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  DUBAI / Emirates Business Millennials will form the largest and most influential workforce during the next decade, representing nearly 75 percent of all employees by 2030, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Addressing the growth, and a host of other topics, global thinkers and industry leaders, led by Malcolm Gladwell, will discuss various topics impacting the global ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business Revitalise your traditions and celebrate Christmas and New Year’s Eve with a difference. Take a break from the fatigue of hosting the whole family at home and labouring over a massive meal or spending a hard time choosing presents. This year you can treat your family to a luxurious getaway at Constance Hotels and Resorts ...

    Baghdad /AFP Iraqi forces said on Sunday they had recaptured the Nimrud area, the site of an ancient Assyrian city blown up by the IS group, as they battled the extremists south of Mosul. Iraqi troops pushed towards Nimrud last week as they pressed an offensive launched on October 17 to recapture Iraq’s second city, which the extremists ...

  Khuzdar District / AP Survivors of a massive bomb attack on a shrine in southwest Pakistan that killed dozens spoke of their horror Sunday after families were ripped apart in a strike showing the expanding reach of the IS group. The blast, later confirmed to be the work of a teenage suicide bomber, hit male and female worshippers as they ...

  Baghdad / AFP Iraqi Kurdish forces have demolished Arab homes and buildings and in some cases entire villages in disputed areas in the country’s north, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday. Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region has gained or solidified control over swathes of territory claimed by both it and the federal government in Baghdad in the course of the ...

  Aleppo /AFP Syrian government forces clashed with rebels on the outskirts of eastern Aleppo city on Sunday, a monitor said, after residents received messages from the army giving opposition fighters 24 hours to leave. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, and an AFP correspondent in rebel-held east Aleppo reported clashes in the Karam Al-Turab neighbourhood and ...

  Yangon / AFP Hundreds of buildings in Rohingya villages in western Myanmar have been torched, according to new satellite images released on Sunday as fresh fighting flared in the strife-torn region. Northern Rakhine, which is home to the Muslim Rohingya minority and borders Bangladesh, has been under military lockdown ever since surprise raids on border posts left nine police dead ...

  Kathmandu / AFP Police arrested 223 members of a Maoist splinter group across Nepal on Sunday for vandalising vehicles and forcing shops to close while trying to enforce a nationwide strike. The protesters from the Communist Party of Nepal had called on factories, schools and public transport to shut down across the Himalayan nation as they pressured the government to ...

  New York /AFP President-elect Donald Trump was expected to huddle with advisers at his Manhattan residence on Sunday, plotting next moves after thousands of protesters besieged Trump Tower and marched in other US cities for a fourth day. The demonstrations have become daily affairs following Trump’s upset defeat of rival Hillary Clinton, who blamed FBI director James Comey for ...

  London/ AFP Donald Trump’s US election victory heralds the “building of a new world”, France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen said Sunday in a BBC television interview that sparked immediate criticism in Britain. Le Pen described the Republican’s win as a “victory of the people against the elite” and said she hoped a similar outcome could be achieved in French ...