NEW YORK U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday as oil prices dropped to their lowest since November and airlines pulled industrial stocks down as a blizzard hit the U.S. northeast. The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 43.76 points, or 0.21 percent, to 20,837.72, the S&P 500 .SPX lost 8.04 points, or 0.34 percent, to 2,365.43 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 18.97 points, or 0.32 percent, to […]
newslide Actress Sonakshi Sinha has confirmed she will perform as part of Justin Bieber’s Purpose world tour stop in India. The 29-year-old star will be one of the opening acts at the gig to be held at the DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai on May 10. “I am really fond of Justin Bieber’s music and I love how his sound has evolved over the years,” says Sonakshi, […]
Republicans are battling to save their new healthcare bill after Congress’s non-partisan watchdog said it would cause about 24m Americans to lose insurance and prompting fierce retaliation from the White House. On Tuesday, the Trump administration fought back against the Congressional Budget Office’s findings that the legislation, while reducing the budget deficit by $337bn, would cause an estimated 52m Americans to be uninsured by 2026. This compared […]
(Image: file photo) Patch Tuesday is back — albeit after an inadvertent and undisclosed glitch led to a month-long delay in releasing security patches. Microsoft said Tuesday that it patched dozens of vulnerabilities across 18 bulletins. read this Why software updates have to get better All too often, security patches are breaking the devices they set out to protect, and trust in the software companies to protect […]
Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, moved to allay fears that the kingdom was backing away from its pledge to curb production, underlining its concern about a 10 per cent plunge in the crude price over the past week. The kingdom’s energy ministry rushed out a rare statement on Tuesday asserting its commitment to “stabilising the global oil market”, just as global benchmark Brent crude slipped […]
By Ahmed Kingimi | MAIDUGURI, Nigeria MAIDUGURI, Nigeria Islamist militant sect Boko Haram on Tuesday released a video purporting to show the execution of three men the group accused of being Nigerian military spies. The seven-minute clip, the first online video posted in two years of an execution said to be by Boko Haram, showed three men wearing orange jumpsuits. One is decapitated by masked men while […]
14 March, 2017 The Ministry of Finance in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has recently launched a series of Value Added Tax (VAT) and excise awareness sessions to present to advisors and businesses on the progress of VAT and excise implementation. The first such session is aimed at the advisory community, followed by later sessions aimed at the general business community. Full details of the sessions can be […]
GENEVA, Switzerland: The Assad regime came under fire from two UN bodies on Tuesday, one of which accused Syria’s air force of deliberately bombing water sources in December and another saying Syria has become a “torture chamber.”In a report, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria said that the deliberate act of bombing water sources, which cut off water for 5.5 million people in and […]
The head of the main film festival in Saudi Arabia, where cinemas are banned, wants the government to invest in the sector as part of its campaign to encourage entertainment. Ahmed AlMulla made the comments in an interview with AFP ahead of the fourth Saudi Film Festival, which runs from March 23-28 in the Gulf coastal city of Dhahran. This year’s festival is the first since the […]
Turkey’s president escalated his diplomatic row with the Netherlands on Tuesday, claiming the country had a “rotten character” and blamed Dutch troops for the worst massacre in Europe since the second world war. The remarks by Recep Tayyip Erdogan come less than 24 hours before Dutch voters go to the polls in a national election that has been coloured by a heated debate about the role of […]
Tuesday 15:10 GMT What you need to know ● Pound under pressure amid Brexit and Scottish secession worries● Sterling drops below $1.22 and euro edges up towards 88p● S&P 500 down 0.5 per cent as sliding oil hits energy stocks● Treasury yields little changed ahead of Fed decision——————- Hot topic The UK pound is back under pressure as traders become concerned that Edinburgh’s demand for a another […]
PARIS French presidential candidate Francois Fillon was put under formal investigation on Tuesday over misuse of public funds in the fake jobs scandal involving his wife, the prosecutor’s office said. The 63-year-old conservative candidate was put under formal investigation on suspicion of diverting public funds, complicity in misappropriating funds, receiving the funds and not declaring assets fully, a judicial source said. Fillon’s lawyer could not immediately be […]
