Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company, has acquired a stake in Hywind Scotland, a 30-megawatt (MW) floating offshore pilot wind farm in the North Sea, it was announced on Tuesday. Through the transaction, Statoil and Masdar have agreed to share the development risk and Masdar will cover 25 percent of previous and future costs. Due to start commercial operation in late 2017, Hywind Scotland is the world’s […]
Though people have tried to predict where it will strike, no one can ever really know what acts of terror the militant group ISIS will come up with next. In making itself known on social media, ISIS has shown that it knows how to hit the 21st century society where it hurts. Its newest act of modernizing technology for its own purposes comes in the form of commercial […]
ABU DHABI // Permits are now being issued to food trucks operating outside the city, Abu Dhabi Integrated Transport Centre said on Tuesday. Locations where the vehicles are permitted include Al Raha Beach, Saadiyat Island, the E11 Abu Dhabi-Dubai road, Al Falah and Al Garm. Parking regulator Mawaqif has also issued permits to companies hosting recreational activities. “This step will contribute to diversifying the ways of offering […]
PARIS In May last year, then French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron sat down with Socialist lawmaker Christophe Sirugue in the steel town of Le Creusot and asked him to join his new political movement. He said No. Eight months on, others are saying Yes. A political outsider who has never run for office and hopes to transcend the classic Left-Right divide, Macron suddenly seems to have a […]
Vietnam veteran and former “Berkeley Black Panther” liberal turned conservative author, Mason Weaver, appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight with some harsh words for Civil Rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga), who recently referred to President-elect Trump as illegitimate. Weaver considers Lewis a turncoat who has been “collaborating with the Democrat party to oppress black America.” Weaver begins with a short history lesson [links added for context]: “In the early 70’s and late 60’s, we were demonstrating […]
ISTANBUL The suspected gunman who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year’s Day was born in Uzbekistan and received training in Afghanistan, Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin said on Tuesday after police caught him in a city suburb. Sahin told reporters that the alleged attacker, whom he named as Abdulgadir Masharipov, born in 1983, had admitted his guilt and his fingerprints matched those at the […]
Photo Celebrations erupted in the courtroom when the verdict was announced. Credit Mohamed El-Shahed/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images CAIRO — An Egyptian court on Monday upheld a ruling that said the government cannot transfer control of two key Red Sea islands to its main financial backer, Saudi Arabia, deepening a rift between the two Middle Eastern countries. The alliance between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, two of the […]
By Daren Butler | ISTANBUL ISTANBUL Turkish police have captured the suspected gunman who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year’s Day after a two-week nationwide manhunt, with state media saying he was seized along with four other suspects at a hideout in the city. State-run Anadolu news agency said the alleged attacker, whom it and other media named as Abdulgadir Masharipov, was detained […]
17 January 2017 Muharraq, Kingdom of Bahrain, Gulf Aviation Academy: Gulf Aviation Academy is proud to announce its recent addition to its training capacity through Maritime Training. The Maritime program was established in response to the need in the industry for certificated training through the Ports and Maritime Affairs (PMA), the first of its kind in the Kingdom. After successfully launching in October 2016, the program was […]
ISTANBUL, Turkey: The gunman suspected of killing 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year’s Day has been caught in the city’s Esenyurt district, the Hurriyet newspaper website and other media reports said on Tuesday.The reports could not be confirmed; but Hurriyet said the man, who media quoted police as saying had operated under the cover name Ebu Muhammed Horasani, was caught in an operation along […]
Your daily guide to community and cultural activities across the Emirates for January 17, 2017, including performances, festivals, art exhibitions, film screenings, health and fitness events, talks, classes, workshops and family fun. newslide Abu Dhabi Performances Swiss performers take to the stage for Swiss Days 2017 over two days in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. On the first night, Inmotion (pictured) will present mind-boggling yo-yo tricks, throws and […]
Theresa May will test the nerves of currency markets on Tuesday when she declares that Britain is making a clean break from the EU and will not seek a deal that leaves the country “half in and half out”. Mrs May’s comments will be seen as confirmation that Britain is leaving the single market — sometimes referred to as “a hard Brexit” — although she will leave […]
