Author: Rezvarmuj

It was bitter cold, but I don’t remember freezing or being cold. Hemingway wrote that the air was so cold when you took a breath it was like drinking water. We travelled by train, then we walked through the cold streets, no bus was running, we had to hustle to catch the last ride up the mountain, then it was up to the mountain, bundled up in two thick woolen blankets with the snow showering us. It was warm looking out of the peep hole I created, flying up the mountains sitting on the last ride of the day. The…

“They were plotting to kill a huge number, tens of thousands of people at this concert, I am sure many Americans,” CIA Deputy Director David S. Cohen said “Tens of thousands” of fans were the target of a thwarted terrorist attempt at Taylor Swift’s recent Vienna shows, a CIA official told reporters on Wednesday, Aug. 28. CIA Deputy Director David S. Cohen shared new details of the thwarted terror plot that canceled all three of the 34-year-old pop star’s planned Eras Tour concerts in Austria earlier this month during the annual Intelligence Summit just outside Washington, D.C., reports The New York Times and NBC News. “They…

Au revoir Paris, Hola LA. In a nutshell, that was the just completed ceremony of the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad. It was Tom Cruise leaping off the rim of the Stade de France to take the Olympic flag from LA Mayor Karen Bass and Simone Biles. As the guitar riffs of H.E.R. filled the air, Cruise then exited on a motorbike to deliver the flag to a sunny West Coast. It was the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Billie Eilish and Olympic fixture Snoop Dogg getting into the pre-recorded groove down in Long Beach. It wasn’t telling of the full scope of Los Angeles and no mention was made of Snoop’s…

The parliaments of Iran and Tajikistan signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Monday to expand cooperation between the two legislative bodies. The signing ceremony, reported by the Iranian Students’ News Agency, took place in Tehran, with Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf and National Assembly of Tajikistan Chairman Rustam Emomali leading the initiative. The agreement was further endorsed during a meeting between Emomali and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who emphasized the importance of this collaboration as a support for the political and economic partnerships between the two nations. President Raisi also highlighted the role of bilateral cooperation in combating…

According to the contract announcement, the Double Eagle ROV system is already used by naval forces in a number of countries to support mine countermeasure (MCM) missions. In the SAROV configuration, the company says, the vehicle can be used both as an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for detection, classification, and identification and as an ROV for mine disposal. The ROVs can be launched from any type of ship, from the shore, or from another, smaller, craft; the Double Eagle measures 3 meters (9.84 feet) long and can be housed in a standard container. The company says that although the SAROV was developed and produced…

Yale SOM’s Chief Executive Leadership Institute (CELI) played host on November 15 to the first public dialogue between a senior Arab government official and a senior Israeli government official since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. Yousef Al Otaiba, United Arab Emirates Ambassador to the U.S., and Michael Herzog, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., appearing virtually, were the featured speakers at the forum in Edward P. Evans Hall’s Zhang Auditorium. The event was moderated by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, the founder and CEO of CELI as well as Yale SOM’s senior associate dean for leadership studies and the Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of…

Sudan has declared 15 staff from the United Arab Emirates embassy persona non grata, ordering them to leave the country within 48 hours, the Sudanese state news agency said on Sunday. The news agency said Sudan’s foreign ministry summoned the acting UAE Chargé d’affaires and informed her of the decision. No further details were given. Late last month, a top Sudanese general said the UAE had been sending supplies to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the powerful paramilitary force at war with the army. The New Arab Staff & Agencies In response, a UAE official said that from the outset of the war,…

Frankfurt (3/12 – 12) The relatively rapid cohesion of disparate nations, historically competitive or even at war with one another, into the European Union came about in part because of the ongoing threat from the Soviet Union. The specter of a tank invasion from Warsaw Pact nations, today forgotten, was such a reality that the German government kept a major portion of its gold bullion across the Atlantic. The USSR, an ally in World War II after being double-crossed by Hitler – remember the “Non-Aggression Pact signed in Moscow by von Ribbentrop and Molotov – was soon appraised as a…

LONDON: As part of its efforts to support the Kuwaiti capital market and in a strategic initiative to improve its standing in the international investment community, Boursa Kuwait and the Kuwait Clearing Company (KCC) collaborated with Jeffries Financial Group, a world-renowned global investment banking and capital markets institution, to organize anon-deal roadshow held in the UK capital of London from October 23 to 25, 2023. The London roadshow presented a unique opportunity forBoursa Kuwait and KCC to engage in one-on-one discussions with prominent investmentmanagement firms and advisories. The aim was to spotlight the latest updates ofthe Kuwaiti capital market, its investment…

Berlin (3/11 – 40) Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe will visit China in the upcoming week as the crisis-hit country makes progress on debt restructuring talks with its biggest lender. Wickremesinghe took office in July last year, after a popular uprising, brought on by an economic meltdown, had forced his predecessor out of power. His Oct. 15-19 visit to Beijing will be his first to China since then. Wickremesinghe, who is also finance minister, has been leading Sri Lanka’s push to manage its heavy debt and keep funds flowing from a $2.9 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme. He will…