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WASHINGTON — One American commando was killed and three others were injured in a fierce firefight overnight with Qaeda militants in central Yemen, a senior American official said Sunday morning. The raid was the first counterterrorism operation approved by President Trump since he took office nine days ago. Commandos flying in Osprey aircraft carried out the surprise dawn attack in Bayda Province in a ground raid that […]

The new indicator in Chrome 56 stating ‘Not secure’ for HTTP login or payment pages will eventually apply to other HTTP pages. Image: Google Google’s Chrome 56 launch this week ushers in its plan to begin warning users that all HTTP pages are not secure, starting with the pages that collect login details or credit-card numbers. Given Chrome has more than one billion users, this change to […]

MANILA Philippine soldiers killed 15 militants and seriously wounded their leader, believed to be the Islamic State’s representative in the country, following air and artillery strikes in a southern province, a senior military official said on Sunday. Isnilon Hapilon, also known as Abu Abdullah and a leader of the Philippine militant group Abu Sayyaf, might die as he needed immediate medical treatment, military chief General Eduardo Ano […]

An activist fund with a history of pressuring Japanese management has emerged as the largest minority shareholder of PanaHome — the housebuilder at the heart of a spiralling proxy battle and pivotal test of Japan’s corporate governance code. As of Friday, Oasis Capital, which is led by Seth Fischer, held some 4.83 per cent of PanaHome, putting the fund ahead of Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (which […]

BERLIN Germany made mistakes with an open-door policy that saw more than a million migrants enter Germany over the past two years, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble acknowledged on Sunday, but he said Berlin was trying to learn from those missteps. “We have tried to improve what got away from us in 2015,” Schaeuble told the newspaper Welt am Sonntag. “We politicians are human; we also make mistakes. […]

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 federal judge has blocked the US government from deporting Muslim migrants and refugees who have been detained at US airports after President Donald Trump issued an order to severely restrict immigration from seven predominantly Muslim nations. The New York judge ordered the temporary stay after human rights groups sued Mr Trump on behalf of two Iraqi men who were detained on Friday after landing at New […]

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TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani criticized his US counterpart Donald Trump on Saturday, saying now was “not the time to build walls between nations.”“They have forgotten that the Berlin Wall collapsed many years ago. Even if there are walls between nations, they must be removed,” Rouhani said at a tourism convention in Tehran.His remarks came after Trump ordered construction of a wall along the US-Mexico border and […]

By Phil Stewart | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for a military plan to defeat Islamic State is likely to see the Pentagon revisiting options for a more aggressive use of firepower and American troops. But U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, doubt the country’s military will advocate fundamentally changing a key strategy refined during the Obama administration: relying on local forces to do […]

Emirates has announced plans to further expand its European network with the introduction of a daily flight from Dubai to Zagreb, the capital of Croatia from June 1. The new southeast European destination will be served by an Emirates Boeing 777-300 aircraft, the only wide-body service operating to/from Zagreb, the airline said in a statement. “Emirates has had a commercial presence in Croatia since 2003, so to […]

Donald Trump’s ban on Muslim immigrants has provoked sharp criticism from US corporations, pitching the US president into an epic clash over US values and the legality of the new measures just one week into his presidency. A growing chorus of condemnation rose from the tech sector on Saturday, with companies including Google, Microsoft and Uber issuing statements of concern over the new policy. The founders of many […]

The Saudi holy city of Makkah has the most hotel rooms under construction in the Middle East and Africa, according to new data by analysts STR. STR’s December 2016 Pipeline Report showed that Makkah has 23,060 rooms in 14 projects, ahead of Dubai, which has 20,451 rooms in 69 projects. The latest figures showed a total of 158,441 rooms in 555 projects under contract in the Middle […]

US president Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin plan to meet soon to discuss “joining forces” in the Syrian conflict and “partnering” to solve a range of global issues, the Kremlin said on Saturday. During a 45-minute phone conversation, their first since Mr Trump was sworn in last week, the two men spoke in a “positive and businesslike manner” aimed at “stabilising and developing Russo-American co-operation”, according […]

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 […]

Greece faces what is likely to be an “explosive” surge in its public debt levels that within decades will mean it will owe almost three times the country’s annual economic output unless given significant debt relief, the International Monetary Fund has warned in a confidential report.  The new report was prepared by IMF staff ahead of a February 6 board meeting to discuss the fund’s participation in […]

They were among an estimated 110,000 people in line to be processed for resettlement in the United States during this fiscal year. In fact, they thought they had already made it through the rigorous vetting procedure and, after years of waiting, were on the verge of having their hopes realized. Continue reading the main story Now, all are suddenly, indefinitely waiting again, barred from entry to the […]

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday his administration wants more rigorous screening of refugees and visitors from certain countries to prevent terrorist attacks. Here is what Trump’s order on “extreme vetting” – denounced by civil rights groups as discriminatory – includes. 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 […]

Dubai, 26 January 2017  Dentons advised Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), a leading pan-African multilateral development finance institution and project developer, on its inaugural issuance of US$150 million trust certificates (Sukuk) due 2020, which completed on 24 January 2017. In addition to being AFC’s maiden Sukuk issuance, the transaction represented the first Sukuk to be issued by an African supranational entity. The Sukuk were offered to international investors […]

January 28, 2017 by: Hannah Kuchler in San Francisco and agencies Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will limit immigration and refugees from some Muslim-majority countries, fulfilling a campaign-trail promise to introduce what he dubbed “extreme vetting.” He criticised state department policy for allowing the 9/11 terrorists to obtain visas. “I’m establishing new vetting measures to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States […]

This year’s result­s highli­ght the connec­tion betwee­n corrup­tion and inequa­lity The writer served as Executive Editor of The Express Tribune from 2009 to 2014 Revelations of tax-evasion and money-laundering networks on a global scale in the so-called Panama Papers helped make the world appear more corrupt last year, according to graft watchdog Transparency International. The Berlin-based organisation said there were more falling scores than rising ones on […]

Appointment of Discover The World Germany as representative to highlight strong sales pitch by the Middle East’s leading Destination Management Company at ITB Berlin Dubai, United Arab Emirates 26 January, 2017: Desert Adventures, part of the Kuoni Destination Management Specialists division, has set its sights on attracting more guests and getting a lion’s share from the German-speaking market with the appointment of Discover The World-Germany as its representative. […]

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, has become one of the first chief executives to openly challenge President Donald Trump, criticising an executive order that pledges “extreme vetting” of immigrants and a ban on Syrian refugees. Responding to the order on Facebook, Mr Zuckerberg wrote that the US should be proud to be a nation of immigrants and focus on excluding only people who actually pose a threat. He […]

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 […]

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