Author: Steven Sahiounie

Nasdaq Inc.’s biggest shareholder, Borse Dubai, is selling roughly one third of its stake — or 27 million shares — in the exchange operator at $59 each, which would raise as much as $1.6 billion.

India is looking to purchase the inaugural shipment for its latest LNG terminal, as the nation aims to rapidly increase consumption of the fuel this decade. Gujarat State Petroleum Corp. released a tender to buy a commissioning cargo for the Chhara terminal for delivery in April, according to traders with knowledge of the matter. The facility in Gujarat state is being developed by Hindustan Petroleum Corp., and will have capacity to import 5 million tons per year of LNG. New Delhi is trying to increase it ability to import LNG to lift the share of natural gas in its energy…

DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman will become the head of a newly created consumer AI unit at Microsoft, the scientist and entrepreneur said on Tuesday.

Intel is planning a $100 billion spending spree across four US states to build and expand factories after securing $19.5 billion in federal grants and loans — and it hopes to secure another $25 billion in tax breaks.

Leaders in the emerging Western nuclear fusion industry are convening in Washington, D.C. this week seeking ways to attract more money for research to avoid falling far behind China in the race to develop and build commercially viable reactors.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is to visit Washington in the coming week, the government said Wednesday, as pressure mounts to call off a planned offensive in Gaza’s Rafah.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office also announced that a delegation would visit Washington at “the request of US President Joe Biden” to discuss the planned assault, which the United States opposes.During his first visit to Washington since war erupted in response to Hamas’s unprecedented October 7 attack, Gallant is due to meet Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin — but no date was announced.They will discuss “developments in the war against the Hamas…

Observers from various countries who oversaw the Russian presidential election did not find any violations during the voting, so the Kremlin has no need to further justify the results to anyone, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the US magazine Newsweek. “All willing observers from other countries came to the election, could monitor the process with their own eyes and obtained all the necessary information. We are not going to justify ourselves in front of anybody,” the presidential spokesman said in a statement. Representatives from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the OSCE European security agency and the Parliamentary…

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raeisi has called for serious practical steps to stop the Israeli regime’s attacks on war-torn Gaza in his New Year message to Asian countries celebrating Nowruz. The Iranian president said Nowruz is a message of peace and peaceful coexistence and also a symbol of reconciliation. “This year, we, the countries of the Nowruz civilization zone, are celebrating this auspicious occasion while the oppressed and powerful people of Gaza are facing the brutal attacks of the usurper Zionist regime, and are also under complete siege, being deprived of having access to basic health and livelihood facilities and are in danger…

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan met with his Brazilian counterpart Mauro Vieira on Wednesday in Jeddah, Saudi Press Agency reported.During the meeting, the officials reviewed bilateral cooperation and ways to bolster it in various fields.They affirmed their countries’ desires to boost coordination on issues of mutual concern.Talks also focused on the latest regional and international developments, including Israel’s war on Gaza. Vieira also visited Palestine, Jordan, and Lebanon this week. source: Arab News

Türkiye has been in favor of a “peaceful and equitable” solution to the Russia-Ukraine war from the very beginning, Turkish parliament speaker Numan Kurtulmus said Tuesday. “We know that ending the war between Russia and Ukraine, both of which are our neighbors and with which we have relations, is not only in the interest of both countries but also in the interest of the region, Europe and the whole world,” Kurtulmus told a Muslim fast-breaking or iftar event with ambassadors in the capital Ankara. Kurtulmus said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been in close contact with the leaders of both…