World News
Mar 9th, 2012
On Friday Syrian forces killed 21 people, as they wanted to quell demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad before a peace mission by U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, conflict militants said. Tanks crushed Karm al-Zeitoun and other hostility districts in the rebellious central city of Homs, slaughtering nine, the Local Coordination Committees said, declaring 12 other deaths in Damascus and in the provinces of Hama, Idlib and Aleppo.
Karam Abu Rabea, who is a local contacted in Karm al-Zeitoun told thirty tanks entered my neighborhood at seven today morning and they are using their cannons to fire on houses. Militants said countryw
Mar 7th, 2012
A new poll results showed that a majority of US people back the President Barack Obama’s decision to apologize for US troops burning copies of the Muslims’ Holy Book Quran in Afghanistan.
According to a Reuters/Ipsos survey showed that 56% of those surveyed agreed with the Obama’s decision to apologize, while only 23% disagreed with the president’s decision of apology.
Reports showed that the support for the Obama’s decision of apology was more split by partisanship; however, just 37% of GOP voters backed the decision, as compared to 53% of independents and 76% of Democrats.
Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum
Mar 6th, 2012
The United Nation said on Tuesday, the world’s nations achieved a UN goal of cutting in half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water five years ahead of the 2015.
The UNICEF (United Nation Children’s Fund) and the WHO (World Health Organization) released a report saying that during the period between 1990 and 2010, two billion people had achieved access to improved water, through tools like water pipes and protected wells.
Agencies said that the 2 billion figures mean that one of the first Millennium Development Goals to be met.
Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General hailed the achievement of the clea
Mar 6th, 2012
Australian authorities said today that floods across eastern region of the country forced more than 13,500 people to leave their homes after record-high summer rains drenched three states over the past week, swelling rivers and forcing local dams to run over.
Emergency authorities said that nearly 9,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes in the inland city of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.
Mark Murdoch, State Emergency Service Assistant Commissioner said that if the levee is breached, they would expect major flood and they would expect that to happen very quickly and impossible to handle.
Australian media reported th
Mar 5th, 2012
The 57-year-old Hugo Chavez, President of the Venezuela, who had surgery in Havana last week said in a televised meeting appearance on Sunday that his cancer has returned.
Venezuela president Chavez said that he will need radiation treatment for his cancer during the run-up to country’s October presidential election; even though he insisted there was no evidence of metastasis after the elimination of another tumor.
Socialist leader said that recurrence of the disease he was diagnosed with last June but that test have ruled out metastasis to organs near the tumor. Chavez in the televised message that appeared to have been recorde
Mar 3rd, 2012
UN public health agency, WHO (World Health Organization) said that nearly 910,000 lives were saved around the world so far under a six-year-old policy of cooperation between AIDS and TB (tuberculosis) health services.
In a statement, the WHO said that the stepped-up collaboration and teamwork has brought about better shelter and protection of AIDS patients against TB (tuberculosis).
The Geneva-based UN agency said that the number of HIV-positive patients tested for TB increased nearly 12-times between 2005 and 2010, from 200,000 to more than 2.3 million.
The WHO also reported that in the same period of time duration
Feb 29th, 2012
Wednesday, the US says North Korea has agreed to stop uranium enrichment and agree to a moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile tests.
Victoria Nuland, State Department spokeswoman also said the North has agreed to alllow International Atomic Energy Inspectors to verify and monitor the moratorium on uranium enrichment and confirm disablement of its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon.
She said U.S. will meet with North Korea to finalize details for a proposed package of 240,000 metric tons of food aid.
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Feb 28th, 2012
On Monday a Taliban suicide bomber targeted NATO troops at an airport claiming nine lives. This is the latest incident during an almost week of violence over the burning of Quran and other holy Islamic scriptures at the hands of Americans at the Bagram airbase. The Taliban have said that they were also the perpetrators of an attack attempting to poison the foreign troops as the death toll during the violent protests hitting the country including even the normally peaceful areas reached 40. An Afghan soldier, six civilians and two local guards died during a bomb attack at the military base at Jalalabad airport, luckily the NATO troops esca
Feb 27th, 2012
According to the military and Afghan government sources, on Saturday two members of the NATO force were killed during shooting within the Afghan interior ministry in the capital Kabul. NATO said in a statement that the initial reports have indicated that one person shot at the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) service members in the Afghan capital on Saturday which resulted in the killing of two service members.
According to AFP, it was told by a government source that the two assailed men were American advisers and a member of the Afghan police killed them within the premises of the Afghan interior ministry. On the co
Feb 25th, 2012
According to a western diplomat, Friday the British, French and Polish embassies in the Syrian capital Damascus were preparing to evacuate the two reporters believed to be injured and the dead bodies two others. The diplomat said that the embassies of Poland, Britain and France are closely coordinating with one another to evacuate the wounded and the dead bodies of the two reporters who died in the Syrian flashpoint city of Homs while performing their professional responsibilities.
Marie Colvin the veteran journalist working of US origin, working for the Sunday Times of Britain, and Remi Ochlik, the photojournalist from France, ass
