Elderly Greeks at a political rally: Are older people partly to blame for Europe’s debt crisis? People vs. banks, north vs. south, and rich vs. poor? While all of these conflicts may be real, one of the biggest issues of the euro crisis is rarely discussed: Older people are living […]
Justice Fernando will not hear NLTB trial Publish date/time: 09/08/2012 [13:10] Print this page Email this page High Court Judge, Priyantha Fernando has today revealed that he will not hear the Native Land Trust Board trial of former Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase, former NLTB General Manager, Kalivati Bakani and former […]
SDL submission wants return of 1997 constitution Publish date/time: 08/08/2012 [17:05] Print this page Email this page Reinstate the Great Council of Chiefs, bring back the 1997 constitution with amendments, Fiji to be a Christian state and the name Fijian should only be for the i-taukei. These were the main […]
Daily Telegraph: Reports that the New York Department of Financial Services is getting ready to stretch Standard Chartered Bank on the rack of truth will come as no surprise to […]
By William Gomes – Bangladesh Bangladesh is terrorized by Islamic terrorism. Islamic terrorism has created a culture of fear in Bangladesh. Our main objective is to bring out the nation […]
Guardian: New discoveries of natural resources in several African countries – including Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania and Mozambique – raise an important question: will these windfalls be a blessing that brings […]
Russian TV: Reports are surfacing of a US-Israeli plan to attack Iran’s ballistic missile batteries, giving Israel extra space to tackle Syria and Hezbollah. While no talks have been confirmed, […]
Military rulers suppressing opposition in Fiji: lawyer Updated 4 August 2012, 8:09 AEST A prominent lawyer says the jailing of Fiji’s last democratically elected prime minister shows the military government is trying to remove its opposition ahead of elections slated for 2014. Jailed for corruption: former Fijian prime minister Laisenia Qarase. (Credit: ABC) […]
Huff Post: Andrew Lam For a country steeped in Buddhism, Myanmar is accruing terrible karmic debts. Alarming news and images of attacks and killings by the Buddhist majority in Rakhine Province against a Muslim minority there have been slowly trickling out onto the Internet and the wider world. Pictures of […]
Russian TV: A non-binding draft resolution on Syria pushed by several Arab states is about to be put to vote at the UN General Assembly. Russia has already announced that […]
AFP: Three million Syrians need food, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Thursday. Crop and livestock assistance is also needed, the agency said, citing a survey by […]
NY Times: Grinning for the camera, the suicide bomber fondly patted his truckload of explosives. “We will defeat these crusader pigs as they have invaded our land,” he declared as […]
RT It’s more than just stockpiling surveillance drones to spy on US citizens: the United States Army is attempting to procure an arsenal of riot gear in case the military must go toe-to-toe with civilians on US soil. A solicitation for weapons posted on the official government website for federal business opportunities […]
Russian TV: Radical Islamists with “British accents” are among the coalition forces looking to topple Bashar Assad, says Jeroen Oerlemans, a photographer who was held hostage in Syria for a […]
Toronto Sun: When Zakria Nasrullah Khan heard the third gunshot, he realized it wasn’t a tire bursting or a car backfiring. It was two men shooting at him and his mosque, […]
Ramadan Reflection Day 10: Supporting Converts To Islam Huffington Post Imam Khalid Latif is blogging his reflections during the month of Ramadan, featured daily on HuffPost Religion. For a complete record of his previous posts, click over to the Islamic Center at New York University or visit his author page, and to follow […]
Fiji, NZ and Australia to hold democracy talks Updated 27 July 2012, 17:21 AEST Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr says he doesn’t believe Fiji should be allowed back into the Pacific Islands Forum just yet. Senator Carr says Fiji has made ‘good progress’ on returning to democracy. Audio: Bob Carr speak […]
Fiji drops tax charges against Chaudhry The Australian A FIJI court has quashed money laundering charges against former prime minister Mahendra Chaudhry, but he will still stand trial for allegedly breaching foreign exchange laws, reports say. Chaudhry, who became Fiji’s first ethnic Indian prime minister in … See all stories on this topic » Chaudhry to […]
Washington Post: Come nightfall, a bucolic farming village begins to buzz with unusual activity. Shadowy figures emerge from olive groves, clutching small suitcases. Cars crowd the winding rural road collecting […]
PJMedia: by David P Goldman Over at the new Gatestone Institute, some longstanding friends and I conduct a regular electronic meetingto dissect crisis situations, and let the public read the results after we’re done. There are too many moving parts for any individual to follow, and Syria is a case in point: […]