DUBAI // Few sports can match the calorie-burning potential of squash, and coaches in Dubai are making it more accessible to children to help defeat the nation’s obesity problem. Coaches are being brought in by Dubai’s Elite Squash to lead lessons in schools and encourage more young people to take up the sport. As well as coaching clinics, Neil Young has started a squash programme with the […]
Conflicted Care When Dr. Rosecrans worked briefly at the Navy’s hospital at Guantánamo as a young psychiatrist in 1999, it was a sleepy assignment. She saw only a few outpatients each week, and there was no psychiatric ward on the base, which was being downsized. But after Al Qaeda’s 2001 terror attacks on New York and the Pentagon, and the subsequent American-led invasion of Afghanistan, detainees began […]
Photo A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces, a United States-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance, inside Syria. Credit Delil Souleiman/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump said Friday that he was likely to abandon the American effort to support “moderate” opposition groups in Syria who are battling the government of President Bashar al-Assad, saying “we have no idea who these people are.” In an interview […]
Before he was elected to be the next US president, Donald Trump had garnered the support of just one prominent billionaire in Silicon Valley: billionaire Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and Facebook board member. The US technology industry had been shocked that one veteran from the Valley, which prides itself on liberal values, had supported, funded and even spoken for Mr Trump at his convention — and […]
New exhibitions at Alserkal Avenue The galleries in Alserkal Avenue are coordinating their openings so that the majority will unveil new exhibitions today. Stand-outs include: Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, which has a solo show from Lebanese artist Raed Yassin that highlights the development of pop culture in the Arab world; Leila Heller Gallery, which will be showing work by American icon Frank Stella alongside creations by […]
By Sumanta Dey | BENGALURU BENGALURU After Donald Trump’s unexpected victory in the U.S. presidential election, investors may refocus in the coming week on the health of the world economy and any signs that years of rock-bottom interest rates and fiscal austerity are coming to an end. Trump’s victory poses a major challenge to the conventional wisdom on the global economy, which for years has relied on […]
|By Arabian Post Staff| With a hardliner like Donald Trump set to head the US administration, Iran-US relations seem to be set to re-enter the tension zone once again. Already signs of hard posturing by both sides are visible. Trump has advocated doubling or tripling the sanctions previously imposed on Iran to force the country to accept greater restrictions on its nuclear program than those contained in a […]
The International Monetary Fund approved a $12 billion loan program for Egypt to restore investor confidence and help revive an economy battered by years of political turmoil. The Washington-based lender’s executive board approved the three-year loan on Friday. Approval of the IMF loan program, the largest of its kind on record in the Middle East, comes a week after Egypt floated its currency to end a crippling […]
For an American public that relies on data for everything from where to find the best taco to the likely victor in a baseball game, Election Day offered a jarring wake-up: The data was wrong. Donald Trump’s stunning electoral win came despite prognosticators’ overwhelming insistence he would lose. And it has forced many to question not just political polling, but other facets of life that are being […]
Representatives from Breakthrough Listen launched Nov. 7 the Parkes Radio Telescope, a $100 million project that had been going on for a decade, in the attempt to seek extraterrestrial life. The telescope is currently looking for proof in the vicinity of Proxima Centauri after the discovery of a possibly habitable planet in August 2016. Humanity’s interest in discovering alien life has gained traction along with the technological […]
The model numbers for Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S8 series and Galaxy Note 8 have leaked. According to a reliable source, the SM-G950 and SM-G955 will make up the Galaxy S8 series, while SM-N950 has been reserved for the Galaxy Note 8. Samsung and wireless carriers who sold the Galaxy Note 7 have been urging Note 7 owners to exchange the defective smartphone, but as we saw in […]
