Europeans

Cash-loving Japanese savers opt to play it safe

Tokyo - Muslimchronicle

The Tokyo stock market might be riding two-decade highs, but a growing number of Japanese are choosing to stash their cash in the humble home safe, wary of negative interest rates in the bank and out of the view of eagle-eyed tax officials. It is no secret that Japan has some of the world's biggest savers, learning from an earlyRead more

Europeans will not be able to walk safely on streets across world: Erdogan

Ankara - Arab today

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Europeans would not be able to walk safely on the streets if they kept up their current attitude towards Turkey, his latest salvo in a row over campaigning by Turkish politicians in Europe. Turkey has been embroiled in a dispute with Germany and the Netherlands over campaign appearances by Turkish officials seeking toRead more

Sudan made overture and progress in various international arenas

Khartoum - Arab Today

The Head of the Foreign Relations sector at the National Congress Party, Sadeq Mohamed Ali Hassab Al Rasool has affirmed that Sudan has made noticeable overture and progress at all foreign relations levels. He referred in this regards to the tight coordination between the various bodies of the party and its thorough implementation of the strategy of the sector withinRead more

Foreign Relations official at the NC: Sudan made overture and progress in various international arenas

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Khartoum - Arab Today

Economic expert call Tunisian government

Tunis - Hayat Al Ghanemi

Head of Confederation of Tunisian Citizenship Institutions Tariq Sherif revealed that the training programs are continued thanks to the support provided by a number of countries including Italy and Switzerland. He added that the programs perform a major role to support the capabilities of different institutions and to develop them in the different fields. He added, in an interview withRead more

Ancient tree cultivation shaped Amazon landscape

Washington- Arab today

Indiana Jones may have found a few more lost temples if he’d known a thing or two about plants. By mapping the distribution of tree species with known archaeological sites in the Amazon basin, scientists have discovered that humans shaped the make-up of the Amazon forests over thousands of years. The findings, described in the journal Science, highlight the complexRead more

Holidaymakers look for convenience in travel destinations

Abu Dhabi - Arab Today

It’s the desire of every individual to make festive season holidays as memorable as possible and while there’s truth to the notion ‘that there’s no place like home for the holidays’ that pulls many to return to their home countries, holidaymakers also want to head to top-draw destinations around the world to catch the festive spirit. Mary Thomas, managingRead more

Internal auditor slams IMF handling of Greece bailout

Washington - Arab Today

An independent probe into the IMF's handling of European bailouts found that it bent its rules and was vulnerable to political pressure as it embarked on the ill-fated 2010 Greece rescue. The International Monetary Fund's Independent Evaluation Office said in its report Thursday that in the plunge into the eurozone crisis, the Fund's executive board was poorly informed and exercisedRead more

Gay Pride prouder and louder after Orlando attacks

Vienna - Arab Today

Tens of thousands of Europeans paid tribute in Gay Pride marches on Saturday to the 49 people massacred in a gay nightclub in Orlando last weekend in a defiantly festive atmosphere. At the largest, Vienna's "Rainbow Parade" involving around 130,000 people according to organisers, a minute's silence was held during the 20th annual anything-goes parade. Leading the march was aRead more

Poverty rising in Europe, amid global dearth of solid jobs

Geneva - Arab Today

A growing number of Europeans are living in "relative poverty", the UN labour agency said Wednesday, warning that a lack of quality jobs worldwide was threatening to undo decades of progress in poverty reduction. The International Labour Organization (ILO) also lamented that, while poverty had declined dramatically in middle-income countries it remained "stubbornly" high in Africa and much of Asia,Read more