By Abdelaziz Boumzar | MOSUL, Iraq MOSUL, Iraq Thousands of Iraqis surged out of western Mosul on Saturday during a lull in heavy fighting in districts around the densely populated Old City where Iraqi forces are facing fierce resistance from Islamic State militants. Five months into the battle to take Islamic State’s last bastion in Iraq, government forces have cleared the east and half of western Mosul, […]
It is now well-established that the economics of cloud computing services add massive value to the business, a contention supported both by research and by the number of organisations that either have moved or are now moving production systems into the cloud. Challenges remain of course, and among them is automation. Cloudy challenges Cloud certainly changes the economics of IT but it does not necessarily change all […]
ISTANBUL Turkish authorities have detained 740 people for suspected links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) over the last three days, state media reported on Saturday citing an Interior Ministry source. Authorities carried out 36 raids during the three-day period, seizing equipment, documents and more than a dozen guns, state-run Anadolu Agency said. Turkey faces multiple security threats, including Kurdish militants and Islamic State, both of […]
MADRID The Spanish government will give nothing in exchange for disarmament of the Basque militant separatist group ETA, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Saturday. The group, which has killed more than 800 people over several decades and declared a permanent ceasefire six years ago, has been severely weakened in recent years after hundreds of its members were arrested and police seized several weapons stashes. On Friday, […]
The 11th edition of Art Dubai closed yesterday and it was, according to its director Myrna Ayad, another success. “We had very positive feedback from galleries, artists and visitors and it was an exciting first edition for me,” she says. “I’m already looking forward to next year’s edition as well as to develop and grow the fair alongside the team.” Other than Ayad herself, who is new […]
Finance ministers from the world’s biggest economies have dropped pledges to renounce protectionism in a meeting marked by tension over trade between the US and China. G20 finance ministers meeting in the German resort town of Baden-Baden noted the importance of trade to the global economy, but dropped tougher language from last year that vowed to “resist all forms of protectionism”. We have reached an impasse The […]
Photo Part of Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system in the Golan Heights on Friday. Israeli officials said a separate system, Arrow, had intercepted a missile that appeared to be heading toward Israeli territory. Credit Atef Safadi/European Pressphoto Agency JERUSALEM — The Syrian armed forces fired antiaircraft missiles at Israeli warplanes that had struck targets deep in Syria early Friday, in what appeared to be the most […]
PARIS Flights will resume gradually from 1400 GMT at the south terminal of Paris’ Orly airport, operator ADP said, following an incident earlier on Saturday in which a man was shot dead after attacking a patrolling soldier. Flights at the airport’s west terminal resumed earlier in the afternoon, ADP said in a statement. Orly is France’s second-busiest airport. (Reporting by Gus Trompiz; Editing by Adrian Croft) ‘); […]
PARIS The man killed at Orly airport on Saturday tried to snatch a gun from a female soldier “in an extremely violent attack” on her before he was shot dead, a French army spokesman said. Benoit Brulon, a spokesman for France’s anti-terror patrol force, said of the female soldier: “She’s doing fine”. Brulon, speaking on BFMTV, said the female soldier, who was part of an air force […]
If you like your crime shows bleak, British and full of David Tennant snapping grumpily at people, then you need to start watching Broadchurch. The ITV drama — which was insanely popular in Britain when the first season was broadcast back in 2013 — has just gotten stuck into its third season. At the time of writing, we’re three episodes in. Every time a new season of […]
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A man was shot dead by security forces after seizing a soldier’s gun at Paris Orly airport on Saturday while in a separate incident a police officer was shot and injured north of the French capital, the French Interior Ministry said. The incident is being investigated as a terrorist attack ???? #BREAKING – Orly airport incident and northern Paris shooting being investigated as terrorist attacks https://t.co/LZOaUn14uh pic.twitter.com/iS7aME9tpb […]
