The Boring Company is pleased to announce our Series D funding round of $3 billion, led by the United Arab Emirates. The financing now values The Boring Company at $23 billion.
Other key investors in the round include Human Capital, Vy Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Sequoia Capital, A16Z, Temasek, Shamal Holding, and Baron Capital, in addition to other valued existing and new investors.
Full details here:
https://t.co/YArv2XllUL
Elon Musk’s Boring Company secures $3 billion to build 150km of transport tunnels in the UAE, expanding its Loop system beyond Las Vegas and Dubai.
https://t.co/ZXpSazisEY
الأخوة والأخوات والأبناء شعب دولة الإمارات، والمقيمين على أرضها، وزوارنا الكرام،
دولة الإمارات تضع أمنها وسيادتها وسلامة شعبها والمقيمين فيها وزوارها في مقدمة أولوياتها.. وقادرة بفضل الله تعالى على التصدي لهذه الاعتداءات.
أتوجه بالشكر لقواتنا المسلحة الباسلة وأجهزتنا الأمنية الكفؤة وكل الأجهزة والفرق الوطنية على جهودهم المخلصة لحماية الإمارات، مجسدين أعلى درجات الجاهزية والتنسيق والتكامل، ما يبعث على الفخر والاعتزاز.
أعبّر عن تقديري العميق لوعي مجتمعنا من الإماراتيين وإخواننا المقيمين، شركاء الوطن، الذين عبروا عن حبهم للإمارات بالقول والفعل. في الإمارات الكل إماراتي، بحبه لهذه الأرض وعطائه لها.
نسأل الله أن يتغمّد الضحايا بواسع رحمته، وأن يمنّ على المصابين بالشفاء العاجل. ستبقى الإمارات، دار زايد، بإذن الله دائماً قوية بوحدتها، ثابتة في حماية سيادتها، وماضية بثقة نحو مستقبلها.
To all those who call the UAE home and guests in our beloved nation.
The UAE places its security and the protection of all citizens, residents, and visitors at the very top of its priorities. With God’s grace, the UAE is fully prepared to confront these threats.
I extend my deepest appreciation to our brave armed forces, our committed security services, and all national institutions and teams working tirelessly to keep our country safe. They represent the highest standards of readiness and cooperation. We are truly proud of them.
I would also like to underscore my sincere gratitude for the awareness shown by our community of Emiratis and our resident brothers and sisters, partners in this nation, who have expressed their genuine love and loyalty to the UAE through both words and actions. In the UAE, everyone is Emirati through their love for this land and their contributions to it.
May God have mercy on the victims and grant the injured a speedy recovery. With God’s blessing, the UAE—the land of Zayed—will remain strong in its unity, steadfast in defending its sovereignty, and steadily advancing towards the future.
She kept going back into the flames - it burned 80% of her body but she saved 20 students. Apologised to her husband on her death bed before dying on a vent: "Those kids are my kids too".
Mahreen Chowdhury, a teacher, in last week's Bangla Air Force jet crash into a school.
Friends, this holiday season, try to reach out to those who have little of no friends, no family, and no reason to cheer. They may be involuntarily stuck in a state of loneliness. They don't need your money; they don't need your gifts.
Maybe just a little bit of attention.
🌍✈️ Starting from November 16th, we are launching non-stop flights from Lahore to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. This new route marks the expansion of our footprint in Saudi Arabia following our the previous announcements of flights to Riyadh and Dammam.
🌍✈️ Starting from November 16th, we are launching non-stop flights from Lahore to Dammam, Saudi Arabia. This new route follows our recent launch of direct flights to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Read more: https://t.co/al1dddotRk
🌍✈️ Starting from November 15th, we are launching non-stop flights from Lahore to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This new route marks our continued growth in the Gulf region.
Read More: https://t.co/8FqOvc0DIA
In the last few weeks there have been serious and concerning developments regarding my sons’ father, Imran Khan’s treatment in prison. The Pakistan authorities have stopped all visits to him by his family and his lawyers. They have also postponed all court hearings. In addition to cutting off in- person visits, and in defiance of a court order, his weekly calls to his sons, Sulaiman and Kasim Khan, who are British and who live in London, were stopped on 10th September. We have received reports that the authorities have now turned off the lights and electricity in his cell and he is no longer allowed to leave his cell at any time. The jail cook has been sent on leave. He is now completely isolated, in solitary confinement, literally in the dark, with no contact with the outside world. His lawyers are concerned about his safety and well-being.
These actions come in the context of ongoing targeting of Imran’s family, as well as his party (PTI) members and supporters in an attempt to silence them and all political opposition in Pakistan. Imran’s nephew, Hassan Niazi, a civilian, has been detained in military custody since August 2023. More recently, Imran Khan’s sisters, Uzma and Aleema Khan, who have continued to speak out on his behalf, have also been arrested as they made their way peacefully to a demonstration and they are currently being held in jail, despite there being no proper or lawful basis for their imprisonment.
In June this year the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that Imran is unlawfully and arbitrarily detained and called for his immediate release.
As a matter of urgency , we are calling for Imran Khan’s release, and for the release of his sisters and nephew as well as for his sons’ contact with their father to be re-established, so that they may have assurance first-hand that he is well and not being mistreated.