Mosaic: World News From The Middle East – December 6, 2007

Pakistan Warns Of More Floods As Heavy Rains Fall

Pakistan has been devastated by floods, and more rain is on the way. There is rising concern that aid will not reach the millions affected by the disaster before waterborne diseases, malnutrition and exposure take their toll. » E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

BAA airport workers’ strike called off

The union Unite said that talks to resolve a row over pay involving more than 6,000 security staff, engineers and firefighters have resolved the dispute The threat of strike action by BAA airport workers has been called off tonight, the union Unite has said. Six airports, Heathrow, Stansted, Southampton, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, faced closure [...]

Mosaic: World News From The Middle East – September 10, 2007

Mexico’s Drug War Hits Historic Border Cantinas

The country’s drug violence has ruined border tourism and forced residents in border cities to flee. Three famous Prohibition-era border bars, all founded in the 1920s, are in jeopardy. Survival has meant paying off local thugs for security and paying employees out-of-pocket. » E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

Mixed response to Blair’s donation

Armed forces charity delighted to accept book proceeds but opponents of war say it will not change their views on former PM For the former prime minister it was “a way of marking the enormous sacrifice” of the UK’s armed forces. For some others it was little more than an attempt to assuage a guilty [...]

Devastating Floods Cause Great Need In Pakistan

Heavy rain is again soaking victims living in makeshift camps, adding to the urgency of a massive international relief effort under way in Pakistan. U.S. Ambassador Anne W. Patterson tells Steve Inskeep that Pakistan is in need of money and relief supplies. » E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

Rights Group: Kyrgyz Army Involved In Mob Violence

A prominent human rights group said Monday that Kyrgyzstan’s armed forces abetted and may even have actively taken part in violence by ethnic Kyrgyz mobs against the minority Uzbek community that left at least 370 dead in June. » E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

Disease fears for Pakistan children

Shortage of clean water raises health fears as fresh protests erupt over slow delivery of aid The UN said today that 3.5 million children in Pakistan are at risk from deadly waterborne diseases, as fresh protests erupted over the slow delivery of aid in the flood-ravaged country. The warning comes a day after the UN [...]

China’s economy overtakes Japan

• Japanese economy grew by just 0.1% in second quarter• Figures seen as ‘symbolic’ shift in world power China overtook Japan as the world’s second-largest economy during the second quarter of this year, marking another milestone in the country’s transformation from impoverished communist state to economic superpower. With its red-hot economy growing at around 9% [...]