PARIS The father and brother of the man killed on Saturday at Paris’s Orly airport have been taken into police custody, a judicial source said. The source said the move was a routine one in such circumstances. (Reporting by Emmanuel Jarry; Writing By Richard Balmforth) ‘); $(‘.second-article-divide’).append($(‘.slider.slider-module’)); $(‘.third-article-divide’).append(”); var median = (relatedItemsTotal / 2); var $relatedContentGroupOne = $(‘.related-content.group-one ul’); var $relatedContentGroupTwo = $(‘.related-content.group-two ul’); $.each($relatedItems, function(k,v) { […]
PARIS A man shot dead at France’s Orly airport after trying to snatch a patrol soldier’s weapon was known to police and intelligence services and had shot and injured an officer in another part of the Paris region when stopped for an identity check earlier on Saturday, the interior minister said. Minister Bruno Le Roux, speaking to reporters at the airport south of the French capital, said […]
The world’s temperature sweltered last month. It was the second warmest February of all Februaries in almost 140 years, according to data released this week. Data from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies revealed that the global temperature in February was 1.1 degrees Celsius above average. Last year’s February recorded a temperature of 1.32 degrees Celsius, which was a breakaway from the average records in 137 years. The […]
AJMAN // Four adventurers drove 1,400 kilometres to a far-flung area of Oman and planted the UAE flag on one of the world’s highest sand dunes. The members of the UAE Adventure Club, a non-profit organisation that teaches people about the desert and off-roading, made the trip to Mazyouna province, in the south of Oman near the Yemen border, aiming to become the first to raise the […]
But even though some of what the government did to Mr. Nashiri has become public, including through the partial declassification of a 2004 C.I.A. inspector general report and the release in 2014 of the executive summary of a Senate Intelligence Committee report about the interrogation program, many details have remained classified. Photo Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri is accused of involvement in Al Qaeda’s bombing of the American destroyer […]
Junk bond funds saw their biggest outflows since December 2014, as investors expressed concern about high prices for speculative debt and falling energy prices put pressure on companies in the sector. Investors withdrew $5.7bn from high-yield bond funds in the week up to Wednesday, according to EPFR Global. It came as West Texas Intermediate, the US crude marker, last week dropped back below $50 a barrel. Oil […]
LONDON Allegations from the United States that British spy agency GCHQ snooped on Donald Trump during his election campaign are “arrant nonsense”, the deputy head of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) said in an interview on Saturday. President Trump has stood by unproven claims that the Obama administration tapped his phones during the 2016 White House race. On Thursday his spokesman cited a media report that […]
PARIS Security forces shot dead a man who seized a soldier’s gun at Paris Orly airport on Saturday and a police officer was shot and injured in a separate incident north of the French capital, the French Interior Ministry said. A bomb sweep was under way at the airport to make sure the dead man was not wearing an explosive belt, Interior Ministry spokeman Pierre-Henry Brandet told […]
BEIRUT Rebel fighters and their families began leaving their last bastion in the Syrian city of Homs on Saturday, state media and a Reuters witness said, under an evacuation deal with the government that is expected to be the largest of its kind. The first two buses carrying rebels and their families left al-Waer district in the morning, heading for other rebel-held areas in northern Syria. Homs […]
18 March 2017 Manama, Bahrain – GFH Financial Group (“GFH” or “the Group”) announced today that it has convened its first meeting in Abu Dhabi last Thursday for its new Board of Directors, whose appointment was recently confirmed for the 2017-2019. Upon its first meeting the 10 member Board have indorsed the appointment of his Excellency Shaikh Ahmed Bin Khalifa Al-Khalifa as GFH’s new Chairman and Dr. […]
DHAKA Bangladesh police shot and killed a suspected militant who tried to enter a security checkpost on a motorcycle armed with explosives on Saturday, the latest in a string of security incidents since a deadly attack on a cafe in July. The latest incident came a day after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a security forces base near the international airport in the South Asian […]
Warren Buffett’s compensation for running Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) edged up 4.0 percent last year to $487,881 reflecting the higher cost of keeping the world’s second-richest person safe. Buffett’s pay was disclosed in a Friday regulatory filing, in which Berkshire also recommended the rejection of three shareholder proposals at its May 6 annual meeting, including that it disclose its political contributions twice a year. Berkshire said Buffett’s […]
