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Gulf Business Machines (GBM), a leading end-to-end digital solutions provider, recently announced the appointment of Pieter Willem Bil as its Chief Executive Officer. In this role, Pieter will lead GBM’s strategic growth across regional markets, focusing on empowering enterprise and public sector customers to accelerate Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption, modernising resilient digital infrastructure, and navigate complex technology transformations with trusted strategic counsel. Pieter brings more than 30 years of executive leadership experience driving business transformation, growth and digital modernisation for Fortune 500 enterprises and government entities. He joins GBM from Kyndryl, where he served as Senior Vice President & Managing…

The Date Festival in Sakaka is showcasing Al-Jouf Region’s diverse date production, highlighting local agricultural expertise alongside immersive rural tourism experiences. Capitalizing on the region’s fertile soil and favorable climate, local farmers are presenting high-quality yields across several popular date varieties. Alongside the exhibition, participating farms are welcoming visitors to observe date palm cultivation, olive groves, and seasonal crop production firsthand. The festival features an extensive range of fresh dates and secondary agricultural goods, with pricing structured around variety, grading, and volume. Beyond serving as a direct commercial marketplace, the event continues to drive agritourism and stimulate economic opportunities for local farming…

Long before he became the most sought-after Indian sports photographer, adding a dash of glamour to cricket photography, Kamal Sharma had a rude awakening. Sharma saw the harsh realities of life in a big city after he had left his hometown, Ferozepur, Punjab, for Delhi, in search of a better life. Sharma would sleep on a Delhi railway platform in the night after doing odd jobs under an unforgiving sun in India’s capital. But not even the noise of the passing trains in the dead of the night nor the people that had duped him in broad daylight could have…

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…

BOGOTA — Colombian President Abelardo De La Espriella formally ended all peace negotiations with illegal armed groups on Friday, dismantling the “Total Peace” strategy pursued by his predecessor Gustavo Petro and shifting the country toward a tougher security policy. De La Espriella signed executive resolutions revoking the credentials of government representatives and negotiators involved in dialogue processes established under the previous administration. The decision ends negotiating mechanisms with the National Liberation Army (ELN), FARC dissident factions, the Clan del Golfo cartel and urban criminal groups operating in Medellin, Buenaventura and Quibdo. “The government declares an end to the dialogue processes,…

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…

BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi dismissed the police chief of Maysan province and ordered investigations into senior security officials on Saturday, as Baghdad widened its response after establishing that drone attacks targeting Saudi Arabia originated from the southern province. Military spokesperson Sabah Al-Numan said Al-Zaidi, in his capacity as commander-in-chief of the armed forces, ordered the dismissal of the Maysan provincial police chief. The directors of the province’s security agencies were also ordered transferred from their posts and referred for investigation. Al-Numan said the measures were taken “in light of the recent security breaches that occurred in the…