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Money traders watch computer screens with the day's exchange rate between yen and the US dollar at a foreign exchange brokerage in Tokyo, November 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
January 22, 2018, 4:18 am
Richest one percent made 82% of wealth created last year — report
Ahead of World Economic Forum in Davod, Oxfam findings show poorest half of the world received none of 2017’s financial bounty
By AFP
South African-born British lawyer and Labour lawmaker Lord Joel Joffe delivers remarks at the British Museum in London on Friday 13th 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)
June 20, 2017, 5:56 pm
Joel Joffe, lawyer who defended Mandela, dies aged 85
South African-born Jewish attorney was key part of defense team in 1963 trial that saw the anti-apartheid icon jailed
By Robin MILLARD
French President Emmanuel Macron gestures aboard the high seas emergency tow vessel "Abeille Bourbon", near Lorient on June 1, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Damien MEYER)
June 2, 2017, 1:43 am
Incensed Europe to Trump: Climate pact ‘not renegotiable’
French president says ‘the US has turned its back on the world’ by exiting Paris accords; environmental groups dismayed
By AFP
Pope Francis meets Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, at the Santa Marta residence, the guest house in Vatican City where the pope lives, Monday, August 29, 2016. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool/AP)
January 16, 2017, 4:17 am
Eight men own half the world’s wealth: Oxfam
NGO points to a link between the vast gap between rich and poor and growing discontent with mainstream politics around the world
By Agencies
A woman hugs a baby wrapped in an emergency blanket as refugees and migrants arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey on October 1, 2015. (AFP Photo/Aris Messinis)
October 7, 2015, 4:58 am
International aid to Syrians ‘utterly inadequate’
‘Rich countries have ignored repeated alarm bells’ and are failing to do their part to aid desperate refugees, Oxfam says
By AFP
The Za'atri camp for Syrian refugees as seen from a helicopter carrying US Secretary of State John Kerry and Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh on July 18, 2013. (State Department photo/public domain)
September 16, 2015, 3:19 am
US slammed for weak Syria refugee response
With millions displaced by Syria war, aid agencies urge Washington to ‘add a zero’ to its 10,000-refugee commitment
By Dave Clark
Palestinian workers offload a truck loaded with cement after it entered from Egypt through the Rafah border crossing in southern Gaza Strip, August 20, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib /Flash90)
August 27, 2015, 11:24 pm
500,000 sign petition to end Israel’s Gaza blockade
Arab countries that didn’t follow up on reconstruction pledges cited, but Israel mostly blamed for Strip’s condition
By JTA and AFP
File: A truck carrying cement is seen after it entered the southern Gaza Strip from Israel through the Kerem Shalom crossing in Rafah, on April 29, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)
August 26, 2015, 4:32 pm
Aid groups appeal for end to Gaza blockade
Coalition of 35 organizations says 100,000 Gazans still homeless after war, reconstruction moving too slowly
By AFP and TOI staff
Palestinian employees at SodaStream’s West Bank factory (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
November 4, 2014, 2:47 am
Everything you need to know about SodaStream’s move
Company’s decision to relocate from West Bank could leave hundreds of Palestinians out of work
By Ben Sales
Palestinians and Israelis work at the SodaStream factory in the Mishor Adumim industrial park in the West Bank, February 2, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
October 30, 2014, 12:34 am
SodaSteam to close West Bank factory
Company decides to move inside Israel for ‘purely commercial’ reasons
By AP
Medical staff in protective gear escort Nina Pham, exiting the ambulance, to a nearby aircraft at Love Field, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, in Dallas. Pham, a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, was diagnosed with the Ebola virus after caring for Thomas Eric Duncan who died of the same virus. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
October 19, 2014, 6:54 am
Ebola is ‘disaster of our generation,’ says aid group
Oxfam head urges world to take action days World Bank chief says battle is being lost; Obama urges calm
By Alice Ritchie
Screenshot from the Oxfam UK protest in central London on August 14, 2014, used to 'illustrate the conditions faced by the people in Gaza who are trapped by the blockade.'
August 15, 2014, 6:24 am
150 people packed in boxes in UK Gaza protest
Oxfam launches demonstration to illustrate hardships faced by Gazans living under the blockade
By TOI staff
Scarlett Johansson smiles on stage after being awarded with an honorary award during the 39th edition of the Cesar awards ceremony in Paris on February 28, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Martin Bureau)
April 14, 2014, 11:42 pm
ScarJo blames SodaStream criticism on anti-Semitism
Actress defends controversial role with Israeli company in interview with Vanity Fair magazine
By TOI staff
Scarlett Johansson with Sodastream's Daniel Birnbaum (photo credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images for SodaStream/via JTA)
March 16, 2014, 2:01 pm
Johansson hails SodaStream as a ‘model,’ slams politicized Oxfam
Pushed hard by UK newspaper, actress robustly defends role promoting soft drink firm, says she knew all about settlement factory before signing on
By TOI staff
Scarlett Johansson smiles on stage after being awarded with an honorary award during the 39th edition of the Cesar awards ceremony in Paris on February 28, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Martin Bureau)
March 9, 2014, 2:21 am
Scarlett Johansson: I believe in SodaStream
Actress defends controversial role with the Israeli company, which she says can ‘make a huge difference’ for the environment
By TOI staff
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