Section: Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)
QA participation in Arabian Travel Market successful
Qatar Airways brought its participation in Arabian Travel Market (ATM) 2017, the region’s largest travel show, to a successful conclusion by revealing a host of new destinations, showcasing product innovations and displaying the airline’s new business class – Qsuite for the first time in the Middle East. A number of exciting...
Libya seizes oil tankers and crew after shootout at sea
Libya has seized two foreign-flagged oil tankers and detained their crews for allegedly smuggling fuel after an hours-long gunbattle off the west coast, authorities said. Oil is Libya’s main natural resource, with reserves estimated at 48bn barrels, the largest in Africa. Libya had an output capacity of about 1.6mn barrels per day before...
Joshua at his heaviest for Klitschko slugfest
Anthony Joshua weighed in at a career-heaviest for his eagerly anticipated showdown against Wladimir Klitschko today. The Briton tipped the scales at 17 stones 12lbs 2oz (113.4 kg) ahead of facing Klitschko for two versions of the world heavyweight title in front of 90,000 spectators at London’s Wembley Stadium. Joshua, 27, was ten pounds...
Crushing blow to soy processors as Chinese grow wary on GMO
A Chinese consumer backlash against genetically modified (GMO) crops is beginning to dent demand for soy oil, the nation’s main cooking oil, and could spell crisis for the multi-billion-dollar crushing industry, which depends on GMO soybeans from the United States and elsewhere.Soyoil sales account for about 36% of cooking oils used in...
Joshua claims beating Klitschko will make him great
Anthony Joshua claims victory over Wladimir Klitschko will take him a step closer to being remembered as an all-time boxing great. The Briton faces the former world heavyweight No 1 in front of 90,000 fans at London’s Wembley Stadium today in the biggest fight the division has seen in years.Joshua makes a third defence of his International...
Hackers ‘targeted’ Macron campaign
French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron’s political campaign was targeted by a group of Russian hackers last month, according to a report by a cyber security research group yesterday.The Pawn Storm group, which has been linked to high-profile attacks in the West, used “phishing” techniques to try to steal personal data from Macron and...
Qatar Airways to offer high-speed broadband soon
Flag carrier Qatar Airways made a host of announcements, including 12 new destinations and high-speed broadband connectivity on flights, on the first day of the Arabian Travel Market (ATM) in Dubai yesterday.The airline also unveiled its new Business Class experience, Qsuite, to consumers in the Middle East.During the annual press conference held...
Activists lobby firms to quit business chamber
Disney, The Gap and Pepsi are being pressured to quit the US Chamber of Commerce, America’s largest lobby group, amid criticism of its big-money efforts to fight climate change legislation and promote tobacco products. A coalition of pressure groups including Action on Smoking and Health, Greenpeace, Public Citizen and the Sierra Club have...
Ukraine opens terror probe into OSCE staff death
Ukraine opened a terror investigation yesterday into a mine blast that killed an American medic from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)’s monitoring team in the country’s rebel-held east.The OSCE suffered its first casualty in the three-year war in Europe’s backyard after an armoured vehicle hit a...
Member of security watchdog OSCE killed in Ukraine
The unarmed, civilian mission with more than 700 international observers was deployed in 2014 …read more Source: Gulf...
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