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  • Abu Dhabi- Doha: Now additional flights on Etihad Airways

    QATAR, 2016/06/13 Etihad Airways is celebrating 10 years of flying to Qatar this summer by launching nine additional weekly flights on the Abu Dhabi – Doha route reinforcing its commitment to one of the airline’s key markets in the Gulf. Effective 1 August 2016, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates will increase weekly frequency to Qatar’s capital city to 37 services. The new daily morning flights inclunding the early evening departures on Thursdays and Saturdays provide additional flexibility and better convenience and have been timed to cater for the needs of business travellers both in Abu Dhabi and Doha.
  • Two Remarks on the Turkey-EU Deal on the Migrant Crisis

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2016/06/11 “The EU and Turkey have reached a transaction on the migrant crisis, which will see migrants returned to Turkey in exchange for aid and political concessions.” There are two practically significant points of this transaction: The European Union (EU) will no longer need to transaction with new and uncontrolled immigrants. In exchange for an “acceptable” migrant for the EU, Turkey will take back all the migrants, regardless of the nationality. The EU will pay 3 billion euros to Turkey for this, which has long-term and short-term benefits.
  • Mobilizing Education for Global Health

    WORLD, 2016/06/11 Education is a fundamental right for everyone, from presently on lack of access to education continues to be a core driver in the world health epidemic. Across the world, 59 million children and 65 million adolescents are out of school and additional than 120 million children do not complete primary education. Education is often referred to as the great equalizer and is critical to improving socio-economic conditions. It opens doors to better employment, access to healthcare and from presently on the ability to support a family. At the same time as families are educated, healthy and self-sufficient, they can strengthen their communities.
  • Building a Global Action Platform to Create Abundant Food, Health, and Prosperity—While Saving the Planet’s Ecology

    WORLD, 2016/06/11 The grand challenges of poverty, health, and economic prosperity can be solved. Indeed, it is possible to harness an emerging alliance of institutions, a growing knowledge base, technology platforms, and innovations to unleash an abundant and ecologically sustainable next for each person and for the earth. World Action Platform began with this bold vision in 2012. A lot of criticized this vision at the time, but today, our founding vision is gaining ground. Indeed, with the 2015 launch of the Sustainable Development Goals, this vision is being embraced actively by a growing network of corporations, universities, investors, governments, and NGOs around the world.
  • International Crisis and the Building of a New Lost Generation

    MIDDLE EAST, 2016/06/11 A catastrophic by-product of ongoing conflicts in the Middle East is a lost generation of unschooled children. These children find themselves, through no fault of their own, not only displaced but lacking the opportunity for proper schooling and thus, denied a luck to learn and develop the necessary skills to become fully functional members of society. This lost generation is the tragedy of our time. According to a 2015 statement by UNICEF, the United Nations children’s agency, conflict in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has driven 13 million children out of schools.
  • Why is Mr Erdogan spending so much time in Africa?

    TURKEY, 2016/06/04 High quality world journalism requires investment . Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for additional detail. Email [email protected] to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/aaf3981a-27e5-11e6-8ba3-cdd781d02d89.html#ixzz4AZVBSpaI Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is on a four-day east African tour this week, during which he is visiting Kenya and Uganda. This trip is his tenth visit to a sub-Saharan African country in less than 18 months.
  • Turkish PM to visit Baku

    AZERBAIJAN, 2016/05/28 Turkey's newly-elected prime minister will pay a visit to Azerbaijan. Turkish PM Binali Yildirim is expected to visit Baku on June 1, Turkey's Cabinet of Ministers Yildirim is expected to hold a number of meetings with Azerbaijani officials during his trip.
  • EU to realize new twinning projects in Azerbaijan

    AZERBAIJAN, 2016/05/28 The European Union (EU) is preparing to implement nine twinning projects worth nearly € 9 million in Azerbaijan. Sahil Babayev, Azerbaijan’s Deputy Minister of Economy was quoted as saying next the conference dedicated to the institution building program in Azerbaijan. The deputy minister as well added that on average each project takes a year and a half to prepare. “Each project is realized within the framework of 2 years. New projects are expected to be implemented in the spheres of justice, education, agriculture. The cost of each project amounts to € 1 million,” he said
  • Fitch says Azerbaijan among countries benefiting most from commodity boom

    AZERBAIJAN, 2016/05/28 A number of key economic and financial ratios in commodity-based emerging markets (CEMs) have by presently returned to pre-boom levels, two years next the sudden end of the commodity boom, says Fitch Ratings in its new World Perspectives commentary. According to the statement, Azerbaijan has benefited most from the boom part Fitch-rated CEMs since 2003.
  • President Aliyev joins official reception on occasion of Azerbaijan's Republic Day

    AZERBAIJAN, 2016/05/28 Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev attended an official reception on the occasion of the national holiday of Azerbaijan, Republic Day, at Buta Palace on May 27, Azertac reports. The chief of national made a speech at the reception. Again a ceremony to present national awards was held. National awards in science and literature for 2016 were presented under a relevant Order of President Aliyev.