DUBAI WAM The Sawab Centre, a bilateral Emirati-American initiative to counter online extremist propaganda and promote positive alternatives, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) announced a new cooperative agreement to mutually enrich each organisation’s capabilities and to share information and best practices. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) forma-lises the mutual interaction and strengthens existing relationship between Sawab Centre and …

Bloomberg The Trump administration is considering tighter curbs on technology exports, a step that Deutsche Bank AG says would have a “profound and long lasting adverse impact” on relations between the US and China. A request for public comment, published on the US government’s Federal Register, asks if a list of new technologies that have national security applications — from …

Bloomberg Amid the worst crude-price environment in its history, the Canadian oil industry is being ham- strung by internal divisions that are making it harder to rally around potential solutions. That draws a stark contrast to the US, where a less divided industry wields more clout. Most notable is the split between Canada’s pure producers, who are being devastated by …