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President Trump’s brief inaugural speech was a declaration of war against the entirety of the American Ruling Establishment. All of it. As Paul Craig Roberts details, Trump made it abundantly clear that Americans’ enemies are right here at home: globalists, neoliberal economists, neoconservatives and other unilateralists accustomed to imposing the US on the world and involving us in endless and expensive wars, politicians who serve the Ruling […]

By Jamie McGeever and Marc Jones | LONDON LONDON For financial markets, the Trump era begins on Monday, and if history is any guide the following month should be a rocky one for Wall Street but positive for the dollar. The S&P 500 .SPX has fallen a median 2.7 percent in the month after each new president has taken the keys to the White House since Herbert […]

NEW DELHI // The first “strategic dialogue” between the UAE and India was held yesterday, days ahead of the state visit of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. Sheikh Mohammed will arrive on Tuesday for a three-day visit, where he will be the chief guest at India’s 2017 republic day celebrations from January 24 to 26. […]

Donald Trump launched a promised assault on “burdens” imposed by government within hours of becoming US president on Friday by moving to loosen rules tied to Obamacare and halting the introduction of any new regulations. Between the end of the daytime inaugural parade and the start of evening balls, the Trump administration took its first major policy moves by ordering government agencies to do all they could […]

Half a dozen Premier League clubs had watched Burns at Southend. And the practice of investing so much money in so much raw talent is hardly a recent development: Raheem Sterling was 15 when he joined Liverpool from Queens Park Rangers for £500,000 in 2010, and Jordon Ibe, then 16, made the same journey from Wycombe Wanderers two years later. What has changed, though, is not just […]

BANJUL Gambia’s longtime leader Yahya Jammeh said on Saturday he would step down from power in a statement made in the face of pressure from West African armies that invaded his country to remove him after he refused to concede an election defeat to President Adama Barrow. “I have decided today in good conscience to relinquish the mantle of leadership of this great nation,” he said on […]

SYDNEY Thousands of protesters in Australia and New Zealand on Saturday joined the first of hundreds of womens’ marches organised around the world in a show of disapproval of U.S. President Donald Trump as he began his first day in office. In Sydney, Australia’s biggest city, about 3,000 people – men and women gathered for a rally in Hyde Park before marching on the U.S. consulate downtown. […]

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By Nate Raymond and Ju-min Park | NEW YORK/SEOUL NEW YORK/SEOUL The U.S. government has asked South Korea to arrest a brother of former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on charges that he engaged in a bribery scheme to carry out the sale of a Vietnamese building complex, a U.S. prosecutor said on Friday. During a court hearing in federal court in Manhattan, Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Noble […]

SEOUL South Korea’s culture minister was arrested on Saturday suspected of involvement in drawing up a blacklist of artists critical of President Park Geun-hye amid a graft scandal that led to the president’s impeachment by parliament. Cho Yoon-sun is the first sitting minister ever to be arrested, the special prosecutor’s team, which had applied for an arrest warrant, said. Seoul District Court said on Saturday in a […]

Apple on Friday filed a suit against Qualcomm, accusing the chipmaker of withholding contractual payments it owed in retaliation for Apple’s cooperation with South Korean regulatory investigators. The suit also charges Qualcomm “attempting to extort” the Cupertino company into obstructing the investigation. From the suit, filed in federal district court in the Southern District of California: Among Apple’s damages are nearly $1 billion that Qualcomm owes to […]

By Diane Bartz and Stephen Nellis Apple Inc filed a $1 billion lawsuit against supplier Qualcomm Inc on Friday, days after the U.S. government accused the chip maker of resorting to anticompetitive tactics to maintain a monopoly over key semiconductors in mobile phones. Qualcomm is a major supplier to both Apple and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd for “modem” chips that connect phones to wireless networks. The two […]

Samsung has tinkered with the screen resolution in the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, after the Android 7.0 Nougat update. The screen resolution now automatically switches to a FHD mode, differing from Android Nougat’s default WQHD resolution.  ( Răzvan Băltărețu | Flickr ) Samsung has finally released the Android 7.0 Nougat update for its Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge smartphones. This update had been eagerly awaited by Samsung users and […]

