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WASHINGTON Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered “an influence campaign” in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election with the goal of undermining the democratic process and denigrating Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, a new, declassified intelligence report said on Friday. “We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump,” the report said. “We also assess Putin and the Russian Government aspired to […]

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: 5 January 2017  Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of news and information for professional markets and the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), will co-host the 11th MENA Regulatory Summit on February 5th & 6th in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Held under the patronage of the UAE Minister of Economy, H.E Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, the summit will debate key challenges that […]

Starting a successful company is a challenge anywhere, but in certain places, the hurdles are higher than others. Despite the odds, entrepreneurs around the world continue to overcome challenges including bureaucracy, daunting startup costs, and the time it takes to register a business in order to make those dreams come true. Fast Company reported on Expert Market’s analysis of where the most determined entrepreneurs hail from as […]

Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, A few week’s ago I discussed the post-election surge in the market based on rather optimistic outlooks as opposed to the technical underpinnings that currently exists. As I specially stated in the weekend newsletter entitle “Dow 20,000” the market was beginning to take on an eerily similar feeling: “If this market rally seems eerily familiar, it’s because it is. If fact, the backdrop […]

Alexa made its debut as the heart of the Amazon Echo—a family of internet-connected speakers that answer questions, run apps, and let people get weather reports or order goods on Amazon Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa is emerging as one of the big winners at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, cropping up in TVs, cars, fridges—you name it—in what may signal a breakthrough moment for the smart technology. […]

ISTANBUL Turkey dismissed more than 6,000 more police, civil servants and academics in decrees issued under emergency rule on Friday, continuing a purge in the wake of a failed coup attempt last July, the Hurriyet newspaper said. The three decrees ordered the dismissal of 2,687 police officers, 1,699 officials from the justice ministry, 838 from the health ministry, 649 academics and 135 officials from the religious affairs […]

WASHINGTON President-elect Donald Trump said he had a “constructive” meeting with members of U.S. intelligence agencies on Friday and plans to appoint a team to give him a plan to combat cyber attacks within 90 days of taking office on Jan. 20. “While Russia, China, other countries, outside groups and people are consistently trying to break through the cyber infrastructure of our governmental institutions, businesses and organizations […]

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With Formula One such big business in Abu Dhabi, it shouldn’t be any surprise that the country’s first go-kart-racing school has arrived in the capital. Hosted by Al Forsan International Sports Resort, wannabe future F1 racers can learn invaluable advice to improve technical skills and increase confidence at the school. It offers a single class or a bundle of four, teaching future drivers all they need to […]

TOKYO U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has threatened Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) over its Mexican-built cars, but the biggest risk from a punitive tariff would be for its compatriot Nissan Motor Co (7201.T), the largest automaker operating in the country. Trump has criticized U.S. companies like General Motors (G.N) and Ford Motor Co (F.N) which manufacture abroad, accusing them of costing U.S. jobs. On Thursday he took on […]

At least nine people were shot, including three fatally, and a suspect was in custody at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida on Friday, MSNBC reported, citing unnamed law enforcement sources. Broward County Sheriff’s office tweeted “multiple people” had died in the shooting and one person was in custody. “There is an ongoing incident in Terminal 2, Baggage Claim,” said a post on the airport’s Twitter […]

AMMAN/BEIRUT A senior Syrian rebel official denied a report on Friday that a ceasefire had been reached between rebels and government forces in the Wadi Barada area near Damascus, where bombardments have knocked out the capital’s main water source. The government and allied fighters from the Lebanese group Hezbollah launched an attack two weeks ago to take back Wadi Barada where a spring provides supplies to four […]

WASHINGTON President-elect Donald Trump called the controversy over Russian hacking during the 2016 presidential campaign a “political witchhunt” on Friday in an interview hours before he was to receive a U.S. intelligence briefing on the topic. “China, relatively recently, hacked 20 million government names,” Trump told the New York Times, referring to the Office of Personnel Management breach in 2014 and 2015. “How come nobody even talks […]

