After numerous failed attempts to unionize Wal-Mart stores, the nation’s main union for retail workers has decided to try a different approach: it has helped create a new, nonunion group of Wal-Mart employees that intends to press for better pay, benefits and most of all, more respect at work. The […]
ISLAMABAD: Pamphlets branding members of the minority Ahmadiya community as “wajib-ul-qatl” (fit to be killed) and inciting people to attack them are being openly circulated in Pakistan’s textile industry hub of Faisalabad, according to a media report. The pamphlets list the names of several Ahmadiya industrialists, doctors and businesses. The first […]
CHICAGO — For a guy who is only 35 and lives in a walk-up apartment, Eboo Patel has already racked up some impressive accomplishments. A Rhodes scholar with a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, he has four honorary degrees. His autobiography is required freshman reading on […]
By Op-Ed Columnist, THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN You probably missed the recent special issue of China Newsweek, so let me bring you up to date. Who do you think was on the cover — named the “most influential foreign figure” of the year in China? Barack Obama? No. Bill Gates? No. […]
Canada Post has suspended urban operations nationwide, saying it had no other choice. Just before midnight Tuesday, Canada Post issued a release saying it has locked out employees after 12 days of “increasingly costly and damaging” rotating strikes by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). On Tuesday, about 15,000 […]
By Robert Jeffress, Special to CNN In January 1961, a few days before John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as president, he invited Billy Graham to spend a day with him in Key Biscayne, Florida. After a round of golf, Kennedy and Graham were returning to their hotel when Kennedy stopped […]
Targeted violence against female public officials, dismal healthcare and desperate poverty make Afghanistan the world’s most dangerous country in which to be born a woman, according to a global survey released on Wednesday. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Pakistan, India and Somalia feature in descending order after Afghanistan […]
If Google Earth maps the trees, the oceans, and the annals of history, why is a country, Israel, so hard to make out? An article from Mother Jones explores how U.S. policy makers have pixelated Google Earth and why that might change in 2013. Israel’s low-resolution e-presence can be traced […]
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu is hoping to convince at least 30 countries to vote against recognising a Palestinian state should the United Nations debate the issue in September, media reports said. “Before we reach September, we have to push through an initiative to secure 30 countries and more who will say […]
Kāfir Factory – Infidel Factory Last year on Friday, 28th May 2010, the world saw a massacre of innocent Ahmadis in Lahore, Pakistan. A day after a journalist of BBC Urdu, Mohammad Hanif, wrote an article titled “Kafir Factor – Infidel Factory”. In this article he has shown a picture of Pakistani societies […]
Mauritius’s Economic Growth Gaining Momentum Mauritius’s economy will probably expand more than forecast this year as growth in tourism and exports gains momentum, central bank Governor Rundheersing Bheenick said, adding to pressure for higher interest rates. “We have reason to believe that the country’s economic growth will be above […]
KAZAKHSTAN: Ahmadi Muslim mosque closed, Protestants fined 100 times minimum monthly wage Source / Courtesy: Forum 18, Norway Kazakhstan has fined an Ahmadi Muslim community – also denying it the use of its mosque and land – as well as imposed fines of 100 times the minimum monthly wage on two Protestants for […]
By AGENCIES • ‘Hamas govt flourishes while restrictions hit the poor’ • Wages fall, jobless rate up since Israel blockade began • Egyptian border opening slightly relaxes tension • High unemployment rate ups pressure on UNRWA JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH: The Gaza Strip enters its fifth year of a full Israeli blockade by […]
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Prince Sultan Charitable Foundation has constructed 200 low-cost housing units for the poor in Al-Laith in the Makkah province as part of a SR385 million project to supply affordable homes. It will aim to provide 1,246 houses in different parts of the […]
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Muslim intellectuals must be well prepared to confront any smear campaign against Islam and Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) on the Internet and in other public media, said a prominent Keralite editor. “Although there is nothing new in most of the […]
By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA | ARAB NEWS Makkah: Municipal and Rural Affairs Minister Prince Mansour bin Miteb on Tuesday inspected the final phase of the Mashair Railway project that links the holy sites of Mina, Arafat and Muzdalifah. The project will bring about dramatic improvement in Haj transportation. Speaking to […]
MMAN (JT) – His Majesty King Abdullah on Tuesday stressed that there is no going back on the path of reform, a Royal Court statement said. Reform is the optimal means to overcome challenges and build on previous achievements for the best future for Jordan and Jordanians, the King said […]
By Raed Omari AMMAN – Tafileh MPs and senators on Tuesday issued a statement, demanding an apology from Agence France-Presse (AFP) for publishing “false” news reports that His Majesty King Abdullah’s motorcade was attacked by stone throwers during his visit to their city on Monday. In the statement, the signatories […]
More than 60,000 Americans were sterilised, many against their will, as part of a eugenics movement that finished in 1979, aimed at keeping the poor and mentally ill from having children. Now, decades on, one state is considering compensation. In 1968, Elaine Riddick was raped by a neighbour who threatened to […]
Despite recent criticism about severe land and water pollution, Bali has the best environment of all of the provinces, a government study shows. The report on Indonesia’s environmental quality index in 2010 conducted by the Environment Ministry showed that Bali had a score of 99.65, the highest of all the […]