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By Matt Spetalnick | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON President Donald Trump will express support for Palestinian “self-determination” during a Middle East trip this month, a senior aide said on Friday, suggesting Trump is open to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict despite not having publicly embraced the idea so far. The comment by U.S. national security adviser H.R. McMaster came just nine days after a White House visit […]

S&P Global Ratings on Friday lowered its long-term rating on Oman to BB+ from BBB- with a “negative” outlook, indicating the agency could further reduce its rating. The move to cut Oman’s credit rating below investment-grade status “reflects our view that the Omani government’s heightened external financing needs have resulted in the economy’s large net external asset position, (external assets exceeding external liabilities) declining to a level […]

MEXICO CITY General Electric Co (GE.N) Chief Executive Jeff Immelt is keen to double the conglomerate’s purchases from Mexican suppliers next year, the Mexican president’s office said in a statement on Friday, a move that could upset U.S. President Donald Trump. Immelt met with Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto in Mexico City and will spend a few days in Latin America’s No. 2 economy at a time […]

Transitioning from college to the workplace can be daunting, but not so for Sara ­Alahbabi, who, with a major in visual arts, opened an art gallery in Abu ­Dhabi earlier this month. Located in The Galleria on Al Maryah Island, Novus Art ­Gallery showcases unique pieces from the likes of French sculptor Richard Orlinski and Italian mixed-media painter Marco ­Angelini. “The gallery houses around 30 pieces,” Alahbabi […]

Hackers responsible for the wave of cyber attacks that struck organisations across the globe on Friday from the UK’s National Health Service to European telecoms company Telefónica used tools stolen from the US National Security Agency, the Financial Times has learnt. A tool known as “eternal blue”, developed by US spies was used by the hackers to make an existing form of ransomware known as WannaCry more […]

By David Alexander and Susan Heavey | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON President Donald Trump warned ousted FBI Director James Comey on Friday against talking to the media, suggesting there might be tapes of conversations between the two men that could contradict his account. “James Comey better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!” Trump said in a string of Twitter […]

Donald Trump appeared to threaten James Comey with the release of “tapes” of their private conversations as he lashed out at the man he fired as FBI director in a flurry of angry morning tweets. The US president warned the former agency chief against leaking to the press amid conflicting accounts of the events surrounding his explosive sacking this week. “James Comey better hope there are no […]

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By Parisa Hafezi | ANKARA ANKARA President Hassan Rouhani will defend his efforts to open up Iran to the world on Friday in a final televised debate against the hardline challengers who aim to topple him in an increasingly acrimonious election next week. Rouhani, swept into office in a landslide four years ago on promises to reduce Iran’s international isolation, is seeking a second term after negotiating […]

To find out how to type better with virtual reality technology, computer scientists used a light-up virtual display, autocorrect algorithms and a physical keyboard. Credit: Kiran Udayakumar What’s better than a holographic keyboard? A real one, apparently. New research from computer scientists at Michigan Technological University delves into the different ways to type in a virtual reality (VR) space. They’re presenting their work at ACM Conference on […]

By William Schomberg and David Lawder | BARI, Italy BARI, Italy Finance chiefs from some of the world’s richest nations began a two-day meeting in Italy on Friday, with Europe, Japan and Canada hoping to come away with a clearer picture of U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans on important policies. Inequality, international tax rules, cyber security and blocking the funding of terrorism are the focus of the […]

At the end of April, Dubai added yet another acquisition to its steadily growing list of attributes. No longer just a city, an emirate, a tourist destination or even home to the world’s tallest building, the city now also has its own official typeface, the Dubai font. The product of a two-year partnership between the Dubai Executive Council, the computer giant Microsoft and Monotype, the owner of […]

SEOUL North Korea demanded on Friday the extradition of South Korea’s spy chief, accusing him of being a mastermind of a plot to assassinate its leader, Kim Jong Un, with a biochemical weapon. The North’s KCNA state news agency last week accused the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) of a plot to assassinate its “supreme leadership” with a biochemical weapon. The […]

