By Ibrahim Nafee Saudi Arabian private companies who have not legalized the work status of their expatriate employees are planning to lay them off due to fears of expected raids by labor authorities. Some 3 million expatriate workers are threatened with redundancy. Many of these companies do not have the financial capability of transferring workers [...]
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By Gwynne Dyer As I write this, Nelson Mandela is still with us. He may even still be living at the end of this year. But this is his fourth hospitalization in six months, and the prognosis for the 94-year-old man with persistent lung infections is not good. How will South Africa do without him? [...]
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South Africa is going through a difficult period which requires unity and common purpose from leaders of all sectors to help build confidence in the economy, President Jacob Zuma said today. “It is a period of focusing on solutions and of working together to solve our problems. It is the time of counting our achievements [...]
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ArcelorMittal said Friday that Bill Scotting will be appointed chief executive of ArcelorMittal Mining. Peter Kukielski, who has been chief executive since December 2008, is leaving the company on August 3rd to take up a new opportunity. Until that time, he will be working closely with Bill to ensure a smooth transition. Scotting currently holds [...]
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The imaginative uses of the mighty presidency in American history and its bully pulpit have rarely been much above amateurish when it comes to helping people empower themselves. This has been the case even when the same party controls the White House and both Houses of Congress. Consider the last opportunities when Clinton and Obama [...]
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By Molly Corso The Greater Caucasus Mountains form a natural buffer between Russia and Georgia. But in the absence of a border agreement between the two states, even some of the highest peaks in Europe are not enough to protect Georgia from the risk of Russian territorial nibbling, analysts say. The 894-kilometer-long Georgian-Russian border is [...]
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By Uma Purushothaman American President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent meeting in the US was path-breaking in many ways. Though not a formal summit, this was the first meeting between the two leaders after Xi took over as President and Obama was re-elected. The idea behind the talks, clearly, was to build [...]
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Allianz Group said Friday that according to a preliminary estimate, the gross impact on the Group due to the current floods in Germany, Austria and part of Central Europe is probably above 0.5 billion euros. The size of this natural catastrophe will trigger reinsurance covers for Allianz, limiting the net loss to approximately 350 million [...]
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The director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert Mueller, is vowing to take swift action against the former CIA analyst who has confessed to leaking documents exposing a pair of top secret government surveillance programs. Speaking to lawmakers Thursday, FBI chief Mueller confirmed that a criminal investigation has been opened into the leaks, [...]
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Russia is not planning to deliver S-300 air defense systems to Syria, despite the announcement by the US administration on Thursday of its intention to supply the Syrian opposition with weaponry, a presidential aide said on Friday. “The issue has not been raised yet,” aide Yury Ushakov told reporters in Moscow in comments on the [...]
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Hezbollah’s leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah blasted Friday the U.S. administration, accusing it of interfering in the affairs of Lebanon and other countries in the region. “We have nothing new in terms of the elections and we warn of the American interference to push things in a certain direction and this is the tip of the [...]
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Mr. President, if I were a professional con artist paid to give you the pros and cons on engaging in a war in Syria, here’s what they would be: As you know, former president Clinton, probably understood by many to also be speaking on behalf of his wife, has called you a wuss. Virtually nobody [...]
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Is there such a thing in China? Is it just another story from rags to riches? Do the Chinese dream of bioengineered and controlled sheep of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)? The “Chinese Dream” that Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks of has three key impressions in the minds of the CCP which may be different [...]
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Manila and Taipei are presently locked in a maritime row after an incident on 9 May in which Philippine maritime authorities shot and killed a Taiwanese fisherman in waters belonging to northern Philippines’ Exclusive Economic Zone. Responding to intense public pressure, Taipei has demanded an official apology, compensation for the victim’s family, a speedy inquiry [...]
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By Farhang Jahanpour In Iran’s eleventh presidential election on June 14, if no candidate receives more than 50% of the votes, a second round will be held on June 21 between the two candidates with the highest number of votes. The next president will take over from Iran’s controversial incumbent, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 3 [...]
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In what many security experts consider paradoxical, President Barack Obama is close to ordering weapons shipments to be sent to the al-Qaeda-linked Syrian rebels as a consequence of President Bashar al-Assad alleged use of chemical weapons against rebel forces, according to a counterterrorism source on Thursday. “This is a development that is at once startling [...]
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The short answer is Iran and Hezbollah according to Congressional sources. “The Syrian army’s victory at al-Qusayr was more than the administration could accept given that town’s strategic position in the region. Its capture by the Assad forces has essentially added Syria to Iran’s list of victories starting with Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, as well as [...]
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(RFE/RL) — The last polling stations have closed in the Iranian capital and voting is over in the country’s presidential election. The polls were due to close at 6 p.m. local time (1330 GMT/UTC) but the large turnout prompted officials to keep voting stations open until 10 p.m. local time and 11 p.m. in Tehran [...]
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By Yasmine Najjar After three months on the run, the rapper hoped to overturn the conviction handed down for his song “Boulicia Kleb”. But the Ben Arous judge ruled that the rap song critical of the police merited a two-year prison sentence. “The sentence is very tough for an artist who decided of his own [...]
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US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel welcomed Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon to the Pentagon Friday during Yaalon’s first official visit to Washington since taking office earlier this spring, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said. Yaalon arrived aboard a MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft from Marine Corps Base Quantico, Va. Hagel announced in April that the United [...]
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