Russian TV: The US will significantly increase its military presence in the Philippines – an announcement that has angered China, whose Communist Party chief urged his military to prepare for a struggle and whose state-run media have criticized the agreement. The US announced in 2011 that it would increase joint […]
NY Times: By DECLAN WALSH The shootings followed a day of violence on Tuesday in the port city of Karachi in which four female health workers were killed. The attacks Wednesday brought the […]
Russian TV: Deployment of Patriot air defense missiles on the Syrian-Turkish border may be a prologue to a global conflict, warned Iran’s top brass on Saturday. The very future of […]
Businessinsider.com: I’ve heard it said that, if you take a walk around Waikiki, it’s only a matter of time until someone hands you a flyer of scantily clad women clutching handguns, overlaid with English and maybe Japanese text advertising one of the many local shooting ranges. The city’s largest, the […]
The European Court of Human Rights Global Post: The European Court of Human Rights made history Thursday by ruling in favor of a Lebanese national who said he was tortured by a […]
Global Post: Without providing details, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Saturday the UK and the US have evidence suggesting Bashar al Assad’s Syrian government is readying its chemical weapons. […]
Source: Express Tribune by Khaled Ahmad: Ijazul Haq, son of army chief General Zia, has accused Zia’s then vice-chief General Aslam Beg of being a part of the conspiracy to kill his father. He appeared on Geo TV on December 1, 2012, and said he was sorry that General Hameed Gul, who was the […]
businessinsider.com: Leave it to legendary Walter Pincus from the Washington Post to flesh out a Request for Proposal construction project planned for Israel called Site 911. The oddly named project will cost up to $100 million, take more than two years to complete, and can only be built by workers from specific countries with proper security […]
(Reuters) – Britain and France on Monday weighed measures against Israel to protest at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to expand settlement building after the United Nations’ de facto recognition of Palestinian statehood. Germany urged Israel to […]
by Jürgen Todenhöfer on Friday, 30 November 2012 at 20:36 · On 4 September 2009 the German colonel Klein permitted the bombing of two hijacked fuel tankers. They were stuck […]
NY Times: RAMALLAH, West Bank — For years, the United States and its Middle East allies were challenged by the rising might of the so-called Shiite crescent, a political and […]
Express Tribune: ISLAMABAD: Senior journalist and anchor, Hamid Mir, escaped an attempt on his life after explosives planted under his car were defused, Geo News reported on Monday. According to the report, the explosives were in a bag planted under the car. Mir had gone to a nearby market and the bag was […]
Taliban shooting victim Malala, 15, is set to make Britain her permanent home after having a bullet removed from her spine Teenager’s father offered job by consulate in Birmingham Everyone in the Yousufzai family is currently on a tourist visa She has been treated at UK hospital after a bullet […]
NY Times: WASHINGTON — The conflict that ended, for now, in a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel seemed like the latest episode in a periodic showdown. But there was a second, strategic agenda unfolding, […]
Daily Telegraph: A senior Israeli politician provoked controversy today when he warned that Palestinians firing rockets from Gaza would be punished with a “bigger holocaust” from Israeli armed forces. The use of the Hebrew word for holocaust, “shoah”, tends to be used exclusively in Israel to describe the Nazi persecution of Jews. […]
Let us Build Pakistan: by Sarah Khan اسرائیل، غزہ اور مسلمانوں کی منافقت گزشتہ کچھ روز سے پاکستان اور دیگر مسلمان ممالک کے غیرت مند سیاستدانوں، صحافیوں، انسانی حقوق کے علمبرداروں، فوجی جرنیلوں، جہادی فرقہ وارانہ گروہوں اور اسلام کے رکھوالوں کو ایک نیا موضوع مل گیا ہے یعنی […]
Russian TV: Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) said in statement that it was already worried about a shortfall in medical supplies before the bombardment because of the long standing […]
alternet.org: The Israeli political leadership is committed to crushing Palestinian hopes for a decent future. An Israeli man inspects the damage to his house following a rocket attack from the […]
icscotland.co.uk: Hamas bears “principal responsibility” for the escalating crisis between Gaza and Israel, Downing Street has said. Number 10 also called rocket attacks on Israel by Hamas “completely unacceptable”. It […]
BANGKOK, Thailand — Myanmar’s coastal Rakhine State is stricken with just the sort of mess certain international aid groups are designed to relieve. Roiling conflict between the region’s native Buddhists and a stateless Muslim ethnicity, the Rohingya, has brought on mob killings, torched villages, mass displacement and even bow-and-arrow wounds. […]