In strange and confusing times, with disenchantment at successive governments aggravated by feelings of insecurity after terrorist attacks, looming elections threaten to produce a socially-divisive outcome France may come to regret. One essential question faces French voters: should they embrace the extraordinary political turmoil that has swept the West and elect Marine Le Pen, leader of the anti-immigration Front National, a party many see as racist, as […]

WASHINGTON — As the clock wound down on Barack Obama’s presidency, an Air Force B-52 bomber carried out a punishing airstrike against a training camp of Al Qaeda in Syria, the Pentagon said Friday. The attack, which took place west of Aleppo, killed more than 100 fighters, according to the Pentagon. Armed drones were also involved in the operation, which took place Thursday evening local time. It […]

By Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON President Donald Trump signed his first executive order on Friday, heading into the Oval Office shortly after his inaugural parade to direct agencies to ease regulations associated with Obamacare, the signature healthcare law of his predecessor that Trump has vowed to replace. The White House also directed an immediate regulatory freeze for all government agencies in a memo […]

20 January 2017 The Roads and Transport Authority – Nashwan Atta’ee: A delegation from the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai has recently traveled to Paris to visit ALSTOM Company, a partner of RTA’s Rail Agency and one of the leading players in the rail industry worldwide. The visit was part of RTA’s efforts to keep abreast of the latest and most innovative solutions for broadening […]

NEW DELHI: India and 29 countries discussed their findings on investigations arising from the Panama Papers, including the role of tax intermediaries such as financial institutions and advisers in tax evasion. The two-day meeting of the Joint International Taskforce on Shared Intelligence and Collaboration (JITSIC) in Paris saw revenue authorities of 30 countries sharing their best practices and information based on legal instruments under the tax treaties […]

By Melissa Fares and Dustin Volz | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON One of the biggest cheers President Donald Trump received from supporters watching his inaugural address on Friday was his call to “buy American and hire American.” It was a moment rich in irony. Many of those supporters were sporting Trump’s trademark red “Make America Great Again” baseball caps that were made in China, Vietnam and Bangladesh. Some were horrified when […]

A British man has died while working on the construction of a stadium for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, authorities said. An investigation was under way to determine the cause of death, the Supreme Council for Delivery and Legacy, which is responsible for World Cup infrastructure, said in a statement. The 40-year-old man died on Thursday at the Khalifa International Stadium, it said, without giving other […]

By Steve Holland | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Donald Trump took power as the 45th president of the United States on Friday and pledged to end what he called an “American carnage” of rusted factories and crime in an inaugural address that was a populist and nationalist rallying cry. Striking a defiant tone, Trump said American workers have been devastated by the outsourcing of jobs abroad. “From this day […]

If you still think laptops are generic and the only difference between them are their price-tags, Dell invites you to think again. The latest Dell XPS 13 developer editon is everything a programmer could want from a high-end laptop. The latest Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition is the best of the best Linux laptops. (Image: CNET) You don’t have to believe me. Linus Torvalds himself picked out […]

VIENNA An Austrian man suspected of having jihadi contacts was arrested on Friday in Vienna in a move the interior minister said prevented an imminent attack and police urged citizens to report any abandoned bags. Special forces arrested the 18-year-old with a migrant background in a Vienna apartment at around 1700 GMT, police said. “The decisive leads came from foreign intelligence services,” Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka told […]

Soyabeans and soya meal extended their gains this week, as heavy rain in Argentina’s key growing areas deepened fears over a disruption to production. In the first two weeks of the year, parts of the soyabean growing areas have suffered six months worth of precipitation, ruining the fields which had been seeded. Farmers had until this week to replant, but sustained rainfall has meant that the fields […]

National Staff ABU DHABI // The UAE expressed grave concern on January 20 over the plight of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar. It reiterated support for efforts being made to alleviate the suffering of Muslims in the southeast Asian country while urging its government to promote harmony among Myanmar’s ethnic segments. “What is happening now is a slow genocide being carried out against the Rohingya Muslim […]

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