Oil demand set to rise despite global economic headwinds...RIYADH: Despite escalating geopolitical tensions and the resulting economic slowdown, global oil demand is expected to increase by 2.3 million barrels per day in 2023, a top official from the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries told Independent Arabia.
Jamal Al Loughani, the recent
IRAN FM VISITS BORDER WITH OCCUPIED PALESTINE...TEHRAN As part of his tour of Lebanon, #Iran#ian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian #visit#ed Maroun Al Ras village near the border with the occupied #Palestine# #where# he insisted on supporting the resistance movement against #Israel#.
Addressing reporters, Amir Abdollahian praised all martyrs wh
Britain to take on Big Tech with new legal powers...LONDON: Britain said on Tuesday it would introduce a new law to rein in the power that big tech companies such as Google, Facebook and Amazon are able to wield to stifle competition in digital markets.
The legislation will also bolster protection for consumers by making it easier to opt out of onli
Why Saudi patents still matter for growth and innovation...JEDDAH: Throughout modern history, revolutionary inventions have shaped societies, transformed economies and improved quality of life. Nowadays, protecting the intellectual property rights to such creations is considered a crucial driver of innovation. And it all starts with a #patent#.
In some ind
Iran warns against UCMs humanitarian repercussions...TEHRAN #Iran#ian Ambassador to the #UN# Saeed Iravani on Monday criticized unilateral coercive measures (UCMs) as a worrying illustration of destructive activities that violate the #UN# Charter, saying such unlawful actions have significant humanitarian repercussions.
In a speech to an open #UN# Securit
American cinema and the country itself are violent, cinema expert says...TEHRAN Noting that American cinema is certainly entangled with gun violence, a cinema expert believes America itself is suffering from violence too.
“American cinema is violent, sure, but America itself, it seems to me, is violence,” Anthony Ballas, an American cinema e
Runaway growth of AI chatbots conjures up a future split between utopia and dystopia...DUBAI: It was way back in the late 1980s that I first encountered the expressions “artificial intelligence,” “pattern recognition” and “image processing.” I was completing the final semester of my undergrad college studies, while also writing up my last story for