Tag: Op-Ed

By DS Rajan In the modern era, the concept of sister city ties between countries in the world which in the main focuses on ‘people to people contact sand learning from each other’, have come to play a strong supportive…

As the U.S. makes new plans for disposing of spent nuclear fuel and other high-level radioactive waste deep underground, geologists are key to identifying safe burial sites and techniques. Scientists at The Geological Society of America (GSA) meeting in Denver…

By Nadeem Mumtaz Qureshi Whenever there are elections the people who get elected and sit in Pakistan’s assemblies do not deserve to be there. They tend to be, in the rural areas, feudal landlords or the descendants of long deceased…

By Anand Kumar Though a new date for presidential elections in Maldives has been announced the people in Maldives and the international community still remain anxious whether the elections would be held. The term of present Mohammed Waheed’s government ends…

EU leaders meeting in Brussels say distrust of the US over spying could harm the fight against terrorism.

The National Security Agency eavesdropped on hundreds of phone numbers belonging to dozens of world leaders, newly leaked documents supplied by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden reveal.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has vowed to go the “extra mile” to make peace with India, saying the historic rivals can resolve all issues including Kashmir through dialogue.

By Keoni Indrabayu Marzuki Indonesia has embarked on a Low Cost Green Car (LCGC) project with the launch of two Japanese-aided automotive products. The central government believes the LCGC would boost the domestic automotive industry and exports while regulations ensure…

By Abdulateef Al-Mulhim Saudi Arabia was one of the founding members of the United Nations in 1945. Since its establishment, Saudi Arabia has been one of the most active members and the one that paid its dues to the world…

Romania has agreed to allow the U.S. military to use an airbase near the Black Sea as a key logistics hub for getting supplies and troops into and out of Afghanistan.

By Jaya Ramachandran Armed drones are the subject of two landmark reports presented to the 193-nation General Assembly – the main deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the UN – in October: one urging transparency over the killing of civilians…

India and China are close to an agreement to prevent tension on their contested border touching off confrontation while they try to figure out a way to break a decades-old stalemate regarding overlapping claims to long stretches of the Himalayas.

By Aijaz Zaka Syed Iran finds itself in the media spotlight for all the right reasons, for a change. The smooth and event-free presidential elections in June surprised many, including the Iran ‘experts’ in the West. This time around the…

By Al Bawaba News Gunmen have killed a top army General Jamaa Jamaa on Thursday while on duty in eastern Syria, state-run Syrian television said.

By Shujaat Bukhari A few hours after a suicide bomber hit a Church in Peshawar on Sunday last, a six-The Jammu and Kashmir Assembly passed a resolution on Monday asking Government of India to order a time-bound probe into the…

Global credit rating agency Fitch has put the United States’ ‘AAA’ credit rating on “rating watch negative” based on stalled debt ceiling negotiations.

The World Bank in its 2014 World Development Report (WDR) launched on 6 October 2013 places risk management and resilience building at the core of its development approach.

By Joe Torres The United States embassy in Manila yesterday warned US citizens of a “series of credible security threats” in the southern Philippines region of Mindanao.

A 5.0-magnitute earthquake has struck near the east coast of Honshu in Japan not far from the infamous Fukushima nuclear plant.

By Alan Caruba Ronald Reagan made a lot of history as President, but when he stood before the Brandenburg Gate not far from the Berlin Wall that divided the city and said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”, he rocked…

By Radio Zamaneh The British Foreign Secretary says Iran and Britain have begun talks aimed at restoring severed diplomatic relations.

By Mike Whitney October 7 marked the 12th anniversary of the Afghanistan War, but you wouldn’t know it by reading the papers. In fact, “America’s longest war” has become so unpopular that both the media and the Obama administration have…

By PanArmenian

By Iran Review

On October 11, we’ll learn whether the Norwegian Nobel Committee is interested in reviving the Nobel Peace Prize or putting another nail in its coffin.

By Farahnaz Zahidi

By PanArmenian

The U.S. Marine Corps has forced two generals into retirement, effectively firing them, over a failure to defend a base in Afghanistan from a deadly Taliban attack.