DUBAI // A cleaner murdered his supervisor’s niece by stabbing her to the neck at her flat after he had problems breaking his work contract. The Filipino, 32, has been jailed for 15 years for the murder, which took place on August 7 last year. He had been told to pay Dh6,000 to his company for submitting his resignation and breaking his contract early, and tried to […]
Danube Properties has launched a new AED300 million ($81.6 million) real estate project called Resortz in Dubai’s Arjaan neighbourhood. The project was unveiled by Rizwan Sajan, founder and chairman of Danube Group, who said Resortz will span an area of more than four acres and offer 419 apartments, ranging from studio to three-bedroom apartments and retail units. It will also feature a resort-style swimming pool and a […]
By Tsvetelia Tsolova and Angel Krasimirov | SOFIA SOFIA Bulgarians were voting in a snap general election on Sunday, with the centre-right GERB party challenged for power by Socialists who say they will improve ties with Russia even if it means upsetting the country’s European Union partners. Many Bulgarians feel a strong cultural affinity for Russia, with which they share the Cyrillic script and Orthodox Christianity and […]
Bebas says he misrepresented Muslims and legal figures say he misinterpreted the Federal Constitution. PETALING JAYA: Former chief justice Ahmad Fairuz Abdul Halim has earned reproach from several quarters for remarks he made yesterday at a lecture titled “Islam as the Law of the Land”. Referring to Fairuz’s assertions that all Malays would welcome the imposition of hudud and that they did not care about equality, Azrul […]
A Bahraini appeals court has sentenced three people to death over bombings that targeted police patrols in a majority-Shiite village, the state-run news agency reported. Seventeen people were found guilty of various charges linked to the formation of a “dangerous terrorist cell that manufactured improvised explosives used against police” in the village of Kurayat west of the capital Manama, the Bahrain News Agency said. The agency said […]
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 […]
Your daily guide to community and cultural activities across the Emirates for March 25, 2017, including performances, festivals, art exhibitions, film screenings, health and fitness events, talks, classes, workshops and family fun. Ellen Fortini rounds up 10 things to do today in the UAE. Want to see your event listed here? Email us with the details and contact information at [email protected] newslide Abu Dhabi Cultural festival Mother […]
BEIJING A Chinese court has ruled in favor of Apple in design patent disputes between the Cupertino, California company and a domestic phone-maker, overturning a ban on selling iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus phones in China, Xinhua news agency reported. Last May, a Beijing patent regulator ordered Apple’s Chinese subsidiary and a local retailer Zoomflight to stop selling the iPhones after Shenzhen Baili Marketing Services lodged […]
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 […]
CAIRO An Egyptian appeals court suspended a jail sentence on Saturday against the former head of the journalists’ union for harbouring colleagues wanted by authorities and for spreading false news, judicial sources and a lawyer said. Yehia Qalash and two colleagues were sentenced to two years in jail in November in a case which Amnesty International condemned as a further crackdown on freedom of expression in Egypt. […]
NIAMEY A court in Niger has freed fifteen civilians accused of complicity in an attempted putsch against President Mahamadou Issoufou, their lawyer said on Saturday. In December 2015, the government said it had foiled a coup and arrested people who planned to use aerial firepower to seize control of the West African country, a major Uranium producer and Western ally in the fight against Islamists in the […]
By Jonathan Stempel | NEW YORK NEW YORK A federal judge on Friday held United Parcel Service Inc (UPS.N) liable for having illegally shipped hundreds of thousands of cartons of untaxed cigarettes in New York, depriving the state and New York City of millions of dollars of taxes. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan said the state and city are entitled to compensatory damages and fines, […]
By James Oliphant | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON In the end, the Closer couldn’t close the deal. For President Donald Trump, the collapse on Friday of his first legislative priority, a healthcare reform bill, was an embarrassing loss of face after he and his administration insisted up until the time of the vote by the U.S. House of Representatives that there was enough Republican support. It brings into question […]
Law firms don’t have a constitutional right to share their profits with non-lawyer investors, a federal appeals court in New York ruled. The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld New York’s ban on non-lawyer investment in law firms, throwing out a challenge by a firm that argued the prohibition violated its First […] (via WSJ)
A U.S. judge on Friday refused to overturn the conviction of two nephews of Venezuela’s first lady on charges that they tried to carry out a multimillion-dollar drug deal to help their family stay in power. Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas and Efrain Antonio Campo Flores had argued in a motion challenging their conviction that they were entrapped in a sting operation and that their trial was […]
By Jeff Mason and Ethan Lou | WASHINGTON/CALGARY WASHINGTON/CALGARY U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration approved TransCanada Corp’s Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, cheering the oil industry and angering environmentalists even as further hurdles for the controversial project loom. The approval reverses a decision by former President Barack Obama to reject the project, but the company still needs to win financing, acquire local permits, and fend off likely […]
The police raided the apartment of the teenager’s family on Thursday morning and arrested him as the prime suspect behind a monthslong wave of bomb threats against Jewish institutions in the United States, Australia and New Zealand, sowing panic and prompting evacuations. The Israeli police said he had also made threats against commercial airlines, including at least one Delta Air Lines flight in 2015, forcing an emergency […]
The Fed’s most recurring lament over the past 8 years, ever since the Financial crisis, is that there has been no measurable inflation in the US economy when using such conventional indicators as CPI, even though according to recent measurements by PriceStats real inflation, not the BLS’ seasonally-adjusted, goalseeked and politically convenient mutant, is now running at a blistering 3.6%, the highest in five years. That […]
Twin Emirati brothers and a teen were killed in a road accident in Sharjah on March 24, 2017. Courtesy Sharjah Police Twin Emirati brothers and a teen were killed in a road accident in Sharjah on March 24, 2017. Courtesy Sharjah Polices The National
CAIRO Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president overthrown in 2011 and the first leader to face trial after the Arab Spring uprisings that swept the region, walked free on Friday for the first time in six years, his lawyer said. He left the Maadi Military Hospital where he had been detained, heading to his home in Heliopolis. A top appeals court cleared Mubarak earlier this month on charges […]
HONG KONG Hong Kong authorities have launched a prosecution against the captain of the ship and shipping agent involved in transporting nine Singaporean armoured vehicles seized in the city last November. Hong Kong customs officers seized the Terrex troop carriers as they were being shipped home from military exercises in Taiwan. Singapore’s armed forces have maintained long-standing if low key military training facilities in Taiwan, and Beijing […]
Vodafone NZ has announced that it will be seeking approval to acquire 70 percent of Farmside, the rural broadband and satellite arm of small carrier TeamTalk, for NZ$10 million in cash as well as the option to acquire the remaining 30 percent for NZ$3 million. Vodafone NZ CEO Russell Stanners said the offer, subject to approval by TeamTalk’s shareholders, would allow the former to deliver improved services […]
Senate Democrats have indicated that they may filibuster the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, setting up a showdown on Capitol Hill that could ultimately lead to a massive overhaul in Senate rules. Chuck Schumer, Senate minority leader, said on the Senate floor on Tuesday that he would not vote to confirm Mr Gorsuch, making clear that Republicans would need to find eight Democratic […]
The Samsung Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8+ are inching closer to their March 29 debut and as the expected launch nears, more details on the devices are emerging online. Close on the heels of the color options for the impending Samsung flagships surfacing online, the alleged batteries of the two handsets have made an appearance. The supposed batteries of the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ have surfaced […]
