Tag: hoping
India is hoping its manufacturing industry will profit from Trump’s tariffs on China
Diaa Hadid Here in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, many seek work at one company: FoxConn, which manufactures iPhones for Apple. Women make up some 70% of the Sriperumbudur plant’s workforce. Twenty-one-year-old Keerthana, who only has one name, was sleepily waiting for a bus to the FoxConn dormitory housing women employees. She’d arrived in…
Syrian Jews return to Damascus for the first time in decades, hoping to build bridges
By Jane Arraf DAMASCUS — If there is a verbal expression of heartache, Rabbi Yusuf Hamra uttered it as he stepped inside the Faranj synagogue in the Syrian capital last week. It was the last place he had said prayers before leaving Syria 33 years ago in a wave of emigration by Syria’s Jews. “Ach,…
Israeli troops fire on displaced Palestinians hoping to return to homes, killing 2
By Willem Marx Israeli troops have blocked thousands of displaced Palestinians from traveling back to their homes in the northern parts of the Gaza Strip, amid Israeli accusations that Hamas had breached the ceasefire deal by delaying the release of specific hostages. Israeli soldiers fired on the large crowds of Gaza residents hoping to return…