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Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, hosted a banquet in honour of the Chinese President Xi Jinping, on the occasion of his historic visit to the UAE, at Qasr Al ...

LONDON / WAM His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, signed a contract to establish the first phase of a new botanical garden in Sharjah. The signing ceremony was held in the British capital, London, in the presence of officials. Located ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE leadership’s vision and its constructive policy are always yielding positive and practical results that entrench the country’s prominent stature and its credible assets as an active international player focussing on future forecasting and long-term balanced planning to deliver social, economic, scientific and cultural development ...

Dubai / Emirates Business A new report from Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Dubai Chamber) has predicted prosperous years ahead for the UAE economy. The recently issued outlook document cites several factors to support these projections, chief among them being the emirate’s solid and diversified economy, which has softened ...

Bloomberg Toyota Motor Corp. may stop importing some models into the US if President Donald Trump raises vehicle tariffs, while other cars and trucks in showrooms will get more expensive, according to the automaker’s North American chief. The Japanese carmaker is busy analysing scenarios about how tariff schemes could affect ...

Bloomberg India’s government is holding up Facebook Inc.’s plans for a nationwide launch of its WhatsApp payments service over concerns about how users’ data will be stored and other issues, according to people familiar with the matter. The country’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, or MEITY, has asked WhatsApp ...

Bloomberg Israel’s air force carried out strikes against Hamas targets throughout the Gaza Strip after Palestinian snipers shot and killed an Israeli soldier at the border, amid warnings that the conflict was sliding towards war. Hamas, the group that rules the Gaza Strip, said that four of its members were ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said he’s ‘ready to go’ with $500 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports, saying the US has been taken advantage of for too long. “I’m not doing this for politics. I’m doing this to do the right thing for our country,” Trump said in a CNBC ...

Bloomberg The European Union (EU) is preparing a new list of American goods to hit with protective measures if a mission to Washington fails to persuade US President Donald Trump not to raise levies on car imports. “If the US would impose these car tariffs that would be very unfortunate ...

Bloomberg For more than two years, a small and stealthy group of engineers within Google has been working on software that they hope will eventually replace Android, the world’s dominant mobile operating system. As the team grows, it will have to overcome some fierce internal debate about how the software ...