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Dubai airports chief expects vaccine passport to replace testing
Vaccine passports are a long-term solution to reopening travel corridors, Dubai Airports chief Paul Griffiths said.
“Those digital systems should enable people to travel without having any problems at the airport because of course,…
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Bill Gates’ next generation nuclear reactor to be built in Wyoming
Billionaire Bill Gates’ advanced nuclear reactor company TerraPower LLC and PacifiCorp. have selected Wyoming to launch the first Natrium reactor project on the site of a retiring coal plant, the state’s governor said on Wednesday.…
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Israel to open economic office in Abu Dhabi to boost Gulf investment
Israel plans to open an economic attache office in Abu Dhabi this summer to attract foreign investment and boost economic relations with Gulf states and the broader Arab world, the Economy Ministry said on Tuesday.
This follows a…
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Lebanon’s MEA demands dollar or black market equivalent ticket sales after $200m losses
Lebanon’s Middle East Airlines (MEA) will start selling tickets in dollars or the equivalent black market rate in Lebanese pounds to ensure the continuity of its business, said Chairman Mohamad El Hout.
The company has recorded losses of…
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Turkish lira hits new low after Erdogan says rate cuts needed
President Tayyip Erdogan sent Turkey’s lira currency to new all-time lows on Wednesday after he called for interest rate cuts in the next two months and said he spoke to the central bank’s new governor about it.
The lira — by far the…
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Sudanese bank launches first green sukuk for renewable energy
A Sudanese bank on Monday launched an investment fund offering what it said was the country’s first green sukuk — or bonds compliant with Islamic banking principles — aimed at financing renewable energy for commercial use.
The 4.75…
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Putin inaugurates a factory for the production of luxury Russian “Urus” cars
Russian President Vladimir Putin, via a televised bridge, launched on Monday in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan the serial production of luxury Russian cars of the "Urus Senat" brand.
The first "Urus Senat" cars are scheduled to be…
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Qatar Airways in mystery Airbus row
Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al-Baker criticized Airbus for the second time this month, warning his airline might stop taking deliveries from the French planemaker this year over an unspecified “serious” issue, Bloomberg reported.
“We have an…
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US records show Iran oil cargo landed one month after ship seizure
A cargo of 1.033 million barrels of Iranian crude oil landed on US shores in March, data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed, the second shipment of Iranian oil to be imported into the United States since 1991.
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Egypt bets on ancient finds to pull tourism out of pandemic
Workers dig and ferry wheelbarrows laden with sand to open a new shaft at a bustling archaeological site outside of Cairo, while a handful of Egyptian archaeologists supervise from garden chairs.
The dig is at the foot of the Step…
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