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READ MORE A grassroots mobile phone network built in rural Mexico has become a lifeline between indigenous communities and the rest of the world. But Mexican authorities say the ultra-low-cost service could be in violation of federal telecommunication laws. Al Jazeera’s Manuel Rapalo reports from Oaxaca. Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/breakfast-with-deepak-obhrai-1.3958498?cmp=rss

READ MORE Growing up in the Bronx in New York City with a hijab covering her head, Nazma Khan says she is all too familiar with religious discrimination from a young age. The Bangladesh native migrated to the United States at the age of 11 and was constantly bullied throughout middle and high school. The bullying took on another level after the deadly coordinated attacks of September 11, 2001. “Every day, I would face different challenges just walking on the street,” she told Al Jazeera. “I was chased, spit on, surrounded by men, called a terrorist, Osama bin Laden, etc.” To connect with others who were facing similar challenges because of their head covering, Khan invited Muslim women to share their experiences of discrimination on social media. “As I read through the stories, I saw my own struggles in my sisters,” the 35-year-old said. That is when Khan decided to launch the World Hijab Day (WHD). Each year on February 1, Khan’s non-profit o...

READ MORE Le gouvernement vénézuélien et l’opposition se sont séparés mercredi à Saint-Domingue sans trouver d’accord mais ont décidé de poursuivre les discussions au Venezuela, avec les présidentielles en ligne de mire. “Il reste des points à régler qui devront être discutés à Caracas et les deux parties s’y déplacent pour consultations et pour s’y réunir”, a déclaré lors d’une conférence de presse le président dominicain Danilo Medina. Les deux camps, qui discutaient depuis lundi, devraient se retrouver “lundi prochain pour tenter de parvenir à un accord” en République dominicaine dans un contexte où le président vénézuélien Nicolas Maduro cherche à se faire réélire dans des conditions décriées par l’opposition. Après l’annonce de Medina, Jorge Rodriguez, le...

READ MORE Facebook est toujours en grande forme financièrement mais ses plus de 2 milliards d’utilisateurs ont passé moins de temps sur le réseau fin 2017, en raison des changements apportés par le réseau social, engagé dans une réforme de ses contenus. Notant que 2017 a été une année “forte” pour le groupe, son patron Mark Zuckerberg a aussi relevé qu’elle avait été “difficile”, citant “le débat autour de l’utilité des réseaux sociaux” et “les usages détournés de (la) plateforme, notamment l’ingérence d’autres Etats, la diffusion d’informations fausses, sensationnalistes et clivantes”. “L’une des choses les plus importantes que nous pouvons faire c’est de nous assurer que nos services ne sont pas juste amusants à utiliser mais qu’ils sont également bons pour la sociét...

READ MORE The fate of indebted Eurocom Communications appeared to be in the hands of Israel Discount Bank Wednesday as Naty Saidoff, the lead contender to buy the company that controls Bezeq , said he would not agree to any delays in the decision-making process. In marathon talks overnight Tuesday, Saidoff improved the cash portion of his offer by adding 25 million shekels ($7.3 million), for a total of 400 million shekels. In Tel Aviv District Court Judge Eitan Orenstein’s courtroom Wednesday, Saidoff’s lawyers said he wanted a quick decision on Eurocom’s fate. Rejecting a request by Eurocom lawyers to hold off for 30 days on closing any deal, Amir Bartov, Saidoff’s attorney, said, “If there isn’t a creditors’ meeting to approve a deal by February 7, we’re dropping out.” The bank creditors of Eurocom Communications , which are owed a combined 1.2 billion shekels, agreed that Saidoff’s and two other bids should be considered...

READ MORE The fact that every young Israeli who scores a (high) 740 or more on the psychometric exam opts for a career in medicine has always seemed to me like a waste of human capital. Instead of all these brainy people dedicating themselves to politics, scientific research, technology or art – all areas that require path-breaking creativity – they spend it in a field that demands high levels of skills but certainly not the country’s brightest minds. For this unfortunate situation we can point our finger at the proverbial Jewish mother, who wants nothing else than for her offspring to practice medicine. Alas, I was wrong. The Jewish mother is a lot smarter than we thought because being a doctor is the best way to become quite well off. And what mother always knew has been confirmed by three researchers at the Finance Ministry. Alexey Belinsky, Galit Ben Naim and Yoav Hecht, in a study published this week, found that the average pre-tax pay for a doctor with at leas...

READ MORE Women urgently need to catch up to men in Canada’s health-care system because they are suffering and dying unnecessarily from heart disease, according to a new report. Heart  Stroke  released a report titled “Ms. Understood” on Thursday that describes how women are at greater risk than men of not having their disease diagnosed and treated. Nearly 25,000 women die each year from heart disease, the report said, citing Statistics Canada. The reasons are varied. Overall, women’s hearts are smaller than men’s. But there are other differences, said Karin Humphries, scientific director of the BC Centre for Improved Cardiovascular Health and one of the report’s authors. “While both men and women are most likely to complain of chest pain, the nature of that chest pain can be different,” Humphries said in an interview. “Women, rather than describing it as a crushing pain might describe it as a ...

READ MORE Welcome to  The National Today newsletter , which takes a closer look at what’s happening around some of the day’s most notable stories. Sign up here  and it will be delivered directly to your inbox Monday to Friday. TODAY: Catalonia’s bid for independence dealt a blow by Carles Puigdemont’s texts Halifax to “temporarily remove” a controversial statue of Edward Cornwallis from a downtown park Trump to keep Guantanamo Bay prison open Catalan’s fading separatist dream The fight for Catalan independence is over. At least for now. Carles Puigdemont , the would-be president of the breakaway Spanish region, made the frank admission is a series of texts sent to one of his former cabinet members —  all of them captured by a TV camera at a political rally in Belgium. Dismissed Catalan president Carles Puigdemont texted one of his former cabinet members saying, ‘Our people have sacrificed us....

