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13 February 2017 Full year revenues stood at AED 173.8 million (2015: AED 178.2 million) Group losses reduced by 30% year on year as firm continues with stringent cost control and gears up for 2017 long term strategy implementation Real Estate Investment Management and Investment Banking business lines recorded systematic increase in profits Turnaround of the Group’s operations expected during 2017  Advertisement SHUAA Capital today reports results […]

By Svetlana Reiter and Pavel Miledin | MOSCOW MOSCOW Moscow city authorities have given the green light for construction of an exclusive health clinic which, according to technical plans seen by Reuters and medical sources, is designed to treat President Vladimir Putin and senior officials. A Reuters special report published last month described how the planned unit was to be fitted with communications systems that under Russian […]

(Corrects to show bus crash occurred on Monday, not Tuesday) TAIPEI At least 32 people were killed when a tour bus crashed on a highway near Taipei on Monday night, with Taiwanese television footage showing the bus careening toward a road barrier at a highway curve before flipping on its side. Forty-four people were in the bus, not the previously estimated 45, according to the latest figures […]

By Anthony Deutsch | AMSTERDAM AMSTERDAM Syrian government forces used chemical weapons in opposition-controlled parts of Aleppo during battles to retake the city late last year, Human Rights Watch said in a report published on Monday. The findings add to mounting evidence of the use of banned chemical weapons in the six-year-old Syrian civil war and could strengthen calls by Britain, France and the United States for […]

By Angus McDowall | ALEPPO, Syria ALEPPO, Syria In the rubble-strewn square outside Aleppo’s ancient citadel and under the scorched vaults of its covered souk, workmen are starting to mend the destruction of a war that has shattered the Syrian city’s priceless historical heritage. About 20 volunteers sorted through the debris in Khan al-Gumruk, one of the souk’s great medieval inns, piling up the stones from a […]

A model of EHang 184 and the next generation of Dubai Drone Taxi is seen during the seconde day of the World Government Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Feb. 13, 2017. Dubai hopes to have a passenger-carrying drone buzzing through the skyline of this futuristic city-state in July. Mattar al-Tayer, the head of Dubai’s Roads & Transportation Agency, made the surprise announcement Monday at the […]

For a long time TruePublica has consistently reported that Britain is the centre of the global money laundering business with its London Headquarters and network of off-shore tax havens. We have challenged reports and studies that have protected ‘The City’ and its army of suited mobsters that openly defy both domestic and international financial legislation whilst it administers the global looting machine. (Read our piece: Enemies of the State: […]

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Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), in collaboration with the Chinese EHANG Company, on Monday announced that it had carried out the first test run of an autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) capable of carrying a human, a world first. RTA said in a statement that it is set to start the operation of the AAV, named EHANG184 – effectively a driverless flying car – as early as […]

‘Governor Moonbeam’ In the 1970s, Jerry Brown cemented his place in the national imagination as “Governor Moonbeam,” a liberal dreamer who embodied California cool — or California kook, depending on where one stood. He drove a Plymouth Satellite, spurned the governor’s mansion for a mattress on an apartment floor and dated singer Linda Ronstadt. But beneath that caricature lay a policy wonk who embraced the environmental movement […]

GAZA CITY, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES : Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas elected a hard-line member of its armed wing as its new Gaza head Monday, Hamas officials said.“Yahya Sinwar was elected to head the Hamas political office in the Gaza Strip,” succeeding Ismail Haniya, the officials said.The movement, which has controlled the Gaza Strip for a decade, has been conducting internal elections for several months. Source

ISLAMABAD At least 10 people were killed when a blast hit a crowd of protesters in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday, local media reported. The English-language Dawn newspaper and Urdu-language Dubya TV both said 10 people had died when an explosion rocked a protest organised by Pakistan’s chemist and pharmaceuticals manufacturers. Dawn said 30 people were wounded in the attack. (Reporting by Mehreen Zahra-Malik; writing […]

|By Arabian Post Staff| Tesla founder Elon Musk described Dubai as a city of opportunity and achievements, and a beacon for tolerance and happiness, while announcing the launch of the company’s regional office. He was received by Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. .Shaikh Mohammad and Musk discussed the company’s activities around the world and its […]

