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ERBIL, Iraq Western-backed Syrian forces should isolate Islamic State’s de facto capital in Syria “by the spring” before an offensive on the city itself, British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said on Saturday. The Syrian Democratic Forces, which includes the powerful Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, launched the campaign on Raqqa in November. It announced this month the start of a new phase in the offensive, aiming to complete […]

Record investment deals on the show floor of Cityscape Abu Dhabi in 2016 have resulted in more than 90 percent of show floor space already sold for this year’s event, the organisers have announced. With sales permitted directly from exhibitor stands for the third year running, a host of new property developers have confirmed their participation at the three day event in April. Organisers said that the […]

The numbers attached to Jean-Michel Jarre’s decades-long electronic music career are almost too large to comprehend. The Frenchman – whose works include the wildly successful albums Oxygene (1976) and Equinoxe (1978) – has sold more than 80 million records since the release of his first solo album, ­Deserted Palaces, in 1972. His live performances are the stuff of legend – and world records. He was responsible for […]

By Maher Chmaytelli and Saif Hameed | BAGHDAD BAGHDAD An Iraqi policeman was killed and seven others wounded in clashes with protesters loyal to prominent Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr who had gathered in Baghdad on Saturday to demand political reforms, the interior ministry said. Thousands had gathered in the square to demand an overhaul of the commission that supervises elections ahead of a provincial vote due in […]

Traffic modeling has been of interest to mathematicians since the 1950s. Research in the area has only grown as road traffic control presents an ever-increasing problem. Generally, models for traffic flow in road networks are time-dependent and continuous, that is, they describe traffic by a continuum rather than as individual drivers or cars. These macroscopic models describe the temporal and spatial evolution of traffic density without predicting […]

Ingest, data prep, analysis, visualization and export. They’re all part of the Big Data analytics life-cycle. The good news? The market sports multiple product categories that handle each of these. The bad news: there are far fewer products that handle many of these areas together. It’s getting more complex too, as other big data lifecycle categories, like data lake management/data cataloging and Big Data operations/DevOps are emerging. […]

In a potential boost to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Make in India” initiative, tech giant Apple Inc. is nearing a deal with Taiwanese contract manufacturer Wistron Corp. to start making products in the southern state of Karnataka, a senior state official said. “The contractual agreement between the two companies is on the verge of being signed,” the Karnataka government official who has direct knowledge of the matter […]

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The UAE’s efforts to help eradicate polio in Pakistan “cannot be underestimated” and has played a significant role in the turnaround seen in the country since 2014, according to the World Health Organisation. WHO said in a statement that in 2016, fewer children were paralysed by polio than in any other year globally, and in Pakistan. Despite many challenges faced by the polio programme, Pakistan has made […]

La Villette, a corrugated iron convention hall on the northern rim of Paris, was meant to be François Fillon’s launch pad towards the French presidency after winning the centre-right nomination in a landslide. But on Sunday he stood in the packed venue, days after claims emerged that the Republican candidate had allegedly employed his wife in a fake parliamentary job for years and, suddenly, victory seemed to […]

Currency traders are in a bind. Has the dollar rally run out of steam and is it ripe for a big sell-off, or has bullish momentum paused ahead of another leg higher? Here are the pros and cons for the currency as we approach several key events in February. What’s bugging the dollar? Investors’ second thoughts. Dollar trading in recent months can be split into three phases. […]

ANKARA German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she stressed the importance of press freedom and freedom of opinion in Turkey during talks with President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday in Ankara. “With the (attempted) putsch, we saw how the Turkish people stood up for democracy and for the rules of democracy in Turkey,” said Merkel, with reference to July’s failed coup. “That is exactly why, in this decisive phase, […]

An international team of researchers has developed a new blue-phase liquid crystal that could enable televisions, computer screens and other displays that pack more pixels into the same space while also reducing the power needed to run the device. The new liquid crystal is optimized for field-sequential color liquid crystal displays (LCDs), a promising technology for next-generation displays. (via WSJ)

