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Shafaq News
11-07-2025
- Business
- Shafaq News
Lebanon's Finance Minister: Iraqi fuel payment ready for transfer
Shafaq News – Beirut/Baghdad Lebanese Finance Minister Yassine Jaber announced, on Friday, that funds owed to Iraq for fuel exports are ready for transfer. In a statement after meeting with Iraq's Chargé d'Affaires in Beirut, Mohammad Redha al-Husseini, Jaber confirmed that the payment is pending action from Iraq's Central Bank to activate the designated financial channel. He noted that the move would simplify transactions and improve access for Iraqi citizens and businesses. The fuel-for-services agreement, signed in July 2021, allowed Lebanon to import heavy fuel oil from Iraq to power its electricity plants in exchange for Lebanese goods and services. The deal was expanded in late 2023, doubling Lebanon's annual fuel quota to two million tons—though Beirut has yet to fully meet its service obligations. Jaber also revealed that a delayed Lebanese ministerial visit to Baghdad is being rescheduled to boost economic ties and advance key infrastructure projects, with the agenda including finalizing a double taxation agreement, restarting the stalled Iraq–Tripoli oil pipeline, expanding fiber-optic infrastructure, modernizing payment systems, and facilitating cross-border movement.
Irish Examiner
30-06-2025
- Irish Examiner
High Court cancels registration of former deputy State pathologist for professional misconduct
A former deputy State pathologist who was found guilty of professional misconduct over his postmortem findings in two criminal cases has had his registration cancelled by the High Court. High Court president Mr Justice David Barniville confirmed a decision of the Irish Medical Council to impose the most severe sanction and cancel the registration of Dr Khalid Jaber. The judge also referred to 'bizarre communication' indicated in the court papers from Dr Khalid Jaber who now lives in the Middle East in which the judge said the doctor made it clear he had no intention of participating, 'other than from the sidelines' with grenades to attack the Irish Medical Council, the DPP and former colleagues. The former deputy State pathologist was last February found by a Medical Council Fitness to Practise Committee guilty of professional misconduct relating to his postmortem findings in two cases. The allegations against Dr Jaber related to postmortem findings and related evidence that the Saudi-born pathologist gave to two cases before the Central Criminal Court – one of which collapsed and the other where a murder conviction was quashed both due to the pathologist's testimony. The Council Fitness to Practise Committee ruled that certain allegations of both professional misconduct and poor professional performance made against Khalid Jaber were proven following a medical inquiry which was held over six days between October 2024 and January 2025. Dr Jaber served as deputy State pathologist between 2009 and 2013 when he resigned in controversial circumstances amid reports of major disagreements with the then chief State pathologist, Marie Cassidy. In the High Court on Monday, Sinead Taaffe of Fieldfisher solicitors for the Medical Council said the Council Fitness to Practise Committee was aware that the removal from the register is the most serious sanction. She said it did not consider Mr Jaber, aged 66, had any insight into his own conduct and he regarded himself the victim. Professional misconduct - case 1 The inquiry arose following a complaint to the Medical Council in August 2015. The pathologist was accused of giving evidence in the trial of Michael Furlong for the murder of his friend, Patrick Connors, aged 37, in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, in April 2011 that blunt force trauma which caused fractures of the deceased's jaw had contributed to his death. The committee, the High Court heard, was satisfied there was no pathological evidence to justify such a finding. The trial of Mr Furlong collapsed in 2013 following the dramatic intervention of Prof. Cassidy when she notified the DPP of her concerns about Dr Jaber's evidence and the fact that his postmortem report in the case had not been peer reviewed. The High Court subsequently prohibited the holding of a retrial. Professional misconduct - case 2 Separately, the Fitness to Practise Committee found there was no pathological evidence to justify Dr Jaber's finding in a postmortem report that the death of Francis Greene, aged 48, at Steamboat Quay in Limerick in November 2009 was due to asphyxia and the related evidence he subsequently provided in court. The victim's badly decomposed body had been immersed in water for two months before being discovered. Gardaí believed Mr Greene had been forced into the River Shannon and died by drowning but Dr Jaber's evidence suggested he had been strangled before he ended up in the water. Kevin Coughlan of Avondale Drive, Greystones, Limerick, had his conviction for the murder of Mr Greene quashed by the Court of Appeal in June 2015. However, he was subsequently convicted of Mr Greene's manslaughter at a retrial and sentenced to eight years in prison. The Fitness to Practise Committee said it was 'totally inappropriate and unjustifiable' for Dr Jaber to have made such 'a definitive and unequivocal' finding about the cause of death in 'the complete absence' of any supporting evidence. It also ruled that he had failed to demonstrate he appreciated the fundamental difference between bite marks and tooth indentations as well as incorrectly equating hanging with strangulation in his evidence. On Monday, costs were also awarded to the Irish Medical Council in the High Court.
