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  LONDON / AP It’s often said that David Cameron is a lucky politician who has seemed to coast through politics on instinct and charm during a career that has culminated in six years as British prime minister. But now his luck may be running out. In calling a referendum on Britain’s membership in the European Union, Cameron has made a ...

  Bloomberg The campaign to keep the U.K. in the European Union led in the first opinion poll fully conducted since Thursday’s slaying of politician Jo Cox as the debate resumed five days before the referendum. Staying in the bloc won 45 percent support in the Survation telephone poll of 1,001 adults on Friday and Saturday for the Mail on ...

  AFP President Barack Obama and the first family celebrated America’s cherished natural heritage Saturday during a weekend tour marking the 100th anniversary of the nation’s vaunted national park system. Obama, also using the occasion to tout his environmental record, is the first sitting president since John F. Kennedy in 1962 to visit California’s Yosemite National Park. Obama has made ...

    Dubai / Emirates Business NRS International, a Dubai-based family-run company that develops and manufactures products for the humanitarian aid, public health and development sectors, published the results of a survey which gauged the level of humanitarianism amongst UAE residents. NRS International sold 42 million relief essentials to UN and aid agencies to alleviate the suffering of 75 million ...

  Sydney / Bloomberg Australia’s coalition government will provide A$49.2 million ($36 million) to support struggling steelmaker Arrium Ltd., Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said. The funds will be spent on new machinery at two mines in South Australia to help Arrium remove waste materials from its iron ore, Turnbull said in a statement on Sunday. The equipment will enable Arrium ...

  wana / wam The Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Hospital built at a cost of US$5 million has been inaugurated in the Shulam area of South Waziristan, Pakistan. The project is in implementation of the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi ...

  New Delhi / AFP The popular governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan, will step down when his term ends in September to return to academia, he wrote in a letter to colleagues published on the central bank’s website on Saturday. Speculation has been rife in the Indian media about whether the former IMF chief economist intended to ...

  WASHINGTON / AP State Department officials shook up America’s generally obedient diplomatic establishment this week with an internal memo urging US military action against Syria’s government with the goal of pressing President Bashar Assad to accept a cease-fire and gaining the upper hand on him in future talks on a political transition. Reasons abound for why an intervention is ...

  Fallujah, Iraq / AFP Iraqi forces hunted down holdout extremists in Fallujah on Saturday after retaking the city centre and trained their sights on Mosul, the IS last remaining major hub in the country. While not fully under government control yet, Fallujah is the latest in a string of battlefields losses for IS, which has seen its two-year-old “caliphate” shrink ...

  ALKESH SHARMA / Emirates Business Digital transformation is the crucial key to success of businesses in the Middle East. However, the journey towards digitalisation also calls for state-of-the-art and ultra-secure systems, which can prevent cyber-attacks. According to the experts, with corporates hunting for maintainable diversity and innovative resources of growth through cutting-edge digital strategies, enterprises in this region are ...