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Israel ordered people out of swathes of Gaza’s main southern city on Monday as it pressed its ground campaign deep into the south of the enclave, sending desperate residents fleeing, after the collapse on Friday of a week-long truce. Following is a timeline of the war between Israel and Hamas, the militant group that controls the Gaza Strip. October 7: Hamas gunmen carry out a surprise attack on southern Israel, crossing over from Gaza and rampaging through nearby communities. They kill 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and take over 240 hostages back to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies. Hamas military commander…
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit the UAE and Saudi Arabia this week, Russian news outlet Shot reported on Monday, citing Putin’s aide Yury Ushakov. The reported visit comes after the Opec+ group of oil producers, which includes all three countries, agreed on last Thursday to voluntary output cuts totalling about 2.2 million barrels a day. The figure of 2.2 million bpd included an extension of existing Saudi and Russian voluntary cuts of 1.3 million bpd. Shot quoted Ushakov as saying Putin would go first to UAE and then to Saudi Arabia, where negotiations would take place mainly with Crown…
Manchester City’s longest winless run in the Premier League for six years is no cause for alarm, according to manager Pep Guardiola after his side’s thrilling 3-3 draw with Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday. Jack Grealish’s 81st-minute goal appeared to have won the game for champions City but Dejan Kulusevski’s header in the 90th minute condemned City to a third successive draw. Guardiola and his side were also furious when Grealish went through alone deep in stoppage time but play was stopped by referee Simon Hooper for a foul on Erling Haaland in the build-up when he had initially allowed the…
In a year where virtually every tech company in existence is talking about AI, Apple has been silent. That doesn’t mean Apple-focused developers aren’t taking matters into their own hands, though. An update to the the popular Mac writing app iA Writer just made me really excited about seeing what Apple’s eventual take on AI will be. In the iA Writer 7 update, you’ll be able to use text generated by ChatGPT as a starting point for your own words. The idea is that you get ideas from ChatGPT, then tweak its output by adding your distinct flavor to the…
Collaboration between countries is mportant, says Ugandan Ambassador Ugandan Ambassador Zaake W. Kibedi notes that COP28 is the time for creating effective implementation systems and clear deliverables Uganda is perhaps not a place that most would consider as being at the forefront of technology and innovation. However, it is one of the few nations that has managed to power itself with 99 percent clean energy. According to figures from 2021, it also produces 0.14 metric tons of carbon dioxide per capita. This is a tiny figure, particularly compared to China, which has seven metric tons, and the USA, which produces…
Britain’s opposition leader Keir Starmer was in his element as he rubbed shoulders with world leaders at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, almost as if in rehearsal for the role of prime minister he hopes will soon be his. During a two-day visit to the Gulf, the Labour Party leader held meetings on climate change and the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza with leaders including the Emir of Qatar, the King of Jordan and the president of Brazil. He had chats with US climate envoy John Kerry and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Attending a roundtable of investors with more…
The UAE’s banking and financial sector will mobilise more than Dh1 trillion ($272.5 billion) in sustainable finance by 2030, senior officials said at the 28th edition of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai on Monday. Khaled Mohamed Balama, Governor of the Central Bank of the UAE, said the banking sector, will need to contribute to both the UAE’s medium-term economic plans and the Strategy for Net Zero by 2050. “Critically, this requires financing the transition and climate adaption strategies of corporate customers, which includes carbon-intensive sectors, but also allocating new funds to green projects,” he said. Balama…
World Cup captain Temba Bavuma will miss two white-ball series against India, Cricket South Africa announced on Monday in naming squads for the multi-format tour. Bavuma as well as fast bowler Kagiso Rabada will play no part in the limited overs series in order to prepare for two World Test Championship matches, starting in Centurion on December 26. Fast bowlers Gerald Coetzee, Lungi Ngidi and Marco Jansen will only play in the first two T20 internationals before returning to their franchises to play in domestic four-day cricket ahead of the Test series. One-day coach Rob Walter said the decision was…
Duolingo, the wildly popular language learning app, just added a big new feature. No, it’s not a melting face app icon again — it’s the Duolingo Year in Review for 2023! This is something we see from many popular apps toward the end of each year. There’s Spotify Wrapped, Apple Music Replay, Reddit Recap — you get the idea. Lots of apps summarize your activity at the end of the year, and the results are usually pretty interesting. If you’re a Duolingo user and want to see how you spent your time on the app in 2023, here’s what to do. How…
That the modern woman is breaking glass ceilings is a cliché. Now women of substance write their own life scripts and screenplays. They create their own marquees to set their stories in and walk the red carpet with a peahen’s grace. Nayla Al Khaja, the first Emirati female filmmaker exemplifies the new-age woman who has found her voice and uses the larger canvas to tell stories close to her heart. On the eve of the premiere of her first feature-length film, Three, at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, she divulges why the thriller genre intrigues her, where she…