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  • Arab Youth Survey Report 2015

    BAHRAIN, 2015/04/25 Confidence part Arab youth that the Arab Spring would bring positive change across the region is declining and as a result they are uncertain whether democracy could ever work in the Middle East. This is the headline finding of the 7th Annual ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller Arab Youth Survey released today. - Arab youth see the rise of ISIS as the biggest obstacle facing the region - Youth are keen to start their own business as concerns about unemployment continue - The UAE remains the majority popular country to live in and emulate and Saudi Arabia is viewed as the region’s biggest ally - A lot of view the Arabic language as central to their identity but believe it is losing its price to English

  • Oxfam Study Finds Richest 1% Is Likely to Control Half of Global Wealth by 2016

    AFGHANISTAN, 2015/01/20 The richest 1 % are likely to control additional than half of the globe’s total wealth by next year, the charity Oxfam reported in a study released on Monday. The warning about deepening world inequality comes just as the world’s business elite prepare to meet this week at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The 80 wealthiest people in the world all own $1.9 trillion, the statement found, nearly the same all shared by the 3.5 billion people who occupy the bottom half of the world’s gain scale. (Last year, it took 85 billionaires to equal that figure.) And the richest 1 % of the people, who number in the millions, control nearly half of the world’s total wealth, a share that is as well increasing.

  • Sheikh Ali Salman, the head of Bahrain’s main opposition bloc

    BAHRAIN, 2013/07/21 The chief of Bahrain’s major opposition bloc, Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, has underscored the Bahraini country’s determination to continue their anti-government protests in the face of Manama’s iron-fist policies. On Saturday, Sheikh Ali Salman stressed that Al Khalifa regime’s repressive policies cannot prevent the Bahraini country from holding peaceful demonstrations and that the popular protests will continue until public demands are met. He pointed out that the Bahraini public is stronger than the government despite the regime’s crackdown on uprisings.
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