US President Donald Trump’s two sons Eric and Donald Jr are set to attend the launch of The Trump International Golf Club in Dubai this month as guests of honour, it has emerged. It has yet to be confirmed whether the sons will formally launch the facility, a spokesperson for the club told Arabian Business. However, a spokesperson for Damac Properties, the developer behind the $6 billion […]

Nokia has unveiled its 4,5G Pro AirScale base station, as well as fleshing out its 4.9G portfolio. Image: Nokia If you’re expecting the next generation of mobile network technology to be 5G, you might need to think again: Nokia is betting there’s room for one more iteration of LTE before fifth-generation tech goes mainstream. Nokia last year announced its initial 4.9G products, saying it expects the first […]

KABUL The number of Afghan refugees returning from Pakistan, already at the highest level in years, may increase this year if Pakistan maintains its forceful policies, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. Last year, hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees left Pakistan, a 12-year-high that the rights group called the “world’s largest unlawful mass forced return of refugees in recent times”. Aid workers and Afghan officials worry […]

The cost to upgrade the US electrical grid so it could cope with peak demands may be on the order of $180 billion, said the report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences As the planet warms due to climate change and hot days become more common, the US electrical grid could be unable to meet peak energy needs by century’s end, researchers warned Monday. […]

By Jamie McGeever | LONDON LONDON World stocks and bond yields rose on Monday, lifted by a re-emergence of so-called “Trump trades” as investors bet that the U.S. president’s tax reform plans will boost economic growth and corporate profits. Following on from Friday’s record high closes on Wall Street, Asian stocks rallied to 1-1/2-year peaks and European stocks rose for the fifth consecutive session on Monday, their […]

By Sharon Bernstein | OROVILLE, Calif. OROVILLE, Calif. Nearly 200,000 people living below the tallest dam in the United States, near Oroville in Northern California, were urgently ordered to flee their homes on Sunday after a spillway appeared for a time to be in danger of imminent collapse. Authorities issued the abrupt evacuation orders in the mid-afternoon, saying that a crumbling emergency spillway on the Lake Oroville […]

Telstra Health has another win under its belt after being selected by non-profit private healthcare provider Epworth HealthCare to provide its Patient Flow Manager system for Epworth Richmond Hospital in Melbourne. Telstra’s system provides near real-time information on bed occupancy and patient movement throughout the hospital, enabling more efficient planning than via the manual, paper-based system that is still being used. “The current process for managing bed […]

By Meng Meng and Josephine Mason | BEIJING BEIJING China is considering forcing steel and aluminium producers to cut more output, banning coal in one of the country’s top ports and shutting some fertiliser and drug plants as Beijing intensifies its war on smog, a draft policy document shows. The Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) has proposed the measures in a draft policy document seen by Reuters. […]

“Throughout the entire length of the battle for Aleppo, there have been multiple claims of violations of human rights and multiple denials,” said Eliot Higgins, a senior fellow at the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council. Continue reading the main story “What we have been able to present now is a wealth of evidence confirming the targeting of civilian structures, namely hospitals, which in certain […]

Monday 04:15 GMT Overview Equities climbed and the yen softened after Japan reported gross domestic product figures for the final quarter of 2016 that suggested any monetary policy settings will remain on hold for now. Hot topic Japan’s economy closed out 2016 with growth of 0.2 per cent in the fourth quarter, below estimates of 0.3 per cent despite a boost to exports from a weaker yen […]

The New South Wales Telco Authority has announced signing NEC Australia to provide network management systems and wireless backhaul technology for state emergency services and other public safety agencies as part of the government’s Critical Communications Enhancement Program (CCEP). Under the three-year deal, NEC will also provide professional services and 24/7 support via its existing technical service centres. NEC will take part in the CCEP’s pilot program […]

By David Alire Garcia | MEXICO CITY MEXICO CITY Thousands of protesters in more than a dozen Mexican cities took to the streets on Sunday to express their fierce opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump, portraying the new leader as a menace to both America and Mexico. Waving Mexicans flags and hoisting anti-Trump signs in both Spanish and English, some vulgar, many protesters also heaped scorn on […]

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