NYC fast-food workers strike for better pay Hundreds of employees stop work at scores of restaurants, saying $7-$9 per hour is not enough to survive About 400 fast food workers in New York City are holding a one-day strike at scores of McDonald’s, Domino’s, Taco Bell and other fast-food restaurants. Backed by a union coalition, the […]
Qatar pledges $500 million for reconstruction in Darfur
8 April 2013 by
Hundreds of delegates meet in Qatar’s capital to raise funds to rebuild Sudanese region racked by conflict. Qatar has pledged $500m in aid to rebuild Sudan’s Darfur region after a decade-long conflict, an official has said. Monday’s announcement came as hundreds of delegates met for the final day of a two-day donor conference in Doha […]
Sectarian violence in Egypt
8 April 2013 by
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has condemned deadly clashes at the Cairo headquarters of the Coptic Christian pope as “an attack against myself”, ordering a quick probe into the violence, a statement said. “I consider any attack on the cathedral an attack against myself,” Morsi Second to pharmacy express that. The active ingredient in cialis black […]
Argentine president is an ‘old hag’ according to the president of Uruguay
5 April 2013 by
ARGENTINA made a formal complaint to neighbours Uruguay after the country’s president Jose Mujica was heard branding the Argentine President an “old hag”. By: Mark Reynolds Published: Fri, April 5, 2013 Famously candid Mr Mujica was unaware his microphone was switched on when he made the remark about the Argentine leader Cristina Kirchner, […]
Economic outlook hurt by weak job gains
5 April 2013 by
(Reuters) – American employers hired at the slowest pace in nine months in March, a sign that Washington’s austerity drive could be stealing momentum from the economy. The economy added just 88,000 nonfarm jobs last month, the Labor Department said on Friday, well below market expectations for a 200,000 increase. The jobless rate ticked a […]
Thousands of Medicare patients are being turned away at cancer clinics.
5 April 2013 by
Cancer clinics across the country have begun turning away thousands of Medicare patients, blaming the sequester budget cuts. Oncologists say the reduced funding, which took effect for Medicare on April 1, makes it impossible to administer expensive chemotherapy drugs while staying afloat financially. (Click the above link for the full story)