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Darfur / AFP Abuobeida Ali was a toddler when militiamen stormed his village in Sudan’s Darfur in 2003, murdering his father and driving his family out, ending his hopes for a normal childhood and education. Now aged 17 and out of school for nine years, he is one of the more than 870,000 Darfuri children living in camps for the ...

Little noticed amid the daily news bulletins about the IS and Syria, the Pentagon has begun a push for exotic new weapons that can deter Russia and China. Pentagon officials have started talking openly about using the latest tools of artificial intelligence and machine learning to create robot weapons, “human-machine teams” and enhanced, super-powered soldiers. It may sound like science ...

The dispute between Apple and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has rattled everyone, and spawned a raging National Security vs Consumer Privacy debate. Though the row is in the US, it has captured global attention, as the world is caught up in a suspension, waiting which party will win. The standoff has a bearing on the public. According to ...

China’s foreign trade shrank by 8 percent in 2015, far off the target of 6 percent growth set at the beginning of the year, China’s commerce minister revealed on Tuesday. Gao Hucheng made the announcement in a press conference on China’s trade development last year. According to Gao’s figures, most of the decline came from rapidly slowing imports. China’s exports ...

Is the civil aircraft market becoming over-inflated? Airbus’s annual report card captures a company in rude health: full-year net profit jumped 15 percent, cash flow was strong and its backlog of orders for commercial aircraft stands at a record high. Even the long-suffering Airbus A380 is at break-even. But investors holding Airbus on the seeming strength of its order book ...

DUBAI / EMIRATES BUSINESS Her Excellency Sheikha Lubna Bint Khalid Al Qasimi, Minister of State for Tolerance, President of Zayed University, received Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and her distinguished accompanying delegation at Zayed University in Dubai campus on Wednesday. The event saw the presence of Professor Reyadh AlMehaideb, Vice President of Zayed University, Dr Marilyn ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi International Airport has been awarded the ISO 22301 Management System Certificate for Business Continuity Management. This makes the capital’s airport the first in the Middle East, and one of a few in the world, to become ISO 22301 certified. The certification is the international benchmark of good practice in Business Continuity Management and recognizes the ...

DUBAI / WAM Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza), the flagship free zone business of Dubai and the trade and logistics hub for the wider Middle East region, Wednesday organised a successful Jafza Car Free Day to support sustainability and reduce carbon footprint. Staff from the Jafza Community, including senior executives, customers, government entities and stakeholders, used environment-friendly public transport including ...

ABU DHABI / WAM UAE-based Al Gharbia Pipe Company (AGPC), a unit of Senaat, has signed loan agreement with a consortium of Japanese and Emirati banks totaling US$185 million to finance its manufacturing and sales business. The loan will finance the production and sales of large diameter, high-quality sour grade steel pipes for oil and gas pipelines by AGPC, with ...

DUBAI / EMIRATES Business The total number of people who visited Dubai Health Authority run medical fitness centres during 2015 was 2,051,802 said a top health official. Of these 843,085 were new applicants and the remaining were visa-renewals. Medical fitness test is a mandatory requirement for all expats in the UAE. It is required for a residency, employment or education ...