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Markets hit by biggest fall since Trump election

Stock markets suffered their worst falls since the election of Donald Trump as Wall Street worries about the prospects for the US president’s pro-business agenda triggered a rush for financial havens.US markets led the declines, with the benchmark S&P 500 index tumbling 1.2 per cent — and breaking a run of 109 trading days without a drop of 1 per cent or more. The Dow Jones Industrial [...]

US banks slide over Trump policy delay fears

US banks recorded their steepest slide since the wake of the June Brexit vote as the Treasury yield curve flattened and investors remained concerned that Donald Trump’s policy initiatives might take longer to pass than previously thought.The S&P 500 banks index dropped 3.9 per cent, marking its steepest fall since June 27, according to Bloomberg data. America’s largest lenders were under pressure as Bank of America lost [...]

Rough Guide to IETF 98: Internet Infrastructure Resilience

Let’s look at what’s happening in the area of Internet infrastructure resilience in the IETF and at the upcoming IETF 98 meeting. My focus here is primarily on the routing and forwarding planes and specifically routing security and unwanted traffic of Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS) attacks. There is interesting and important work underway at the IETF that can help address problems in both areas. DDoS [...]

Samsung Galaxy J7 (2017) Drops By FCC Before AT&T Release: What To Expect

The Samsung Galaxy J7 (2017) is expected to launch soon and the AT&T version recently received certification from the Federal Communications Commission. Samsung has yet to offer any official information regarding the smartphone and it remains unclear just when exactly the new Galaxy J7 will hit the scene, but the FCC is typically among the last stops a device has to make before it's ready for primetime. [...]

Dubai's newest workout options

Feeling energetic? Ready for a change? From Barry’s Bootcamp to Curvalicious, Afshan Ahmed rounds up the newest workout options in Dubai - a city that is already teeming with the best and newest ways to get and stay fit. newslide Warehouse GymJumeirah Beach Residence Price: From Dh400/month04 368 4080 / www.whgym.com After opening up a gritty warehouse space for CrossFit, circuit training and boxing a few years [...]

You're right. That 'electronic Muslim ban' makes no sense

(Image: file photo) NEW YORK -- A lot of people woke up confused by the news this morning that the US government is banning electronics on some inbound flights from several Muslim-majority countries. They're right. It doesn't make sense. The simple rundown is that passengers on all airlines with direct flights from ten Middle Eastern and African airports -- including in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan -- [...]

Philippines to protest China's planned construction on disputed shoal

MANILA The Philippines plans to file a strong protest against China after it announced preparatory work for an environmental monitoring station on a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, a Cabinet minister said on Tuesday.China five years ago started blockading the Scarborough Shoal, a rocky outcrop within the Philippines' 200 mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ), and the United States has warned Beijing against carrying out the [...]

Poet Derek Walcott leaves behind a Nobel legacy

Nobel Prize-winning writers would almost certainly baulk at the faintest idea that they might work to a "mission statement". But when St Lucian poet Derek Walcott wrote, "I seek/ As climate seeks its style, to write/ Verse crisp as sand, clear as sunlight/ Cold as the curled wave, ordinary/ As a tumbler of island water," in his breakthrough 1962 collection In A Green Night, it served as [...]

Japan cabinet OK's anti-conspiracy bill amid civil rights concerns

TOKYOJapan's cabinet on Tuesday approved legislation that would penalise criminal conspiracies, a move critics say threatens civil liberties, but officials say is needed to prevent terrorist targeting events like the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.Proponents say the steps are vital in a security climate where terrorism risks have grown and in order to ratify a U.N. Treaty aimed at battling international organised crime."Considering the current situation regarding terrorism and [...]

A simple fix to avoid unnecessary coronary stents is overlooked by cardiologists and current cardiovascular guidelines

Physician researchers suspect that some cases of coronary artery spasm go unrecognized and are incorrectly treated with stents. The good news – there could be a simple fix to eliminate these unnecessary stenting procedures. (via WSJ)

The cell phones were infected with porn. Then the Panama Papers exposed a bribery scheme, this company says. – Miami Herald

The release of the Panama Papers exposed an elaborate kickback scheme whose tentacles spread from the Caribbean island of Aruba to warehouses in Doral to the offshore banking haven of Panama City, according to a lawsuit filed in Miami federal court.The scam was allegedly hatched by Egbert Koolman, an employee of Aruba’s state-owned telecommunications provider, Setar. Koolman’s job was to buy phones from suppliers around the world [...]

Solutions needed for the displaced, UAE Minister of Education says

DUBAI // If the humanitarian and refugee crises affecting the region today are not properly addressed they will return as major issues for tomorrow’s generation, according to the Minister of Education.On Monday at the Youth Engagement and Global Refugee Crisis at the American University in Dubai, Hussain Al Hammadi said that the UAE was working on instilling a culture of volunteering in school curriculums to ensure students [...]

