DAVAO CITY , Philippines – The government and communist rebels have agreed to resume peace talks and restore the truce following an escalation of deadly clashes. Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza yesterday said the government and rebel negotiators would resume talks early next month and discuss the terms of a broader ceasefire. Dureza said the decision to resume the peace talks came after backchannel […]
PolitiFact, the national political fact-checking franchise started by the Poynter-owned Tampa Bay Times, has lost seven of its statewide partners since the presidential campaign. Partners in Providence, Rhode Island, Des Moines, Iowa and Richmond, Virginia all discontinued their PolitiFact franchises within the last year, according to a report from the Duke Reporters’ Lab. E.W. Scripps Television Stations, which operated four statewide PolitiFact affiliates, opted not to renew […]
Saudi King Salman’s stop in the Maldives on his month-long tour of Asia brings into focus how this tiny archipelago – best known for high-end tourism and an existential battle against climate change – has emerged as a key player in a regional struggle for influence. Both Riyadh and Beijing are currying favour with the strategically located 820km-long chain of Indian Ocean atolls, in efforts analysts believe […]
Authored by Federico Pieraccini via The Strategic Culture Foundation, While the world continues to decipher, or digest, the new Trump presidency, important changes are afoot within the grand strategic triangle that lies between Russia, Iran and China Away from the current chaos in the United States, major developments are progressing, with Iran, Russia and China coordinating on a series of significant moves crucial for the future of […]
Earlier this week, Microsoft acknowledged that it has been working to bring Windows Server to ARM. But the way this announcement unfolded was rather confusing. Once the dust from the initial wave of press releases cleared, it turned out that Microsoft officially announced that it has been working with Intel, AMD, and two ARM vendors (Qualcomm and Cavium) to support Project Olympus, Microsoft’s next-generation cloud-hardware design it […]
Saudi women from adventurers to inventors are hoping a unique conference in Riyadh on Saturday will highlight their changing role and inspire younger women to push for new opportunities in the ultra-conservative kingdom. The event comes at a time when reforms are slowly changing women’s lives in one of the world’s most gender-segregated countries – where women live under the supervision of a male guardian and cannot […]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led his Bharatiya Janata Party to a landslide victory in state elections in the bellwether state of Uttar Pradesh, an affirmation of his enduring popularity midway through his term. The Hindu nationalist BJP won 324 of 403 state assembly seats in India’s most populous state, a magnitude of victory not seen in state polls there since 1980. The decisive mandate in a […]
This report marks the end of a series of three big trains of thought. The first explained how we’re living through the Mother Of All Financial Bubbles. The next detailed the Great Wealth Transfer that is now underway, siphoning our wealth into the pockets of an elite few. This concluding report predicts how these deleterious and unsustainable trends will inevitably ‘resolve’ (which is a pleasant way of […]
LONDON The chairman of Britain’s biggest retailer Tesco has said he was joking after telling an audience of aspiring non-executive directors (NED) that white men were “an endangered species” in UK boardrooms. John Allan, who became Tesco chairman in 2015, told the Retail Week Live conference earlier this week that women and people from an ethnic background were in an “extremely propitious period” when it came to […]
Alphabet’s Waymo is requesting for a preliminary injunction to keep Uber from pushing through with its self-driving car plans and thus stop the ride-hailing service from using allegedly stolen secrets. This move follows the lawsuit Waymo filed back in February against Otto, a self-driving truck startup, and Uber, the startup’s parent company. The case argues that the defending party has stolen more than 14,000 confidential documents, including info […]
ANKARA Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday deals with the European Union, including an agreement on stemming the flow of migrants, would be jeopardised if the bloc failed to implement promised visa liberalisation for Turks. Cavusoglu, speaking to CNN Turk television, said Turkey would present a final text to the bloc “and either it will all be cancelled, including the visa liberalisation and migrant deal, […]
Following the unexpected death of 65-year-old Russian ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin, conspiracy theorists were stirred up as the ongoing Russophobic Deep State war combined with the deaths of nine Russian diplomats in the last year raised many coincident-questioning eyebrows. Now, as The Hill reports, pouring further fuel on that fire, the State Department asked the New York Medical Examiner not to publicly release information […]
