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60 stories for“regional security”
Gulf foreign ministers used a July 28 consultation to focus on practical understandings, de-escalation and the safe flow of ships through Hormuz.
Jul 29, 2026
A risk-off session in Dubai and Abu Dhabi shows how conflict, oil, aviation and investor confidence can move Gulf markets in different directions at once.
Jul 24, 2026
A July meeting between the new ESCWA and Arab League leadership renewed attention on Arab Vision 2045, a regional roadmap built around security, equity, innovation and prosperity.
Aug 3, 2026
IBM's 2026 breach report puts the regional average at 8 million dollars, with lost business the single largest line at 3.57 million. The cheapest number in the study is the one most firms have not spent.
Aug 18, 2026
A new UN assessment reports a third year of improvement in global hunger, while conflict, prices and climate shocks keep progress uneven across regions.
Jul 28, 2026
American strikes on Revolutionary Guard sites drew missile and drone retaliation aimed at American assets in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait and Iraq. Iranian officials report at least eleven dead, including five at a wedding in the south.
Sep 2, 2026
As cryptocurrencies disrupt traditional financial systems, governments, and regulatory bodies worldwide are grappling with the need to establish clear guidelines and regulations. In this blog, we will delve into the global approaches to cryptocurrency regulations and discuss the implications they have on the industry, investors, and the broader economy. From defining legal frameworks to addressing
May 29, 2023
The Pentagon said roughly 1,500 American and coalition troops left Erbil Airbase in an orderly departure, closing out Operation Inherent Resolve and a withdrawal deal first struck between Baghdad and the Biden administration in 2024.
Oct 1, 2026
Tighter LNG supply is reducing gas demand, but the deeper risk runs through electricity, industry, fertilizer and food prices. Energy security is becoming economic security.
Jul 31, 2026
The group named Ras Tanura, Abqaiq and two airports, while Saudi forces reported only interceptions, one minor injury and, on Friday, a drone destroyed over the Makkah region.
Oct 30, 2026
New UAE cloud-seeding work highlights better materials and forecasting, but the program's credibility still depends on careful measurement of what intervention can achieve.
Jul 24, 2026
Crude shipments through the Gulf have recovered sharply, yet refineries and fuel supply remain constrained. That gap explains why cheaper oil may not quickly reach consumers.
Jul 31, 2026
About 200 patients are being moved out of a damaged Kharkiv medical facility, Russia says 856 drones were shot down overnight, and Washington has set trilateral talks for 10 November.
Nov 3, 2026
The announcement came two days after Washington eased sanctions on Russian diesel, and by Monday Kyiv said it had learned of the truce from the news while its energy sites were still under attack.
Oct 13, 2026
The honest answer is low but not zero, and it is not evenly spread. Tremors felt in Dubai towers usually come from Iran. The region's own exposure sits in Oman, the eastern UAE and the Red Sea coast.
Aug 12, 2026
The Saudi carrier Bahri says two crew died in a security incident aboard the SIDR while transiting the strait on 31 August. Iran says four IRGC aerospace personnel were killed in United States strikes days later.
Sep 5, 2026
Merz, Frederiksen, Costa and Kallas went to Rovaniemi to talk icebreakers, satellites and the Northern Sea Route. Then a drone struck a Kyiv to Warsaw locomotive minutes after Boris Johnson's train had passed. Berlin called it a calculated escalation.
Sep 15, 2026
Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands lost email addresses, phone numbers, postcodes and vehicle registrations taken from car park, lounge and wifi bookings. No payment details. The combination is still enough to build a message you would believe.
Aug 30, 2026
Ali al-Zaidi met Ahmed al-Sharaa in the first such visit since Assad fell, with the Baniyas pipeline on the table as Hormuz stays disrupted. No deal, timetable or financing was announced.
Oct 29, 2026
Twenty announced transactions are waiting for permission to happen. The delay is not bureaucratic sloth, it is three separate review regimes that did not exist in this form a decade ago.
