By IRIN Limited humanitarian access continues to have an adverse effect on the lives of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees in southeastern Bangladesh.
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Ensure women rights to gender, reproductive health: Speakers
Speakers at a roundtable here have stressed for ensuring women rights to gender and reproductive health, eradicating violence and repression for flourishing women leadership in building a developed nation.
Voices from the drone summit
By Marjorie Cohn Last weekend, I participated in a panel on the illegality of drones and targeted killing off the battlefield at the conference, “Drones Around the Globe: Proliferation and Resistance,” in Washington DC.
Nepal voting ends for new Constituent Assembly
Voting has ended in Nepal which is electing a new assembly to write a long-delayed constitution.
Elections in South Asia: Prospects for stability?
By EU-Asia Centre The Maldives have elected Abdulla Yameen of the Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) as president. He won the run-off vote on 16 November with 51.3% while ex-president Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldivan Democratic Party (MDP) received 48.6%…
India-Myanmar border problems: Fencing not only solution
The unfolding events along the India-Myanmar border for the past few months have managed to bring the hitherto ‘neglected’ border into the consciousness of the policymakers in New Delhi.
Iran defense ministry to unveil new drone
Iran’s Defense Minister plans to unveil the country’s latest drone plane on Monday.
Nagasaki meet recommends concrete steps for nuke abolition
By Ramesh Jaura More than 50,000 nuclear weapons have been eliminated since the historic Reykjavík Summit between the then U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his counterpart from the erstwhile Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, which culminated into a groundbreaking Intermediate-Range Nuclear…
Social media versus journalism
By Alsir Sidahmed The fast-emerging social media has played a crucial role in the so-called Arab Spring. It is a popular belief that Facebook played a crucial role in the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.
More gender sensitive media reporting needed to establish women rights
More gender-sensitive media reporting has become indispensable to free society from child marriage and gender disparity that needed to establish rights of the women, some working journalists told a meeting here today.
Women achieve self-reliance in Panchagarh
A number of poor women in the rural and urban areas of the district achieved self-reliant by struggling against poverty and engaged themselves in various income generation activities.
Pakistan heaps praise on Sachin Tendulkar
By RFE RL –With the “Little Master” Sachin Tendulkar retiring from cricket after an unprecedented 200th international test match, tributes have been pouring in from all over the globe.
Russia’s spying craze
By Andrei Soldatov It came as a shock to many observers when VimpelCom, one of Russia’s largest telecommunications companies, publicly criticized the government’s plans to legalize the interception of telephone and e-mail communications.
US destroys six tons of ivory
By VOA The U.S. has destroyed six tons of ivory it had seized, crushing the tusks of elephants in an effort to combat the world trade in the contraband.
India: Regional aspirations and national interests
By D Suba Chandran Are the regional aspirations in India essentially against the national interests?
Why Israel wanted Arafat dead
By Jonathan Cook It seems there are still plenty of parties who would prefer that Arafat’s death continues to be treated as a mystery rather than as an assassination.
It’s not just winter, it’s a new ice age
By Alan Caruba When you consider that a bunch of global warming propagandists, the 19th Conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, to reduce “greenhouse gas” emissions has been meeting in Warsaw this month are still claiming that…
Renewable energy can pave the path to peace
By Hélène Connor-Lajambe The United Nations and other world agencies are geographically global in scope, but seldom seem able to work together on the same issue, however crucial it is, even when deep misery or armed conflicts ensue.
What’s more important: Security or freedom?
By Dave Lindorff So National Security Agency Director Keith B. Alexander, who, along with his boss, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr., thinks that “if you can collect it, you should collect it,” now is asking whether it…
Sobriety and spirituality linked for teens in treatment
If the spirit is truly willing, perhaps the flesh is not so weak, after all.
The Indo-Pak equation: Who will blink first?
By Bikram Vohra They did it again. In the still hot debris of the death by ambush of five Indian soldiers and a shrillness in the hostility, Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and Manmohan Singh had a lukewarm coming together in…
US: Tougher sanctions in Iran could lead to ‘war’
By Al Bawaba News The White House warned Congress on Tuesday that imposing tougher sanctions on Iran could lead to “war” by leaving the president only with the option to use force to halt Tehran’s nuclear program.
NSA chief should be fired for Snowden access: McCain
Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) says Gen. Keith Alexander, the head of the United States National Security Agency, should be fired or forced to resign for letting contractor Edward Snowden have access to the information he ultimately leaked.
Time to ignore Netanyahu the rejectionist
By Ludwig Watzal Benyamin Netanyahu’s hyperventilated fury didn’t surprise anybody.
African polygamy: Past and present
By James Fenske Polygamy and poverty are both widespread in sub-Saharan Africa.1 Several arguments have been made suggesting this correlation is causal.
Enduring mystery Of Kennedy killing revived in books, scripts
So mysterious were the circumstances of John F. Kennedy’s untimely demise and so doubt provoking the results of the official inquiry into it that JFK’s life and death are still spawning a myriad of interpretations as writers and filmmakers keep…
Russia resurgent In the Middle East
By Neville Teller It is a melancholy fact, but true, that for much of the world, and certainly for the Middle East, the old adage “might is right” holds sway. Power engenders respect. In the Western world, however, this mindset…
US expresses concerns as Maldives SC delays run-off vote
The Supreme Court in the Maldives has suspended a presidential election run-off, after protests from a candidate. On Saturday, ex-President Mohamed Nasheed polled nearly 47%, just short of the 50% needed for outright victory.
Turkey army helps reconciliation, stability in Bosnia
By Mladen Dragojlovic In an action aimed at improving relations between Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), soldiers from Turkey are in the Balkan country as part of the EU mission to help the country on its EU and NATO…
Internet can’t be left solely in hands of Dev World
By Samir Saran and Rahul Prakash According to World Bank estimates, India and China together account for more than 700 million Internet users. Citizens in both countries have embraced the digital sphere enthusiastically, and mobile phones and the Internet are…