Dubai / Emirates Business His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority (DSOA), on Saturday announced that Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO) has successfully transformed into a preferred integrated destination for IT companies and entrepreneurs, and an exemplary pioneer of the smart city model. The announcement followed the release of DSOA’s yearly results ...
Read More »Modi surges to power in India’s most crucial state poll
Bloomberg Prime Minister Narendra Modi has swept to victory in a key state election with a resounding win that will allow his Bharatiya Janata Party to push forward with its economic reform agenda and enter the national polls in 2019 as favorites. Modi’s BJP has won 227 seats in Uttar Pradesh’s 403-member assembly, according to the Election Commission of ...
Read More »Maoist rebel attack kills 11 paramilitary soldiers in India
NEW DELHI / AP Maoist rebels on Saturday shot and killed at least 11 Indian paramilitary soldiers in an ambush in central India, police said. The attack also left three soldiers wounded in the rebel-infested Sukma forest area in Chattisgarh state, top police officer R.K. Vij said. It wasn’t clear if any rebels were killed or injured when the ...
Read More »Tens of thousands celebrate Park’s ouster
SEOUL / AP Carrying flags and candles and cheering jubilantly, tens of thousands of South Koreans occupied a boulevard in downtown Seoul on Saturday to celebrate the ouster of President Park Geun-hye, a day after the Constitutional Court removed her from office over a corruption scandal that consumed the nation for months. Meanwhile, in a nearby grass square, a ...
Read More »Malaysia hopes for talks with North Korea in ‘next few days’
KUALA LUMPUR / AP Malaysia’s foreign minister said on Saturday that the government hopes to begin formal talks with North Korea in the “next few days” on solving a diplomatic dispute that has seen the two countries bar each other’s citizens from leaving. The dispute stems from the mysterious poisoning death of the estranged half brother of North Korean ...
Read More »Turkish coast guards stop 48 Syrian migrants at sea
ISTANBUL / AP Turkey’s coast guard says it has prevented 48 Syrian migrants from reaching Greece. In a statement on its official website, the Turkish Coast Guard said the migrants on a rubber dinghy were stopped after a tip. Aerial footage accompanying the statement shows the dinghy at sea followed by the rescue operation off the coast of Kusadasi ...
Read More »Afghan official: 8 police killed in an insider attack
KABUL / AP An Afghan official says at least eight members of the security forces have been killed by two other policemen in southern Zabul province. Gul Islam Seyal, spokesman for the provincial governor, said Saturday that both attackers fled the area after attacking their colleagues late Friday night. He said the two policemen also took all the weapons ...
Read More »Cyprus: EU opposes peace deal giving Turks key freedoms
NICOSIA / AP European Union member states have rejected Turkey’s demand that its citizens be granted the freedom to relocate and transfer money, services and goods to EU member Cyprus under any deal reunifying the ethnically divided island, the Cypriot president said on Saturday. Nicos Anastasiades said all EU leaders consider it a “bad precedent” for Cyprus or any ...
Read More »â€˜UAE will continue to build its economic capacity’
Dubai / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai on Saturday said that the UAE will continue to build its economic capacity in line with the directives of UAE President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan and the close follow up of Abu ...
Read More »President, VP and Mohamed condemn Kabul attack
Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has sent a cable of condolences to President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan, on the victims of the terrorist attack that targeted the Military Hospital in Kabul, leaving many innocent people killed and injured. His Highness Sheikh Khalifa reiterated UAE’s rejection of violence and terrorism in all ...
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