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HUSSEIN LOOKOUT, Israel — The Obama administration opened its Middle East reassurance tour on Monday with the secretary of defense, Ashton B. Carter, promising Israeli officials that the United States would remain vigilant in trying to combat what he called “Iran’s malign influence” in the region despite the nuclear deal struck last week among Tehran and six world powers. To make his point, Mr. Carter let Israeli […]

Ashley Madison founder Noel Biderman demonstrates his website on a tablet computer during an interview in Hong Kong August 28, 2013. Reuters/Bobby Yip/Files TORONTO Hackers threatened to leak details including the credit card information, nude photos and sexual fantasies of as many as 37 million customers of a dating website that caters to cheating spouses, the KrebsOnSecurity blog reported. The dating website AshleyMadison.com’s Canadian parent, Avid Life […]

ABU DHABI // Rulers, religious leaders and legal experts on Monday welcomed a new law against hate crime and religious or racial discrimination. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, said the law “guarantees the freedom of individuals from religious intolerance … and underpins the UAE’s policy of inclusiveness”. It also showed the wisdom of the leadership in a country that was sending a […]

WASHINGTON — The Islamic State’s reclusive leader has empowered his inner circle of deputies as well as regional commanders in Syria and Iraq with wide-ranging authority, a plan to ensure that if he or other top figures are killed, the organization will quickly adapt and continue fighting, American and Iraqi intelligence officials say. The officials say the leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delegates authority to his cabinet, or […]

ABU DHABI // The brightest 15-year-old in the world can’t find a place at university because she’s too young. Sitara Brooj Akbar moved from Pakistan to the UAE last year after breaking international records in passing examinations. She is the youngest pupil to reach the top level, Band 9, in the International English Language Testing System. IELTS Band 9 qualifies her as an “expert user” of English, […]

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council on Monday unanimously approved a resolution that creates the basis for international economic sanctions against Iran to be lifted, a move that incited a furious reaction in Israel and potentially sets up an angry showdown in Congress. The 15-0 vote for approval of the resolution — 104 pages long including annexes and lists — was written in Vienna by […]

UAE Exchange in community development partnership DUBAI, 3 days ago UAE Exchange, a leading remittance, foreign exchange and payment solutions brand, has extended its philanthropic arm by partnering with Community Development Authority of Dubai to benefit various local community groups, educational institutions, charitable organisations, labour camps and government departments. Varghese Mathew, country head – UAE, said: “We are an organisation that is committed to the betterment of […]

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SINGAPORE, 3 days ago Chinese ultra wealthy individuals claimed nine of the 10 spots on a list of Asia’s richest millennials (definite as those born from 1981 to 1997), revealed Wealth-X, an authority on wealth intelligence, providing sales, marketing, strategy and compliance solutions to clients in the financial services, luxury, not-for-profit and education sectors. Three of the 10 spots on the list were occupied by female Asian […]

Bank ABC in $250m million loan facility deal MANAMA, 3 days ago Bahrain-based Bank ABC said it has closed a $250 million syndicated term loan facility for Bank Sohar. The three-year facility was signed on July 14 and will be used by Bank Sohar for general funding purposes, said a report in the Gulf Daily News (GDN), our sister publication. Besides Bank ABC, which acted as the […]

New Italian mobile operator picks Oracle cloud MILAN, 3 days ago Ringo Mobile, a new mobile telephony operator which has just entered the Italian market, has chosen Oracle Cloud to guarantee flexible company management in total security. Ringo Mobile is part of the ICS Group, founded in 2008 and active today in Switzerland and Egypt. The company aims to expand its presence in Italy and plans to […]

Intel Q2 revenue drops 4pc to $13bn NEW YORK, 3 days ago Intel Corp reported that its net revenue fell 4.6 per cent to $13.19 billion during the second quarter of the year, edging past the average analyst estimate of $13.04 billion. Growth in the company’s data centers and Internet-of-Things businesses helped offset weak demand for personal computers that use the company’s chips. Shares of the world’s […]

JERUSALEM — Israeli authorities have uncovered a network of Hamas militants suspected of involvement in a shooting that killed an Israeli man and wounded three others in the West Bank in June, Israeli security officials said Sunday. Israel’s Shin Bet internal security agency said in a statement that the military and the police had arrested four Palestinians this month — three residents of the West Bank village […]

