Author: Editorial Team
LONDON — At least 17 companies linked to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank hold United Kingdom public-sector contracts worth more than 2.1 billion pounds ($2.85bn), a new report revealed on Friday. The findings by an Al Jazeera investigation come as more than 140 UK Labour MPs are calling on the government to ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, a move Prime Minister Andy Burnham is considering. Burnham’s plans to impose tougher sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank have deepened divisions within the governing Labour Party. Supporters are also…
Rahul Misra, Senior Vice President & Managing Director, MEA at IFS. IFS, the leading provider of Industrial AI software announces its participation at LEAP 2026, taking place from 31 August–3 September 2026 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. IFS will demonstrate how Industrial AI creates value in work environments and supports organisations to move beyond experimentation and generic AI to achieve measurable outcomes in the real world. IFS is participating with its partner, Microsoft to showcase how the partnership enables customers to accelerate transformation on a secure and scalable technology foundation. At the event, IFS will demonstrate how AI can understand the…
NEW YORK — Syria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ibrahim Olabi, accused Israel on Thursday of escalating tensions in the region, saying its military strikes and incursions in Syria are pushing the region toward catastrophe Speaking during a UN Security Council session, Olabi said, “The entire region is standing at a threshold of a regional war that would spare no one,” because of “the narrow electoral calculations” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the policies of a “reckless and extremist government.” His remarks came as senior UN officials briefed the council on the humanitarian situation in Syria and…
Vlad Korsunsky, Chief Technology Officer, Tenable. SentinelOne®, the AI security leader, and Tenable® Holdings, Inc., the exposure management company, recently released joint research that suggests a growing disconnect between vulnerability discovery, disclosure and actual exploitation. The research draws on Tenable’s exposure data across thousands of organisations and remediation telemetry with SentinelOne’s endpoint and post-exploitation detection data. Together, both views produce a prioritised picture of where risk is concentrating, with lessons ripe for the Frontier AI era. The most critical takeaway: Both nation state and criminal threat actors are focusing on vendors and susceptible points in the attack surface more than…
World CAPITALS, 28th August, 2026 (WAM) — Gold slipped on Friday as market participants awaited closely watched remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh at the Jackson Hole symposium. Spot gold fell 0.5 percent to US$4,576.30 per ounce by 01:57 GMT after hitting a more than three-month high earlier this week following the US Treasury’s announcement of support measures for long-duration bonds. US gold futures eased 0.8 percent to $4,629.00. Spot silver fell 1 percent to $68.54 per ounce and palladium declined 0.8 percent to $1,339.84. Platinum was down 0.6 percent at $1,834.83, on track for a weekly loss. Source:…
Farbod Sadeghian – Founder of TheBlock FZCO; Sebastian Agren – co-founder & COO of Tribe; Gary Blowers – CEO of Tribe. The partnership will combine Tribe’s regulated property investment infrastructure with TheBlock’s broker network, training capabilities and physical ecosystem in Dubai Tribe Tokenisation FZE, a Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA)-licensed broker-dealer platform specialising in structured tokenised real estate, has entered a strategic distribution partnership with TheBlock FZCO, a Dubai-based fintech and digital asset ecosystem. The collaboration will combine Tribe’s regulated broker-dealer and distribution infrastructure with TheBlock’s market reach, broker engagement capabilities and physical facilities at One Central, Dubai. The companies plan…
MONACO, 27th August, 2026 (WAM) — UEFA conducted the draw for the new UEFA Champions League season in Monaco on Thursday, with the league phase set to begin on 8th September. Defending champions Paris Saint-Germain will face Barcelona, Manchester City, Roma, Aston Villa, Galatasaray, Villarreal, Slovan Bratislava and Como. This will be the third edition of the Champions League under the new format, featuring 36 teams in a single league phase, with each team playing eight matches against eight different opponents. Among the other standout fixtures, Manchester City will face Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona, Sporting CP, Porto, Napoli, RB Leipzig, AEK…
Meta Platforms has recently reached a settlement worth up to $18 billion with 29 U.S. states over child safety on Facebook and Instagram. As part of the agreement, the company will implement new restrictions on how children use its platforms. The proposed settlement which requires court approval would see the company pay around $12.7 billion to the coalition of states in annual instalments over a 10-year period. The remaining amount will only be released if rival platforms YouTube and TikTok agree to similar restrictions on how children use those platforms. Under the agreement, Meta will introduce a two-hour daily limit…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was renaming Lake Ontario as “Lake America” amid growing tensions between Canada and the United States. He signed an executive order directing the Interior Department to update the lake’s name in the US geographic naming service. Trump cannot force Canada to follow his preferred naming convention, however. Trump has been floating the idea of the name change in recent days as the US announced it was imposing 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods over the weekend after talks between the countries broke down. Trump has been needling…
Spain weighs up tougher data centre rules. Source: Tahawul Tech