 118 billion riyals ($31.5 billion) in debt this year to help finance the national budget deficit, the country’s Debt Management Office (DMO), part of the ministry of finance, said. Saudi Arabia has borrowed extensively over the past few years to refill state coffers depleted by a drop in oil prices. […]

Sharjah Chamber fostering dialogue between private sector

The Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry, SCCI, has launched a new initiative on fostering dialogue and partnership among the private sector’s representatives in certain sectors in the emirate of Sharjah. The initiative was inaugurated during a meeting attended by more than 30 companies which included those from food processing and the food trade sector. […]

Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture opens soon in Abu Dhabi

The Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture (GFIA), the leading exhibition and conference on sustainable agricultural solutions, opens on Monday at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC). The sixth edition of GFIA, will focus on how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can drive progress in agriculture towards increasing food production and ensuring food security in the Middle […]

Stimulus package to boost UAE's non-oil sector

The recent stimulus packages have significantly contributed to growing the non-oil private sector across the country, according to the chief of the UAE Federation of UAE Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FCCI). Addressing a joint meeting of the FCCI General Secretariat and Directors of the Chambers of Commerce, Humaid Mohammed bin Salim, FCCI Secretary-General, expected […]

UAE pioneering smart city infomatics

Investments in technologies enabling smart cities in the Middle East and Africa, MEA, region is expected to hit the US$2.30 billion mark by 2021 as per the estimates of International Data Corporation. Given that large funding is needed to build smart cities, public-private partnerships, PPPs, are seen as the key force that will help accelerate […]

UAE climate change ministry at UN climate an sustainable development meeting

Dr. Thani bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, participated on Friday in the High-Level Meeting on Climate and Sustainable Development for All, convened by María Fernanda Espinosa, President of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The meeting aims to address the issue of safeguarding global climate for present and […]

Judicial Monitoring Methodology adapted in Abu Dhabi

H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Presidential Affairs and Chairman of Abu Dhabi Judicial Department, ADJD, has adopted the Judicial Monitoring Methodology, which includes a set of world judicial indicators that ADJD measure in the framework of its Strategic Plan 2016-2020. This comes in line with its efforts to […]

Dubai Multi Commodities Centre guest of honour in UK

The Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, DMCC, the world’s flagship Free Zone and Government of the Dubai Authority on commodities trade and enterprise, inaugurated its 2019 international roadshow under its Made For Trade Live umbrella in Edinburgh, Scotland followed by London, United Kingdom, UK, where it discussed the advantages of doing business in Dubai through the […]

Land Day protests launched in Gaza in mass

Thousands of Palestinians rallied at the Gaza-Israel border on Saturday to mark the first anniversary of a surge of protests, facing off against Israeli forces massed across the frontier. Troops fired tear gas across the border and the Israeli military said some of the estimated 20,000 demonstrators threw rocks, grenades and burning tyres towards them. […]

Egyptian minimum wage rises for all

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has raised the minimum wage to 2,000 Egyptian pounds ($115.74) a month from 1,200, he said at an event on Saturday celebrating women. He indicated the raise would apply to all Egyptian workers. Source: Reuters

Normalcy returning to Syrian movie making

On a long-disused film set outside Damascus featuring mud houses, palm trees, alleyways and camels, actors in flowing robes are making a television series that the producers say is part of a gradual revival of their industry. Like most other sectors of the economy in Syria, the film and television business has been hit hard […]

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