Category: World

WASHINGTON: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 on Thursday to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules and reassume regulatory oversight of broadband internet rescinded under former President Donald Trump. The commission voted along party lines to finalize a proposal first advanced in October to reinstate open internet rules adopted in 2015 and re-establish the commission’s […]

Islamabad, Pakistan – The United States has warned Pakistan of the risk of sanctions after it promised greater security and economic cooperation with Iran during a visit by President Ebrahim Raisi. The first Iranian president to visit the South Asian country in eight years, Raisi concluded his three-day trip on Wednesday as the neighbouring countries […]

Little has changed in the attitude of the US government. It continues to provide political cover to Israel on Joe Biden’s watch The US wants Palestine to gain independence by negotiating directly with the country that’s been occupying it since 1967. Let’s put this in historical perspective. In 1776, would the US have gained independence […]

Israel’s military announced Monday the resignation of the head of its intelligence directorate in response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. Major General Aharon Haliva had already publicly taken responsibility for intelligence failures that led to the attack in which Israel says Hamas militants killed 1,200 people and took about 250 people hostage. […]

The Gaza war is speeding up Israel’s “annexation” of the Palestinian economy, say analysts, who argue it has been hobbled for decades by agreements that followed the Oslo peace accords. While the Israel-Hamas war raging since Oct. 7 has devastated swathes of Gaza, it has also hit the public finances and wider economy of the […]

Dubai’s flagship carrier Emirates and sister airline flydubai have restored normal operations after a record-breaking storm caused severe flooding across the United Arab Emirates earlier this week, the airlines said on Saturday. Emirates cancelled nearly 400 flights and delayed many more as a result of a record storm that hit the desert city of Dubai […]

New Delhi: To tackle pressing international issues, and to bolster global development initiatives, eleven developed countries have pledged a substantial $11 billion towards innovative financial instruments. This funding, announced yesterday, is earmarked for the Portfolio Guarantee Platform, hybrid capital mechanism, and the new Liveable Planet Fund. The Liveable Planet Fund is a newly established initiative […]

Deeper integration of the European Union’s internal market could prove crucial for boosting lackluster economic growth and productivity levels in the 27-member trading bloc, a senior IMF official told AFP Friday. “We estimated, actually, what you could do just by reform of that single market and integration — and the numbers are startling high,” International […]

Delphi, Greece – For General Ben Hodges, who once commanded NATO forces in Europe, the worst-case scenario for Ukraine is for Western powers to “keep doing what we’re doing, exactly right now”. He told Al Jazeera in an interview on the sidelines of the recent Delphi Economic Conference in Greece that a paralysed US Congress, […]

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday painted a dark picture of the situation in the Middle East, warning that spiraling tensions over the war in Gaza and Iran’s attack on Israel could devolve into a “full-scale regional conflict.” Guterres also said Israel’s military offensive on Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, in retaliation for their […]