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This article is a continuation of ‘The most threatened forests around the world – Part 1’. Mountainous archipelago once dominated by temperate rainforests, New Zealand is a land of diverse landscapes, home to extraordinary levels of endemic species, including its most famous representative, the kiwi. None of its mammals, amphibians and reptiles are found elsewhere […]
USA special envoy visits Latvia Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Hannah Rosenthal will travel to Latvia from April 19-23, 2012. In Riga, Special Envoy Rosenthal will meet with the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding Latvia’s leadership in combating anti-Semitism and extremism. She will also visit the Ministry of Education to discuss programs […]
Security Issues: Dialogues between Bangladesh and USA begins Yesterday, USA Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Andrew J. Shapiro and Ministry of Foreign Affairs Additional Secretary Mustafa Kemal chaired the inaugural meeting of the U.S.-Bangladesh Dialogue on Security Issues in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Positive and substantial exchanges during the dialogue reflected the breadth, depth, and […]
US Embassy in Zambia to be awarded silver level leadership award The Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) announced today that the newly constructed U.S. Embassy in Lusaka, Zambia was awarded the silver level of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) certification under LEED for New Construction. The U.S. Embassy is the first building […]
Samir Sharifov visits US for third meeting of the US-Azerbaijan Economic Partnership Commission The U.S. Department of State welcomed the Minister of Finance Samir Sharifov of Azerbaijan and his delegation for the third meeting of the U.S.-Azerbaijan Economic Partnership Commission (EPC), which met yesterday in Washington. Participating U.S. Government agencies included the Departments of State, […]
USA has blamed People’s Republic of China for helping North Korea in its missile programme which eventually turned out to be a failure United States Secretary of Defence, Leon Panetta has caused a major stir by claiming that Pyongyang sought help from China for North Korea’s missile programme. Conflicting reports suggest that a missile transportation […]
New York Attorney General Eric Schniederman filed a lawsuit against Sprint Nextel in New York for the allegedly unpaid sales taxes to the State and the city. The Attorney General followed the whistleblower lawsuit filed in March, 2012 against the cellphone carriers. According to Schniederman, Sprint failed to report the collection and payment of sales […]
“This complaint is without merit and Sprint categorically denies the complaint’s allegations,” the company said in a statement. “We have collected and paid over to New York every penny of sales taxes on mobile wireless services that we believe our customers owe under New York state law. “With this lawsuit, the Attorney General’s office is […]
Urging Pakistan to step up its efforts to fight terrorism and to open the transit supply route to allied forces battling in Afghanistan, Secretary General North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Anders Fogh Rasmussen requested to open the transit supply-line. While addressing a press conference, he observed, “And when it comes to our relationship with Pakistan, […]
Empowering women and girls through sports initiative; a team from US to visit Morocco Building on efforts to empower women and girls through sports, the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Soccer announced today former U.S. Women’s National Team players and coaches will travel to Morocco as Sports Envoys April 22-28, 2012. These Sports Envoys […]
Russia’s foreign minister sharply criticized NATO’s plan to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan by 2014, saying Thursday that coalition troops should remain in the country until Afghan government forces are capable of ensuring security. “As long as Afghanistan is not able to ensure by itself the security in the country, the artificial timelines of withdrawal […]
India has been successful in launching a missile with nuclear capabilities that can reach China and some parts of Europe China, France, Russia, US, UK, the permanent members of UN Security Council plus Israel were initially believed to be the only states of possessing such advanced ballistic capabilities. The South Asian nation has now joined […]
