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Thousands of people have marched this weekend in Washington, D.C., in an attempt to defend science and support its evolution. The march came as a response to President Trump’s massive budget cuts. President Trump’s budget proposal is expected to have massive effects on scientific work. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will receive roughly two thirds of the funding it was expected to. Additionally, the National Institutes of Health […]

DUBAI // Heriot-Watt University Dubai Campus has become the first in Academic City to offer the world’s most widely used English proficiency test. The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) measures the language ability of people who want to study or work where English is used as the language of communication. Heriot-Watt University in the emirate is now a registered testing centre for the qualification. The university […]

Browse the International Prize for Arabic Fiction’s website, and you will see that one of its main aims remains unchanged from when it was launched 10 years ago: “To encourage the translation of Arabic literature into other languages.” The subtext here was that Ipaf hoped it might discover an Arabic-language literary star who might be spoken of in the same hallowed terms as, say, Japanese writer Haruki […]

Risk is definitely on this morning as European shares soar, led by French stocks and a new record high in Germany’s Dax, after a “French relief rally” in which the first round of the country’s presidential elections prompted investors to bet that establishment candidate Emmanuel Macron will win a runoff vote next month, and who is seen as a 61% to 39% favorite to defeat Le Pen […]

24 April 2017 Dubai, United Arab Emirates – DAMAC Hotels & Resorts, the hospitality arm of luxury real estate developer, DAMAC Properties, today announced that it will be giving away a hotel room at the prestigious Golfotel, the only premium 5-tower hotel complex surrounded by a golf course in Dubai. Visitors to the company’s stand at the Dubai International Convention Centre, during Arabian Travel Market (ATM) and […]

By Ulf Laessing | ERBIL, Iraq ERBIL, Iraq High on a rocky outcrop, just 50 miles from the fighting that is wrecking historic sites across Iraq, workers are busy laying out floor tiles, determined to save at least one ancient structure amidst the turmoil. The team is rebuilding the last remains of the fortified citadel in the Iraqi-Kurdish capital of Erbil, constructed on top of the world’s […]

ATHENS A boat carrying an unknown number of refugees and migrants sank off Greece’s Lesbos island early on Monday and five bodies have been recovered on a shore north of the island, the Athens News Agency reported. The Greek coast guard was not immediately available for comment. (Reporting by Karolina Tagaris; Editing by Renee Maltezou) ‘); $(‘.second-article-divide’).append($(‘.slider.slider-module’)); $(‘.third-article-divide’).append(”); var median = (relatedItemsTotal / 2); var $relatedContentGroupOne = […]

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KABUL U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in Afghanistan on Monday as President Donald Trump’s administration looks to construct its strategy for the war-torn country, where resurgent Taliban militants continue to make gains.     Mattis is expected to meet Afghan officials and U.S. troops while in Kabul, but his arrival coincided with an announcement that his Afghan counterpart, Defence Minister Abdullah Habibi, and the Afghan army chief […]

By Bate Felix and Sudip Kar-Gupta | PARIS PARIS Round two of the bitter fight for the French presidency got under way on Monday within hours of first round results with far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s top aide launching a stinging attack on her centrist opponent Emmanuel Macron. “Emmanuel is not a patriot. He sold off national companies. He criticised French culture,” Florian Philippot, deputy leader of […]

The refugee crisis might seem a world away from the glamour of the concert hall but musicians, like all of us, are not immune to the horrors of war. This is something 36-year-old pianist Ivana Gavric knows only too well. This month she releases a new album, Chopin, the fourth in a series that so far has drawn warm praise from critics and audiences. In 1992, however, […]

Of the 150 Holocaust survivors who founded the kibbutz, Ms. Sternberg — who shared her testimony with museum visitors for years — is one of the last ones alive to bear witness. As her generation fades away, the Ghetto Fighters’ House is grappling, like other institutions, with the question of how to educate future generations about the Holocaust and combat ignorance and denial. Continue reading the main […]

A Virginia Tech College of Science economics researcher says the popular social media website Facebook — and its open sharing of information — is a vital and often a significant tool against government corruption in countries where press freedom is curbed or banned. In new research recently published in the journal Information Economics and Policy, Sudipta Sarangi of the Virginia Tech Department of Economics said his cross-country […]

BEIJING Washington’s move to probe steel imports could trigger a trade dispute between the United States and its major trading partners, who are likely to take retaliatory steps, the official China Daily said in an editorial on Monday. The article was the strongest official response yet to U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday launching an investigation of China and other steel producers for dumping cheap steel products […]

Investigators said Levashov was believed to have been “carrying out this type of (hacking) activity for more than 10 years, earning huge profits” US authorities moved Monday to take down a global computer botnet behind the massive theft of personal data and unwanted spam emails, as Spain arrested the notorious Russian hacker who operated it. US authorities say the Russian, Piotr or Peter Levashov, had operated the […]

By Ben Blanchard and Ju-min Park | BEIJING/SEOUL BEIJING/SEOUL Chinese President Xi Jinping called for all sides to exercise restraint on Monday in a call with U.S. President Donald Trump, as a nervous South Korea and Japan sought to join drills with a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group headed for Korean waters. Reclusive North Korea said at the weekend it was ready to sink the U.S. aircraft […]

Dubai’s transport authority has revealed details of a major expansion of the city’s public bus network. The Public Transport Agency of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) opened 11 new bus routes including 10 metro feeder services, and improved 13 other routes starting from last Saturday. “The move is intended to bring more happiness to public transport users in general and bus riders in particular. It also […]

Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, “Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience… Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world, in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and […]

Apple is finally adding transit options to its Maps app for the city of Paris. Starting today, you can use Apple Maps to calculate itineraries using public transportation. You’ll find subway, RER and bus lines, and even Transilien lines. Just like in Google Maps, you can look around the map with a new subway layer or you can calculate an itinerary from A to B. If you […]

PARIS Emmanuel Macron’s camp should perhaps keep the champagne on ice a little longer. The young independent centrist’s qualification on Sunday for the runoff of France’s presidential election in two weeks’ time will certainly bring a sigh of relief in European capitals and financial markets; opinion polls suggest he will beat his far-right rival Marine Le Pen with ease. But to have a real chance of implementing […]

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Blizzard recently released a new patch for StarCraft that made the iconic real-time strategy game, along with its expansion StarCraft: Brood War, free for all PC and Mac gamers. The move adds StarCraft to the list of free classic PC games that can be downloaded without any strings attached. These games may be old, but they are still very much well worth your time. ‘StarCraft’ The original StarCraft continues to […]

The UAE has a Minister of Happiness. It also has a happiness rating, and for three years running has been the highest-ranked Arab country on the global Happiness Index, an annual list compiled by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, under the General Secretariat of the United Nations. It also ranks 21st globally. A recent YouGov survey revealed that more than three-quarters of new arrivals in the UAE […]

For Myanmar’s first generation of bank customers, there is little difference between a Visa card and one from China’s state-controlled card-payment monopoly, UnionPay. With only 2 per cent of the Southeast Asian nation’s 53m people carrying plastic in their wallets, UnionPay’s rapid push into the frontier market will make its red, blue and green logo one of the first that Burmese youth see when opening an account […]

Many grieving relatives were incensed that the government had minimized the sacrifices of the victims, ordering officials to stay quiet or hide the extent of the fatalities, which have dribbled out over the past three days. Continue reading the main story The government is highly sensitive to the casualty count in the military and has sought to suppress information about such figures. But it is widely known […]

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