READ MORE A statue of Edward Cornwallis, Halifax’s controversial founder, was removed from the park that also bears his name Wednesday afternoon. Crews strapped the statue, hooked it on to a crane and lifted it from its pedestal around 4:30 p.m. local time to a small crowd of cheering people. The statue was then placed on the back of a truck headed for storage. Work to remove the statue started around 11 a.m. Halifax regional council voted 12-4 Tuesday to remove the bronze monument commemorating Cornwallis, the military officer who founded Halifax in 1749. The decision comes after increasing controversy over Cornwallis’s so-called scalping proclamation that offered a cash bounty to anyone who killed a Mi’kmaw person. Both the statue and the stone pedestal on which it stands will be placed in storage. Rebecca Moore, a Mi’kmaw and a member of Pictou Landing First Nation, helped organize protests against the Co...

READ MORE Senior officers at Canada’s two largest bread wholesalers communicated directly to raise prices in lockstep, then met with five retailers, who accepted the hike on condition their competitors would as well, the federal competition watchdog alleges in court documents released Wednesday. The Competition Bureau believes wholesalers Canada Bread Company Ltd. and George Weston Ltd., as well as grocers Loblaw Companies Ltd., Walmart Canada Corp., Sobeys Inc., Metro Inc. and Giant Tiger Stores Ltd. committed indictable offences under the Competition Act, according to the previously sealed information to obtain documents. Tough to catch and prosecute: How companies get away with price-fixing Loblaws $25 gift card registration now open, but there’s a catch  Canada Bread and George Weston’s senior officers agreed to boost bread prices in tandem, typically by seven cents, for more than a decade starting in 2001, the documents allege. The suppliers then allegedly ...

READ MORE The executive of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party will announce a new leader on March 10, president Jag Badwal said late Wednesday. Conservative MP Erin O’Toole considering run for Ontario PC leadership Vic Fedeli opens up about aborted leadership bid, doubles down on ‘rot’ in PC infrastructure “I am excited to announce that the Ontario PC Party has a path forward to selecting our next leader and future premier,” Badwal said in a statement. “The new leader will have a united party behind them ready to fight and win the upcoming election,” Badwal added. The party is seeking a new leader after Patrick Brown stepped down following allegations of sexual misconduct from two women. Brown has denied the allegations. Ontario PCs to hold leadership race before next election Ontario PC Leader Patrick Brown denies sexual misconduct allegations The party president said there will be a $750,000 spending limit for the leade...

READ MORE British business leaders have started a three-day outing to China by signing $13bn value of trade deals. British Prime Minister Theresa May hopes to secure a giveaway trade agreement before withdrawal a European Union in 2019. Al Jazeera’s Adrian Brown reports from Beijing. Article source: http://www.france24.com/en/20170528-libya-jihadist-group-ansar-al-sharia-announces-dissolution Best Wordpress Plugin development company in India       Best Web development company in India

READ MORE The supervision in a Indonesian semi-autonomous domain of Aceh pronounced Muslim womanlike moody attendants, when drifting into Aceh, contingency wear a hijab in suitability with a region’s laws. The informal supervision has sent a minute to inhabitant conduit Garuda Indonesia and bill carriers, such as Malaysia’s AirAsia and Firefly, per a headscarf ragged by women who feel it is partial of their religion. “All womanlike stewardesses contingency wear jilbab, a Muslim conform in suitability with a manners of sharia,” a authorities pronounced in a letter. In Acehnese enlightenment jilbab is a lax character of headscarf that covers a female’s hair and chest, permitting usually a face to be seen, since in Arabic, where a word jilbab originates, it means a lax mantle that covers a person’s physique from a shoulder to a feet. The general airfield in Banda Aceh, a provincial capital, services dozens of domestic flights each week, and general route...

READ MORE L’ex-ministre des Outre-mer et actuelle députée socialiste de la Réunion Ericka Bareigts a pris position flow Olivier Faure flow le poste de premier secrétaire du PS, estimant qu’il avait “pris en compte les outre-mer”, a-t-elle indiqué mercredi lors d’une conférence de presse. La députée, qui avait publié mardi une tribune affirmant que les outre-mer étaient “une chance” flow la refondation du parti socialiste, a dit avoir eu une écoute courteous d’Olivier Faure sur la nécessité d’une and grande place des outre-mer au sein du parti. La députée s’est notamment inquiétée flow les élections européenne, où le scrutin de liste nationale fait peser le risque” de perdre trois représentants ultramarins”, ce qui éloignera “encore d’un cran les territoires ultramarins de l’Europe”. S...

READ MORE Le Sénat polonais a voté dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi une loi controversée sur la Shoah, destinée à défendre l’image du pays, mais qui a irrité Israël et fait l’objet d’un sérieux avertissement américain. Pour entrer en vigueur, la loi doit être encore signée standard le président polonais Andrzej Duda. Les Etats-Unis ont exprimé mercredi leur “inquiétude” quant aux conséquences de cette loi. Elle obscene d’avoir des “répercussions” sur “les intérêts et family stratégiques de la Pologne, y compris avec les Etats-Unis et Israël”, a mis en garde la porte-parole du département d’Etat Heather Nauert, estimant que d’éventuelles groups entre alliés “ne profiteraient qu’à nos rivaux”. Elle a appelé la Pologne “à réexaminer la loi à la lum...