“Weaponisation” as a negative concept was something to which I was completely unfamiliar while growing up. Though I spent most of my childhood in Lahore, my rural, agricultural background meant arms had always been a regular presence in my life. I had learnt to fire, load/unload and clean them as […]
Source/Credit: Dailytimes on Line. I have a serious issue with fundamental rights. Sometimes I feel that my definition of the term is totally delusional, given the respect that it commands in this country, and the true term is actually ‘fund-a-mental’, in its urban sense. The more I read and the […]
Credit. Arabnews.com CHENNAI: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told India on Wednesday “it’s time to lead,” urging New Delhi to take a stronger role across Asia where China is flexing its muscles, and to bolster support for struggling neighbors Afghanistan and Pakistan. Clinton, delivering a speech in the southern […]
Source:Spiegel on Line. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev appears to be interested in a second term in office. But he first needs the blessing of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin — who is considering a return to the Kremlin himself. More:
Source: Spiegel Germany A stranger saved Victoria Williams’ life when she collapsed in the crush of the Love Parade stampede last July in Duisburg. At first she tried to handle the trauma alone, but she later checked into a clinic. Without therapy she wouldn’t have gotten her old life back, she […]
Cologne’s central mosque suffered many critics before its construction began in 2009. It’s now almost finished and is being hailed as a new artistic and social vision for the predominantly Christian city. Cologne’s new central mosque has already endured years of criticism – and it’s not even finished […]
(CNN) — As Mark Anthony Stroman faces execution Wednesday for the killing of an Indian man in revenge for the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, one of the jurors who sentenced him to death and one of his surviving victims are among those calling on Texas officials to spare his life. […]
Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) — The United Nations declared a famine Wednesday in parts of southern Somalia as the east African nation suffers the worst drought in half a century. Thousands of Somalis have fled in search of food and water, trekking for days in scorching temperatures in desperate attempts to […]
Bali Island, Indonesia – US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton should use her visit to Indonesia this week to press Jakarta to address human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. The United States last year lifted a ban on cooperation with Indonesia’s army special forces, known as Kopassus, which was […]
Source.Arabtimes NAIROBI: East Africa’s worsening famine is one of the largest humanitarian crises in decades, a US State Department official said, pledging “significant” aid despite the debt ceiling impasse being debate. More:
Development Minister Dirk Niebel has waded into the controversy surrounding a deal to sell tanks to Saudi Arabia, saying German weapons exports can be compatible with human rights by stabilizing an entire region. In an interview with the weekly Die Zeit newspaper, Niebel said he could not comment on specifically […]
A broad swath of southeastern Germany has been warned to brace for potentially torrential rains and flooding for the rest of the week. According to the German Weather Service (DWD), parts of Bavaria, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Brandenburg could see storms through Friday dropping 50 to 60 litres of rain […]
Source/Credit. Spiegel Magazine Germany. SPIEGEL Interview with Economics Minister Rösler. German Economics Minister Philipp Rösler, who was adopted into a German family from Vietnam at a young age, insists that he never had problems because of his background. He spoke with SPIEGEL about integration, discrimination and what it means to be German. More:
SAN FRANCISCO — Strong sales to shoppers in emerging markets and to business customers helped Apple extend its lengthy streak of stellar performance in its earnings report on Tuesday. Even without introducing any major new products, the company attracted legions of consumers in the fiscal third quarter. Profits doubled, and […]
The banners in the picture reflect extreme form of hatemongering, suggesting that if a Sunni or a Shiite Muslim dies while shaking hand with an Ahmadi Muslim, he or she will be guaranteed hell, for the act of being kind to the Ahmadi! Source/Credit: The News Pakistan, Wednesday July 20, 2011 Although […]
Commentators both in Israel and around the world have pointed out that the movement toward the right is endangering Israel’s liberal democracy. But maybe it’s time to see what stands behind this flood of anti-liberal legislation. The sound and the fury Israel’s anti-boycott law has not yet died down: Avigdor […]
The Church of Scientology is rapidly losing support in Switzerland, and the number of members is declining, religious experts say. According to a report in the SonntagsZeitung newspaper, theologist Georg Otto Schmid, an expert on sects, said that support for Scientology is “shrinking.” “I would imagine that the sect will […]
A series of health centres specifically catering to the needs of gay men are being planned across Switzerland to help homosexuals deal with HIV issues, fear and psychological discomfort. Recent studies have shown that gay men suffer poorer health than heterosexual men, a fact not only attributable to the higher […]
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is seeking greater security and nuclear ties on a visit to India. Mrs Clinton said last week’s bombings in Mumbai (Bombay) had “driven home how important it is that we get results”. She also called for deeper trade ties and heard Indian worries over […]
Source.Times of India US exposes ISI subversion of Kashmir issue WASHINGTON: In a city where lobbyists represent scores of interests, issues, and causes from across the world, Ghulam Nabi Fai was a familiar figure on Capitol Hill as the principal representative of the Kashmiri separatist movement. A stocky man 62-year […]