Dell’s 2-in-1 Latitude 7285 Tired of having to plug a cable into your laptop to charge it? Dell’s new 2-in-1 Latitude 7285 brings wireless charging to laptops. Must read: CNET – Toss the power brick: The Latitude 7285 is Dell’s first hybrid with a wireless charging base The Latitude 7285 2-in-1 is a hybrid laptop, and one of the optional extras for the device is a wireless-charging […]

An international team of astronomers has discovered a cosmic one-two punch never seen before. By combining data from some of the best X-ray, optical and radio telescopes in the world, researchers have found out what happens when matter ejected by a giant black hole is swept up in the merger of two enormous galaxy clusters. (via WSJ)

By Stephane Nitschke | BREMERHAVEN, Germany BREMERHAVEN, Germany Hundreds of U.S. tanks, trucks and other military equipment arrived by ship in Germany on Friday to be transported by rail and road to eastern Europe as part of a NATO buildup that has drawn Russia’s ire. Two shiploads arrived in the northern port of Bremerhaven and a third was due in a few days, bringing the fleets of […]

ABU DHABI // Exercise should be the first line of defence in the fight against depression after research published in the Middle East Journal of Positive Psychology hailed its benefits in releasing ‘feel good’ brain chemicals. Doctors advocate physical activity as the best remedy in many cases, but the simple solution is often overlooked in favour of medication that can be expensive and carry side effects. Restrictions […]

BEIRUT // Syrian film, television, and theatre pioneer Rafiq Sebaie – best known to audiences as Abu Sayyah after one of his long-standing roles – has died at the age of 86. Sebaie died of natural causes on Thursday. He had undergone a series of operations since breaking his hip in a fall at his home last year, Syrian state media said. Often cast in tough-guy roles, […]

As the first battery cells roll off the production line at Tesla’s 1.9m sq ft Gigafactory in Nevada a scramble is under way to secure supply of the lithium that is their key ingredient. This week a small Australian mining company sold a lithium prospect in west Africa to a Chinese buyer for $78m — or more than 2,000 times the amount it paid for the deposit […]

By Richard Balmforth | PARIS PARIS France’s far-right leader fired broadsides at the European Union and the euro currency on Friday, marking out Europe as a major plank in her programme as the battle lines took shape in the campaign for the presidential election in spring. Marine Le Pen, head of the anti-EU, anti-immigrant National Front (FN) and seen by pollsters as highly likely to make a […]

Intel Compute Card First there was the Compute Stick, Intel’s mini-computer that resembles a pack of gum. Now the chip giant is releasing a PC that’s even more diminutive than that device. The new Compute Card is even thinner than the Compute Stick, looking more like a slightly bigger, thicker credit card. It’s a mere 5mm thick, but still manages to house most of the essentials for […]

Police in India’s tech-hub Bangalore said Friday they were still investigating wide-ranging media reports that a number of women were molested during street celebrations on New Year’s Eve, but that still no victims had come forward to register cases. On Thursday, city police commissioner Praveed Sood said in a news conference that after reviewing security-camera footage from the city’s business district, officers “could not find any sign […]

By Isabel Coles and Saif Hameed | NORTH OF MOSUL, Iraq/BAGHDAD NORTH OF MOSUL, Iraq/BAGHDAD Elite Iraqi troops bridged a river under the cover of darkness to seize a district of Mosul in an unprecedented night raid early on Friday, part of a new phase in the battle to capture the city from Islamic State after weeks of slowed momentum. Since last week, Iraqi forces have launched […]

By Pedro Fonseca | RIO DE JANEIRO RIO DE JANEIRO At last 33 inmates have been killed in a new prison riot in the Amazon region of Brazil, officials said on Friday, just five days after 56 inmates were slaughtered in the country’s worst prison massacre in more than two decades. Few details were available about the latest uprising early on Friday in Roraima state’s largest penitentiary, […]

It’s not exactly “Dewey defeats Truman,” but the cover of Thursday’s Express, The Washington Post’s free publication, is a doozy. The cover, which leads with the origins of this year’s Women’s March on Washington, shows people scattered into a well-known symbol. The problem? It’s the wrong symbol. Mid-morning Thursday, Express tweeted an apology: We made a mistake on our cover this morning and we’re very embarrassed. We […]

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