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  • 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.

  • Sydney hostage seize unfolding in pedestrian shopping tourist district

    AUSTRALIA, 2014/12/17 The Jihadist flag is flying at Lindt cafe in the Martin Place city centre of Sydney, New South Wales in Australia. A hostage situation is unfolding in the heart of the shopping and tourism center in Sydney. Martin Place is a pedestrian mall in the central business district. Martin Place is the "civic heart" of Sydney. A senior Lindt Australia official said that 10 staff and up to 30 customers could be held inside the Lindt Chocolate Café in Martin Place. There were “probably 30 customers” at the time of the attack, Sky Business quoted Lindt Australia Chief Executive Steve Loane as saying. There was no immediate confirmation of the exact number of assailants

  • Second highest terror alert issued for Australia

    AUSTRALIA, 2014/09/17 he current terror threat level is the second highest on the scale. The Australian Security Intelligence Organization raised the terror threat level to high. The threat level was raised from medium to high. There is no indication about a specific threat, but it appears the government has credible data to justify this alarming step.

  • Australia's changing Asia trajectory

    AUSTRALIA, 2013/11/12 Following discriminatory migration policies for additional than six decades since its federation in 1901, Australia officially abolished the vestiges of its long held \"white Australia\" policy in the 1970s. Presently, four decades on, the government has issued a White Paper outlining Asia\'s increasing economic and strategic importance to Australia and offering a roadmap for engagement. The leap from policies restricting the arrival of Asians, to the \"Australia in the Asian Century\" White Paper is a remarkable political trajectory for a country whose cultural and historical ties naturally bind it to the West but whose changing circumstances mean geography is increasingly significant.
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