DUBAI A Bahraini court on Tuesday delayed a ruling in the trial of the spiritual leader of the country’s Shi’ite Muslim majority on charges of collecting funds illegally and money laundering, local media reported. Ayatollah Isa Qassim, who is in his mid-70s, faces up to 15 years in jail if convicted in the trial that has ratcheted up tensions in the Western-allied Gulf Arab state where the […]
Rumor has it that the successor to OnePlus 3T will skip the “4” and just jump into OnePlus 5, a la Note 5 jumping into the Note 7 naming scheme. The 3T has only been out for a few months, becoming available this past November. Yet, because of how fast-paced smartphone development has become, we’re now seeing rumors of the OnePlus 5, and they’re all sounding pretty good […]
MANILA The Philippines went on the offensive on Tuesday to assert its sovereign rights over a fishing ground in the Pacific Ocean, stressing a need to protect it after a Chinese survey ship was monitored in the area last year. Manila has lodged a diplomatic protest with Beijing after a Chinese vessel was tracked moving back and forth over Benham Rise, a vast area east of the […]
MOGADISHU // Pirates have hijacked an oil tanker off the coast of Somalia, officials and a piracy expert said on Tuesday. It is the first hijacking of a large commercial vessel there since 2012. The Aris 13 on Monday reported being approached by two skiffs, said John Steed from the organisation Oceans Beyond Piracy. Mr Steed said eight crew members were aboard the ship, which had been […]
The Bank of England’s new deputy governor, Charlotte Hogg, has resigned after MPs said her professional competence “falls short of the very high standards required”. Ms Hogg has been under pressure since admitting that she had failed for nearly four years to inform the bank that her brother was a senior executive at Barclays, even though she was partly responsible for drawing up the bank’s code of […]
The pound took a tumble on Tuesday after politicians paved the way for Article 50 to be triggered this month, leading analysts to warn that Brexit was still not priced in to the value of the UK currency. Sterling fell as much as 0.9 per cent in Tuesday morning trading to just above $1.21, its weakest level since Theresa May, prime minister, promised a parliamentary vote on […]
|By Arabian Post Staff| Paris Gallery announced plans to open 30 new stores for the Group’s various brands and subsidiaries, which will take the total number of stores to 116 stores by 2021. The luxury retailer currently has 86 branches across the UAE, KSA, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Iraq, Azerbaijan and other countries. The UAE-based Group also confirmed that its total retail areas will reach 3.2 million square feet by […]
The Gulf’s healthcare industry is expected to receive the highest volume of investments in 2017 among non-oil sectors as GCC countries seek to further diversify their economies, according to a new survey. CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals, said its annual Middle East Societies Market Sentiment survey also forecse an increase in hospitality and tourism investment. It said in a statement that in Saudi Arabia, […]
After several rumors and teases, Tag Heuer itself leaked the details of its upcoming Android Wear 2.0 smartwatch before the device’s official announcement. Tag Heuer posted information regarding the smartwatch, named the Connected Modular 45, on its official website before the March 14 announcement date, revealing a few things that customers can expect from the device. Tag Heuer Connected Modular 45 Specs And Features The Tag Heuer […]
By Neil Jerome Morales | MANILA MANILA A self-confessed assassin who testified to being in a “death squad” under Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte will soon file a case at the International Criminal Court accusing the president of crimes against humanity, his lawyer said on Tuesday. More than 8,000 people have died since Duterte took office in June and unleashed a bloody war on drugs, a third in […]
When Intel’s chief executive addressed shareholders at last month’s investor day, he insisted that the “traditional market view” of the company as a Silicon Valley stalwart making chips for PCs and servers was wrong. “The way we look at the world is a bit different,” Brian Krzanich said. “We are a data company.” Investors would soon discover just how differently Mr Krzanich was looking at Intel’s world. […]
The French presidential election is setting up a critical test of resolve for Japanese investors as life assurers, big banks and struggling regional lenders enter a second year under the Bank of Japan’s negative interest rate policy. The policy shift by the BoJ in February 2016 accelerated efforts by Japanese investors to seek higher fixed-rate returns overseas and has raised the sensitivity of their portfolios to global […]
