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As technology, emerging destinations and demand for luxury travel reshape the global tourism industry, all eyes turn to Dubai for the Arabian Travel Market (ATM) 2025, the Middle East’s leading travel and hospitality trade show.Taking place from 28 April to 1 May at the Dubai World Trade Centre, 2,600 exhibitors are expected at this year’s ATM, including tourism boards, airlines, hotels and tech providers from across the globe.With ministers, executives and entrepreneurs also in attendance, ATM is a key moment in the industry’s calendar for trendspotting, deal-making and planning.It also offers a front-row seat to what’s next for travel worldwide.ATM…

A major demonstration — the latest in a series that have drawn tens of thousands of protestors — has been organized by a vast consortium of associations demanding Mazón’s resignation. Security forces are on call to keep summit attendees protected at the venue and to secure the hotels where VIPs are staying, as emotions remain frayed in a region where locals attacked Spain’s prime minister and pelted King Felipe VI with mud when they visited the flood zones. As a cost-cutting measure, the regional government eliminated the Valencian Emergency Unit — an elite rapid response force tasked with addressing the…

In favor of Donnet is Mediobanca, the revered Milan investment bank that owns a 13.1 percent share in Generali. | Filippo Monteforte/Getty Images “There’s a complete dissonance between domestic investors and international investors,” said Francesco Galietti, a former Treasury official and the founder of political risk consultancy Policy Sonar, who noted that Italian investors primarily voted for the government position, while U.S. investors supported Mediobanca. “The international investors tend to look at market criteria, dividends performance, while the Italians tend to be very political.” ‘Cold war’ The high-finance bloodletting has also attracted the gaze of bigger, deadlier predators. Looking on…

– Der SPD-Chef muss erst jonglieren und dann liefern. Landesverbände, Strömungen, Geschlechter-Ausgewogenheit, Erfahrung und Erneuerung müssen in künftigen personellen Besetzungen in der Parteispitze und im Kabinett berücksichtigt werden. Wie die Lösung dieser Fragen für Klingbeil, die SPD und auch Schwarz-Rot existenziell sind, analysiert Gordon Repinski.– Rasmus Buchsteiner berichtet über die Kabinettsbesetzungen der Union und erklärt unter anderem, warum es Merz wichtig war, die Namen jetzt möglichst schnell zu veröffentlichen. – Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: Sachsens CDU-Ministerpräsident Michael Kretschmer zur Frage, ob der Osten wirklich stark genug im Kabinett Merz vonseiten seiner Partei vertreten sein wird.– Kontroverse Selfies: Wie Markus Söder nicht nur das…

Trump’s trade war, however, won’t see India rushing into a deal with the U.K., India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in London early this month during a key economic dialogue with Chancellor Rachel Reeves. “It is not as if we’re rushing into a U.K. [free trade agreement] because something is done by Trump in the U.S.,” Sitharaman said. Delhi’s top diplomat in London, Vikram Doraiswami, set out that India is aiming to secure concessions from the U.K. on a so-called “Double Contribution Convention,” allowing firms employing Indians on short-stay visas of up to three years to claw back payments into…

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New Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen stated on Sunday that US comments regarding the mineral-rich Arctic island had been disrespectful, emphasising that Greenland “will never, ever be a piece of property that can be bought by just anyone.”His comments came after a meeting with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen at her official residence on Sunday, on the second day of a three-day official visit.Nielsen’s remarks were in response to US President Donald Trump’s repeated state interest in taking control of the strategically important territory.During the press conference, Nielsen said “the talk from the United States have not been respectful.”He continued,…

Obama, a Democrat, and Farage, an admirer of current President Donald Trump, hail from different political traditions but the Reform leader wrote that there’s an area he’d like to emulate the former U.S. president — immigration enforcement. If he were to ever hold the country’s top job, Farage pledged to operate a “zero tolerance policy,” through new “legally robust” reforms and bilateral agreements to facilitate returns. “It’s worth saying that deportations on the scale we envisage do have recent precedent,” he added, citing Obama, who he said “earned himself the title ‘Deporter in Chief’” after he formally removed 3 million…

“There was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days,” Trump said in a post on TruthSocial, referring to an earlier Russian attack on Kyiv that killed at least eight people. “It makes me think that maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently,” Trump said, adding that Washington would consider additional sanctions against Russia. Trump’s chat with Zelenskyy earlier Saturday in Rome was the first encounter between the two leaders since their disastrous meeting at the White…

National Rally President Jordan Bardella confirmed on Saturday he will run in the 2027 French presidential election if his mentor Marine Le Pen — the three-time candidate and front-runner whose ambitions have been derailed by an embezzlement conviction — is barred from taking part. “There is no ambiguity about the fact that Marine Le Pen is my candidate, but that if she was prevented [from running] tomorrow, I think I can tell you that I would be her candidate,” he told French publication Le Parisien in an interview published Saturday. Bardella, the 29-year-old chair of the Patriots for Europe group…