European, Asian stocks and S&P futures all drop after traders were left with a sour taste from the potential fallout of Donald Trump’s order halting some immigration and ahead of central bank decisions from the U.S. and Japan. Markets in Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam are all shut due to the Lunar New Year public holiday, leading to a quiet Asian session. Oil […]
©2017 National Public Radio, Inc. NPR report titled “What makes a good pitch? NPR editors weigh in” by Alison MacAdam as originally published on training.npr.org on January 27, 2017, and is used with the permission of NPR. Any unauthorized duplication is strictly prohibited. Pitching is hard. Every one of us has gotten excited about an idea, prepped it, pitched it … and been shot down. It’s disappointing […]
DUBAI Years after he fled political persecution in his native Yemen, a new life in the United States was finally taking shape for democracy activist Abdulraqeb al-Duais. But U.S. President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries has upset his plans to bring his family over to the United States – where he has political asylum – and has left him in limbo in Malaysia. […]
Yet a new update is beginning to roll out for Pokémon GO, although the latest isn’t as sizable as the ones before it — just some minor but welcome changes to the popular mobile gaming app. Pokémon GO Update Niantic took to Pokémon GO‘s official website on Saturday to announce that a new version of the app has arrived for both iOS and Android platforms. Trainers are advised […]
Vodafone is in talks about a merger of its Indian operations with rival Idea Cellular, a deal that would create a mobile network with around 370m users and form one of the largest telecoms companies in the world. The British mobile operator said in a statement on Monday that it was “in discussions” with Aditya Birla Group about an all-share deal. Vodafone shares rose more than 3 […]
Leaders in Iran and Iraq, two of the countries targeted by Mr. Trump’s order, issued furious denunciations on Sunday and vowed to take retaliatory measures. But the silence in the capitals of Muslim-majority countries unaffected by the order reflected a lack of solidarity and an enduring uncertainty about the direction that Mr. Trump’s foreign policy might take in some of the world’s most volatile corners. Continue reading […]
Monday 08:30 GMT Overview The dollar and Wall Street equity futures are under pressure after data last week showed slower than expected US growth and as traders digest President Donald Trump’s executive order to clamp down on people entering the US from seven predominantly Muslim countries. The sour tone is suppressing stock markets in Europe, though not lifting government bond prices or supporting gold to any great […]
By Ed Cropley | ADDIS ABABA ADDIS ABABA The African Union is due to choose a new leader on Monday in a vote more likely to expose differences over the International Criminal Court and other issues than reaffirm the continent’s solidarity and common purpose. In a clear split, three of its four major regions – the south, the east and the largely Francophone west – are supporting […]
DraftKings was just approved for a Controlled Skill Games License from the Malta Gaming Authority, which is the entity that runs gaming in Malta – a small island nation south of Italy. While this may not sound like a big deal, (especially considering Malta has a population of under 500,000 people) the nation is part of the European Union, meaning DraftKings can now expand into some other […]
This artist rendering provided by Airbus shows a vehicle in their flying car project, Vahana. Even before George Jetson entranced kids with his flying car, people dreamed of soaring above traffic congestion. Inventors and entrepreneurs have tried and failed to make the dream a reality, but that may be changing. Nearly a dozen companies around the globe, some of them with deep pockets like Airbus, are working […]
London Business School’s leading thinkers give us their views on the challenges and opportunities that businesses will encounter in 2017. Disruptive opportunities “2017 will be the year of disruption,” says Costas Markides, professor of strategy and entrepreneurship and executive education faculty director. “Every industry will be affected by some kind of discontinuity or disruption – whether it’s the invasion of new business models or the arrival of […]
GE Healthcare and its partner Advanced Technology Company to provide advanced diagnostic imaging and digital technology Aligned with the National Development Plan to modernize Kuwait’s healthcare infrastructure 30 January 2017 Kuwait City, Kuwait – A partnership between GE Healthcare and Advanced Technology Company (ATC) has been selected as the key medical technology provider for five new Ministry of Health hospitals in Kuwait as part of the Ministry’s […]