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON The U.S. military said on Friday it plans to forge ahead with building the THAAD missile defence system in South Korea, separating the issue from a political crisis in Seoul that saw President Park Geun-hye’s removal from office on Friday. The United States started deploying the first elements of its advanced anti-missile defence system in South Korea on […]
The middle ground isn’t exactly a term that many sports-car manufacturers would like associated with their tarmac-gobbling wares, but that’s exactly how Porsche positions the premium on-road niche in its long-celebrated 911 range. But its pitch explains everything: the GTS is a notch below the try-not-to-get-killed madness of the GT3, marrying sporty intent with everyday usability, making it the most-aggressive 911 this side of its race-ready road […]
There is a growing hype about going on a gluten-free diet today. With more and more celebrities swearing by it, people get inspired to raid supermarket aisles for expensive gluten-free alternatives. Aside from weight loss, one of the purported health benefits of a gluten-free diet is the reduced risk of diabetes, which is considered one of the leading causes of death in the United States. But a new […]
Photo Tajrish Square in Tehran. The Iranian economy did not get the boost many had hoped for after the nuclear deal. Credit Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times Iran’s top leader criticized the pace of national economic growth on Thursday in what appeared to be a rebuke of the president, who had forecast prosperous times after the 2015 accord that lifted international sanctions in exchange for […]
Riyadh, 09 March, 2017 Mobile Telecommunication Company Saudi Arabia (Zain Saudi Arabia) announced its financial results for the full financial year ending December 31, 2016. Key Performance Indicators for the 12 months ending 31 Dec 2016: Compared to Full-Year 2015, Zain Saudi Arabia reported: Advertisement Revenues increased by 3% to SAR 6,927 million, Gross profit grew by 11% to SAR 4,401 million. EBITDA also grew by 10% […]
I’d like to say it isn’t so, but we all know the countdown to the onset of summer has already begun. Make the most of all the great outdoors has to offer with 10 of the best al fresco activities across the four compass points of the UAE. newslide Beach sports Dubai’s meandering shoreline is awash with outdoor experiences, and the newest kid on The Beach, opposite […]
Two days into a frantic battle to repeal and replace Obamacare, Donald Trump’s White House is struggling to win over fellow Republicans in Congress. The strength of resistance to the new healthcare bill within the party points to a broader problem for Mr Trump — almost two months in to his presidency he is struggling to control the legislative agenda. “The White House doesn’t have a plan […]
By Julia Edwards Ainsley | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON The Department of Justice is deploying 50 judges to immigration detention facilities across the United States, according to two sources and a letter seen by Reuters and sent to judges on Thursday. The department is also considering asking judges to sit from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., split between two rotating shifts, to adjudicate more cases, the sources said. A […]
Tunis and Dubai, March 9, 2017 – Nasdaq Dubai and Bourse de Tunis have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore collaboration possibilities, including initiatives regarding existing and future issuers and listings on the two exchanges. Ways to promote Islamic capital markets products and solutions will also be considered under the MoU, together with supporting potential links between central securities depositories in the respective jurisdictions. The […]
The Senate voted Monday to kill an Obama administration rule aimed at curbing labor violations among government contractors. Two years in the making, the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule was targeted by Republican lawmakers 10 days after Donald Trump’s inauguration. The House voted to excise it on Feb. 2, and Trump can seal its fate with his signature. Before the Senate vote – 49-48, along party […]
Cisco’s Jasper is making a big play into connected cars, a sector the company currently sees as its largest growth industry in the Internet of Things (IoT) space. According to Jasper MD for Cisco ANZ Tom Fisher, Cisco’s cloud-based IoT platform Jasper is now powering nearly every connected car in the world. “Our largest vertical is the connected car market,” Fisher told ZDNet. “Practically every single car […]
By Adam Jourdan and Eric Walsh | SHANGHAI/WASHINGTON SHANGHAI/WASHINGTON China has granted preliminary approval for 38 trademarks linked to Donald Trump, documents on China’s state trademark office show, giving the U.S. President and his family protection were they to develop the “Trump” brand in the market. The trademarks – which in theory cover a wide sweep of businesses from hotels to mobile libraries and escorts – underline […]
