Month: September 2026

Conflict isn’t slowing deals for Gulf’s fastest-growing investment firmConflict isn’t slowing deals for Gulf’s fastest-growing investment firm

The Scene With drones and missiles still being regularly intercepted overhead, BlueFive Capital founder and CEO Hazem Ben-Gacem cooked up a play in the defense industry, over a Ramadan meal with companions with ties to a Gulf sovereign fund. Six months later, BlueFive is “ready to launch it,” Ben-Gacem told ...

‘This pushes the boundaries’: White House helped Pentagon explain the legality of its stock deals‘This pushes the boundaries’: White House helped Pentagon explain the legality of its stock deals

The Scoop One month before the Pentagon announced its first equity stake in a company, its top lawyer asked the White House to explain why the deal wouldn’t break the law. The White House budget office responded with a previously unreported legal opinion, reviewed by Semafor, that provides a crucial ...

‘I lost my children, and I’m afraid of losing my baby again’: a day in the life of a pregnant woman in Gaza‘I lost my children, and I’m afraid of losing my baby again’: a day in the life of a pregnant woman in Gaza

Alaa lives in a tent pitched on the ruins of her house, which was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike that killed all three of her children. In one month, she will give birth again. As the war in Gaza approaches its fourth year, this week, the Guardian follows five ordinary ...

From the ridicule of Trump to the rise of Jack Welch: how the 1980s shaped and changed AmericaFrom the ridicule of Trump to the rise of Jack Welch: how the 1980s shaped and changed America

In When America Roared, Pulitzer-winning reporter Jonathan Kaufman looks back to a decade of greed and excess, and uses it to explore where we are today Donald Trump is “so much a creature of the 80s but even in the 80s, everyone made fun of him,” Jonathan Kaufman said. General ...