BISHKEK A Turkish cargo jet crashed near Kyrgyzstan’s Manas airport on Monday, killing at least 37 people, most of them residents of a village struck by the Boeing 747 as it tried to land in dense fog, Kyrgyz officials said. According to the airport administration, the plane was supposed to make a stopover at Manas, near the capital city Bishkek, on its way from Hong Kong to […]
A year after embarking on a mission to develop autonomous flying cars, Airbus is set to test its autonomous airborne taxi prototype for one passenger by the end of 2017. The company envisions a world where, at the push of a button, vehicles can fly over traffic jams. Also, people would be able to book autonomous flying taxis using a mobile app. “One hundred years ago, urban […]
By Gabriel Stargardter | MEXICO CITY MEXICO CITY At least five people, including four foreigners, were killed and 15 were wounded early on Monday when a shooter opened fire at a nightclub in Mexico’s Playa del Carmen resort during the BPM electronic music festival, state officials said. Quintana Roo State Attorney General Miguel Angel Pech told a press conference that two Canadians, an Italian and a Colombian […]
ATLANTA The daughter of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King marked the holiday that honors her father on Monday by siding with African-American congressman and activist John Lewis over President-elect Donald Trump in an imbroglio that erupted over the weekend. Lewis, 76, a contemporary of King’s who endured beatings and jail time in the fight for racial equality in the 1960s, said in a televised interview […]
Turkish police have arrested a man they suspect of killing 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year’s eve, two security officials said. The man, identified by Turkish authorities as an Uzbek acting on behalf of Islamic State, was arrested in Istanbul’s Esenyurt district, a working-class neighbourhood about 40 kilometres from the upscale Reina nightclub. He had escaped the nightclub in a taxi after using an […]
Dubai, United Arab Emirates –January 16, 2017(ME NewsWire) Grundfos, the award-winning world leader in advanced pump solutions, is partaking along with a number of renowned Danish companies, in the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) to be held during 16–19 January 2017, in Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, UAE. Some of the companies participating in WFES, including Grundfos, are part of the Act NOW initiative (www.actnow.dk), a partnership […]
Telstra and Ericsson have announced achieving the encryption of data while in transit over a 10Gbps link between Australia and the United States by using telecommunications equipment and software provider Ciena’s 10Gbps wire-speed ultra-low latency encryption solution. Using what they call advanced optical encryption technology, the companies demonstrated the ability to secure data while in transit between Melbourne and Los Angeles without impacting speed, reliability, and latency. […]
Jordan’s King Abdullah reshuffled his cabinet but retained Hani Mulki as prime minister on Sunday, granting him more scope to tackle the threat of Islamist militants and to press ahead with unpopular IMF-mandated reforms to cut spiraling public debt. The reshuffle, the second since the business-friendly Mulki was appointed last May, comes at a time of sluggish economic growth, poor business sentiment and concerns over Jordan’s political […]
TEHRAN — Perplexed residents here focused their eyes — and smartphones — upward on Monday afternoon as antiaircraft weapons hidden on rooftops suddenly began blasting away at “an unidentified flying object” in the clear sky. The thunderous clack-clack of gunfire and small dots of white smoke overhead provided a loud and unexpected accompaniment to the start of city’s evening rush, as videos show. Anti-aircraft fire on the […]
(UPDATED) Forced evacuation has been ordered in several flood- and landslide-prone barangays. Some parts of the city are in neck-deep water. Bobby Lagsa Published 2:15 AM, January 17, 2017 Updated 2:37 AM, January 17, 2017 STRANDED. Vehicles and commuters have been stranded in Cagayan de Oro since Monday night, January 16, after nonstop rains triggered flash floods across the city. Photo by Bobby Lagsa/Rappler CAGAYAN DE ORO, […]
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Millennials, some so young they need their parents’ permission and others with babies in tow, will join women’s protests this weekend as their generation for the first time faces challenges to rights they have known most of their lives. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to attend the Women’s March on Washington and sister marches in other cities around the […]
He was the president who took out Osama bin Laden but was blindsided by Isis; who made Asia his priority but saw his trade deal for the region stymied; who built bridges with once sworn enemies in Cuba and Iran but who sparred with allies in Israel and Saudi Arabia. The mixed and sometimes messy foreign policy legacy of Barack Obama includes a climate change agreement and […]
