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This post asks why the Arab world is so backwards, not Arabs. So for those looking for a racist post attacking Arabs, go somewhere else.
While Arabs are, of course, innately no different than other people, their region has fallen behind the rest of...
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Amid the ongoing financial regulation overhaul, the banking industry is hoping to pull off a quiet power grab that has eluded its grasp since the Great Depression, by...
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Will it be China that finally pays the huge bills for repairing and rebuilding Afghanistan and Iraq — and reaps the rewards? It’s looking that way: as the US and...
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India has buried a shame in gold, but reaped a worry in grains. (The Telegraph)
In a stunning turnaround in fortune from 1991 when, in order to avoid defaults in...
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The British government announced Tuesday that it will break up parts of major financial institutions bailed out by taxpayers, highlighting a growing divide across the...
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This incident of suicide bombing is being regarded as the most appalling in the history of terrorist bombings in Pakistani cities. Over a 100 people lost their lives,...
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In 2004, Yahoo engineers published a document about TrustRank. TrustRank describes an algorithm that search engines can use to determine relevant search results.
In...
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Brazil’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved Venezuela’s request to join the South American trade bloc Mercosur.
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Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) today told the Supreme Court that the gas dispute between the company and Reliance Natural Resources Ltd (RNRL) cannot be put to...
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The Tourism Minister, Mohammed Boussaid, said to Morocco’s national TV channel that the number of tourists visiting Morocco has increased 5% in the year to...
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The director general of the organization of the Islamic conference, Allal Rachdi, said on Tuesday in Cairo that trade between the members of the organization reached...
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China’s GDP increased 8.9 percent for the third quarter, moving closer toward the goal of 8 percent growth for the year.
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The Bank of Punjab scam, which is reported to have eaten away some 13 billion rupees, had led Pakistan into requesting international assistance for capturing Hamesh...
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The Indian School of Business is one of the most prestigious business schools in the world and was established to rival IIM. The business school has renowned and...
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First jet management & then Rico unions are always the red flag to the management. Partly because they think that the approach of unions is not constructive.
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Finally after the gap of nine long months nimish kampani the chief of jm financial premier financial services company can come home to celebrate diwali
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Reliance Industries Ltd today came to the aid of the flood-hit people of Andhra Pradesh and donated Rs 11.11 crore (Rupees eleven crore and eleven lakh) to the Chief...
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“I can extract, I can fill up, I can scale, I can make dentures, I can make bridge metal or non-metal.” Kishore said as he fitted dentures for a...
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With the global recession making consumers and businesses more price-conscious, China is grabbing market share from its export competitors, solidifying a dominance in...
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Cuba’s workplace cafeterias are closing, President Raúl Castro keeps saying the well-off shouldn’t get the same subsidies as the poor, and now there are...
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The slumping global economy is having a stimulus effect on Costa Rica’s famous sex-tourism industry, as a growing number of unemployed women — from Colombia...
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Many people around the world have been cursed with cringe-inducing names (as this BBC story proves). Some, however, are more unfortunate than others.
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California has a special place in the American psyche. It is the Golden State: a playground of the rich and famous with perfect weather. It symbolises a lifestyle of...
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In morgues across the country the corpses of dead poor are stacking up as the the government runs out of money to bury them. State and county budgets for interring...
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As part of the Huffington Post’s efforts to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we’re rounding up some of...
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Last week’s deadly rioting that resulted after the central government refused the king of Buganda, Uganda’s largest ethnic group from traveling to one of his...
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The last depression the U.S. went through was in 1930’s, and it was part of huge global downturn.
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This brief post is meant to catch the attention of philanthropic readers over one of hundreds of thousands of cases in poverty and disease that continue to paralyze the...
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A key gauge of Ireland’s economic health isn’t found in the island nation’s business districts or trading floors, but on the football fields of the...
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The global effects of recession have resulted to numerous setbacks worldwide. Conflicts among nations, particularly the war against terrorism, worsen the situation....
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Unemployment is an underlying malaise eating through the flesh and bone of the country. Every year the budget is labeled as poor-friendly, but it’s no more than a...
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Will threatening to blow up the factory where you work get you a better severance package?
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Poverty is the most dreaded issue in the daily lives of millions of Afghan people, especially those who live outside the capital city of Kabul. Even within the capital,...
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After raising to a 26-year high of 9.5% in June, Friday’s unemployment number show a unexpected decline. The Labor Department reports that U.S. employment fell to...
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Floyd Norris, in the “Off The Charts” columns in the Economy section of the New York Times declares “Leading Indicators Are Signaling the...
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The Child Poverty Action Group is alarmed at a new report published by the Ministry of Social Development that shows that in 2008 one in six New Zealand children lived...
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A woman walks past a job centre, in west London, Wednesday, March 18, 2009. Unemployment in Britain rose to 6.5 percent in the three months ending in January, with the number of people out of work reaching its highest in 12 years, the government said...
