Category archives for: World

Child Soldiers in Congo

A former child soldier abducted by the forces of Lubanga recounts his ordeal and the ordeal of rehabilitation in Congo  "I’ve seen my friends die. Not many. At all. " Gestaing talks fast, as if telling the life of another or, simply, as if unwilling to realize that theirs is the one drawing with broken words. Talk while surfing […]

Satellite to track Mars goes out of orbit

Satellite to track Mars goes out of orbit NASA might not be able to continue getting real-time coverage of the decent of Mars rover ‘Curiosity’ into Gale Crater as the satellite that was supposed to track the task went out of orbit due to a manoeuvring system glitch last month.  Engineers were able to recover […]

Why World Peace is Not an Unachievable Dream

Why World Peace is Not an Unachievable Dream World peace has been the centre of movement for a lot of people and organisations around the world ever since conflict between individuals and nations came into being. From that statement, we can easily see that the term has been around for a very long time.   […]

Crude goes down in Asia

Singapore: (Monday, July 16, 2012) After slight improvement in the week ending on Friday, the oil prices in the Asian markets are again witnessing a down turn trend. And this time, the main reason behind the decrease in oil prices is Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates decision to open crude pipelines bypassing the Strait […]

COAS Kayani to visit US for strategic dialogue: Secretary Defence

Islamabad: (Monday, July 16, 2012) Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani is to visit United States of America (Washington) for strategic dialogue, confirmed Secretary Defence, Nargis Sethi. Sethi, who was talking to the journalists at the Parliament house, said that the date for COAS’s upcoming visit to the US is yet to be […]

Germany’s top court to keep EUROZONE waiting till September to decide on debt crisis

Germany’s Constitutional Court will keep Europe waiting until Sept. 12 for its verdict on whether the new tools for fighting the euro zone debt crisis comply with German law or violate parliament’s right to decide on national budget issues. Resisting pressure from politicians and markets for a swift approval of the permanent bailout scheme (European […]

Dilemma of Muslims killing in Burma

Dilemma of Muslims killing in Burma Reports say a crowd attacked a bus in Rakhine province after blaming some of the passengers for the gang rape and murder of a Buddhist woman. In another incident, at least 10 people were injured in the state capital Sittwe when police broke up a protest. It is the […]

OCBC US Open GP Gold: Tony Gunawan and Vita Marissa wrap up Mixed Doubles crown

Tony Gunawan and Vita Marissa, two experienced shuttler from USA and Indonesia respectively, proved their worth on court and grabbed Mixed Doubles crown at Last week’s OCBC US Open GP Gold 2012 that was held at Los Angeles, USA. In the title match, Gunawan and Marissa punished Japan’s Misaki Matsutomo and Kenichi Hayakawa in an […]

US President Barrack Obama welcomes Indo-Pak dialogues

Ruling out any external role in the Kashmir dispute, US President Barrack Obama welcomed bilateral dialogues between Islamabad and New Delhi. Speaking to an Indian journalist, the American President urged the two neighboring states to work together to find a solution to a dispute that had already caused three wars between them. Asking the international […]

Hailstorms damage cotton fields in Xinjiang

Hailstorms damage cotton fields in Xinjiang More than 50,000 mu (3,333 hectares) of cotton was damaged in hailstorms that swept through western Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on Friday and Saturday, said local authorities Sunday. A total of 50,110 mu of cotton plants and 1,000 mu of fruit trees were damaged in the western Xinjiang’s Awat […]

Ban Ki-Moon regrets U.N Security Council’s inaction over the Syrian civil war

UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Friday demanded that the UN Security Council act on the Syria conflict, warning that any failure would be giving “a license for further massacres”. Ban joined with UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan to express outrage at the mass killings in the Syrian village of Treimsa and to make an “urgent […]

USA looks forward to make sanctions on Iran more stringent

The United States, who is striving to keep Iran from developing its nuclear programme, has decided to add up to its sanctions on the country that is already ailing from the financial and business sanctions. According to the press brief issued by the US state department, “One set of today’s actions targets Iran’s nuclear and […]

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