Dubai / Emirates Business The Department of Economic Development (DED) in Dubai and its long-standing partner, Visa, a global payments technology company, launched UAE Card Security Week, a consumer awareness campaign to promote safe online shopping habits and educate consumers on ways to avoid payment fraud in the UAE. The campaign is launched against the backdrop of growing adoption ...

  Washington / AFP Exasperated US diplomats are in open revolt over Barack Obama’s Syria policy, but radical change is unlikely in the twilight of his presidency. More than 280,000 people have been killed. Millions more have fled their homes. A relentless drumbeat of cluster bombs, barrel bombs, chemical bombs, murder, rape and torture has turned swaths of Syria to dust. ...

  Jakarta / AFP Flash flooding and landslides in Indonesia have killed 31 and left more than two dozen missing, an official said on Sunday, with mud avalanches burying people inside their homes. Torrential rain since Saturday has triggered serious flooding across Central Java, with thousands of homes inundated, said disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho. “Initial data… shows the ...