Arabs and Iranians planning US trips have been hit by travel curbs, with many stopped from boarding flights since President Trump’s order on “extreme vetting” was signed. Here’s a look at what’s included in the new measures: Temporary suspension of visas for certain countries • The order bars the entry of foreign nationals from certain countries for 90 days. While no countries are specifically named in the […]
By Alexander Cornwell | DUBAI DUBAI Emirates airline has changed pilot and flight attendant rosters on flights to the United States following the sudden U.S. travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries, highlighting the challenges facing airlines to deal with the new rules. The world’s largest long-haul carrier, which flies daily to 11 U.S. cities, has made “the necessary adjustments to our crewing, to comply with the latest […]
By Doina Chiacu and Steve Holland | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump fought back on Sunday amid growing international criticism, outrage from civil rights activists and legal challenges over his abrupt order for a halt on arrivals of refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority countries. He and senior aides sought to defend the policy and play down the chaos sparked by Friday’s order. But confusion persisted […]
CAIRO/ERBIL, Iraq Fuad Sharef and his family waited two years for a visa to settle in the United States, selling their home and quitting jobs and schools in Iraq before setting off on Saturday for a new life they saw as a reward for working with U.S. organisations. But Sharef, his wife and three children were prevented from boarding their connecting flight to New York from Cairo […]
GE Healthcare’s latest advanced solutions designed to accelerate sustainable healthcare development, now on show at Arab Health 2017 As demand for better healthcare grows, GE firmly committed to partnering with governments and private providers to upgrade health infrastructure and build capacity across the region Tackling breast cancer, GE’s, new Senographe Pristina system, launched at Arab Health, reduces discomfort, pain and anxiety of a mammogram Jeddah; […]
Last weekend, millions joined the Women’s March in the US and across the world. They stood up for their rights, and the rights of everyone. We need to do the same on the Internet. The Internet gives everyone a voice, but we need people to protect those voices. Online harassment and cyber bullying are real. And, some groups are targeted more than others. Last year, the Guardian […]
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK President Donald Trump’s order to restrict people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States sparked confusion and anger on Saturday after immigrants and refugees were kept off flights and left stranded in airports. In his most sweeping decision since taking office a week ago, Trump, a Republican, put a four-month hold on allowing refugees into the United States and temporarily barred travelers from […]
A monotonous diet of corn can cause hamsters to become cannibals that eat their young alive. In a new study, researchers in France wanted to know why the critically endangered European hamster (Cricetus cricetus) saw an alarming drop in population. Declining Hamster Population One theory blamed pesticides and industrial ploughing. The hamsters’ underground lairs being destroyed is also considered as a possible reason for the drop in […]
Credit: ZDNet In the early 2000s, Microsoft was all-in on robotics. By the middle of that decade, the company seemingly had all but abandoned the robotics space. But this may be the year that Microsoft may be ready to get back into robotics, on multiple fronts. special feature AI, Automation, and Tech Jobs There are some things that machines are simply better at doing than humans, but […]
By Yeganeh Torbati and Doina Chiacu | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON President Donald Trump’s sweeping ban on people seeking refuge in the United States and visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries caused confusion and panic among travelers on Saturday, with some turned back from U.S.-bound flights. Immigration lawyers in New York sued to block the order, saying numerous people have already been unlawfully detained. The new Republican president on Friday […]
By Eric Knecht and Maher Chmaytelli | CAIRO/BAGHDAD CAIRO/BAGHDAD Arabs and Iranians planning U.S. trips reacted with fury on Saturday to new American travel curbs they said were insulting and discriminatory, as five Iraqis and a Yemeni were stopped from boarding a New York-bound flight in Cairo. In some of seven Muslim-majority countries affected by the restrictions, would-be travellers preparing family visits, work trips or seeking to […]
LISBON French President Francois Hollande said on Saturday the new U.S. government was encouraging “populism and even extremism”, as he and fellow southern European leaders urged unity to face an increasingly uncertain world. “We have to stand together in Europe,” Hollande said during the meeting in Lisbon. “What is at stake is populism. The kind of discourse now coming from the United States encourages populism and even […]
