Author: Editorial Team
ABU DHABI, 20th July, 2026 (WAM) — Sanad, a global leader in aerospace engineering and asset management solutions wholly owned by Mubadala Investment Company PJSC (Mubadala), today announced strong financial and operational results for the first half of 2026, reporting AED 4.31 billion in revenue, representing 35% year-over-year growth from the same period last year. The strong performance reflects sustained international demand for Sanad’s maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services, the successful expansion of its new Asset Management division, and continued investment in advanced repair, testing, and infrastructure capabilities. International customers generated 99% of total revenue, while Sanad secured eight…
RAS AL KHAIMAH, 20th July, 2026 (WAM) — Gulf Pharmaceutical Industries (Julphar), in collaboration with IBM and SAP, today announced a strategic initiative to transform its enterprise operations through a comprehensive SAP S/4HANA modernization programme. Under this initiative, IBM Consulting will lead the end-to-end digital transformation, including the migration to SAP S/4HANA and the implementation of advanced SAP capabilities across key functions such as finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and HR. The programme aims to establish a unified, intelligent digital core that will enhance operational efficiency, strengthen regulatory compliance, improve data transparency, and increase enterprise agility across Julphar’s regional operations. Julphar…
MAKKAH — The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah has introduced a multiple-entry Umrah visa that allows pilgrims to enter Saudi Arabia multiple times over a one-year period and stay in the Kingdom for up to 90 days in total. Valid for 365 days from the date of issuance, the visa enables pilgrims to make multiple visits throughout its validity period. The total permitted stay of 90 days is calculated cumulatively based on the number of days spent in the Kingdom during each visit. The ministry clarified, however, that the multiple-entry Umrah visa cannot be used to enter Saudi Arabia during…
BEIJING — A food delivery rider who turned the struggles of life on the road into poetry has won one of China’s top literary honors. Wang Jibing, a 57-year-old delivery rider from Jiangsu province, has been awarded the prestigious Lu Xun Literary Prize for his poetry collection “Low Flight”. Named after Lu Xun, widely regarded as the father of modern Chinese literature, the award is among China’s most respected literary recognitions. Wang, who became a delivery rider around 2019, gained traction on social media for his poems and essays. He is part of a growing group of blue-collar workers who…
One hundred and ten Emirati students are spending their summer preparing for more than university admission. Through a new programme from the Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (Adek), they are learning to manage budgets, protect themselves online, adapt to living away from home, and represent the UAE internationally. The Onboarding and Readiness Accelerator Program at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi brings together Abu Dhabi Scholarships students, 19 strategic partners, and six international embassies. This initiative expands Adek’s previous pre-departure programme into a comprehensive readiness model, offering support before, during, and after students’ international academic experiences. The programme is…
Magdalena König, General Counsel, Sirius International Holding. For much of the past three years, the global conversation around artificial intelligence has been driven by scale: who can build the fastest models, deploy the most compute, attract the deepest pools of capital, and move from experimentation to execution at speed. Yet as AI begins to move beyond pilots and proof-of-concept deployments into the systems that shape economies, industries, and daily life, the real competitive advantage is beginning to shift from capability to credibility. The question is no longer simply who can build AI, but who can build AI that people, institutions,…
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, 20th July, 2026 (WAM) — West African leaders on Sunday signed an agreement approving the construction of a gas pipeline linking Nigeria to Morocco at a summit of regional bloc ECOWAS in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown. The roughly 6,000-kilometre Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline (NMGP) will cross 13 countries along Africa’s Atlantic coast, carrying Nigerian gas to Morocco before connecting to the Maghreb-Europe pipeline. “We have already signed the West Africa-Morocco gas pipeline,” said ECOWAS Chair Julius Maada Bio said. “Don’t be surprised when the gas comes your way.” Morocco’s state hydrocarbons agency ONHYM and Nigeria’s state oil company…
Children referred for autism assessments in Abu Dhabi will be seen by a specialist within two weeks, and in some cases, therapy will begin before a final diagnosis is confirmed, according to Sakina for Children. The newly launched neurodevelopmental centre aims to provide early support during critical brain development and to reduce the average age of autism identification from three to four years to approximately two. The centre stated that all eligible children referred through the Department of Health’s Autism Hub pathway are seen by a specialist within two weeks, and diagnostic assessments are completed within six weeks of the…
OSLO — Norway has unveiled a permanent memorial in Oslo dedicated to the 77 victims of the country’s deadliest peacetime terror attack carried out far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, just days before the 15th anniversary of the tragedy. On July 22, 2011, Breivik, a neo-Nazi, killed eight people in a bomb attack in Oslo before shooting dead 69 mostly teenagers at a youth camp on Utoeya island. Hundreds more were injured in the worst attack in Norway’s modern history. On Sunday, survivors and relatives of the victims gathered in Oslo for the unveiling of a large artwork showing a bird…
EAST RUTHERFORD — US President Donald Trump and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez came face to face at the 2026 FIFA World Cup final in New Jersey on Sunday, their first public appearance together after nearly two years of strained diplomatic relations. The two leaders greeted each other in the VIP section at MetLife Stadium before Spain took on Argentina in the tournament’s final, according to Euronews. Spain’s King Felipe VI, Queen Letizia and Princesses Leonor and Sofía were also present, alongside FIFA President Gianni Infantino and several other world leaders. The interaction came after months of tensions between Washington…