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May 02 2024
News
UAE’s Main Oil Company Raises Crude Production Capacity
The United Arab Emirates’s main oil company said it had bolstered its production capacity, a month before the country meets with fellow OPEC+ nations to decide output levels for the second half of 2024.
Abu Dhabi National Oil Co.’s capacity is 4.85 million barrels a day, according to its website. It was 4.65 million a day at the end of last year, and the company plans to boost it to 5
BloombergMay 06 2024
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ADNOC Terminates Talks to Buy Into Brazilian Petrochemicals Firm
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has terminated talks to buy a stake in Brazil’s petrochemicals company Braskem from its controlling company Novonor, Braskem said on Monday. At the end of last year, the state oil giant of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) proposed a non-binding offer to buy a stake in Braskem, in an offer implying an equity value of $2.14 billion (10.5 billion Brazilian
OilPrice.comJun 06 2024
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With Half Their Fighters Wiped Out, Hamas Switches Tactics, Rejects Peace Deal
Hamas appears to be rejecting the peace deal put forward by President Biden on behalf of Israel last week. It's leaders are indicating today that they are not interested. Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters on Thursday that while the group welcomed what he called “Biden’s ideas,” a US draft resolution at the UN Security Council based on the latest proposal was related to an
HotAirJun 06 2024
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Rohingya are being forced to fight in Myanmar’s civil war
T came for Abu Bakkar, a young Rohingya man, while he was hanging out with friends in the Kutupalong complex of refugee camps outside Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, close to the border with Myanmar. “You all have to go with us now,” they said. Out of fear, Mr Bakkar (not his real name) followed. The gunmen, he says, were members of the Rohingya Solidarity Organisation ( ), an insurgent group that
The EconomistJun 06 2024
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Hamas official: US resolution at UN based on deal that is ‘not acceptable to us’
Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri tells Reuters that while the group welcomes what he calls “Biden’s ideas” to reach a truce in fighting in Gaza, he says a US draft resolution at the UN Security Council is dependent on an Israeli ceasefire proposal that Hamas had already seen and rejected. “The [US] document… has no mention of ending the aggression or the withdrawal,” he says. “The Israeli
The Times of IsraelMay 22 2022
Analysis
Israel Killed Reporter Abu Akleh—but US Media Disguised the Facts
Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known and much-loved Al Jazeera reporter who covered Palestine for two decades, was shot and killed by an Israeli sniper May 11 while documenting an Israeli raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the Occupied West Bank.
Footage of the moments after her death show Abu Akleh, still wearing her press vest and helmet, lying face down on
FAIRApr 04 2024
News
The Sheikh Who Dominates One of the World’s Hottest Stock Markets
The United Arab Emirates’ rulers will soon achieve a distinction they’ve long coveted. Their once sleepy stock exchanges will be home to companies valued at $1 trillion. This outsize success—the markets already ranked No. 17 in the world at the end of March, ahead of Brazil and Spain—relies on the recent chart-topping performance of the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange, run by the UAE’s biggest
BloombergApr 25 2024
News
Quiet Gatekeepers Hold Keys to $1.5 Trillion UAE Royal
The UAE’s Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan oversees more than $1.5 trillion in state assets and private funds. He’s also one of the deputy rulers of the Abu Dhabi emirate, the national security adviser, a brother of the UAE’s president and the son of the country’s founding father. Scoring even a 10-minute meet-and-greet with him is a huge opportunity for a money manager or financier.
BloombergMay 05 2024
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Dushanbe Grand Slam: GB pair Emma Reid and Kelly Petersen-Pollard both win bronze medals
Emma Reid and Kelly Petersen-Pollard both won bronze medals in the penultimate Grand Slam event of the Olympic qualification window. Competing at the Dushanbe Grand Slam in Tajikistan, Reid progressed to the -78kg repechage before defeating Iriskhon Kurbanbaeva. The 28-year-old then secured bronze with victory over Patricia Sampaio, finishing on a Grand Slam podium for the second time after
BBC NewsJun 04 2024
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IDF says it struck Hamas compound within UN school in Gaza overnight
The military says it carried out a drone strike overnight against a Hamas compound in central Gaza’s Bureij, based out of a United Nations school. According to the IDF, several Hamas operatives were gathered at UNRWA’s Abu Alhilu school when the strike was carried out. It says the strike was “carefully planned and carried out using precise munitions, while avoiding harm to uninvolved [
The Times of Israel