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Qatar Launchs Major Labour Reform for Migrant Workers

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  (WPS) The Wage Protection System   is a Qatari new Labour Reforms aims to ensure that migrant laborers, will receive their pay on time. Under the new system , workers will be paid twice a month or monthly, and the payments  will  be electronically and directly  transferred to their bank accounts. As Failure to pay salaries on time, especially for …

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American Aid worker raped by ISIL leader while being held hostage

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  US officials announced that aid worker Kayla Mueller seized in Aleppo, Syria  in August 2013 and held hostage by ISIL militants, was repeatedly raped by the group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. And that she“was the property of al-Baghdadi.” US government officials told Mueller’s parents that their daughter had been raped by al-Baghdadi and tortured during her captivity, family spokeswoman Emily Lenzner …

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Egypt: Establish International Inquiry Into Rab’a Massacre

An officer from the Egyptian Central Security Forces (CSF) takes aim at a crowd of retreating protesters as security forces disperse the Rab’a sit-in on August 14, 2013. © 2013 AFP/Getty Images

No Charges 2 Years After Security Forces Killed At Least 800 Protesters  Human Rights Watch Egyptian authorities have held no government official or member of the security forces responsible for the mass killing of protesters in Cairo’s Rab’a al-Adawiya Square two years ago. On August 14, 2013, security forces killed at least 817 people and most likely more than 1,000 …

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Blood, death and flames: memories of Egypt’s Rabaa massacre

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Amnesty International  By: Nadine Haddad ,( Egypt Campaigner at Amnesty International) As you walk through the bustling traffic in Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya Square today, you would never know the bloodiest incident in Egypt’s recent history had taken place there two years ago, when the dispersal by security forces of two sit-ins in Cairo and other protests across Egypt left up to …

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Canada: Embassy of Qatar hosts Arab missions for trade talks in Ottawa

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  The Qatari embassy in Ottawa the  Canadian capital hosted a meeting of Arab embassies and missions  with the Canadian government which was represented by Canadian Commercial Corporation CEO Martin Zablocki. The Talks between sides  discussed means of enhancing trade exchanges between Arab states and Canada ,and overcoming technical difficulties in expanding cooperation. The corporation is the commercial arm of …

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Mulcair’s orange purge

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By: Dr.Dawg Criticism of Israel is something that “today’s NDP” takes very seriously indeed: so seriously that a purge of candidates now appears to be underway. Their crime? To speak up for the human rights of Palestinians. After the recent roasting of a Palestinian toddler by Israeli settlers (no arrests to date, just a round-up of the Usual Suspects and a …

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Yemen Alert: Seize the Chance to End the Conflict

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Crisis Group International : The military tide has turned against Huthi fighters in Yemen. Emboldened by recent gains, the Saudi-led coalition has started to push into the centre of the country from Aden, the southern port city taken in mid-July, and may even attempt to capture the capital, Sanaa, further north. To avoid a new and potentially more deadly phase …

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Canada : Harper pledges to welcome 10,000 refugees from Iraq and Syria

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 Stephen Harper is vowing to open Canada’s doors wider to assist refugees displaced by Islamic State fighters Harper used a campaign visit to pledge that a Conservative government would accept 10,000 refugees from Iraq and Syria over the next four years, despite criticism that the government has been slow to welcome the civilians it already promised to take in. he cautioned that …

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UAE : Dad lets daughter die, rather than be touched by ‘strange’ rescuer

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  An Asian father of a 20 years old girl let his daughter drown, after  he stopped life guards from rescuing her. According to a top official ,the man  preferred that his daughter die rather than be touched by a stranger men. Lt. Col Ahmed Burqibah, Deputy Director of Dubai Police’s Search and Rescue Department, said that this incident took …

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Infant Mortality Rises in Gaza for First Time in 53 Years

A Palestinian doctor holds the dead body of a baby girl following an Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza City on August 19, 2014.

A new study by the U.N. aid agency for Palestinian refugees says.that infant mortality rate in Gaza has risen for the first time in more than 50 years, A statement from the UNRWA relief agency released said “The number of babies dying before the age of one has consistently gone down over the last decades in Gaza, from 127 per …

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