Aug 15, 2026
Solar, nuclear, storage, efficiency and hydrogen are being combined to support growth while building a more resilient and lower-carbon energy system.
Jul 28, 2026
Roughly 329 trillion tokens appeared on Base and BNB Smart Chain across 703 mint events. The real theft was capped by how much SAND was actually locked on Ethereum, and the keys came from a developer's infected laptop.
Aug 30, 2026
Cancellations and rerouting across regional airspace are turning live airline checks, longer connection buffers and flexible bookings into essential trip planning.
Jul 24, 2026
Guided bombs hit a closed school where Komyshuvakha residents collect weekly aid, then the shelter where survivors and rescuers took cover; 27 people are missing and the region mourns on Tuesday.
Nov 2, 2026
WMO forecasts point to a rapidly strengthening El Niño, raising the odds of disruptive heat, drought and heavy rain. Preparedness now can reduce damage later.
Jul 31, 2026
The five Londoners in their early to mid twenties were held on suspicion of terrorism and explosives offences after a farmer reported vans and a group of masked men near the US-used air base, and remain under stringent bail conditions.
Sep 29, 2026
Amazon's after-action report on the October outage confirms a blunt truth: one region in Virginia carries too much of the world's digital weight.
Nov 10, 2025
A war that closed the Strait of Hormuz and hit every GCC state should have broken the region's economics. Reserves and diversification kept it standing.
Jul 16, 2026
Solar generation is set for another record increase, but panels alone cannot solve evening peaks or connection delays. The next value pool is flexibility and networks.
Aug 2, 2026
World Bank data show fertilizer prices fell 21.8% in June. Farmers and shoppers may benefit later, though contracts, planting cycles and energy costs slow the transmission.
Aug 2, 2026
Weaker dividend income, higher operating costs and a bigger tax line pushed the Saudi investment house lower in the first half. Each of those pressures applies well beyond one company.
Aug 7, 2026
Early in the conflict the projections ran to 150 dollar oil and contracting Gulf economies. Halfway through August the numbers are less dramatic and more interesting than either the panic or the relief.
Aug 16, 2026
With the East-West pipeline still shut, no Saudi crude has left the Red Sea since 11 September and Europe's late-September cargoes are being cancelled. The coalition called the Mecca drone a red line. An American drone killed the crews of two IRGC boats.
Sep 17, 2026
Foreign Minister Araghchi says indirect talks via Pakistan and Qatar continue, but the strait stays closed; late Wednesday state media reported unexplained blasts at Sirik, overlooking the strait.
Oct 22, 2026
Drone strikes on AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain marked the first military attack on hyperscale cloud infrastructure, forcing a new kind of reckoning.
Mar 4, 2026
A $265 million World Bank package for the 300-megawatt Ifahsa pumped-storage project could unlock more solar and wind while making Morocco's grid more dependable.
Aug 3, 2026
Drop, Cover, Hold On is the near-universal instruction, and the exceptions matter. Here is the official guidance from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, the United States and Europe, and where it diverges.
Aug 12, 2026
In today’s hyper-connected world, digital media has transformed the way we communicate, consume information, and conduct business. From social networking sites to online streaming platforms and e-commerce websites, the digital realm offers a plethora of opportunities for individuals and businesses alike. However, with these opportunities also come challenges that require astute navigation. In this blog,
May 27, 2023
Four years ago Etisalat surprised the market by buying into Vodafone. In July it sold the lot to a French billionaire's family vehicle. The exit says more about European regulation than about telecoms.
Aug 14, 2026
Government services, healthcare, transport, education and advanced industry are giving the Emirates a real-world platform for responsible AI deployment.
Jul 28, 2026
Ukrainian drones shut Yandex's Vladimir facility on Sunday after hits on Sasovo and Kaluga, and a Cloudflare reading showing automated traffic from Yandex's network down about 94 per cent.
