UAE and The Telegraph: putting press freedom up for sale?

RedBird IMI is close to sealing a deal to take control of Telegraph Media Group, which owns The Telegraph newspapers and The Spectator magazine, in exchange for the repayment of £1.15 billion owed by the Barclay family, the long-standing owners of The Telegraph, to Lloyds Banking Group.

UAE university joins China’s moon project after initial bid by Arab nation killed by US sanctions

A UAE university has joined China’s International Lunar Research Station, a project which aims to build a base at the moon’s south pole It comes as the race to return to the moon heats up between China’s lunar mission and the US-led Artemis Accords A national university in the United Arab Emirates has become China’s latest partner in the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) project,