WASHINGTON: ABX Air pilots who fly for Amazon.com Inc and other clients cast a near-unanimous vote of “no confidence” against company management as the holiday shipping season, which depends on airplanes for fast delivery, takes off.
ABX pilots fly roughly a half-dozen planes for Amazon Air, which contracts planes and services from ABX parent Air Transport Services Group.
The pilots, whose salaries are among the lowest in the industry, have been locked in a dispute with ABX and ATSG for more than five"...

FRANKFURT: Europe will not run short of gas this winter even if a new deal for deliveries of Russian gas through Ukraine is not completed when the existing agreement lapses at the end of the month, a German study said on Wednesday.
“Gas supply for the winter is secure, even if the talks about gas shipments from Russia via Ukraine to Europe were to fail,” said the study, carried out by the Institute of Energy Economics (EWI) in Cologne. It said German gas prices could rise moderately but there would not be"...

After 25 years of exclusive partnership, NFT, a top supplier of tower cranes, and Manitowoc, a global manufacturer of cranes and lifting solutions, have renewed their partnership by signing a renewable five-year long distribution contract for Potain tower cranes.

A major player in the region, NFT is the exclusive dealer for Potain tower cranes in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Lebanon, and Jordan.

Although NFT was already present in Jordan on a few projects, the country is now"...

Africa Finance Corporation (“AFC” or “the Corporation”) is pleased to announce the accession of the State of Eritrea (“Eritrea”) as its 24th member state. This decision was ratified by His Excellency, Isaias Afwerki, President of Eritrea, on 6 November 2019.

Eritrea has experienced stable growth; driven by increased investment in the mining and extractive sectors, with an expectation to deliver an average annual GDP"...

FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR) and Providence Photonics, LLC announced today that FLIR has made a strategic investment in Providence Photonics, developers of advanced software used to quantify invisible gas emissions using FLIR Optical Gas Imaging (OGI) cameras.

Providence Photonics specializes in the development and utilization of advanced technology in the field of optical gas imaging while tackling some of the industry’s most challenging"...

ISACA marks 50th anniversary by surveying 5,000+ tech pros on the next decade of tech

The evolving relationship between artificial intelligence, automation and humans is expected to create promising opportunities in the tech workforce while simultaneously presenting sobering concerns for the general public, according to new ISACA research sizing up the tech landscape of the"...

About one fifth of persons with disabilities are children under the age of 18
Half of women with disabilities who are married or have been married have experienced psychological violence by their husbands

The International Day of Persons with Disabilities on December 3rd is an international observance promoted by the United Nations since 1992. The observance of the Day aims to promote an understanding of disability issues and mobilize support"...

RAMALLAH, Tuesday, December 3, 2019 (WAFA) – President Mashmoud Abbas discussed with Ireland’s Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney the latest developments in the Palestinian territories, the Israeli measures against the Palestinian people, their land and holy sites, and the American bias position in favor of the Israeli occupation.

This came during a meeting held in the presidential headquarters in Ramallah, where president Abbas stressed"...