Zimbabwe appears to be a perennial vortex of dispute and unrest. An estimated 3 million people have already escaped from the nation as a result of acute food shortage and human rights violation records are one of the worst in the entire world....
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In its annual report on human rights abuses, the US criticised Iraq and Afghanistan listing them as the most difficult challenges posed to the international community.
The survey conducted by the US took into account a total of 193 countries, listing...
The case of five Bulgarian nurses facing death sentence in Libya is getting murkier. The US and its allies have to rise against this sort of brutality in libya, ruled by Muammer-el-Qaddafi, who pretended to shun terrorism and renounce nuclear weapons in...
The huge chemical spill in the Songhua River that threatens the water supply of Harbin, an old industrial city located in China's frigid, northeastern corridor, has focused attention on the environmental and economic challenges faced by the country's...
Tension prevailed near the eastern city of Lahore in Pakistan where an angry mob set ablaze three churches, Christian schools and residence of the local bishop, following reports that a youth allegedly desecrated the Holy Koran.
Around 50 protesters...
Poverty leads to terrorism as the poverty is also the biggest polluter. But are there not French or Christians or White men poor in league with their poorest immigrant Muslim cousins? There are poor people also among the Asian immigrants. Does it mean...
Nepala's most high-profile kidnapping was resolved without violence as the Maoists released former Prime Minister Mr Lokendra Bahadur Chanda's son Arun after holding him captive in an undisclosed location in far western Nepal for 12 days.
Though...
Five US soldiers in Iraq alleged to have punched and kicked Iraqi detenus have been charged with abusing them. The allegations stemmed from an incident on September 07 in which three detainees were allegedly punched and kicked by the soldiers as they...
The sense of alienation, deprivation and marginalisation pervade the Shia Muslims majority Gilgit-Baltistan areas or Balawaristan as the locals refer to it, in Pakistan. This area borders Xinjiang, the Muslim majority province of China. There is an...
Four persons were killed by suspected Maoist terrorists at Guigaon village in Ranchi district in Jharkhand, a province in India, on Wednesday (Nov. 09). A note found near the bodies, lying in proximity of a road of the village under Karra police station...
Mr Hesso Mao, former Director General of Police of Nagaland, a strife-torn border province in India, was shot dead by unidentified armed men at his residence on Tuesday (Nov. 09) evening. Five persons entered the house of Hesso Mao at Police Reserve...
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has appealed to lawmakers to approve a new law extending the period of detention without charge permissible for terrorist suspects to 90 days from 14 and urged them not to put politics before security when they vote on...
Aulnay-sous-Bois, a run-down northern suburb of northeastern Paris in France resembles a battlefield littered with detritus. Rioters set fire to hundreds of vehicles in an eighth night of unrest in the impoverished suburbs on Thursday.
Rioting erupted...
Is the action by a Saudi minister to sponsor the weddings of five Saudi nationals who were released from the American detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a genuine attempt to rehabilitate the terrorists or an instance of glamorising the...
By naming the Pakistani mass rape victim, Mukhtaran Bai, as the recipient of the "Woman of the Year" award, the Us magazine 'Glamour' has not glamorised itself but has made a valiant attempt to give voices to thousands of such victims in Asian and...
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