New York // The Pentagon is considering throwing its weight behind an Arab military plan to capture a Red Sea port in Yemen as part of a move to step up its support for the Saudi-led coalition that has fought a two-year war against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. Senior officials said it was part of a new stance adopted by US president Donald Trump’s administration to deepen ties […]
“Moving Forward in Perpetual Motion” – Rezidor’s all digital Annual Report is out now BRUSSELS, Belgium, March 27, 2017 The Rezidor Hotel Group (www.Rezidor.com ), one of the world’s most dynamic hotels has published its Annual Report 2016. Themed “Moving Forward in Perpetual Motion,” this year’s annual report is fully digital (https://AnnualReport2016.Rezidor.com ). The Annual Report also contains the Corporate Presentation and the Responsible Business report 2016. […]
ABU DHABI // The UAE has contributed Dh200 million to the Interpol Foundation for a Safer World, supporting seven projects fighting global crime and terrorism over five years. Announced ahead of the Unity for Security Forum in Abu Dhabi, which starts on Tuesday, the money will help to fund collaborations and training in Interpol’s 190 member states. “Building relations with relevant institutions in the fight against crime […]
Photo American-led coalition instructors training Iraqi soldiers at a military base south of Baghdad in January. Credit Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters WASHINGTON — The United States is sending more than 200 additional soldiers to Iraq to support the Iraqi military’s push to retake western Mosul from the Islamic State, military officials said on Monday. The deployment includes two Army infantry companies and one platoon equipped to clear away roadside […]
Following a car accident involving one of its self-driving cars, Uber is officially pulling out its autonomous testing program in Arizona, in addition to pausing its Pittsburgh test bed. This is the latest for a company currently facing a diverse set of controversies: from workplace sexism to Kalanick’s perceived lack of leadership to pressing accounts of its noxious office culture. Uber’s Self-Driving Car Crashes In a photo first […]
BEIRUT: US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance on Sunday entered a military airport held by Daesh in northern Syria while the militant group warned the Tabqa dam is at imminent risk of collapse because of airstrikes and increased water levels.The advance by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Tabqa airbase comes as the alliance prepares an attack on Daesh’s de facto Syrian capital Raqqa, seeking to effectively surround the city before […]
By Ron Bousso and Ernest Scheyder | LONDON/HOUSTON LONDON/HOUSTON Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) and Anadarko Petroleum Corp (APC.N) may let a 10-year joint venture in the oil-rich Permian Basin of Texas expire and split their properties, hoping to speed up development, according to a senior Shell executive. The divorce and re-parceling of acreage would let each company drill and develop new wells at its own pace […]
Our understanding of the world is mostly built on basic perceptions, such as that events follow each other in a well-defined order. Such definite orders are required in the macroscopic world, for which the laws of classical physics apply. However, in the quantum world orders can be ‘scrambled’. It is possible for different orders of quantum operations to coexist in a superposition. New work by a team […]
General Electric is planning to launch products based on what it calls a Digital Ghost, a combination of its digital twin efforts and industrial control technologies, to thwart cyberattacks. This effort, which is likely to be commercialized in the next year, aims to us physics to thwart attacks. Industrial machines would be able to sense anomalies that would trigger an autoimmune response to attacks. GE’s plans could […]
BEIRUT: At least 16 civilians were killed and dozens wounded on Saturday in an airstrike on an opposition-held area outside Syria’s capital Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. It said it was not immediately clear who was responsible for the strike on the town Hammuriyeh in the opposition bastion of Eastern Ghouta.“Sixteen civilians, including a child, were killed and around 50 others wounded in […]
China, Chile and Egypt lifted suspensions on Brazilian meat imports on Saturday in a victory for the Latin American country`s third-biggest export industry, the Brazilian government said. China, which accounts for about one-third of Brazil`s meat exports, as well as major customers Chile and Egypt lifted the bans in spite of ongoing investigations into allegations of corruption between health inspectors and the operators of regional plants. “This […]
25 March 2017 Atlanta – The Coca-Cola Company today announced a number of senior leadership appointments to drive its ongoing transformation into a growth-oriented, consumer-centered, total beverage company. Key changes, which will be effective when President and COO James Quincey becomes Chief Executive Officer on May 1, include: Combining Global Marketing, Customer and Commercial Leadership, and Strategy into one combined function under the leadership of a new […]