AL MUKALLA, Yemen — Houthi rebel fighters fired rockets toward the southern city of Aden on Sunday, killing at least 43 people in a residential neighborhood, health and military officials said. The attack came two days after the exiled Yemeni government, which is supported by Saudi Arabia and opposes the Houthis, declared that Aden had been “liberated” after the Houthis and their allies were driven from several […]

The prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, responded to the Iran deal as expected: It is bad, endangers Israel, he argued; we are against it and will be the only American ally not only to oppose it, but to go down gloriously, fighting a battle in Congress that we are destined to lose. Mr. Netanyahu often warns that Iran is like Nazi Germany in 1938, fooling naïve […]

Turning rubble into homes, the Dutch style AMSTERDAM, 2 days ago In Dutch capital Amsterdam, a mobile factory, the size of two shipping containers, ingests rubble at one end, liquifies it into cement and spurts out Lego-shaped building blocks. Call it rubble for the people, converting the deadly debris from disasters into homes and hospitals, cheaply and quickly. It’s the brainchild of Gerard Steijn, a 71-year-old sustainable […]

BEIRUT, Lebanon — The security forces in Saudi Arabia have carried out a nationwide dragnet in recent months that resulted in the arrest of more than 400 people believed to be connected to the Islamic State jihadist group, the Saudi Interior Ministry said on Saturday. The people who were arrested were linked to recent attacks inside the kingdom; they planned attacks or monitored potential targets, or used […]

BAGHDAD — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a bombing in eastern Iraq, and Iraqi officials on Saturday said the death toll had risen to 100, with 20 more missing and more than 100 wounded. The bomb tore through a marketplace on Friday as shoppers prepared for a major Muslim holiday in Khan Bani Saad, a mostly Shiite town about 12 miles from Baquba, the […]

ABU DHABI // Drivers of silver taxis are crying foul over what they call unfair competition from unlicensed cabs offering cheaper fares. Taxi drivers are under immense pressure to meet their targets, often working 12 to 14 hours every day. They say the increasing number of uninsured and unregulated cabs has made it harder for the city’s 10,000 drivers to find customers. Owners of private vehicles are […]

DUBAI // A woman whose brother suffered a severe brain injury after a car crash has launched a campaign against tailgating. In August 1990, Nikki Carroll was living and working in Paris when her brother James, who had just received his A-level results, was a passenger in a car being driven in Dublin, Ireland, by a friend who was a newly qualified driver. “Due to high speed […]

Have you ever received an e-mail that sounds snarky and overreact because you’re reading the undertones between the lines? Or has anyone ever snapped at you for an offensive e-mail that you sent with the best of intentions? IBM is working to eliminate that problem with Watson Tone Analyzer. Big Blue is convinced a computer can accurately and automatically detect the tones conveyed in a message and […]

ABU DHABI // It has gone so fast – and so far, so good. It’s already the third anniversary of work starting on the UAE’s first nuclear power plant at Barakah, near the border with Saudi Arabia. And it is still on budget and set to go live in late 2017, ultimately providing a quarter of the Emirates’ energy needs. But becoming the first new member to […]

TEHRAN — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, voiced support on Saturday for his country’s nuclear deal with world powers while emphasizing that it did not signal an end to Iran’s hostility toward the United States and its allies, especially Israel. “Their actions in the region are 180 degrees different from ours,” he said. Speaking after a special prayer marking the end of the Muslim […]

CAIRO — Security forces killed six antigovernment protesters at Islamist demonstrations near Cairo on Friday morning, highlighting continued tensions two years after the military takeover that removed President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood. The clashes, in the Giza neighborhoods of Talbiya and Nahia, took place as crowds gathered after morning prayers that signaled the beginning of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, at the end of the holy […]

Redmond is acquiring field service management solutions provider FieldOne Systems to beef up its CRM business. Here’s the pitch in a nutshell: Consumers expect companies to engage with them in new, more convenient ways. That includes field service capabilities. Once it integrates FieldOne’s technology into Dynamics CRM, Microsoft is convinced that its clients can better manage and deliver service to customers in the field. “Field service management […]

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