U.N. Seeks Inquiry Into Deadly Assault on Migrant Boat Near Yemen

Photo The bodies of migrants killed in an aerial attack on a boat off Yemen were brought to the port city of Al Hudaydah. Credit Abdel-Karim Muhammed/Associated Press The United Nations on Monday called for an inquiry into an aerial assault on a boat of migrants last week off Yemen’s Red Sea coast that left at least 42 people dead.The attack on the boat, believed to be [...]

Asset management: Passive resistance

When Tim Armour graduated from Middlebury College, a liberal arts institution in Vermont, he faced a conundrum. He could either accept a graduate programme slot at a West Coast investment group, or go and run a windsurf shop in Florida.Because he loved to windsurf but did not want to turn down a more sensible job, he asked the asset manager whether he could put off the traineeship [...]

David Rockefeller, banker and philanthropist, dies at age 101 in New York

NEW YORK Billionaire philanthropist David Rockefeller, former head of Chase Manhattan Corp and patriarch of one of the most famous and influential American families, died on Monday, a family spokesman said. He was 101.Rockefeller, who reportedly gave away nearly $2 billion in his lifetime, died in his sleep of congestive heart failure at his home in Pocantico Hills, New York, spokesman Fraser Seitel said in a statement.One [...]

Global Medical Robots Market worth 13 Billion USD by 2023- Research Nester

20 March 2017Research Nester has recently announced its latest Industry research on "Medical Robotics Market: Global Demand Analysis & Opportunity Outlook 2023".Medical robots allows surgeons to carry out operations in more precise and less invasive way, medical robots increases accuracy of the operation along with wide range of advantages such as decreases risk of infection, decreases post-operative pain and reduces risk of patients life. Along with improved [...]

U.S. officials meet asylum seekers at Australian-run camp, possibly restarting 'dumb deal'

By Colin Packham and Aaron Bunch | CANBERRA/PERTH CANBERRA/PERTH U.S. officials began taking fingerprints of asylum seekers in an Australian-run camp on the Pacific island of Nauru on Monday, signalling that vetting of applicants for resettlement in what U.S. President Donald Trump called a "dumb deal" has restarted.Australia agreed with former U.S. President Barack Obama late last year for the United States to resettle up to 1,250 [...]

Revealed: Cost of guarding the Trumps during Dubai visit

US taxpayers paid more than $16,000 for security for the visit of US President Donald Trump's eldest sons Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump to Dubai. The sons were in the emirate in February for the official opening of the Trump-branded golf course and clubhouse in Dubai, the first Trump property project launched since their father's inauguration. NBC News reports that the cost of having Secret Service [...]

‘Eagle Resolve 2017’ military exercise starts in Kuwait

KUWAIT: Saudi armed forces, as well as those of other Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and some US military on Sunday started the Eagle Resolve 2017 military exercises in Kuwait.Lt. Gen. Mohammed Khaled Al-Khader, chief of general staff of Kuwait’s Army, attended the activities along with the leaders of the army units participating in the exercise.Al-Khader delivered a speech at the start of the exercise, praising the [...]

How much is an Afghan life worth? That depends

By Idrees Ali | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON In March 2014, the U.S. military paid an Afghan man just over $1,000 to compensate for killing his civilian son in an operation near the border with Iran, according to U.S. military records released to Reuters.   Six months later, another Afghan father was given $10,000 by the U.S. military after his child, also a civilian, was killed in an American-led military [...]

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid announces World Happiness Council

DUBAI // The world desperately needs to adopt a new approach to achieve human happiness, the Vice President and Ruler of Dubai has said. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid said the approach must be based on cooperation and searching for ponits of agreement, speaking to mark the creation of what was described as the first World Happiness Council.The announcement came ahead of International Happiness Day, which falls on [...]

Newer type 2 diabetes drugs show heart protective quality in study

By Bill Berkrot | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON A newer class of type 2 diabetes drugs significantly cut the risk of death and hospitalization for heart failure compared with other medicines for the disease, according to data released on Sunday from a so-called real world study sponsored by AstraZeneca.The drugs, known as SGLT-2 inhibitors, work by removing blood sugar via the urine and include Astra's Farxiga, Jardiance from Eli [...]

Logo to help Dubai diners make healthier choices

DUBAI // Dubai Municipality has launched a logo to indicate which dishes on a restaurant’s menu have been deemed as healthy by the Food Safety Department.The healthy food logo, launched in line with the Eat Healthy, Live Healthy campaign, signifies that the dish is part of an approved healthy diet.Thirteen restaurants qualified for certification during the pilot phase, during which a team visited to verify the dishes [...]