Google announced in May 2016 that they will be bringing over 1 million Android apps to their Chromebooks though only a limited number of units will be able to support them. Now, taking it a step further, they have announced that all Chromebooks set to be released in 2017 and thereafter will support Android Apps. Chromebook’s access to Google Play gives the device an array of opportunities to […]
CAIRO Five Iraqi passengers and one Yemeni were barred from boarding an EgyptAir flight from Cairo to New York on Saturday following President Donald Trump’s ban on the entry of citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries, sources at Cairo airport said. Trump on Friday put a four-month hold on allowing refugees into the United States and temporarily barred travellers from Syria and six other Muslim-majority countries, saying the […]
The value of the GCC’s healthcare market has grown steadily in recent years and there is little sign that any slowdown is on the horizon. The industry is forecast to be worth $71.3bn by 2020, according to Alpen Capital. The investment bank expects the GCC healthcare sector to record 12.1 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2015 and 2020, after 10.3 percent CAGR between 2008 and […]
In The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump described hyperbole as an “innocent form of exaggeration” that was a “very effective form of promotion”. In an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, the US president stretched this definition to the limit with his claim that he would make relations with Mexico “better than ever”, despite his demand that the country pays billions of dollars for a border […]
Most conversations in edtech—and higher-education reform more broadly—begin and end with the classroom. And not without good reason. Teaching is a primary function of the university, especially at community colleges. However, what gets lost in teaching-centric conversations is another important, and arguably complementary, end—research. While skeptical readers can cherry-pick abstruse research projects, university knowledge production benefits plenty of folks who never attend college. Some of […]
The Mexican peso rallied on Friday after Donald Trump and Enrique Peña Nieto spoke for an hour by telephone, a day after the Mexican president cancelled his planned summit with the US president over his plans for a border wall. “The presidents had a constructive and productive conversation regarding the bilateral relationship between both countries, including the issue of the US trade deficit with Mexico, the importance […]
Good morning. Is it the “opposition party?” Shortly after Steve Bannon, President Trump’s strategic and cultural Svengali, called the American press the “opposition party,” the opposition calmly sat on a Chicago stage and suggested the best path forward. Their response? Reasoned and tough-minded indifference. It’s a de facto prescription that might drive the new tweeter-in-chief and his sledgehammer-wielding sycophants daffy in their search for a Jacksonian revival. […]
The landscape of public transport is changing across the world. Not long ago, the only option for people who did not have their own car was to queue for a paper ticket and squeeze into a sardine-can bus or train. Today, the new normal is to download a ‘smart’ app and book a point-to-point ride for an ever-diminishing cost. Ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Careem are […]
5942 25 by Shannon K. O’Neil January 26, 2017 Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto (R) gestures as Mexico’s Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong applauds during the XXXVIII Session of the National Council of Public Security at the National Palace in Mexico City, August 21, 2015. A Mexican government auditor on Friday exonerated Pena Nieto and his finance minister from any wrongdoing over purchases of homes from […]
Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat speaks during a debate on the priorities of the first-ever Maltese presidency at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on January 18, 2017 | Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images Ministers avoid answering difficult questions. By Harry Cooper 1/26/17, 7:03 PM CET Updated 1/26/17, 10:14 PM CET Konrad Mizzi — the only sitting minister in Europe to be named in the Panama Papers scandal last […]
Readers have had enough of the media not calling things by their names. Take Don Miller, of Littleton, Colorado, for example: Do you remain asea in ‘political correctness,’ or are you just being kind when you make reference to ‘whoppers’ and ‘falsehoods?’ A lie is a lie is a lie is a lie, intended to sway and/or influence the recipient, but still a lie. Mr. Miller’s email […]
The directive to identify new ways to hasten the demise of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, has been widely anticipated by military commanders, who have begun drafting classified options to increase the pressure on the militant group, especially in Raqqa and Mosul, the stronghold in Iraq. Continue reading the main story Work on the directive was described by several current and former officials […]
