DUBAI // The UAE has more open communication with its citizens than people abroad realise, acording to a senior adviser at the Emirates Diplomatic Academy. Tom Fletcher, former British ambassador to Lebanon, said there was a perception in the West that the region was a more “closed world”. “But when most people come here, they can see it’s not the case and they can see this effort […]
By Jonathan Allen and Scott Malone | NEW YORK/BOSTON NEW YORK/BOSTON A blizzard swept through the heavily populated northeastern United States on Tuesday, grounding thousands of flights, cancelling classes and pummelling those who ventured out onto snow-bound streets. Some 50 million people from Pennsylvania to Maine faced a “rapidly intensifying nor’easter” over the course of the day that was unusual for striking so late in the winter, […]
Rumor has it that the successor to OnePlus 3T will skip the “4” and just jump into OnePlus 5, a la Note 5 jumping into the Note 7 naming scheme. The 3T has only been out for a few months, becoming available this past November. Yet, because of how fast-paced smartphone development has become, we’re now seeing rumors of the OnePlus 5, and they’re all sounding pretty good […]
After several rumors and teases, Tag Heuer itself leaked the details of its upcoming Android Wear 2.0 smartwatch before the device’s official announcement. Tag Heuer posted information regarding the smartwatch, named the Connected Modular 45, on its official website before the March 14 announcement date, revealing a few things that customers can expect from the device. Tag Heuer Connected Modular 45 Specs And Features The Tag Heuer […]
By Kylie MacLellan and William James | LONDON LONDON British Prime Minister Theresa May cleared the final hurdle standing between her and the start of Brexit negotiations on Monday after parliament passed legislation giving her the power to start the EU exit process. Members of the lower house of parliament voted to throw out changes to the bill made by the upper house earlier this month, after […]
By Angela Moon | NEW YORK NEW YORK Airbnb, the leading online marketplace for short-term lodging, has no specific plans yet to go public, its chief executive officer Brian Chesky said on Monday. “We don’t have any announcement to make. We are working to make sure that the company is ready,” Chesky said at an event at the New York Exchange when asked about plans for an […]
By Michael Holden | LONDON LONDON A British judge investigating the sudden death of a Russian mafia whistleblower heard on Monday that he might have been murdered by eating poisoned soup. Alexander Perepilichny, 44, was found dead near his luxury home on the exclusive gated St George’s Hill estate in Weybridge, Surrey, southwest of London, after he had been out jogging in November 2012. The sudden nature […]
In textbook fashion, the Federal Reserve has prepared traders and investors for a 25 basis points increase in policy interest rates this week. When it comes to lasting effects on markets, however, the Fed is likely to deliver more than the third rise in 10 years. It will also signal an important evolution in its policy approach aiming for a beautiful rate normalisation. Facing an implied probability […]
Business Social media superstar and CEO of the company that bears her own name, Joelle Mardinian, headlined the ITP Live: Influencer Marketing Summit on the 20th of February 2017. In her keynote speech, she told an audience of journalists, editors and advertising and social media professionals why social media is integral to her brands, including ways to boost your own social media. (Source: CEO Middle East YouTube […]
In the forthcoming decades, risks of summer fire may increase in Mediterranean Europe. A recent study, researchers show that the direct effect of climate change in regulating fuel moisture (droughts leading to larger fires) is expected to be dominant, regarding the indirect effect of antecedent climate on fuel load and structure -that is, warmer/drier conditions that determine fuel availability. The researchers drew this conclusion after analyzing a […]
The Trump administration’s sweeping dismissal of dozens of US attorneys held over from the Obama administration leaves the president with sudden gaps in top law enforcement positions across the country. The swift dismissals which began with Friday phone calls from Dana Boente, the acting deputy attorney-general, to 46 US attorneys, now puts pressure on the Trump administration to select candidates who will pass congressional scrutiny to fill […]
Latest study on brain activity of dead patients has suggested that brain activity continues even after the heart stops beating. As part of the research, one of the patients’ brains carried its activity for more than 10 minutes after the person was considered clinically dead. The brain activity was very similar to the one recorded from people who were engaged in deep sleep. The study, published in […]
Allu Arjun takes a seat in Ray’s Bar at Jumeirah Etihad Towers, sets his bag by his side and slides back. The camera moves in as he prepares for his scene, a confrontation between the film’s hero, played by Arjun, and the villain, who is trying to steal his girl. It’s the 11th day of filming for the Telugu film stars of Duvvada Jagannadham, the latest in a series […]
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, […]