Profits take a hit at Entertainment One. FT Opening Quote is your early Square Mile briefing. You can sign up for the full newsletter here. Efforts to strengthen Entertainment One’s film division will hit its full-year profits by almost £50m, the company announced today, after it renegotiated one of its main distribution agreements, writes FastFT. Entertainment One is best known for producing television programmes such as Peppa […]

Tech Times reported in February that China has increased its budget for its planned space programs and that the country is already designing an advanced and recoverable spacecraft that will be capable of landing on the moon. Now China has already begun preparations for its planned lunar laboratory in collaboration with the European Space Agency by locking in eight volunteers to live and work in a simulated space environment inside […]

Beijing is enjoying an unusually long run of clear blue skies thanks to widespread industrial closures ahead of the most important international event hosted by President Xi Jinping. The “New Silk Road” summit has attracted 29 national leaders from four continents and also prompted a nationwide security clampdown, as authorities try to ensure that it proceeds without a hitch. More than 80 other countries, including North and […]

OIAPOQUE, Brazil – Deep beneath the waters of the Atlantic off Brazil’s most northern coast, French major Total SA is hunting for what it hopes will be Latin America’s next big oil discovery. Metal drill bits, pipes and containers filled with equipment sit in the tropical port of Belém, near the mouth of the vast Amazon River, ready to sink the first exploratory wells 120 km (75 […]

By Ayesha Rascoe | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON The United States and China will expand trade in beef and chicken and increase access for financial firms, as part of a plan to reduce the massive U.S. trade deficit with Beijing, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Thursday. The deals are the first tangible results of trade talks that began last month after U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese […]

By Dan Levine | SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO A U.S. judge on Thursday rejected Uber’s [UBER.UL] bid to send its high-profile trade secret dispute with Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) self-driving Waymo unit to a private legal forum, a setback for the ride services company. U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco also partially granted Waymo’s bid for an injunction against Uber over its self driving car program. However, […]

Nuclear radiation concerns are up at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation facility in the United States where an underground tunnel collapsed. The site has been functioning as a depository of radioactive nuclear waste since 1980. The nuclear waste removal at the site has been costing more than $2 billion a year and is supposed to go on until 2040. The facility contains 56 million gallons of nuclear waste stored […]

BUENOS AIRES A witness in Brazil’s “Operation Car Wash” corruption scandal involving construction companies told Argentine prosecutors on Thursday that President Mauricio Macri’s spy chief received bribes, a judicial source present at the hearing told Reuters. Former Odebrecht SA [ODBES.UL] official Leonardo Meirelles’ testimony comes as the company, which has admitted to paying bribes in 12 mostly Latin American countries, is striving to improve its image in […]

Investors poured $6bn of new capital into European stock funds in the past week, underlining the voracious appetite for assets across the continent as growth accelerates, earnings recover and several of the bloc’s largest countries move past critical elections. The amount of flow in the five days to May 10 is the first time the weekly amount has passed $6bn since at least 2000 when EPFR began […]

Kuala Lumpur, 11 May 2017  The fifth edition of Islamic Financial Services Board’s (IFSB) annual Islamic Financial Services Industry Stability Report 2017 examines the implications of the recent economic developments and changes in the global regulatory and supervisory frameworks on the global Islamic financial services industry (IFSI). Amidst a challenging external environment brought on by the changing policy directions and uncertainties in the global economic landscape, institutions […]

Michael Dell at Dell EMC World Image: Asha McLean/ZDNet Although Dell EMC operates in approximately 180 countries, not all of the products and services from the company’s bag of tricks are available everywhere. When it comes to Australia, however, Michael Dell told ZDNet that Australia is pretty high up on the priority list, giving local organisations access to almost the entire Dell EMC stack ahead of many […]

By Ju-min Park and Christine Kim | SEOUL SEOUL South Korea’s new president launched international efforts to defuse tension over North Korea’s weapons development on Thursday, urging both dialogue and sanctions while also aiming to ease China’s anger about a U.S. anti-missile system. Moon Jae-in, a liberal former human rights lawyer, was sworn in on Wednesday and said in his first speech as president he would immediately […]

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