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Your daily guide to community and cultural activities across the Emirates for December 1, 2016, including performances, festivals, art exhibitions, film screenings, health and fitness events, talks, classes, workshops and family fun. newslide Abu Dhabi Performance Visit Nation Towers and enjoy Welcome to the Circus, a 20-minute performance featuring a stage show that includes a ribbon dancer, unicyclist and a clown-juggling duo. See high-fashion costumes and upbeat […]

The upcoming Samsung Galaxy C7 Pro keeps surfacing in benchmark listings, and its latest appearance on AnTuTu reveals more details about its specifications. With leaks popping up at a faster pace, the Galaxy C7 Pro unveiling could be just around the corner. Just last week, the purported Samsung Galaxy C7 Pro surfaced on the Geekbench benchmarking site, which listed a few core specs for the smartphone such as […]

By Sarah Marsh and Diego Oré | HAVANA HAVANA Draped in the red, white and blue national flag, Fidel Castro’s ashes began a marathon procession across Cuba on Wednesday to his final resting place in the east of the island, where the first shots in the Cuban Revolution were fired. Castro, who ruled Cuba for half a century until 2008 and built a Communist state on the […]

You can jump right into the spirit of National Day almost anywhere in the UAE. Here’s our round up of some of the largest and most eye-catching events happening this weekend, to celebrate the country’s 45th birthday. City Walk Festival Dubai’s first outdoors mall is pulling out all the stops for National Day, hosting 30 international folk bands, as well as traditional fashion shows and art shows. […]

A new report sheds some light on Apple’s plans for its iPad lineup in 2017. The company will supposedly introduce a new 10.9-inch iPad Pro that will lose its Home button, sport an almost bezel-free display and maintain the overall size of that of the 9.7-inch iPad Pro. It’s never too early to begin speculating on some of the new features Apple has in store for its […]

SHARJAH // Hundreds of Emirati families and residents from across Sharjah kicked off celebrations on Tuesday ahead of the 45th National Day. Boys dressed in army uniforms and girls wearing gowns in the colours of the UAE flag enjoyed traditional yola dancing and performances of plays at National Park on Airport Road. Families sat on the grass, drinking coffee and tea and revelling in the festivities. Emirati […]

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Tuesday blamed “unintentional” human mistakes for the American-led airstrikes in September that killed dozens of Syrian government troops. The attacks were conducted under the “good-faith belief” that the targets were Islamic State militants, according to the official inquiry. The investigation, led by an Air Force general, concluded that the strikes did not violate the law of armed conflict or the rules for […]

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BRASILIA Police used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse thousands of demonstrators protesting against cutbacks to social programs outside Brazil’s Congress on Tuesday as Senators prepared to vote for a 20-year cap on federal spending. Protesters burned three cars, smashed windows on government buildings and threw rocks at police on the ministry-lined central esplanade of Brasilia, according to a Reuters photographer at the scene. Around 10,000 […]

By Mark Hosenball and Kim Palmer | WASHINGTON/COLUMBUS, Ohio WASHINGTON/COLUMBUS, Ohio A Somali immigrant who ploughed into pedestrians at Ohio State University and stabbed others with a butcher knife may have followed the same path to self-radicalisation as militants in a number of “lone wolf” attacks, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Investigators were probing the background of Abdul Razak Ali Artan one day after he injured 11 […]

Details regarding Apple’s rumored iPhone 8 have been making the rounds over the last couple of weeks. A new report claims the company is working with LG on a new 3D dual-lens camera. Ever since Apple released the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in 2014, the company has used more than just the larger 5.5-inch displays of its Plus models to differentiate it from its 4.7-inch […]

|By Arabian Post Staff|DP World, which already has a tie-up with Hyperloop One for conducting a feasibility study on moving containers from ships docked at DP World’s flagship Jebel Ali Port via the Hyperloop system to a new inland container depot in Dubai, is now keen to join China’s multi-trillion dollar One Belt One Road (OBOR) project. DP World Group Chairman and CEO Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem […]

By Nelson Acosta and Ana Isabel Martinez | HAVANA HAVANA Cuba’s most prominent dissident group called off its weekly protest march for the first time in 13 years on Sunday following the death of its nemesis Fidel Castro, the revolutionary leader whose passing has cast a pall over the island. Castro, a world figure who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and […]

