January, 2017

• 5 January

  Microsoft, Aldar Academies host ‘Microsoft in Education Day’

  

    Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business As part of its ongoing commitment to students and teachers around the world, Microsoft collaborated with leading education provider Aldar Academies to host a ‘Microsoft in Education Day’. Involving a day of edtech training, the event was organised to highlight the positive influence technology has in the classroom, and how it transforms teaching and ...

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• 5 January

  DEWA launches children’s interactive book

    DUBAI / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) launched an interactive book, ‘Hamad and Dana Discover Solar Energy’, to explain the concepts of science, technology, and engineering to children. The move supports the UAE’s wise leadership’s efforts to instill a culture of reading and spread knowledge among younger generations. “This story reflects DEWA’s efforts to implement the directives ...

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• 5 January

  NCMS forecasts partly cloudy weather

  

    Abu Dhabi / WAM The National Centre of Meteorology and Seismology (NCMS) urged motorists to be cautious on roads due to fog in various areas of the country. In a statement on Thursday, the NCMS said that the weather today will be partly cloudy in general with fresh winds, strong over the sea. The relative humidity is likely to ...

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• 5 January

  Turkey closing in on Istanbul nightclub gunman, says official

  

    ISTANBUL / AP Turkish police are closing in on the gunman who killed 39 people at an Istanbul nightclub, a senior official said on Thursday, insisting his possible whereabouts and contacts had been established. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak told A Haber news channel in an interview that gunman who attacked Istanbul’s upscale Reina nightclub during New Year’s ...

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• 5 January

  Israel indicts Arab lawmaker for smuggling phones to prison

    JERUSALEM / AP Israel’s attorney general says he’s decided to indict an Arab lawmaker for smuggling cellphones to Palestinians serving prison sentences for security offenses. Avichai Mendelblit’s office said on Thursday that he will charge Basel Ghattas with prohibited use of property for terrorist purposes as well as fraud and breach of trust. Ghattas was caught last month smuggling phones ...

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• 5 January

  Al-Qaida-linked group in Syria says ceasefire ‘humiliating’

    BEIRUT / AP An al-Qaida-linked group in Syria says a nearly week-old cease-fire brokered by Russia and Turkey is “humiliating” and that those who agreed to it made a “big mistake.” The cease-fire, which excludes the Al-Qaida-linked Fatah al-Sham Front as well as the IS group, has largely held, except for intense fighting in the Barada Valley outside Damascus, ...

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• 5 January

  IS group-inspired Filipino militant killed, reprisals feared

    BEIRUT / AP A leader of suspected sympathizers of the IS group was killed on Thursday in a clash with Philippine police in the south, raising fears that his brutal group may retaliate by attacking a huge Catholic procession in Manila next week. Senior Supt. Leonardo Suan and other officials said Mohammad Jaafar Maguid, leader of a small but ...

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• 5 January

  Car bomb kills 9 at Baghdad market

  

  BAGHDAD / AFP A car bomb tore through a Baghdad market on Thursday, killing at least nine people in what appeared to be the latest in a series of deadly attacks by the IS group. Elsewhere, four attacks in and around Baghdad killed at least seven people, bringing the day’s overall death toll to at least 16. Those attacks, mostly by ...

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• 5 January

  10 killed as large explosion hits Syria regime-held town

    BEIRUT / AP A large explosion hit a Syrian government-held coastal town on Thursday, killing at least 10 people and wounding dozens, according to Syria’s state TV. The attack was a major blow to the nearly week-old and already shaky cease-fire brokered by Russia and Turkey. First videos that emerged from the scene in the town of Jableh show charred ...

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• 5 January

  At impeachment trial, Park accused of violating constitution

  

    SEOUL / AP Prosecuting lawmakers accused South Korean President Park Geun-hye of “broadly and gravely” violating the constitution as the Constitutional Court began hearing oral arguments on Thursday in her impeachment trial. While the lawmakers, functioning as prosecutors in the trial, argued Park should be removed from the presidency, her lawyers said the accusations lacked evidence. Park is accused of ...

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