By JPOST.COM STAFF
05/05/2010 05:03

Obama: Syria poses extraordinary threat to US national security.

US President Barack Obama extended US sanctions on Syria by a year, a communique to Congress detailed on Tuesday.

In the message, Obama expressed concern that Syria continues to support terrorist regimes and tries to obtain weapons of mass destruction. Syria's actions and policies "pose a continuing unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy and economy of the United States," he said.

INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION (ITUC)

Tunisia, 16 April 2010 (ITUC OnLine): Nine Arab trade union organisations affiliated to the ITUC met in Hammamet, Tunisia, from 14 to 16 April, together with six guest union organisations from the region. Open and constructive discussions were held with ITUC General Secretary Guy Ryder on the ITUC's strategy for the Arab region, within the framework of preparatory discussions ahead of the ITUC Congress in Vancouver (Canada) in June.

Nestlé wants you to have a break by having a Kit Kat – but Kit Kats contain palm oil from companies that are trashing Indonesian rainforests, speeding up climate change, threatening the livelihoods of local people and pushing orang-utans towards extinction.

International Trade Union Confédération (ITUC)

FORWARD

As you open this year’s Annual Survey of Trade Union Violations, you may be thinking of the terrifying impact of the global financial and economic crisis which hit millions of working women and men around the world in both industrialised and developing countries in 2008.