HUSBANDS in Saudi Arabia are now monitoring their wives’ movements out of the country using electronic tracking. Women in the ultra conservative country are already denied the right to travel without consent from their male guardians and banned from driving. But now women in oil rich kingdom are being spied on by an electronic system that picks-up any cross-border movements. Read Article
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Violence broke out across Egypt last night as protesters reacted to the power grab by Mohamed Morsi. His party’s offices were torched, while his opponents called the President a “dictator” and “pharaoh” who has now acquired more political might than the ousted leader, Hosni Mubarak. Read Article
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At around 2am on March 7, the group arrived back at their Earls Court hotel having spent the evening at a Sports Bar in Piccadilly Circus. Unfortunately, rather than going to sleep like the rest of the group, two of the students decided they would see what Earls Court had to offer in terms of […]
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Many of us are guilty of taking a power nap at work but the cockpit of an airplane isn’t the best place to try to fit in forty winks. Yet alarmingly more than four in ten British pilots admit to having fallen asleep at the controls of a passenger jet, according to a new survey. […]
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Machu Picchu Peru, From 2013, the historic sanctuary aims to increase the number of visitors, thanks to the efforts of a promotional campaign in emerging markets. The president of the National Chamber of Tourism (CANATUR), Carlos Canales , asked the government to set this figure as a goal given that in recent years has come […]
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Municipal workers took strike action and protested throughout Greece Tuesday to protest the latest €13.5 billion ($17 billion) austerity measures being imposed by the three-party coalition government. During the day municipal (Poe-Ota) workers struck and occupied many government buildings nationwide. Two-thirds of Greece’s 325 municipalities were closed to the public due to the strikes and […]
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11:25AM EST November 23. 2012 – The union representing flight attendants for US Airways voted to authorize a strike, but none is planned for the holiday travel weekend. The airline responded that the vote is symbolic, and meant to push along the negotiations, not an actual work stoppage. Read article
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LANDIKOTAL: The increasing number of leishmaniasis patients in areas of Khyber Agency negates the claims of the Fata Health Department in taking measures to eradicate the disease. Currently there are around 400 to 500 locals and Afghan refugees who are suffering from the disease in the Khyber Agency areas near Pak-Afghan border. Leishmaniasis is a […]
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The 2012 West Nile virus (WNV) outbreak continues nationally, although it seems to be slowing, as federal health officials report 79 new cases and 5 deaths during the past week, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report Nov. 20. As of Tuesday, a total of 5,207 cases of West Nile virus […]
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KABKABIYA Activists and residents from Kabkabiya locality, North Darfur, have informed Radio Dabanga on Tuesday November 20, about the alleged arrival of four new cases of a disease resembling yellow fever from Jebel ‘Aamer and Sref Beni Hussein localities. The patients were taken to the hospital in Kabkabiya for treatment, but remain in critical condition, […]
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