The plan will make Alba the largest single-site aluminium smelter in the world.
The additional service will increase Emirates’ total number of weekly flights serving Lebanon to 21.
The firm has launched an advisory service for structuring and managing the assets of the Islamic charitable foundations known as awqaf.
Once completed in 2018, the $1.2 billion Kingdom Tower will be over one kilometre high.
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The emirate’s real estate is expected to stabilise this year, but the negative impact of lower oil prices could be felt in the longer term.
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A founding member of the Emirates group, Flanagan passed away at his home in the UK.
The decline in the number of tourists, especially from Russia, has pushed down the revenue per available room across the hotels in the Middle East.
The airline’s Chairman and CEO Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum said lower oil prices had saved Emirates around Dhs2 billion during the financial year.
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The unmanned probe, named Hope, will collect data that will help scientists learn about the atmosphere in Mars.
The group’s mid-market brands represent nearly 50 per cent of the company’s pipeline in the region.
The airline chief said that Indigo would be Qatar Airways’ preferred choice if it wanted to invest in India.
The OPEC producer began storing the medium-sour crude onboard Aframax tanker Abu Dhabi III in mid-April, the sources said.
The airline chief also denied that its recent US route expansion was part of a reprisal to American carriers calling for a freeze to flights by Gulf airlines to the US.
The tenders attract major traders including Louis Dreyfus, Noble, Glencore and ADM.
Jordan shares frontiers with Iraq and Syria, where ISIL has seized swathes of territory.
Three American airlines alleged in January that Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways received more $40 billion in state subsidies in the last decade.
Commercial production has begun at the 1.5 billion dirham ($410 million) newly-built facility.
With parts of Middle East in turmoil, industry officials look optimistically at intra-regional tourism.
India and Iran agreed in 2003 to develop a port at Chabahar on the Gulf of Oman, but the venture has made little progress because of Western sanctions on Iran.
About 2.15 million tourists visited the country in the first quarter, up 6.9 per cent from a year ago.
The Dubai-based channel also quoted Adel al-Jubeir as warning Yemen’s dominant Houthi group against exploiting any truce in the country in its favour.
At least nine new Hyatt-branded hotels are expected to open across the GCC by 2017A
IHG was named the the Best Hotel Brand Worldwide at the Business Traveller Middle East Awards 2015.
The airline’s president Tim Clark states that its success is making Emirates a “scapegoat.”
The state news agency said that the authorities resolved the situation using “appropriate standard procedures” after landing at the base.