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Gulf Insider
06-06-2025
- Business
- Gulf Insider
Flying Taxis in Oman: LYNEports and AeroVecto Team Up
LYNEports and AeroVecto have signed deal to plan hybrid electric VTOL aircraft in Oman. AeroVecto's flagship aircraft, Shuttle, is designed to redefine public transportation in Oman and the wider GCC region. Prioritising passenger capacity and comfort, Shuttle is poised to transform how people move within and between cities, ushering in a new era of clean, efficient, and scalable urban air mobility. Through this partnership, LYNEports will support the planning and simulation of AeroVecto's Shuttle network, ensuring that every site is designed with aviation-grade safety, operational feasibility, and regulatory compliance in mind. Leveraging LYNEports' AI-powered platform, AeroVecto will be able to assess optimal locations, simulate flight paths, and visualise integrated transport networks to accelerate AAM adoption across Oman. Rasha Alshami, CEO of LYNEports, said: 'We're excited to support AeroVecto in bringing their innovative vision to life. Their commitment to solving real public transport challenges in the region aligns perfectly with our mission to make AAM infrastructure accessible, safe, and well-planned from day one.' Fahad Al Riyami, CEO of AeroVecto, said: 'At AeroVecto, our vision is to make high-capacity aerial commuting a practical reality for cities across the region. 'We are excited to partner with LYNEports to advance vertiport planning and route optimisation of the Shuttle network, enabling efficient urban air transport for the masses.' This partnership marks a significant step in bridging technology and real-world mobility, positioning Oman as a regional leader in next-generation public transportation and AAM innovation. Also read: Sharjah Boosts Eid Al Adha Travel Services With 5,600 Bus Trips, New Dubai Boat Route and Oman Link
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka says video proves he was ‘invited in' to ICE facility
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has released footage he says proves he was invited onto the grounds of Delaney Hall, a new ICE detention center in New Jersey, where he was arrested for trespassing last week. Baraka was taken into custody on Friday at the facility in Newark and detained for several hours before his eventual release. He said he was there to participate in a press conference with a congressional delegation made up of Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rob Menendez and LaMonica McIver, who showed up to carry out a surprise inspection of the 1,000-bed detention center. Witnesses on the scene said things took a turn for the tense when Baraka attempted to enter the facility alongside the delegation. On Wednesday, Baraka took to X to share video of the moment he 'was invited into Delaney Hall' in a bid to disprove claims he'd been trespassing. 'Nobody was kicking or shoving like the coverage suggests,' he wrote. 'We were invited in.' The 10-second clip shows a guard at the center opening up the gate, and then ushering Baraka inside. A short time later, a federal official allegedly told Baraka that he wasn't allowed to enter because he's 'not a Congress member,' prompting him to return to the public side of the fence. Within minutes, he was surrounded by officers, who eventually took him into custody. Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey and former Donald Trump defense lawyer Alina Habba later said Baraka 'committed trespass and ignored multiple warnings from Homeland Security Investigations to remove himself from the ICE detention center in Newark.' But Baraka has called the characterization of his visit intentionally misleading, saying he's been 'shocked by all the lies' told about his arrest. He said clips from the scene 'make it clear that Delaney Hall personnel opened the gate for me, and allowed me to enter the property, as well as my calm and respectful departure when asked to leave.' 'None of my actions were orchestrated or preconceived, and this arrest occurred because I was specifically targeted by this administration,' he continued. Baraka, a Democrat who's running to succeed term-limited Gov. Phil Murphy, has long been pushing back against opening the Delaney Hall facility in Newark, signaling his intention to take on the Trump administration and its illegal immigration crackdown. He has accused ICE of opening the facility without the necessary permits and refusing to allow city inspectors into the prison, a claim Homeland Security officials have brushed off as 'false.'
