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UAE-Israel Business Council invites UAE, Bahrain businessmen to Jerusalem

Israel and the UAE have already signed several commercial deals since mid-August, when they first announced they would establish full relations. Following the Knesset approval of the UAE-Israel accords and the planned arrival of the first official United Arab Emirates delegation in Israel, the UAE-Israel Business Council invited Emiratis and …

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Israel, UAE, US launch joint fund in Jerusalem during first state visit

The US, Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced the establishment of a joint regional development fund based in Jerusalem during the first-ever visit of a government delegation from Abu Dhabi to Israel on Tuesday.Also during the visit, the UAE officially requested to open an embassy in Tel Aviv.

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Follow the Money: Banking, Criminality and the FinCEN Files

It was all a fitting reminder of Bertolt Brecht’s remark that bank robbery lies in the province of amateurs. The real professionals of plunder establish banks. Last month, the labours of Buzzfeed and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists revealed just that. Centre stage: international banking misbehaviour. And my, was …

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The Communist Party of China: Putting the People First

Wherever we lift one soul from a life of poverty, we are defending human rights. And whenever we fail in this mission, we are failing human rights. — Kofi Annan, former United Nations Secretary-General Among other items “proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,” the preamble to the …

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U.S. Justice Department charges six Russian military intelligence officers in connection with worldwide cyberattacks

The United States has accused six officers from the Main Directorate of the General Staff of Russia’s Armed Forces (the GU, formerly known as the Main Intelligence Directorate or GRU) of involvement in a series of large-scale cyberattacks. According to the indictment, these Russian nationals are all officers in Unit …

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Russian bombers destroyed a mercenaries assembly point with powerful air strike

We continue to keep you informed about what is happening in some of the hotspots in Asia and the Middle East. According to local Syrian sources, Russian bombers struck a powerful air strike on a convoy and assembly point with Syrian mercenaries, who, according to unconfirmed information, had gone to …

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Bakou ne souhaite que l’application du droit international

La guerre entre l’Arménie et l’Azerbaïdjan Le 27 septembre 2020 les hostilités ont repris entre l’Arménie et l’Azerbaïdjan. C’est un conflit international entre deux États souverains qui dure depuis 1992, date à laquelle les troupes régulières de l’Arménie ont engagé des offensives sur toutes les lignes des frontières entre l’Arménie …

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