The United Nations Population Fund has said to reduce pressure on resources and the environment, women should be empowered and should be given more control over their reproductive health so that they might choose to have less children. It said “Slower population growth would help build social resilience to climate change’s impacts and would contribute [...]
First video statement has been released by the Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-Taliban in which it denied any involvement in targeting the civilians and has blamed outside forces for the recent blasts. A spokesman of the Tehreek-e-Taliban, Azam Tariq posted a video statement on Youtube. He referred to the bombings of Islamic University in Islamabad and said that [...]
Israel has given the permission to progress with the construction of 900 housing units in East Jerusalem even though US had asked Israel to stop its construction work at the Gilo settlement. The US envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell had earlier asked the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu to stop its construction process. [...]
Armed men wearing uniforms of Iraqi army killed 13 people of an Iraqi tribe who took up arms against Al-Qaeda in the western region of Baghdad, Iraq. A resident Mohammad al-Zoubai said that the Saidan district of Zouba was raided by the attackers over the night and six residents were taken from their homes before [...]
Talks were held between the former rebel Leaders and the Nigeria’s president in an attempt to end the conflict in the region. A spokesperson Olusegun Adeniyi said that Umaru Yar Adua’s meeting with the ex-leaders of Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) was “frank and fruitful”. Adeniyi said that the President “used [...]
The controversial and the largest US military center in Afghanistan has unveiled its renewed facilities at the Bagram airbase and this time the journalists were allowed to inspect the base and the debatable prison. James Bays of Al Jazeera was also among those who inspected the facilities said that the Bagram, which is twin brother [...]
Hundreds of people have been killed due to Heavy snow fall in China, some of which is said to be artificially created. The dead also include children who were killed in a school when the roof of their canteen fell due to the weight of the snow. Thousands of houses have collapsed and millions of [...]
Its more than a week since the Saudi troops and the Houthi’s have started the bloody clashes. The Saudi Arabia continues to attack the Shia rebel’s strongholds in northern Yemen which has now started to concern the middle east. In the latest fighting at least 2 Saudi soldiers have been killed which has further raised [...]
A protest was seen in Israel at Intel corporation’s new electronic chip plant. The demonstration was done by radical orthodox Jews as the company was working on the Jewish sabbath near the religious sites. The protesters claimed that the corporation was desecrating the sabbath, which is starts from Friday night and ends on Saturday night. [...]
The cyclonic storm ‘Phyan’, which scared the whole Mumbai city on Wednesday afternoon, crossed the western coast close to Mumbai, sparing the metropolitan area and got subsided without causing any major damage. But the threat of a disturbingly approaching storm, caused by what the meteorological office termed as a “deep depression”, created a huge panic in Mumbai, drew [...]