Lufthansa believes the rapid growth phase of Gulf airlines is coming to end, which could help to ease some of the pressure in a highly competitive industry, its chief executive said on Wednesday. Speaking after signing catering and maintenance deals with Abu Dhabi-based Etihad, Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said there were signs Gulf rivals were reaching the limits of their recent growth. “I’ll leave that to the […]

Starting Tuesday, Comcast will allow its customers to use Roku as a secondary cable box. Those who have a Roku — one of the best streaming devices around — released in the last couple of years or a Roku TV can install the Xfinity TV app and try the feature out before it heads for a wide rollout later in 2017. Xfinity TV For Roku The news comes nearly […]

Photo A construction site in the Israeli settlement of Ma’ale Adumim in the West Bank, near Jerusalem. Credit Dan Balilty for The New York Times JERUSALEM — Israel approved 3,000 more housing units in the occupied West Bank late Tuesday, the largest number in a wave of new construction plans that defy the international community and that open a forceful phase in the country’s expansion into land […]

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook says India’s move to replace its largest-denomination bank notes with newly designed ones has presented a challenge in India, but the tech giant is still bullish on sales growth in the South Asian nation. Speaking on a call with analysts Tuesday after Apple announced last quarter results, Mr. Cook said “despite the demonetization move in India that created lots of economic pressure there last […]

In the past two months, the Islamic State has used more than 80 remotely piloted drones against Iraqi forces and their allies. About one-third of the aircraft, some as small as model airplanes, dropped bombs or were rigged with explosives to detonate on the ground, said Col. John L. Dorrian, the spokesman for the American-led operation against the Islamic State in Baghdad. Continue reading the main story […]

Investors, economists and strategists have begun to question their enthusiasm for Donald Trump’s new administration, following the president’s decision to block entry to the US from seven Muslim-majority countries. Mr Trump’s travel clampdown appeared to knock some of the confidence from markets, after stock indices reached record highs last week following speculation the new president will deliver faster economic growth and accelerating price rises — dubbed “Trumpflation”. […]

Credit: Tel Aviv University The handwritten signature is still the most widely accepted biometric used to verify a person’s identity. Banks, corporations, and government bodies rely on the human eye and digital devices such as tablets or smart pens to capture, analyse, and verify people’s autographs. New software developed by researchers at Tel Aviv University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev now enables smartwatches, currently worn by […]

Surgeons of University Hospitals Leuven have been the first to operate on a patient with retinal vein occlusion using a surgical robot. Operated by an eye surgeon, the robot uses a needle of barely 0.03 millimetre to inject a thrombolytic drug into the retinal vein of the patient. KU Leuven (University of Leuven, Belgium) developed the robot and needle specifically for this procedure. The operation was successful […]

Chairman of the Board of Directors Hamad Saif Al Mansouri eyes further advancements during the next phase of the company as new CEO Omar Katri introduces new real estate products, “Safety” and “Happiness” for the rehabilitation of commercial and residential buildings in Abu Dhabi and in United Arab Emirates 29 January 2017 Abu Dhabi – Abu Dhabi-based Al Benaa Real Estate Investment Company introduced its new phase […]

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 […]

Google announced in May 2016 that they will be bringing over 1 million Android apps to their Chromebooks though only a limited number of units will be able to support them. Now, taking it a step further, they have announced that all Chromebooks set to be released in 2017 and thereafter will support Android Apps. Chromebook’s access to Google Play gives the device an array of opportunities to […]

Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company, is inviting selected industry specialists to develop the next phase of the driverless vehicle transit network serving Masdar City. The competition is seeking viable mobility solutions that respect the economic, social and environmental pillars of sustainability on which Masdar City is based, a statement said. Emissions-free vehicular transport within Masdar City has, since November 2010, been provided by a pilot driverless […]

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