Abu Dhabi / WAM Zayed Giving Initiative (ZGI) launched the world’s first state-of-the-art mobile city for humanitarian and charitable work as part of a series of initiatives it plans to roll out in the Year of Giving in 2017. “The word’s first makeshift city for humanitarian work was launched in consistence with President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s …

  Bob Gates has worked in senior national-security positions for the last five presidents, Republican and Democratic. So it’s noteworthy — and to me, encouraging — that he is advising President-elect Donald Trump, too. Gates, a former defense secretary, CIA director and deputy national security adviser, spoke with me by telephone on Wednesday about the advice he’s giving Trump and …

  Few Italian operas come as epic as Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA. Thanks to an ill-timed and hubristic takeover as well as some questionable accounting practices, the 544-year-old pillar of Siena is on the brink of an ignominious nationalization. The final act, though, will drag on. One Italian official presented the outline of Monte Paschi’s rescue to …