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Dubai's transport authority announced plans on Monday to introduce express metro trains to slash travel times on selected routes. The Roads and Transport Authority said four early morning Red Line express trains would be launched in October on a five-month trial basis.
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Such meddling underscores what is widely known but rarely discussed outside intelligence circles: Despite inarguable ties between the U.S. and its closest ally in the Middle East and despite statements from U.S. politicians trumpeting the friendship, U.S. national security officials consider Israel to be, at times, a frustrating ally and a genuine counterintelligence threat.
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A Westboro Baptist Church protest was overshadowed Friday when demonstrators dressed as zombies gathered at a DuPont, Wash. military base to counter the radical group's efforts.
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** Just realizing this now??? ** Former vice president Dick Cheney said in an interview with ABC News that Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) decision to pick Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008 was “a mistake.”
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Mitt Romney was forced to clarify his position on Israel’s right to conduct a possible military strike on Iran after a senior aide outlined a far more hawkish policy than that of the Obama administration.
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Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF) has announced that it will embark upon a collaborative project with Harvard Law School's (HLS) Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP). The agreement is part of an initiative of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) to establish a Qatar graduate law school with three integrated pillars: a doctoral programme, a research institute, and a faculty development programme.
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Four Points by Sheraton Bur Dubai has unveiled details of a forthcoming authentic Portuguese restaurant, Piri Piri, which will open in October 2012 this year.
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Gulf Arab oil exporters should learn from the euro zone debt crisis but press on with their own monetary union project, a senior official from Qatar's central bank said on Thursday.
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Russia is talking to Cuba, Vietnam and the Indian Ocean island country of Seychelles about housing Russian navy ships, the nation's navy chief said in remarks reported Friday. Vice Admiral Viktor Chirkov told the state RIA Novosti news agency that Russia is in talks about setting up maintenance and supply facilities for Russian ships in those countries but wouldn't give any further details.
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Thieves stole a man's penis while he slept, according to police. Fei Lin, 41, of the Niqiao village near Wenling City, in east China’s Zhejiang province, told police he was asleep when the thieves burst into his room and put a bag over his head, according to CEN/EUROPICS and as reported in the Daily Star.
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Egypt's financial regulator has suspended a joint venture deal between Egyptian investment bank EFG-Hermes and Qatar's Q-Invest, approved by shareholders on June 2, the state news agency said on Wednesday.
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DUBAI //Ethiopia has banned its citizens from applying for domestic or blue-collar jobs in the UAE until an agreement can be reached to protect their rights.
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A mysterious man in the Utah wilderness draped in a fluffy white goat suit has been identified by local authorities, who worried that he risked being shot by hunters because of his camouflage.
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"I haven't heard these rumors, but they strike me as ridiculous. Surely, the United States government selects its employees very carefully." That was the response from a Muslim Brotherhood leader Monday when asked by the Global Post about Michele Bachmann's unfounded suggestion that longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has "ties" to the Islamist organization.
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Farmers armed with machineguns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars forced government troops to abandon an operation to destroy their illegal cannabis crop in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley on Monday, a witness said.
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The surprise appointment of the hawkish former Saudi ambassador to Washington as the kingdom’s intelligence chief suggests plans for a more aggressive foreign policy in the region, analysts said. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, 63, kept a low profile in Saudi Arabia since being recalled from the US in 2005, where he had served as ambassador for 22 years. Renowned for his backchannel operations and shuttle diplomacy, this appointment last Thursday suggests Saudi Arabia seeks a more assertive role in shaping the outcomes of Arab revolts and containing Iran.
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NRG Energy, the US energy producer, said on Sunday it would acquire GenOn Energy in a stock deal valued at $1.7bn that will create the country’s largest unregulated generator of electricity.
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Tragedies like the “act of evil” that claimed 12 lives in a movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, may not be preventable by stricter gun controls, the state’s governor said. “I’m not sure there is any way in a free society to be able” to stop a deranged individual from assembling a deadly arsenal, Governor John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, said today on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
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Getting access to the Bazhenov appears to be a key element in both ExxonMobil and Statoil‘s big new joint ventures with Kremlin-controlled Rosneft. Exxon’s recent statement says the two companies have agreed “to jointly develop tight oil production technologies in Western Siberia.”
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Republican House Speaker John Boehner called dangerous Thursday a request from members of his own party in Congress to investigate Muslim infiltration in the U.S. government. Admitting he had not read a letter requesting the investigation, Boehner said "I think accusations like this being thrown around are pretty dangerous."
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