KINSHASA Two military helicopters crashed in a strife-torn part of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo with at least four crew members on board, authorities said on Monday. Government spokesman Lambert Mende told Reuters it was not clear what brought down the helicopters on Friday in North Kivu province near the borders with Rwanda and Uganda. Over the weekend, U.N.-sponsored Radio Okapi cited military sources as saying that […]
By Frank McGurty and Nathan Frandino | NEW YORK/WASHINGTON NEW YORK/WASHINGTON Tens of thousands of people rallied in U.S. cities and at airports on Sunday to voice outrage over President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting entry into the country for travelers from seven Muslim-majority nations. In New York, Washington and Boston, a second wave of demonstrations followed spontaneous rallies that broke out at U.S. airports on Saturday […]
Jan 30, 2017 11:26 am IST India’s space agency will next month attempt to launch 104 satellites from a single rocket, a mission that could land it in the record books. The Indian Space Research Organization plans to use its workhorse, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, to carry three satellites from India, and 101 smaller nano satellites from five countries—the U.S., Netherlands, Israel, Kazakhstan and Switzerland into orbit. If […]
DUBAI A suspected U.S. drone strike killed two men believed to be al Qaeda militants in central Yemen, local officials said early on Monday, hours after American commandos carried out the first military operation authorized by President Donald Trump. The officials said the pilotless plane targeted a vehicle travelling in Baihan in the province of Shabwa, in which two suspected al Qaeda members were travelling. Both men […]
In response to the federal government’s draft guidelines for its Smart Cities and Suburbs Program, Smart Cities Council Australia New Zealand (SCCANZ) has called for greater clarity around what constitutes as “innovative” and for the government to present outcomes that are more tangible than “improving liveability”. The council, which launched in Australia and New Zealand mid-2016, insisted that greater “transparency”, “specificity”, and stronger wording is needed to […]
TOKYO Toyota Motor Corp’s (7203.T) four-year run as the world’s top-selling automaker has ended as the Japanese company said on Monday its global sales for 2016 fell short of Volkswagen AG’s (VOWG_p.DE). Toyota said global sales across its Toyota, Lexus, Daihatsu minicar and Hino Motors Ltd (7205.T) truck brands rose 0.2 percent to 10.18 million last year from 2015. This was less than the 10.3 million sold […]
Surgeons of University Hospitals Leuven have been the first to operate on a patient with retinal vein occlusion using a surgical robot. Operated by an eye surgeon, the robot uses a needle of barely 0.03 millimetre to inject a thrombolytic drug into the retinal vein of the patient. KU Leuven (University of Leuven, Belgium) developed the robot and needle specifically for this procedure. The operation was successful […]
By Simon Lewis and Wa Lone | YANGON YANGON Human rights group Amnesty International and a thinktank have urged Myanmar to investigate the apparent assassination of prominent Muslim lawyer Ko Ni, whose shooting at Yangon airport shocked the Southeast Asian nation. Sunday’s slaying, amid heightened communal and religious tension in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, appears to be a rare act of political violence in the commercial capital that coincided […]
JERUSALEM: When Benjamin Netanyahu sent a tweet in support of President Donald Trump’s plan for a wall along the Mexican border, the Israeli prime minister can barely have expected it would be retweeted 40,000 times and cause a backlash at home and abroad.Already under arguably the greatest pressure he has faced in his 11 years as prime minister, with police questioning him in two criminal probes into […]
MANILA The Philippines police will disband anti-drugs units following the killing of a South Korean businessmen by rogue officers, but the country’s president vowed on Sunday to forge ahead with his war on drugs until the last day of his term. President Rodrigo Duterte said he was embarrassed that anti-drugs officers had abused their power to engage in kidnapping, leading to the death by strangulation of Jee […]
Phoenix Contact to showcase new innovative products at the Middle East Electricity 2017 Dubai, United Arab Emirates- January 29, 2017, (ME NewsWire) Phoenix Contact, an electrical engineering company is set to participate at the upcoming 42nd edition of the Middle East Electricity (MEE) 2017. The Phoenix Contact stall will be located at booth number 6A10 in hall number 6 at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 14 […]
WASHINGTON/RIYADH Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, in a phone call on Sunday with U.S. President Donald Trump, agreed to support safe zones in Syria and Yemen, a White House statement said. Trump, during his presidential campaign last year, had called for Gulf states to pay for establishing safe zones to protect Syrian refugees. A statement after the phone call said the two leaders agreed on the importance of […]