Business-focused social network LinkedIn faces being blocked in Russia after a court ruled it broke a law on data storage. The Moscow city court rejected LinkedIn’s appeal against a ruling that it had broken a law that requires personal data on Russian citizens to be stored on servers within Russia, court spokeswoman Ulyana Solopova told The Associated Press. Solopova says LinkedIn can appeal Thursday’s ruling. The case […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Crossing from Syria into Lebanon on Tuesday night proved to be a parable for the diametrically opposed ways the world sees the election of Donald J. Trump. At the passport counter, a Syrian officer’s face lit up when he saw an American traveler. “Congratulations on your new president!” he exclaimed, giving an energetic thumbs up. Mr. Trump, he said, would be “good for Syria.” […]
ABU DHABI // As both of Hasna Al Blooshi’s parents were in the energy industry it was perhaps natural that she too should eventually work in the field. “My father served at the Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Petroleum (Adco) for 40 years and my mother for 27 years,” she said. “So I grew up in a house where we talked about science, technology and new projects […]
Print newspapers may be disappearing like the home telephone, but not after Election Day. Remembering the frenzy for old-fashioned papers the morning after Barack Obama’s historic win in 2008, newspapers are printing extra copies and setting up temporary retail stands this year, regardless of whether the nation elects the first woman or reality TV star as president. The Los Angeles Times is also selling a commemorative printing-press […]
ABU DHABI // Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed welcomed Prince Charles and Camilla in Al Ain to celebrate a year-long collaboration between the UAE and the UK in the arts. The UK-UAE Year of Cultural Collaboration was launched at Al Jahili Fort under the patronage of Sheikh Mohammed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, and the Prince of Wales. The evening […]
The University of Birmingham has delivered an interactive digital version of what is very likely the world’s oldest surviving fragment of the Quran to the UAE. It is the first time that this version, which offers the touch sensitivity of a tablet and has become known as the Birmingham Quran, has been seen outside of the UK. Two versions will form permanent centrepieces of next year’s UK-UAE […]
The next flagship phone from Samsung, the Galaxy S8, is expected to arrive early next year with a major new feature: a built-in intelligent digital assistant. The artificial intelligence will be made possible by Samsung’s acquisition of Viv Labs, which was announced last month. Founded by two of the creators of Siri, Apple’s signature digital assistant, Viv Labs said its technology represents a “new paradigm” for how […]
By THOMAS ERDBRINK November 5, 2016 TEHRAN — In the past, Iranians looking to mock the United States would burn cardboard effigies of Uncle Sam or Lady Liberty. But in recent months, as the American presidential election took a series of bizarre turns, Iranians seeking to make fun of the “Great Satan” have ditched the arts and crafts and simply switched on their TV sets. Iran’s state television, a […]
By David Shepardson | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON AT&T Inc may bypass a powerful telecommunications regulator by offloading a Time Warner broadcast station, analysts say, as the telecommunications giant braces for what is expected to be a lengthy and tough antitrust review of its proposed $85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner Inc. Dallas-based AT&T said late Saturday the deal would need approval of the U.S. Justice Department and […]
|By Matein Khalid| The fall in oil prices since 2014 has triggered a liquidity crunch and higher funding costs in the UAE banking system. EIBOR is almost double the London interbank rate LIBOR. Non-performing loan (NPL) have begun to rise as property prices have fallen 20% from their peak and corporate/SME borrowers are hit by a sharp downturn in the business cycle. DIB shares reflect these macro […]
|By Arabian Post Staff| GE marked a new milestone in its operational presence in Kuwait with the opening of the GE Kuwait Technology Center (GEKTC), a flagship facility that will foster localized research, provide hands-on training and build an innovation ecosystem specifically for the power sector. Approved by the Kuwait Direct Investment Promotion Authority (KDIPA) for a Foreign Investment License last year, the 6,000 sq meter GEKTC, […]
Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and IBM are among nine tech giants coming together to promote a new standard for data center servers. Designed to speed up server performance, the OpenCAPI specification is aimed at helping businesses better handle today’s increasingly data-intensive workloads. Working together as part of the new OpenCAPI Consortium, the industry partners said they expect that the first products based on the new standards will […]
|By Matein Khalid| The Algiers pact was a game changer in the international oil markets. Crude oil prices have risen to three month highs above $50 Brent after OPEC agreed to cut output to the 32.5 – 33 MBD range, with the symbolic Saudi-Iranian deal reinforced by a sharp drop in US inventories and Hurricane Matthew’s havoc in the Caribbean. Unfortunately for OPEC, the US land rig […]