ABU DHABI // The mother of the three Emirati sisters who were attacked by a drug addict with a claw hammer in a London hotel three years ago has spoken for the first time about how the family’s lives were “destroyed overnight”. Speaking exclusively to The National, Kedhaya Al Mulla recalled the horror of finding out about the incident in which her daughters almost died and which […]
Martin Fink’s vision starts with petabyte-scale memory systems. One of the keynotes at the recently concluded Non-Volatile Memory Workshop 2017 was given by Martin Fink, a 31-year HP veteran and newly appointed CTO of Western Digital. Martin ran HP Labs, and HP’s high-end server business, and has been thinking about memory-centric computing for years. If the terms “memristor” and “polymorphic computing” ring a bell, you can thank […]
Alteryx, the data analytics company, went public on the New York Stock Exchange today, marking the third IPO of the year. The company priced its IPO yesterday at $14 per share, and closed Friday at $15.50, or 10.7% higher. Alteryx works with clients like Amazon, Ford and Coca-Cola to help them better assess what products are selling and where there are market inefficiencies. CEO Dean Stoecker touted a […]
HONG KONG — Middle-class mainlander Laura Zhang found the idea of owning a home overseas irresistible after being bombarded by commercials for an affordable project “near Singapore”. The Forest City project in the southern Malaysian state of Johor, the subject of the advertisement, is being developed by Country Garden, China’s third-largest home builder. Ms Zhang said she was told that a flat in Forest City, the developer’s […]
A new study looking into job automation estimates that millions of human workers around the world might lose their jobs to robots in the future. According to a new PwC report, many jobs worldwide risk automation from artificial intelligence and robotics by the early 2030s. However, the report notes that in many cases the jobs won’t disappear altogether, but rather change and adapt. US Jobs Most At Risk […]
Dubai-based DP World, one of the world’s largest port operators, is exploring logistics opportunities and the development of industrial parks in Panama. Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem, DP World Group chairman and CEO, met with the President of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela, to explore opportunities relating to the expanded Panama Canal. The meeting was also attended by Roberto R Roy, Minister for Canal Affairs and Augusto R Arosemena, […]
Breaking news. (photo credit:JPOST STAFF) MANILA – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte hit out at the European Union on Friday for hypocrisy and called the bloc “sons of bitches” after its lawmakers issued a resolution calling for restraint and a rethink in his bloody war on drugs. Duterte castigated the EU for urging him to focus his campaign on drugs rehabilitation and stood by his security-centered […]
By Sumeet Chatterjee | HONG KONG HONG KONG HSBC (HSBA.L) plans to add as many as 1,000 new employees to its Chinese retail banking and wealth management arm this year, the business’s regional head said, most of them in the Pearl River Delta, the heart of the bank’s growth strategy in China. If that target is hit, the new additions will mean HSBC will have hired twice […]
President Trump’s proposed budget for 2018 isn’t following public sentiment, a new survey finds. The survey, by the University of Maryland’s Program for Public Consultation (PPC), found that while Trump has proposed a $54 billion boost to federal spending for the military, a majority of Americans prefer a cut of $41 billion. While Trump has proposed a $2.8 billion increase for homeland security, a majority of Americans […]
Author: Reuters Fri, 2017-03-24 ID: 1490303611814472200 GENEVA/MOSUL: About 400,000 Iraqi civilians are trapped in the Daesh-held Old City of western Mosul, short of food and basic needs as the battle between the militants and government forces rages around them, the UN refugee agency said on Thursday.Many fear fleeing because of Daesh snipers and land mines. But 157,000 have reached a reception and transit center outside Mosul since […]
23 March 2017 BisB announced that its Annual General Meeting has approved all items in its meeting agenda, in its meeting held in Bahrain Bourse’s Hall at Bahrain Financial Harbor Building at 10:00 am on Thursday 23rd March 2017. After ascertaining that meeting quorum has been satisfied with (86.9%) of the shareholders in attendance, Dr. Esam Abdulla Fakhro, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bahrain Islamic […]
SYDNEY China is not militarising the South China Sea, Premier Li Keqiang said on Friday, although he acknowledged that defence equipment on islands in the disputed waterway had been placed there to maintain “freedom of navigation”. China has drawn international criticism for large-scale building in the South China Sea, although Li told reporters in Australia the development was for civilian purposes only. “China’s facilities, Chinese islands and […]
