The historic masterpiece will travel from France to go on display on UK soil for the first time. ...
UAE oil exports hit a high amid Iran warUAE oil exports hit a high amid Iran war
The UAE’s oil exports hit a record high in June, as the country took advantage of its exit from OPEC and skirted Iranian threats in the Strait of Hormuz. UAE exports averaged 3.7 million barrels a day during the month, according to industry data cited by Reuters — significantly above ...
Kuwaiti telecom Zain Group lands Syria mobile licenseKuwaiti telecom Zain Group lands Syria mobile license
Kuwaiti telecom Zain Group plans to invest more than $1.5 billion over the next decade to upgrade and operate a mobile network in Syria, the latest in a series of Gulf investments since the fall of the Assad regime. The company will acquire a 75% stake in the existing MTN ...
Qatar reviews workers’ rightsQatar reviews workers’ rights
Qatar overhauled its labor laws, adding for the first time provisions that allow for part-time and freelance work to be regulated, and others that make it harder to launch strikes. In changes the government said were aimed at “reinforcing the balance between the rights of workers and employers,” the maximum ...
US advisory firm A&M looks to win rivals’ market share in GulfUS advisory firm A&M looks to win rivals’ market share in Gulf
The News Consultancy firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) aims to expand its Middle East business by as much as five times over the next few years, betting it can steal market share from rivals even as demand for advisory services shrinks. The firm is on track to double its Gulf ...
US ends ban on exports of Anthropic’s advanced AIUS ends ban on exports of Anthropic’s advanced AI
The US lifted its export ban on Anthropic’s most advanced AI models, the company said. The White House blocked foreign nationals from using Mythos and Fable last month, citing security concerns, prompting Anthropic to suspend access to the two models altogether. Mythos was reportedly capable of finding vulnerabilities in browsers ...
Sudan’s RSF committed crimes against humanity in El Fasher, Amnesty saysSudan’s RSF committed crimes against humanity in El Fasher, Amnesty says
Report accuses paramilitary force of crimes including ethnic cleansing in systemic campaign against civilians The Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during its seizure of El Fasher last year, Amnesty International has alleged. Many of the crimes, including murder, torture, rape, enslavement and sexual ...
What is the United States of America now? | Rebecca SolnitWhat is the United States of America now? | Rebecca Solnit
The United States of America is … so many things, horrific and magnificent, good and evil, promising and cursed The United States of America is a truck that has driven into a ditch. The United States of America is a program that has been hacked. The United States of America ...
‘I wish he had done more to free enslaved people’: Thomas Jefferson’s descendant on his family’s complex legacy‘I wish he had done more to free enslaved people’: Thomas Jefferson’s descendant on his family’s complex legacy
Shannon LaNier, Jefferson’s sixth great-grandson, reflects on his lineage and the role of African Americans in the nation’s founding When the US turns 250 years old on Saturday, Shannon LaNier will be reckoning with a fundamental contradiction in its origin story – and his own. LaNier is the sixth great-grandson ...
‘It’s like being close to home’: World Cup vibes immaculate in richly diverse New York‘It’s like being close to home’: World Cup vibes immaculate in richly diverse New York
Fans of all stripes pack the bars to sing, cheer and commiserate in city where more than 3m people were born outside US Almost 200,000 Ecuadorians and Ecuadorian Americans live in New York City, and last week quite a lot of them were in a Brooklyn restaurant called El Encebollado ...