The Abu Dhabi government has announced plans to launch a new virtual job portal to support business in the emirate.The new portal will be launched Oct 19 at the Najah career fair to be held at the Abu Dhabi Exhibition Centre, the Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Committee (Adsic), the government entity spearheading the initiative, […]
European Union leaders hammered out a plan Sunday to confront the financial crisis which will involve hundreds of billions of dollars of new initiatives to head off a feared “meltdown.”
Two weeks after the Wall Street collapse of Lehman Brothers unleashed a worldwide crash on stock markets, US and European leaders signalled a growing commitment to […]
Vietnam will grant clemency to two Australians facing execution in Hanoi for drug smuggling, Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said on Monday after talks with his Australian counterpart Kevin Rudd.Dung, in Australia to mark 35 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries, said Vietnam’s President had agreed to clemency for the two Australians.
“Building […]
Chinese police have detained six people suspected of producing and selling melamine, the chemical at the centre of the country’s scandal over tainted dairy products, the official Xinhua news agency said.The arrests were made in Hohhot, capital of the northern region of Inner Mongolia, which is China’s main dairy-producing area, Xinhua said in an overnight […]
Prime Minister Gordon Brown will attend a weekend summit in Paris on the global financial turmoil but stresses the need for national decisions on the crisis, his spokesman said Thursday.
Confirming his participation in a summit Saturday with his French, German and Italian counterparts, the spokesman said while there was a “European dimension” to the problems, […]
An official at Somalia’s foreign ministry says foreign powers may use force to free a hijacked ship carrying tanks and other heavy weapons.
Mohamed Jama Ali, the ministry’s acting permanent director, said his government granted permission on the condition that foreign powers coordinate with Somalia beforehand.
“The international community has permission to fight with the pirates,” Ali […]
Disagreements between Somali pirates holding a ship laden with tanks and heavy weapons escalated into a shootout and three pirates are believed dead, a U.S. defense official said Tuesday. The pirates denied the report.
The U.S. destroyer USS Howard and several other American ships have surrounded the Ukrainian cargo ship Faina, which was hijacked Thursday and […]
The US has denied a Pakistan claim of shooting down an unmanned American drone in South Waziristan last night.”No such thing occurred,” one senior US official said while denying the reports, reported The Telegraph.
Earlier, reports had quoted Pakistani intelligence officials as saying local Taliban groups had shot down a drone on Tuesday night.
A Pakistani TV […]
Victims of sexual harassment will now be able to directly lodge their complaints through e-mails or helpline systems of MCD. An e-mail, helplinecomplaintsmcd@gmail.Com, and Helpline — 011-23919312 — was launched by MCD through which victims can file their complaints that will be referred to the sexual harassment committee for quick redressal and necessary action. This […]
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni wasted no time Sunday working to put together a new government, meeting with potential coalition partners even as outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert formally resigned. Her ability to move fast in her first task could have far-reaching effects on Mideast peace talks.
Livni, who has gained respect for favoring peace deals […]