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OTTAWA — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he is ready to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin if the Russian leader is invited by the United States to attend the G20 summit in Miami later this year. “Yes, of course. We have to come. We have to meet, to speak and make decisions,” Zelenskyy told German broadcaster DW at Canadian Forces Base North Bay on Friday. In the interview, published Saturday during Zelenskyy’s visit to Canada, the Ukrainian president said the nature of any exchange with Putin was less important than its outcome. “Results matter. That’s it,” he said. Zelenskyy and…
Although Arabic is spoken by more than 400 million people and holds deep significance for nearly two billion Muslims as the language of the Holy Quran, its online presence remains disproportionately small. Arabic-language websites account for no more than 0.6% of global web pages, limiting the language’s opportunities in artificial intelligence applications and natural language processing. With global competition mounting to build national language models and strengthen digital sovereignty, interest is growing in enriching Arabic content and developing its linguistic resources as a foundation for ensuring the language keeps pace with technological shifts. Head of the Linguistic Computing Sector at the King…
Nurse Dr Agimol Pradeep was on duty the day a young woman in her late 20s with liver failure was brought in, close to death. A transplant was her only hope. By chance, or by the Almighty’s grace, Dr Agimol was the on-call transplant coordinator when a match was found. She escorted the girl to theatre, then cared for her through recovery. he girl survived and made a choice that would shape Dr Agimol’s career. “She then decided to be my patient advocate when we go out in the community to promote organ donation,” Dr Agimol recalled, speaking to Khaleej…
Ram Velaga, President, Infrastructure Software Group, Broadcom. Broadcom Inc., a global technology leader that designs, develops, and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, recently introduced VMware Private AI Cloud, a more secure, scalable, and flexible approach to AI that brings the model to the data, not the data to the model. Built on Broadcom’s advanced software capabilities, VMware Private AI Cloud gives organisations a production-ready path to securely building, running, and governing inference workloads, agentic applications, and traditional enterprise workloads together on a single private cloud platform. Offering diverse hardware, model, and accelerator choices, VMware Private AI Cloud lets enterprises…
RIYADH — Saudi security forces arrested a total of 14,796 illegal residents in a week. The arrests were made in joint inspections, carried out in collaboration with the relevant government agencies, during the period between Sept.3 and Sept. 9, the Ministry of Interior announced on Saturday. Those who were arrested include 7,504 violators of the Residency Law, 3,783 violators of the Border Security Law, and 3,509 violators of the Labor Law. The total number of people who were arrested while trying to cross the border into the Kingdom accounted for 1,273, of whom 44 percent were Yemeni nationals, 55 percent…
An Indian nurse who dedicated her work to addressing inequities in healthcare and strengthening access to care in the UK has been named the winner of the Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award 2026. Dr Agimol Pradeep, a Senior Transplant Coordinator at King’s College Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Salford, UK, was selected from over 134,000 registrations across 214 countries to win the $250,000 prize. After identifying the disproportionate impact of donor shortages on South Asian patients awaiting transplants, Dr Agimol turned her research into community-led action, co-founding the Upahaar initiative, which has registered more than 10,000…
RIYADH — Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan received on Saturday a phone call from Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom Edward Miliband. During the call, the ministers discussed regional developments. Miliband renewed his country’s solidarity with Saudi Arabia following the attacks launched by the Houthi militia. He emphasized Saudi Arabia’s right to take necessary measures to defend its security and capabilities in accordance with international law. Prince Faisal and Miliband also discussed the importance of intensifying joint efforts to ensure the security and freedom of navigation in waterways, contributing…
Sayed Habib, CEO, Danube Home. Buying furniture has traditionally involved a frustrating question: “Will this actually work in my home?” A sofa may look perfect online or in a showroom, but determining whether it will fit the available space, complement the room, or work with the existing layout can often require guesswork. As artificial intelligence continues to reshape the retail experience, Danube Home is addressing this everyday challenge through YARA AI, its AI-powered retail and interior design assistant designed to help customers make more confident furniture decisions. YARA AI enables customers to move beyond simply browsing furniture and instead consider…
Health Holding Company, represented by the Madinah Health Cluster, will launch two specialized emergency healthcare leadership programs in AlUla from November 15 to 19, 2026. Organized in collaboration with Mass General Brigham and the International Emergency Department Leadership Institute, the events will convene healthcare practitioners, emergency medicine experts, and representatives from health clusters Kingdom-wide at Maraya Hall. The first five-day program, “Leadership Essentials in Emergency Care,” offers 28 continuing medical education (CME) hours and focuses on operational efficiency, overcrowding management, and quality standards for clinical leaders, physicians, nurses, and hospital administrators. The second three-day program, “Certified Emergency Department Executive,” provides…
Presenting the findings from its new global survey of small‑ and medium‑size businesses (SMBs), Kaspersky highlights the motives of threat actors, warns about the damaging consequences of cyber‑attacks, and underscores the growing need for advanced and purpose-built protection. According to a poll of IT and IT security professionals in the SMB sector, an overwhelming 86% of respondents globally and 82% in the Middle East, Turkiye and Africa (META) region stated they had experienced at least one cyber incident in the last year. Among them, the top threats cited as the most damaging were phishing attacks, software and web application exploits,…