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DUBAI / Emirates Business HE Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, Chairman of the Dubai Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation and Chairman of Dubai Maritime City Authority (DMCA), headed the inauguration ceremony of the Maersk Training centre headquartered in Dubai World Central. H.E. Bin Sulayem cut the ribbon for the official launch of the first-of-its-kind training centre in the Middle East, ...

Bloomberg North Korea continues to develop a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile that “would likely be capable of reaching much of the continental United States,” the Pentagon said in a new report to Congress on the secretive regime’s military capabilities. The KN-08 missile would have an estimated range of more than 3,400 miles (5,500 kilometers), and North Korea already has six ...

Seoul / AP North Korea channeled about 70 percent of the money it received for workers at the now-shuttered Kaesong industrial park into its weapons programs and to buy luxury goods for the impoverished nation’s tiny elite, South Korea said on Sunday. The jointly run park, just outside the North Korean city of Kaesong and about 50 kilometers (35 miles) ...

Bloomberg The US Defense Department is urging Turkey and Kurdish forces in Syria to quit firing at each other as reports of fresh violence between the two parties threaten their efforts to counter IS. “We are concerned about the situation north of Aleppo and are working to de-escalate tensions on all sides,” the Pentagon said in a statement. “We have ...

Greenville / AP Republican White House hopefuls called for President Barack Obama to step aside and allow his successor to nominate the next Supreme Court justice, in a debate jolted by the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. Only Jeb Bush said Obama had “every right” to nominate a justice during his final year in office. The former Florida governor ...

JIM GOMEZ / AP With the symbolic handshakes and unity photo-op, President Barack Obama’s high-profile summit with Southeast Asian leaders in California this week aims to step up pressure against China’s increasingly worrisome behavior in disputed waters. Forging a common front and encouraging bolder rhetoric against Chinese assertiveness in the South China Sea, however, will be a challenge among the ...

BEIJING / AP A Chinese nationalist newspaper says American politicians are resorting to petty actions following a unanimous bill approval by the Senate to rename the plaza in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington after an imprisoned Chinese political dissident. The Communist Party-controlled Global Times called the move on Sunday provocative and said it’s intended to outrage Beijing, although ...

NEW DELHI / Bloomberg India said that it is disappointed with the United States’ decision to sell eight nuclear-capable F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan and that it does not believe such an arms transfer will help combat terrorism. The US government saidthat it had approved the sale of the F-16 fighter aircraft, radar and electronic warfare equipment to Pakistan in ...

Riyadh / AFP Armed forces from around 20 countries were gathering in northern Saudi Arabia on Sunday for “the most important” military manoeuvre ever staged in the region, the official news agency SPA reported. The “Thunder of the North” exercise involving ground, air, and naval forces sends a “clear message” that Riyadh and its allies “stand united in confronting all ...

WASHINGTON / AP Cuba has returned a dummy US Hellfire missile that was mistakenly shipped there from Europe in 2014, American and Cuban officials said. The Hellfire is a laser-guided, air-to-surface missile that weighs about 100 pounds (45 kilograms). Manufactured by Lockheed Martin, it can be deployed from an attack helicopter like the Apache or an unmanned drone like the ...