LG is looking to redeem itself and win over consumers with its impending LG G6, the successor of the LG G5 flagship. To ensure that the LG G6 does not meet the dismal fate of the modular LG G5 smartphone, the company is pulling out all stops for upcoming handset. LG is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that the next-gen smartphone finds favor with consumers. We […]

Sweden-based telecommunications company TeliaSonera said it received notice from Swedish prosecutors it could face fines and possible forfeiture related to an investigation of former employees under investigation in an alleged bribery and money laundering case in Uzbekistan. Bloomberg News Telia-branded flags and an illuminated logo are seen through a window at a Telia phone store, operated by TeliaSonera AB, in Stockholm, Sweden. “Due to the current preliminary […]

By Alexandra Ulmer | CARACAS CARACAS Venezuela’s ruling socialists mourned former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, while opposition hardliners exulted over the death of a man they call a dictator who helped wreck the economy and whose country has for years got an easy ride with subsidized oil. The two leftist Latin American governments became intimate allies under Castro and his younger disciple, the late Venezuelan leader Hugo […]

As mourners carried the coffin of a slain Hezbollah commander, they moved quickly to wipe away blood still dripping from his body — it had been washed in haste as it was rushed from the battlefields of Aleppo to its final resting place in Lebanon. While Russian war planes and bombs have dominated headlines about outside intervention in Syria’s five-year conflict, thousands of those fighting on the […]

The Jill Stein campaign prides itself for being anti-corporate — only accepting the donations from the small people — the disenfranchised folks who cannot afford to donate to her losing campaign — but do so nonetheless to help Jill fulfill an otherwise pointless existence in the political landscape. Thanks to her website and the Wayback machine, we can examine the donations and the rate by which they […]

Last month, Google officially introduced Android 7.1 Nougat, which, at that point, had already been running on its pair of Pixel phones and other handsets via developer previews. At the same time as the announcement, Google also included a December rollout schedule for Android 7.1 Nougat to Google’s somewhat overlooked flagships. Now, to the delight of Nexus owners, the exact release date has been confirmed. Android 7.1 Release […]

By Vladimir Soldatkin and Diego Oré | MOSCOW/CARACAS MOSCOW/CARACAS World leaders paid tribute on Saturday to Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States, but in death just as in life he divided opinion, and critics labelled him a “tyrant”. Castro died on Friday aged 90, his younger brother and successor Raul Castro announced on state television. […]

By Marc Frank | HAVANA HAVANA Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied U.S. efforts to topple him, died on Friday, his younger brother announced to the nation. He was 90. A towering figure of the second half of the 20th Century, Castro had been in poor health since an intestinal […]

The Tuesday after Thanksgiving is called Giving Tuesday, and T-Mobile is feeling generous, so T-Mobile Tuesday is turning into #GivingTuesday next week. The weekly giveaways called T-Mobile Tuesdays have proved widely popular so far, and next week, T-Mobile is taking things to the next level. For #GivingTuesday, the Uncarrier plans to use its weekly giveaway for charity. As part of the promotion, T-Mobile will donate up to $500,000 […]

The unlocked Sony Xperia X is now available at an attractive price point on Amazon, shedding 25 percent off its regular price to retail at $299.99. The smartphone launched back in June as a capable midranger, promising a more-than-decent performance without breaking the bank. At that point, the Sony Xperia X launched at a $549.99 price point, but it got more affordable in the meantime. Amazon is […]

Chinese phone supplier Huawei has supplanted Samsung as the second most profitable smartphone brand globally in Q3 2016. Apple continues to remain atop the list, having enjoyed 91 percent of all smartphone profits this year. Huawei, meanwhile, enjoyed 2.4 percent of the pile, earning an estimated $200 million for smartphone sales during the aforementioned quarter. Huawei Places Second It should come as no surprise that Apple has […]

Theresa May is facing a growing backlash over her flagship business reforms after leading company bosses and the Bank of England’s chief economist urged her to reverse plans on executive pay. Senior finance and corporate figures, including the BoE’s Andy Haldane and GlaxoSmithKline’s chief executive Sir Andrew Witty, have rejected two of the prime minister’s main corporate governance proposals. In a report to be published on Friday, […]

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