RABAT — Fatima Zahra El Mansouri has been named Morocco’s first woman prime minister, after her centrist Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) won the most seats in last week’s parliamentary elections. Her appointment on Tuesday makes the 50-year-old attorney only the second woman to lead a government in the Arab world, after Tunisia’s Najla Bouden. King Mohammed VI chose her as prime minister over the country’s football chief Fouzi Lekjaa, a top politician from the same party. Mansouri, who was also mayor of Marrakech until her nomination, was tasked with forming a new government, the Royal Palace said in a…
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WASHINGTON — The US Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to continue third-country deportations, suspending a lower-court ruling that paused such removals over failure to follow due process. On Tuesday, the conservative-dominated high court granted the administration’s emergency request to resume the so-called “third-country removals”, which involve deporting immigrants to countries they may have no connection to. The lower court had said that people targeted with deportation must be given effective notice ahead of time about where they are being sent to allow them to raise concerns about potential persecution. The three liberal justices on the nine-member panel…
Meta Platforms recently announced the formation of a new business unit focussed on increasing the use of AI by enterprises. Chirantan Desai, MongoDB’s president and CEO, will run the operation. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Desai would join the freshly-minted Meta Enterprise Platform as chief enterprise platform officer, pointing to his “track record of building full-stack software and delivering results in AI, infrastructure, business applications and security”. Before heading MongoDB, Desai led product and engineering at Cloudflare and had an eight-year stint at ServiceNow, including a role as president and COO. Describing Meta Enterprise Platform as “the next major pillar of…
A person may go to the gym, play sport every week, maintain a healthy weight and still have serious heart disease without knowing it. UAE cardiologists say this is one of the reasons people in their 30s and 40s should not assume that being active alone protects them from heart problems. “Looking fit is not the same as being free of cardiovascular risk,” said Dr Yogeeswari Vellore Satyanarayanan, specialist cardiology at Medcare Royal Speciality Hospital. She said that high blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol problems can remain silent for years, while inherited conditions can also raise a person’s risk even…
Emrina A.Ş., a Türkiye-based real estate development company, is expanding its activities in Saudi Arabia under the Bayt Al Maqam brand, with a focus on next-generation residential and real estate projects in Makkah.Bayt Al Maqam aims to establish an institutional bridge between local developers in Saudi Arabia and Muslim buyers in Türkiye and other international markets. The company plans to focus particularly on the international promotion, sales organization, and business development of projects located in Makkah’s rapidly developing residential and urban transformation areas.As part of this strategy, Bayt Al Maqam has opened a dedicated sales, marketing, and promotion office in…
Tolga Özdil, Regional Commercial Director, Middle East, Türkiye and Africa (META) at ASUS. ASUS has announced its participation at AI Everything Abu Dhabi from 6–7 October 2026, at ADNEC Centre. Driven by the idea of “Ubiquitous AI. Incredible Possibilities,” a wide range of AI-powered business solutions supporting organisations with smarter, more efficient, and secure ways of working will be showcased. “We are pleased to be back at AI Everything and to contribute to the conversation around how AI can deliver practical value for organisations. With businesses across the UAE exploring new ways to adopt AI, ASUS is focused on providing…
RIYADH — The Saudi Ministry of Commerce detected foreign workers who had left their sponsors without authorization and were establishing and operating online stores for their own benefit after receiving training at an unauthorized facility in Riyadh. The facility was operated by a foreign investor and two residents in violation of regulations. Based on the ministry’s findings, a joint campaign was carried out in cooperation with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development and the Riyadh Region Police’s field enforcement authorities at the facility in Riyadh’s Al-Batha district. The facility was providing training on establishing and operating online stores…
A child stepping into Desislava Kouzeva’s school library might be looking for an adventure, an answer to a question or simply a quiet place to spend time. Her first task, she says, is to listen. “The library is not only about shelves with books. It’s about how they make us feel,” said Kouzeva, the librarian at Dubai International Academy, Emirates Hills. “I ask them what’s important to them.” That approach has earned her the 2026 School Librarian of the Year award in the private school category. The Emirates Literature Foundation presented the award at a ceremony at Dubai’s Museum of…
GENEVA — Saudi Arabia reaffirmed that the only path to achieving a just, lasting and comprehensive peace in the region is the implementation of the two-state solution and support for the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination and to establish an independent, sovereign state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. Speaking at a general debate on the human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories during the 63rd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Dr. Salem Al-Qahtani, director general of the General Administration of Humanitarian Affairs at the Saudi Ministry of…
RIYADH — Minister of Defense Prince Khalid bin Salman met with United Arab Emirates Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister, and Chairman of the Presidential Court Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Riyadh on Tuesday. During the meeting, they reviewed matters of mutual interest and ways to further strengthen cooperation and coordination between the two countries. They also exchanged views on regional and international developments. Source: Saudi Gazette