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ABU DHABI / WAM Sky News Arabia has launched the Sky News Arabia Academy, an initiative that will empower the next generation of Arab talent with the foundations to excel in today’s dynamic media industry. The Sky News Arabia Academy features a range of specialised training courses aimed at individuals ...

SHARJAH / WAM Dana Gas announced that year-to-date Pearl Petroleum Company Limited has received $151 million from the sale of gas, condensate and LPG, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). All invoices from the KRG continue to be settled in full and in a timely manner. Dana Gas is ...

Bloomberg Poland’s plan to carve out coal-fired power plants sparked a rally in the country’s biggest utilities. Now for the hard part — approving it. Deputy Prime Minister Jacek Sasin’s proposal, which would free up state-owned companies to invest in clean energy, has to win over trade unions, the European ...

Bloomberg Sasol plans to develop the use of green hydrogen by fuel cell vehicles on a major South African freight route as the company examines ways to lower its own emissions. Along with partner Toyota Motor Corp, it intends to develop a pilot project — using a key highway such ...

Covid-19 is going to kill more people in 2021 than it did last year. If you want to see why, look at what’s happening in India. Cases have been surging in the country of 1.37 billion people. 261,500 new infections were recorded. That’s as bad as the US during all ...

From e-commerce firms and payment processors to governments, everyone with half a server and an algorithm wants our data. So it’s a pleasant surprise to see at least one central bank expressly rejecting the idea of sweeping up personal information in designing its electronic cash. The European Central Bank (ECB) ...

Up to now, President Joe Biden has resisted calls from the left of his party to cancel up to $50,000 of student loans for most borrowers. But the pressure from leading progressives such as Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, and more recently from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, isn’t ...

Uncertainty about federal economic policy is greater than any time in the last 40 years. On one hand we have senior policy makers calling for increasing already massive budget deficits, locking in the loosest imaginable monetary policy for the foreseeable future, and boosting taxes on businesses, Wall Street and the ...

Bloomberg United Airlines Holdings Inc spelled out the travel milestones needed for a return to profitability after posting a bigger-than-expected loss in the first quarter and offering limited insight into its expectations for the summer flying season. The company sees an end to net losses when business and international traffic ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong banned flights from India, Pakistan and the Philippines for 14 days starting from Tuesday as the city reported the first two cases with highly transmissible virus variant in the community over the weekend. Visitors who have stayed in the three countries for more than two hours in ...