Memri
28-06-2025
- Politics
- Memri
Lebanese Tech Expert Majed Jaber Warns On Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV: Israel Signed 'Massive Contracts' With Google And OpenAI, Receives All The Data We Enter Online, Which Helps It Identify Hizbullah Me
On June 7, 2025, Lebanese tech expert Majed Jaber appeared on Al-Manar TV (Hizbullah–Lebanon), where he warned viewers that Israel can access people's information through AI apps and phone use and identify them as members of Hizbullah. He warned that when Lebanese users sign into Google, all their data is sent to "the Israeli enemy." Jaber claimed that everything users enter into ChatGPT is sent to Israel, which he said has signed "massive contracts" with OpenAI. He stated that Israel operates a cloud infrastructure called "Nimbus," which he alleged stores data from social media and personal devices. To view the clip, clip below: Majed Jaber: "We all use ChatGPT, but everything you put into ChatGPT goes to Israel. Israel has signed massive contracts with OpenAI. According to these contracts, all the information about Lebanese and other people goes to... They have a cloud Nimbus. They store there all the data from social media and from your devices. They have even signed contracts with Google. [...] "The AI [system] receives all the data and stores it. It connects everything through algorithms. The deep analysis that takes place in the heart of the AI is very advanced. If it monitors a person, how does it know if that person is part of the Resistance or not? It inspects the nature of that person's communications and creates a profile of him. Through his phone number, it detects all the people he has called. His picture, the nature of his posts, and even his movements – it stores everything. Then the algorithms decide whether he belongs to the Resistance or not, and he supports it or not. If he is not a Resistance member, it creates a profile of him. Therefore, we need to be careful not to say everything on our phones. We must not say everything to AI apps."
Memri
25-06-2025
- Memri
Lebanese Tech Expert Majed Jaber Warns: Israel Has Signed 'Massive Contracts' with Google and OpenAI, and It Receives All the Data We Enter Online, Which Helps It Identify Hizbullah Members
On June 7, 2025, Lebanese tech expert Majed Jaber appeared on Al-Manar TV (Hizbullah–Lebanon), where he warned viewers that Israel can access people's information through AI apps and phone use and identify them as members of Hizbullah. He warned that when Lebanese users sign into Google, all their data is sent to 'the Israeli enemy.' Jaber claimed that everything users enter into ChatGPT is sent to Israel, which he said has signed 'massive contracts' with OpenAI. He stated that Israel operates a cloud infrastructure called 'Nimbus,' which he alleged stores data from social media and personal devices.
Business Recorder
17-06-2025
- Business
- Business Recorder
UAE's ADNOC boosts US investments, says AI once-in-a generation investment opportunity
WASHINGTON: ADNOC chief Sultan al-Jaber said on Tuesday the state oil company of the United Arab Emirates was looking to grow its U.S. energy investments six-fold to $440 billion in the next 10 years. 'For us, the United States is not just a priority; it is an investment imperative,' Jaber told an audience at a Washington event, adding that AI represented a once-in-a-generation investment opportunity. Jaber pointed to the UAE's recent anchor investment in the largest liquefied natural gas plant in Texas, investments in petrochemical plants across the U.S. and a planned addition of 5.5 gigawatts of renewable energy and storage 'from coast to coast.' He also said that UAE renewable energy firm Masdar and investment arm XRG have just opened an office in Washington, and called investment in the U.S. an 'investment imperative.' Last month, during President Donald Trump's visit to Abu Dhabi, the U.S. and the wealthy Gulf state unveiled a massive artificial intelligence campus project set to contain a cluster of powerful data centers. Pakistani energy consortium signs key agreement with ADNOC In March, when senior UAE officials met Trump, the UAE had committed to a 10-year, $1.4 trillion investment framework in the U.S. in sectors including energy, AI and manufacturing to deepen reciprocal ties. Jaber said at the Washington event that the two countries should work toward a 'coordinated roadmap' to ramp up AI development. Mariam Almheiri, chair of the UAE international affairs office and CEO of 2PointZero, a UAE investment platform, said partnership with the U.S. across the AI supply chain is essential. 'The whole idea is scale, and it's so important to understand that time is not on our side,' she said at the event.
