What often appears as sporadic settler violence is in fact an organized system with an official structure fully operating as intended.
Lights on 24/7. Overflowing toilets and lack of access to showers. Solitary confinement in a 2×2-foot box. These are some of the torturous conditions documented in a new report from Amnesty International investigating human rights violations at two ICE detention centers in Florida: the Krome North Service Processing Center and the Everglades Detention Facility, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by Trump and his supporters. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is denying the report’s findings, calling them fabricated and politically motivated. We speak to the report’s lead researcher, Amy Fischer, about the “intentional development within immigration detention that is aiming to make it increasingly cruel, increasingly abusive, so that people are forced to give up their immigration claims [because] the conditions are so cruel that they can’t handle it anymore.”
The project will include luxury residential units and hotels, shops, business parks, a marina, and cultural venues, targeting high-net worth individuals.
The Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund increasingly relies on AI to screen deals, make investment decisions, monitor assets, and sell its own tech products.
The new homegrown AI firm has a mandate to build the platforms and systems needed to speed up AI adoption across Qatar, its CEO said.
US mom-and-pop investors will be able to access private equity funds “in the next year or two,” Carlyle's chairman said at Abu Dhabi Finance Week.
The Elon Musk-led company was the first to successfully re-use rockets, bringing the cost of space travel down by around 90%.
The world’s largest conflict by scale is in Sudan, where tens of thousands have been killed and millions displaced since fighting broke out between the UAE-backed paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese military (SAF) in April 2023. Last week, the RSF attacked a kindergarten, killing over 40 children. “Almost every part of Sudan is somehow impacted by this war,” which has been rife with reports of child killings and widespread sexual violence, says Sudanese political analyst Kholood Khair. Satellite imagery reviewed by researcher Nathaniel Raymond of the Yale School of Public Health depicts the RSF-captured city of El Fasher as a “ghost town,” indicating a major civilian massacre carried out by the UAE-supported paramilitary group. Khair draws attention to the shortfall in humanitarian funding being directed to Sudan, and urges international actors to financially support civil society groups and the U.N. crisis response fund. “Nobody is helping them. No one is putting money and resources to them to enable them to save lives.”
The US Treasury said the sanctioned companies enlisted Colombian mercenaries to fight for and train the Rapid Support Forces.