Express Tribune
13-05-2025
- Politics
- Express Tribune
The thaw
Listen to article It is promising that senior military officials, after a four-day brawl of death and destruction, have agreed to hold the fire and work for congeniality. This moment would not have arrived without the tactful mediation of the United States, and will not be able to hold on either if there occurs a slip between the cup and the lip. The reported first round of talks between the DGMOs of Pakistan and India was, indeed, a jiff of fresh air — hinting that normalcy will soon be on the cards. With no two opinions, the way forward is to iron out the intricate issues on the political front and let warmongering and provocation take a backseat. It is a good omen that an understanding has been reached to ensure troop reduction from the borders and forward areas, and get talking. The hotline established is an opportunity in disaster, and should not go in vain as it pertains to peace and security of more than two billion people of the region and beyond, whose survival was at stake as the Hindutva-laden mindset unleashed aggression on Pakistan. Now is the time to ensure that India does not opt for jingoism across the border on the flimsy pretexts that it cannot substantiate. India's unprovoked and reprehensible onslaught across the Line of Control led to the martyrdom of at least 40 civilians and 11 military personnel, as well as injuries to scores of civilians. The thaw, meanwhile, must proceed on two fronts, instantly: holding of fire; and ushering in necessary confidence building measures so that the tipping point is no more in sight. The duel has brought to the fore a pertinent point and that is the indispensability to address the lingering dispute of Kashmir. The nod from India to discuss the dispute, and the future status of the occupied territory, is a way forward and should be result-oriented. Washington has a responsibility to dispense in the form of acting as an honest broker, and must prevail over India to rescind its decision to suspend the Indus Water Treaty.
Al Arabiya
02-04-2025
- Business
- Al Arabiya
Exclusive Trump's tariff plan signals historic break from global trade: Yergin
A new tariff regime set to be unveiled within hours by US President Donald Trump marks what may be the single most dramatic break from the global economic order since the end of World War II. According to renowned author and economic historian Daniel Yergin, we are witnessing a 'reversal of an eight or nine decade trend' away from free trade, ushering in a new era defined by tariff walls, trade nationalism, and protectionism. Speaking to Al Arabiya News' Hadley Gamble on the eve of what is expected to be a major announcement from Trump detailing a sweeping new American tariff regime, Yergin warned that the assumptions underpinning decades of global economic integration were now being overturned. 'I've heard the Secretary of Commerce say what we want to do is build a tariff wall around the United States,' said Yergin. 'We're kind of going back to the years of William McKinley at the end of the 19th century, which was a very complicated time because you had a couple of major financial panics at the same time.' Yergin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Vice Chairman of S&P Global, is one of the most influential voices in energy and geopolitics. His books, including The Prize, The Quest, and The New Map, are considered foundational texts for understanding global energy systems and their geopolitical implications. 'What we're seeing,' he added, 'is a reversal of an eight or nine-decade trend that began in 1934 under Franklin Roosevelt… to a view that the United States has been taken advantage [of], even though the United States has been doing better than any of the other industrial nations. And so we're at a great turn in history.' This new period of economic nationalism, Yergin said, is deeply intertwined with the US-China rivalry. He noted that protectionist instincts were already present during the Biden administration but have become more pronounced under Trump. 'The Biden administration was also rather protectionist… famously, Joe Biden did not invite Tesla and Elon Musk to the electric vehicle summit at the White House in 2021, allegedly because it was not a union shop,' he said. The tariffs are likely to reshape global supply chains and the future of advanced manufacturing. But Yergin cautioned that while announcements of new American factories abound, the jobs may not follow. 'The factories that will be built – this is an age of robotics. They're not going to be bringing jobs. This is not going to take us back to Detroit or Cleveland or Youngstown, Ohio. These are going to be different types of factories.' Yergin described the unfolding trade war as part of a much broader 'great recalibration' – a moment in which countries are being forced to re-evaluate not only their trading relationships, but also their energy systems, economic structures, and geopolitical alignments. On the energy front, Yergin delivered a sobering assessment. 'The energy transition is in need of a major rethink,' he told Gamble. 