Dubai Media Announces Partnership with NEP Group

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Dubai Media Announces Partnership with NEP Group

2024-07-04 13:01 Last Updated At：13:10

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 4, 2024--

Dubai Media has signed a memorandum of understanding with NEP Group, the leading media services provider supporting premier broadcasters and content creators worldwide, to enhance cooperation and exchange expertise in various media services fields. This is part of the efforts made by Dubai Media to support its logistical and technical capabilities and to develop the media content industry it offers through its TV and digital channels, aligning with its goal to be closer to the audience.

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The memorandum of understanding, signed on the sidelines of participation in the 22nd edition of the Arab Media Forum, which recently concluded at the Dubai World Trade Center, aims to strengthen cooperative relations between the two parties. The goal is to leverage the digital tools, technology, and human resources provided by the group to support Dubai Media's external broadcast operations within and outside the UAE. This will enhance the institution's production and operational capacities, highlighting its capabilities in covering events with high quality. Additionally, the memorandum allows Dubai Media to benefit from NEP's future center and global connectivity with the group's facilities.

In his comments, Saleh Lootah, Deputy CEO of Technical Support at Dubai Media, emphasized the importance of this memorandum and its role in supporting the media content industry and presenting it to the audience according to the highest global standards:

"Through its diverse TV and radio programs, Dubai Media seeks to develop the media content industry, which is currently one of the fastest-growing media sectors. We are making significant efforts to enhance our capabilities, improve our logistical capacities, and develop the skills of our human resources to produce high-quality media content that meets Dubai's and the UAE's major developmental aspirations."

He confirmed that the partnership with NEP represents a new step in Dubai Media's commitment to achieving its strategic goals of advancing the media sector and establishing Dubai as a leading global content creation center, adding:

"The memorandum of understanding provides an opportunity to develop our TV and radio broadcasting operations and expand their global reach, reflecting Dubai Media's status as one of the largest and most prominent media institutions in the UAE and the region."

Saeed Izadi, President, NEP Singapore, India and Middle East, expressed his happiness in partnering with Dubai Media to benefit from the range of services provided by the group:

“We’re very proud to work alongside and support Dubai Media, contributing a full range of media services including live TV production, remote broadcast production, on-demand video services, virtual production, and many more industry-leading solutions. This partnership will support Dubai Media and enable its teams to utilize the very best broadcast technology and develop its expertise in covering external events and activities, delivering premier content to its audiences both inside and outside the UAE.”

Russian strikes leave thousands in northern Ukraine without power and water

2024-07-06 19:15 Last Updated At：19:20

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian strikes overnight left over 100,000 households without power in northern Ukraine and cut off the water supply to a regional capital, Ukrainian authorities reported Saturday, while civilian casualties rose sharply in the country's embattled east.

The northern Sumy region, which borders Russia, was plunged into dark after Russian strikes late Friday damaged energy infrastructure, the Ukrainian Energy Ministry said. Hours later, the Ukrainian public broadcaster reported that Russian drones hit the provincial capital, also called Sumy, cutting off water by hitting power lines that feed its system of pumps.

Russian state agency RIA cited a local pro-Kremlin “underground” leader as saying that Moscow’s forces overnight hit a plant producing rocket ammunition in the city, which had a pre-war population of over 256,000. The report didn’t specify what weapon was used, and the claim could not be independently verified. Explosions rocked the city during an air raid warning early Saturday, according to Ukrainian media reports.

In the Donetsk region in the east, Russian shelling on Friday and overnight killed 11 civilians and wounded 43, local Gov. Vadym Filashkin reported on Saturday. Five people died in the town of Selydove southeast of Pokrovsk, the eastern city that has emerged as a front-line hotspot. The Ukrainian General Staff on Saturday morning said that Ukrainian and Russian forces clashed 45 times near Pokrovsk over the previous day.

According to Filashkin, three more people died in Chasiv Yar, the strategically located town in Donetsk that has been reduced to rubble under a montshlong Russian assault.

A Ukrainian military spokesperson on Thursday told the AP that Ukrainian forces had retreated from a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Chasiv Yar. The town's elevated location gives it strategic importance, and military analysts say its fall would put nearby cities in jeopardy. It could also compromise critical Ukrainian supply routes and bring Russia closer to its stated aim of seizing the entire Donetsk region.

According to the Ukrainian General Staff, Russian forces on Friday and overnight launched six rocket strikes and 55 airstrikes across Ukraine, and used more than 70 “glide bombs” — retrofitted Soviet-era weapons that have wrought devastation in the country in recent weeks.

In Kyiv, Ukrainian service members gathered on Saturday to pay last respects to a British combat medic who set up a charity delivering essential supplies to front-line fighters.

Peter Fouché died “in the battlefield” last Thursday as his unit clashed with Russian troops, according to his colleague at Project Konstantin, the volunteer group that since 2022 has ferried drones, vehicles, uniforms and food to Ukrainian soldiers in the east. According to its website, it has also helped evacuate 219 Ukrainian soldiers from combat zones.

At the funeral ceremony, Ukrainian soldiers carried Fouché's coffin through Kyiv’s landmark Independence Square, the site of mass protests in 2014 that forced out a pro-Russian president. Fouché's comrades held back tears as they lined up to say goodbye. Others read prayers as they held up Ukrainian flags and military insignia. Fouche’s partner, wearing a traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirt, knelt down to embrace the coffin.

A statement released Monday by Halyna Zhuk, Project Konstantin’s Ukrainian co-founder, called Fouché “a hero” and praised his “relentless commitment to Ukraine and her people.”

Fouché, a native of west London who turned 49 this year, helped build a field hospital in Kyiv before he started Project Konstantin, according to the group’s website, and later enlisted in the Ukrainian army. At least five other Britons have been killed while volunteering in Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.

In Russia, two civilians were wounded after Ukrainian forces overnight shelled a border town in the southern Belgorod region, its Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov reported.

The Russian Defense Ministry said its troops overnight shot down a total of eight drones over the Kursk and Belgorod regions in the south.

In Krasnodar province next to Russia-annexed Crimea, local authorities reported on damage caused during the night by falling drone debris. Debris sparked a fire at an oil depot, set fuel tanks ablaze in a separate location and damaged a cellphone tower, the reports said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

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