By Shane Simpson Labour Day is a day to celebrate the achievements of working people, and to renew our efforts to make things better. B.C.’s New Democrats are dedicated to making changes that support workers, ensuring they have good working conditions and get paid a fair wage. Labour Day has its origins in the union movement’s fight for the eight-hour …

The Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris has offered to buy an island off Greece or Italy and develop it to help hundreds of thousands of people fleeing from Syria and other conflicts. The telecoms tycoon first announced the initiative on Twitter. He wrote “Greece or Italy sell me an island, I’ll call its independence and host the migrants and provide jobs …

prominent Sunni Muslim scholars are demanding that Tehran  should ban a film on the life of the Prophet Muhammad that was released on August 27, though it breaks box-office records in Shi’ite Muslim Iran. Iran’s most expensive movie, which opened nationwide in the Shiite Islamic republic last week, depicts the prophet on screen, an act that is prohibited in Sunni …

Five publishing houses owned by Muslim Brotherhood leaders have been confiscated by The committee tasked with managing Muslim Brotherhood funds, according to Aswat Masreya website . The committee said in a statement , that The publishing houses are now under the management of the ministry of culture and are operating normally. The confiscated  publishing houses  are Dar El-Fath Arabic Media, Arab …

By Juan Cole  If there were a Palestinian Donald Trump, he’d be fulminating against illegal immigrants swamping the Palestinian West Bank. And he’d be complaining that fully 1 in 6 of these undocumented squatters are Americans . Since Americans have trouble understanding the basic facts of the situation, it is worthwhile underscoring that the United Nations General Assembly’s partition plan for …

Lawyer Amal Clooney , Said   that  the Canadian government has formally applied to Egyptian authorities for the pardon and deportation of  Mohamed Fahmy   the Canadian citizen and  Al-Jazeera journalist . Fahmy was sentenced to three years in prison, along with his  Al-Jazeera colleagues,  the Egyptian Baher Mohamed and  the Australian Peter Greste who  was deported to his  country earlier this year.  The journalists …

In Israel and east Jerusalem Christian schools have threatened to stay closed for Tuesday’s start of the new academic year because of a financing dispute with the government. The director of schools overseen by the Custody of the Holy Land, Abdel Massih Fahim, said  that the shutdown  was planned to demand equal treatment with other schools in Israel.  He added …

The businesswoman claimed the wounds on her helper were caused by a fall from the second A Saudi businesswoman faces charges of causing Death of her domestic helper’s will goes on trial few weeks later. The domestic helper whose nationality was not mentioned was reportedly beaten up and deprived of food for a long time and eventually moved to  hospital where …

  In  Irbid, Jordan , Social media users  called for measures against a student after he  spat at a faculty member at Jadara University  during a graduation ceremony, while he was queuing to receive his certificate Later after the incident the university said that it will file a lawsuit against the student . Saleh Aqeeli, president of Jadara University, said  “We …

By: Jonathan Cook I have written recently about Israel’s efforts to wipe off the map the 1,000-strong Bedouin community of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev (Naqab) so that Jews can live in their place. Dozens of other Bedouin communities in Israel – known as “unrecognised villages” and representing tens of thousands of Palestinian citizens – are facing similar fates. The …