By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star, Lebanon Why does most of the world continue to lose respect for the United States and its conduct of foreign policy? Two developments in the past week shed some light on this, and – not surprisingly – they both relate to Washington’s relations […]
By Brian McCartan Myanmar’s highly anticipated by-elections, held on April 1 for some 45 parliamentary seats, has borne its first diplomatic fruit. The United States announced a relaxation of certain economic sanctions and movement on the resumption of full diplomatic relations with Naypyidaw in reward for the country’s recent democratic […]
Source: TOI: Experience it to know, says ACHARYA MAHAPRAJNA Truth is eternal. The one who sees truth does not create it; he only explains it. Mahavira was not the founder of truth; he expressed it, he elaborated on it. With long years of penance, he was able to […]
Pakistan continues to slide down on both domestic and international front. Domestically the fight between state institutions, the tensions between the predominant Punabi establishment and the smaller ethnically oriented provinces […]
Source: by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya – http://www.globalresearch.ca “Hegemony is as old as Mankind…” -Zbigniew Brzezinski, former U.S. National Security Advisor The term “New Middle East” was introduced to the world […]
Manama: Most Arabs believe women will be better off in post-revolutionary countries where political Islam is on the rise, an opinion poll indicates. According to the Doha Debates poll, 75 per cent of the respondents believed women’s prospects would be brighter as the quality of life would improve and women, […]
Please permit me to reproduce here a letter to the editor of the Gulf News of 5th April 2012: A heroic effort I was driving back to Abu Dhabi from Dubai the other night on Shaikh Zayed Road when I saw a van losing control. It skidded across the lanes […]
Reuters | Apr 04,2012 | JORDAN TIMES BERLIN — Nobel Prize-winning German writer Guenter Grass has attacked Israel as a threat to world peace and said it must not be […]
Russian TV; The ICC has refused Palestine’s bid for an investigation into the Israeli military offensive on the Gaza strip on the basis that Palestine is not a recognized state. […]
Inquirer News Rosali Mosende has spent all of her 18 years growing up on Paterno Street in Manila’s Quiapo district. It has been a life of hard knocks. Her family has no house, just a lean-to on the sidewalk. A high school student, she studies her lessons at night under […]
In his letter to Mr. Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan in Islamabad, Mr. William Gomes asks the Pakistani President to conduct a judicial inquiry into the illegal detention and […]
By ASSOCIATED PRESS ARABNEWS ANKARA, Turkey: , an Ottoman princess who married an Egyptian prince and was twice forced into exile when both royal households were abolished, has died. She […]
The Nation: LAHORE – Chairman Sunni Ittehad Council MNA Sahibzada Fazal Karmin has vowed to shed last drop of blood for protecting Namoos-e-Risalat, saying that the conspiracies of making Pakistan […]
The Yeshiva World: A 65-year-old Israeli man has taken tzedakah to a new level, giving of himself, quite literally, by donating more than 272 units of blood to Magen David […]
The Palestinian Chronicles: By Samah Sabwai I’ve been down this road before: Someone tries to teach me how to use words that can ‘open doors’. Offering me tips in communication. […]
Credit: Asia Time By Francesco Sisci BEIJING – A young, thin handler in a black suit practically hanging over his tiny frame ushered me in. It was a very exclusive and secretive Beijing compound, an ancient Chinese symbol of true power. He sat me in a large, bright room while […]
by Hani Hazaimeh | Agencies | Apr 03,2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Palestinian and Israeli top negotiators are expected to meet “most likely in Amman”, a senior Palestinian official said on Tuesday. Speaking from Ramallah, the official, who asked to remain unnamed, stopped short from confirming reports that exploratory […]
Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi has warned regional countries over their policies against Syria which serve Israel’s interests. Speaking at the first international demining conference in Tehran on […]
Source: Times of India GUWAHATI, India: A proposal to implement an indigenously developed cost effective anti-erosion technology using plastic nets has been accepted by Assam’s water resources ministry. The technology was developed under the guidance of Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, and a pilot project was carried out in 2007-10 […]
Source: Jagran Sooch, Punjab Majlis Khuddamul Ahmadiyya Bharat recently arranged free medical camp in the village of Sooch in Punjab, India. Patients from this village were provided with medical counseling and medicine. Chief of the village Satinder Singh assisted medical workers in their efforts and expressed that villagers are unable to […]