'A lot of the expectations, a lot of the planning, a lot of the spending was really crystallized during COVID, when demand was down and prices were down… And the consequence of that is that you had these straight lines, linear lines, that went to 2050 net zero, when almost half the world's emissions were not even covered by them.' Far from displacing fossil fuels, he argued, the rise of renewables has come alongside a resurgence in oil and coal. '2024 wind and solar were at the highest levels they ever were. 2024 oil and coal were at the highest levels they were ever. And natural gas would have been there, except for Russia's invasion of Ukraine,' he said. Despite enormous political capital invested in green agendas, the numbers tell a different story: 'In the latest data we had – in 2022, 81 percent of the world's energy was hydrocarbons. In 2023 it was 80.5 percent. A one half of 1 percent change.' That sluggish progress, Yergin explained, is not merely a failure of will, but a reflection of scale and feasibility. 'The numbers used for the Baku UN conference would say about 5 percent of world GDP over a number of years has to be spent [on the transition]. Now, developing countries don't have 5 percent of their GDP.' Even developed nations are constrained. 'In Washington… there's this problem of this $36.5 trillion debt where the interest payments are greater than defense spending. So, you know, just the money's not there to do [it] on scale.' Added to that, the growing electricity demands of artificial intelligence threaten to increase fossil fuel reliance. 'We saw this at the [CERAWeek] energy conference – electricity for AI. And in the United States, that means more natural gas going into it.' Yergin warned that all these dynamics point to an energy future that is messy, uneven, and politically fraught. 'The notion that you're just going to draw a line and get to net zero by 2035 – that's why we say the energy transition is going to be multi-dimensional. It's going to unfold at different paces in different regions, with different mixes of technology and of critical importance, different priorities by different governments.' Those different priorities are already leading to divergent strategies. In Europe, the rise of populism is fueling a backlash against regulatory excess and green targets. 'You're going to see it a lot in the battles over the budget, and you're also going to see it in the rise of the populist parties.' Russia, according to Yergin, wasn't without its problems either. Sanctions had not stopped the war economy. It had, however, said Yergin, driven Moscow into the arms of Beijing. 'Russia's basically become an economic dependency of China,' he said. Yergin concluded by reiterating his view, the world had entered an unpredictable new phase. The long-dominant assumptions about free trade, clean energy, and global integration are now under siege. 'It is recalibrating and reassessing and recognizing that those simple graphs that go to 2050 – [that] is not the way the world's going to go,' he stated.
Sky News
13-03-2025
- Business
- Sky News
Trump government attempts to rip up 31 environmental protections and reviews damage of greenhouse gases
Donald Trump's government is reassessing whether greenhouse gases damage people's health, amid a dizzying blitz of more than 30 environmental protections that limit air and water pollution. "We are driving a dagger through the heart of climate change religion and ushering in America's Golden Age,'' wrote Lee Zeldin, the head of Trump's Environment Protection Agency (EPA) in The Wall Street Journal yesterday. But environmentalists said the dagger was instead pointed at "the heart of public health". The proposals will have to clear various legal hurdles, so are not guaranteed to stick. But if successful, they will save trillions of dollars in regulatory costs and "hidden taxes", Mr Zeldin said. They hope this will tackle the cost of living by lowering the price of things like cars, home heating and running a business. The EPA on Wednesday laid out plans to rollback a staggering 31 different rules that clean up cars, power plants and waterways - the latest in a slew of moves to axe climate and environmental protections. It included one that has so far underpinned US government climate action: a scientific finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health, which was finalised under Barack Obama in 2009. Greenhouse gases that cause climate change have been linked to things like extreme heat, flooding, the spread of disease and air pollution. Gina McCarthy, the EPA chief under Mr Obama, called Wednesday the "most disastrous day in EPA history". Among other moves unveiled at speed yesterday, the EPA is also reconsidering admissions standards for power plants, regulations on heavy vehicles and rules on wastewater from coal and other power plants that contain mercury and arsenic. The National Mining Association, which represents some coal miners, was among many industries to applaud the rollbacks. It said the change to the rule on clean power plants was "long overdue", as data centres and AI increase electricity demand. 2:57 The moves are part of Mr Trump 's efforts to slash regulations and boost industries from coal to manufacturing, and ramp up oil and minerals production. On his first day in office, he issued a flurry of executive orders to boost fossil fuel production and withdraw from global climate efforts. Green groups have vowed to fight the proposed rollbacks in court. "In the face of overwhelming science, it's impossible to think that the EPA could develop a contradictory finding that would stand up in court," said David Doniger, a climate expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council environmental group. into the heart of public health".
