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Under the Patronage of the Central Bank of Bahrain, the Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance (BIBF) has celebrated the graduation of the 2020-2021 batch of its Annual Graduation Ceremony of Bangor University Undergraduate Progammes. The Governor of the Central Bank of Bahrain and Chairman of the BIBF’s Board of Directors Rasheed Al Maraj and the Higher Education Council Secretary General and Board of Trustees Vice Chair, Dr. Shaikha Rana bint Isa Al Khalifa were present as 174 students received their degree. Vice Chancellor and Head of Bangor University’s College of Arts Professor Andrew Edwards expressed his pride in the…

Electricity and Water Affairs Minister Wael bin Nasser Al Mubarak received the Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Program (UNPD) in Bahrain, Firas Gharaibeh. The meeting reviewed plans and projects for renewable energy and energy efficiency. The two sides discussed the existing cooperation with the UNPD in what has been achieved and the positive dimensions and outputs that were represented in multiple achievements in the field of renewable energy, based on the interest and directives of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. They highlighted the government’s interest in the diversification and sustainability of energy resources, and to…

Bahrain marks the celebration of the World Blood Donor Day, which falls on June 14 of every year to raise awareness of the need for safe blood and to thank voluntary blood donors. This year’s event comes under the theme “Blood donation is a gesture of solidarity, take part and save lives”, aims to thank blood donors and raise awareness on a larger scale of the need for regular and free blood donations. The celebration highlights the need for a year-round blood donation campaign to maintain safe blood transfusions and build a sustainable national blood supply system.

Six students from Al Istiqlal Secondary Girls School designed a digital, educational, entertaining, and advisory prototype application for people of determination. The application includes videos, photos, and stories that allow users to interact and highlight their talents and capabilities. “This application represents a useful digital library for people with autism, deafness, color blindness, and visual impairment and presents a variety of stories in Arabic and English and is equipped with translation into sign language,” Maryam Hussain Ali, one of the designers, said. “The application includes “write your own story” feature that stimulates the talents and abilities of users and provides a variety…

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday he did not ask his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden for help to defeat his leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in this year’s election. “There is no such thing,” Bolsonaro said in a radio interview. He met with Biden for the first time last week during the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles. Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter, that the far-right leader had asked Biden to help his re-election bid in October.

The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, has filed an appeal against a Moscow court decision demanding that it remove information related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, arguing that people have a right to know the facts of the war. A Moscow court fined the Wikimedia Foundation 5 million roubles ($88,000) for refusing to remove what it termed disinformation from Russian-language Wikipedia articles on the war including “The Russian Invasion of Ukraine”, “War Crimes during the Russian Invasion of Ukraine” and “Massacre in Bucha”. “This decision implies that well-sourced, verified knowledge on Wikipedia that is inconsistent with Russian government accounts…

Ukraine’s central bank said the situation in the war with Russia will determine whether its key interest rate can be cut from the current level of 25% or whether further hikes will be necessary. On June 2, the central bank sharply raised its main interest rate to 25% from 10%, tightening monetary policy for the first time since the Feb. 24 Russian invasion to tackle double-digit inflation and protect incomes and savings during the war. “With a prolonged military confrontation, inflationary risks will increase significantly,” it said in minutes of the central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting which was…

A German government spokesperson declined to confirm a media report on Monday that Chancellor Olaf Scholz would travel to Kyiv on Thursday with French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. Online magazine Focus, citing Italian newspaper La Stampa, earlier reported that the three European leaders would travel to the Ukrainian capital on Thursday, adding a specific date to a Bild am Sonntag report on Sunday that they planned to go before a Group of Seven summit at the end of June. “We still do not confirm that,” the spokesperson said. Scholz, who has not been to Kyiv…

The Bahrain Institute for Political Development (BIPD) has called on those wishing to run for the upcoming parliamentary and municipal elections to register for its election candidates’ training programme through the institute’s website, bipd.org, as part of the specialised phase of the National Programme for Parliamentary and Municipal Elections, “Darrib” (Training 2). Held in person, the programme will kick off on June 19 at the BIPD’s premises in Umm Al-Hassam. According to BIPD, participants must be Bahrainis aged 30 at least. They must be potential candidates for the upcoming parliamentary or municipal elections, and must have filled in the registration…

Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) met with Bahrain Association of Banks (BAB). Alba CEO Ali Al Baqali presented the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Roadmap’s 6 priority areas and initiatives – Decarbonisation, Green Energy & Aluminium, Circular Economy & Secondary Aluminium,  Employee Welfare, Collaboration, Partnership and Transparency, Communications & Due Diligence. “Alba, an ESG corporate activist, is charting its journey to meet Bahrain’s Net Zero Emissions by 2060,”  Al Baqali said. “We believe that small acts, when multiplied by millions of stakeholders, can have a bigger impact and together collectively is the only Right Choice to realize our nation’s objectives under the leadership…