“The Council (US Council on Competitiveness] champions the belief that to be competitive, and raise the standard of living Americans, we must enhance productivity.” www.compete.org/images/uploads/File/PDF%20Files/CoC_2014_Clarion_091014_FINAL.pdf Effective competitiveness is often described as above. Being competitive means being able to increase prosperity, which requires increasing productivity. It’s a fairly straightforward and well-understood relationship – increased productivity leads […]
Madrid, Oct 6 (IANS/EFE) Spain’s Maritime Rescue service Sunday pulled out of water 58 immigrants from Sub-Saharan countries, who had set sail from the Moroccan coast in a small boat in the Mediterranean Sea. The migrants were intercepted 10 nautical miles from the Spanish islet of Alboran. A spokesman for the emergency service told EFE that […]
Madrid, Oct 3 (IANS) FC Barcelona striker Lionel Messi will have to stand trial on corruption charges after a judge in the Catalan town of Gava rejected the footballer’s appeal against having to appear, it was confirmed Friday. Messi had alleged and had been backed up by the Spanish anti-corruption judge that he had not known […]
Guwahati, Oct 1 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi Wednesday urged union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to expedite the process to set up the Brahmaputra River Valley Authority (BRVA) as a long-term mitigation measures for floods on Brahmaputra and Barak river basins. “Flood causes a temporary setback but erosion causes permanent damage. So far four lakh […]
Santiago, Sep 30 (IANS/EFE) A 23-year-old Chilean man died after two years in a persistent vegetative state as a result of being shot in the head unintentionally by a law enforcement officer during a student protest in October 2012, his family said Monday. Angelo Estrada, who died Sunday at his home in Peñaflor, 40 km southwest […]
Madrid, Sep 26 (IANS) The second repatriated Spaniard suffering from the Ebola virus has died. Manuel Garcia Viejo died Thursday after his condition deteriorated, Xinhua reported. The 69-year-old had arrived at the Carlos III Hospital in north of Madrid Monday. His condition was described as serious as he was suffering from severe dehydration and his liver […]
The Hague, Sep 26 (IANS) An Indian origin girl is among three children who have been nominated for the International Children’s Peace Prize 2014. The International Children’s Peace Prize is an initiative of the Amsterdam-based children’s rights organisation ‘KidsRights’, Xinhua reported. The children who have been nominated are Neha from the US, along with Alexey from […]
Baghdad, Sep 24 (IANS/EFE) The Islamic State (IS) Sunni extremist group executed rights activist Samira Saleh Ali al-Neaimi in a central square of north Iraq’s Mosul city Tuesday, a week after she was detained for her criticism of the jihadi group. Al-Neaimi’s arrest came after she condemned the demolition of religious shrines as “barbaric”, Efe quoted […]
Algiers, Sep 24 (IANS) The Algerian army has deployed more than 1,500 troops, including paratroopers, to search for a French man who was kidnapped Sunday, media reported. Herve Gourdil was hiking in a popular tourist place in the country, when he was abducted by militants in the upper hills of the Tizi Ouzou region, 120 km […]
Ankara, Sep 20 (IANS) Some 45,000 Syrian Kurds fleeing Islamic State (IS) attacks on the border region have entered Turkey, deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said here Saturday. The Kurds entered southeastern Turkey Friday through Sanliurfa and Gaziantep provinces. “Turkey had been ready for an even worse-case scenario, a flow of up to 100,000 people,” Xinhua […]