Oct 12, 2026
Sonar and underwater video surveys of the Benin continental shelf found octocorals and reef fish thriving 54 metres down, the first confirmed living mesophotic coral community documented anywhere on the Gulf of Guinea shelf.
Sep 29, 2026
The Kingdom’s AI opportunity is moving beyond chatbots toward Arabic technology, smarter public services and productive tools for every major industry.
Jul 28, 2026
An olive ridley sea turtle, a tropical species whose nearest known nesting ground is in Baja California, dug a nest near Seal Beach in September, the first confirmed sea turtle nest ever recorded on the US West Coast.
Oct 1, 2026
After every major earthquake, a prediction resurfaces that appears to have called it. Here is how that trick works, why seismologists say prediction is not currently possible, and what forecasting can actually do.
Aug 12, 2026
Non-oil activity reached 79.4 percent of national output in the first quarter, growing at 4.8 percent while the overall economy grew 3. The gap between those figures is the story.
Aug 6, 2026
A report from Systemiq and three mountain institutes says the range that feeds the Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra will reach peak water by mid-century. Nearly 200 glacial lakes in India are high risk. Last month a glacier collapse killed at least 1,300.
Sep 15, 2026
Fifteen matches, eight teams, one ground. The Women's T20 Asia Cup runs at Dubai International Stadium from 28 August, and the single-venue format is a deliberate choice rather than a compromise.
Aug 16, 2026
The currency hit a new low on Tuesday, just 27 days after the previous one, as a US naval blockade on Iranian oil and fresh sanctions compound the damage of seven months of war.
Sep 30, 2026
Mohsen Rezaei says any ship entering a zone that starts at the American blockade line will be put on an Iranian sanctions list. The same day Aramco's Jizan refinery took a second strike in a month, Brent passed 97 dollars, and flydubai cut its schedule.
Sep 8, 2026
Ed Miliband told Parliament the trigger was the E1 tender for 1,200 homes east of Jerusalem, a red line Britain drew two decades ago. The ban covers settlement goods and the services that build settlements, not Israel itself. Twelve countries signed on.
Sep 10, 2026
With Hormuz reduced to a trickle, Saudi exports go out through the Red Sea. On Thursday the Houthis took Mocha, eighty kilometres from Bab al-Mandeb, after the heaviest fighting since the 2022 truce. Hours later four projectiles hit two ships off Khasab.
Sep 12, 2026
The concluded UK-GCC free-trade agreement could reshape services, procurement and investment, but companies should focus on implementation details rather than celebratory totals.
Aug 3, 2026
Seven Republicans crossed, the most yet, for a resolution that binds nobody. The budget office says the war costs two to three billion a month and has used up to two thirds of the missile-defence interceptors. Vance says the first phase is done.
Sep 17, 2026
Russian drones and missiles killed four people in Zaporizhzhia and Sumy while Ukrainian strikes on refineries and industrial sites in Krasnodar killed six, as Trump urged Zelensky to settle with Putin.
Sep 27, 2026
Tokyo supplies the money, GlobalFoundries runs the plants at Malta, New York, and Washington takes a bigger equity stake, with the first fab due to produce chips in 2029.
Oct 15, 2026
The third-generation in-house accelerator moves to a 2-nanometre-class process and liquid-cooled racks of 96 chips, but Microsoft compares it only with its own previous part, not with Nvidia.
Oct 13, 2026
Houthi claims against two Saudi tankers have exposed the weakness in plans to bypass Hormuz, sending Brent higher as two vital shipping routes face risk.
Jul 23, 2026
The UAE aims to deploy agentic AI across half of government services and operations. The opportunity is large, provided human responsibility remains unmistakable.
Jul 31, 2026
Brent settled at $104.77 and WTI at $96.46 on Monday after Tehran said its supreme leader had authorised negotiations and the US said no decision on new strikes had been taken.
Nov 2, 2026
