There is no doubt about it: With 9,000 coffee bars worldwide and 100,000 employees, Starbucks is a complete success story. Over the past five years, profit has quadrupled. Alone during the past year, sales...
President Donald Trump announced that the US is exiting from the Iranian nuclear deal and will reintroduce sanctions. Lifting sanctions was part of the 2015 nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action reached by China, Iran, the United States, Russia, Germany, France, the United...
Done deal? President Trump announces US exit from the Iran nuclear deal, and will Iran limit its missile program?
BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA: The pressure is on Tehran with President Donald Trump ending waivers on Iran that were lifted by the Obama...
South African voters headed to the polls. The governing African National Congress leads with about half the votes counted. “Analysts say that if the ANC vote remains above 55%, it will enable President Ramaphosa to strengthen his grip on the party,” reports BBC News. “Votes are cast for parties,...
Nigerian authorities and the world may have lost a sense of urgency about Boko Haram’s brazen attacks on small villages and mass kidnappings. A UNICEF report points out that girls are regarded as sex slaves, boys are trained to fight, and both are used as suicide bombers. Inequality and a...
Read the article from the Los Angeles Times.
Read the report from Unicef. Special correspondent Aminu Abubakar reported from Kano and Times staff writer Robyn Dixon from Johannesburg, South Africa.
The firing of 670 workers employed by Gate Gourmet at London's Heathrow Airport has intensified an already heated labor environment. The company is owned by a US investment firm, and union officials hold "mean-spirited capitalists" responsible. According to this Guardian commentary...
If you ask the managers at Gate Gourmet, they will blame the firm's plight on an inflexible workforce unwilling to change.
The Transport and General Workers Union (T&G), which represents the workers, says...
China has steadily shifted policies since 1980 in pursuit of global economic leadership. “While many of the key building blocks of China’s transitional framework have fallen into place – especially rapid growth in services and accelerated urbanization – there can be no mistaking a new and important...
Global leaders are uncertain about their relationship with the United States. Policies, whether promoting America first in trade or separating children from parents seeking asylum, have long-term consequences for other countries. Questions emerge about the meeting between the US president and...
Donald Trump pulled the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action for Iran's nuclear program in May 2018, insisting the agreement was not tough enough. He then reinstated sanctions and urged Iranian leaders to renegotiate another deal. But Iran is in no mood to negotiate and...
Dealmakers: Iran’s Hassan Rouhani turns to Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping for trade and other deals and rejects overtures from Donald Trump after he withdrew the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
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