Noam Chomsky: Obama willing to start nuclear war to kill bin Laden
MIT professor Noam Chomsky criticized the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on Friday, saying President Barack Obama could have provoked a nuclear war. “We were very close to war with Pakistan, which easily could have...Read more...
CAIR: Stop resisting Islam, you filthy kafirs! Your FBI investigations are disturbing our...
CAIR: Stop resisting Islam, you filthy kafirs! Your FBI investigations are disturbing our terrorists! Posted: 17 May 2013 05:11 AM PDT Muslim Brotherhood front CAIR, the long arm of Hamas in the U.S., really hates it when their...Read more...
Nigeria Seeks Support On Guinea Worm Eradication
The agency boss promised N25,000 cash reward on genuine informants of guinea-worm. The Federal Ministry of Health on Friday called for support for its Guinea Worm Eradication Programme to aid the certification of Nigeria as a...Read more...
Moroccan jailed for Milan synagogue bomb plot
Julia: I look at your picture Noah and it saddens me more than words can express to know that you will not grow up to realize your full potential. Where ever you are be happy, and be at peace.... see more Chauncey Mechling:...Read more...
Natural disasters uprooted more than 32 million people in 2012
32,4 million people were forced to flee their homes last year due to natural disasters such as floods, storms and earthquakes, according to a report released by Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre on May 13, 2013. According...Read more...
Ethiopia in the Crosshairs
The Trumpet does more than simply analyze blockbuster headlines. We also write them—often months, years, decades even, in advance. Here is a blockbuster headline soon to come out of Ethiopia: Islamists gain control of Ethiopia,...Read more...
UN Security Council condemns temporary detention of peacekeepers looting in Golan
17 May 2013 150 Members of the Security Council have 8216;strongly condemned' the looting of a UN observation post in the Golan Heights and the temporary detention of three peacekeepers, the third such incident in the past two...Read more...
Inside Kenya’s Emerging, Assertive Foreign Policy in East Africa
Inside Kenya’s Emerging, Assertive Foreign Policy in East Africa AFRICANGLOBE - The newly inaugurated government of Uhuru Kenyatta is recalibrating Kenya’s foreign policy to reflect an assertive new Africa-centred approach as...Read more...
Iran not planning to build nuclear weapons - ambassador
Iran is not planning to build nuclear weapons, Iranian Ambassador to Moscow Mahmoud Reza Sajjadi said. Meeting with Russian journalists in Moscow on Saturday, Sajjadi pointed out that it was Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah...Read more...
Ymgyrchwyr iaith yn galw am “noddfa ddiwylliannol”
Y brotest iaith ym Mharis Llun:Al Jazeera Mae ymgyrchwyr iaith yn Ffrainc wedi galw ar UNESCO (Mudiad Addysgol, Gwyddonol a Diwylliannol y Cenhedloedd Unedig) i roi “noddfa ddiwylliannol” iddyn nhw. Maen nhw hefyd wedi cyhuddo...Read more...
How the Changing Marketplace of Food and Supplies is Saving Lives
Last year, as crops across the Sahel belt of West and Central Africa withered, and the sky stubbornly held onto its rain, Kaltuma Brahim was growing desperate. She knew her tiny son needed help. He'd been vomiting and losing...Read more...
Syria : One Year After the Houla Massacre. New Report on Official vs. Real Truth
A week from now it will be one year since the world first heard about the horrors of a place in Syria called “Houla.” On the afternoon and evening of Friday, May 25, 2012, a reported 108 civilians were massacred there. They...Read more...
Director-General condemns killing of Colombian radio director and presenter Alberto Lázaro del Valle
“I am appalled by the killing of Alberto Lázaro del Valle and trust that the Colombian authorities will be successful in their efforts to find and try those responsible for this crime. This is essential both because freedom of...Read more...
PEN Writers in Prison Ask for a Review of Angel Santiesteban’s Trial / Angel Santiesteban
The German PEN Center for Writers in Prison has pronounced its satisfaction with the release of Calixto Martinez Arias but is now asking for a review of the trials of Jose Antonio Torres, journalist, and of writer and blogger...Read more...
Russia defiant over missile sales to Syria
Zoom in on this story. Explore all there is to know. Defiant: Sergei Lavrov accused Western media of ''trying to create a sensation''. Photo: AFP Russia has defiantly rejected criticism of its arms supplies to Syria after it...Read more...
N. Korea must get back on denuclearization path: US envoy Gyln Davies in Seoul
America's top nuclear envoy, Glyn Davies met up with his South Korean counterpart Lim Sung-nam and other officials in Seoull today afternoon, for talks on North Korea and its nuclear ambitions and ensuring that it gets back on...Read more...
Has Caribbean Diplomacy Lost Its Mojo
Whether by accident or coincidence, recent days have seen a variety of Caribbean leaders and journalists question whether the region is failing to pursue leadership roles within international organisations – and thus losing its...Read more...
Massacre suspect held in Ivory Coast
18 May 2013 Last updated at 16:57 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. In April 2011, the ICRC’s Kelnor Panglung described the aftermath of the massacre in Duekoue for BBC News Continue reading the...Read more...
Comment on Obama Hoping To ‘Craft His Legacy’ in This New Sectarian America by Increase sales
It seemed to live up to all the pundits’ expectations. The Second Inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama was broadcast in the genre of an American version of the royal coronation, a Hollywood-style, stage-managed ceremony which,...Read more...
At least 30 countries in Africa at risk of yellow fever: WHO
Beijing, May 18 (Xinhua-ANI): The UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that 30 countries in Africa with a total population of 508 million are considered to be at different levels of risk for yellow fever.Read more...
Ferrahian Victorious at UCSD Model United Nations
Ferrahian Victorious at UCSD Model United Nations http://asbarez.com/110145/ferrahian-victorious-at-ucsd-model-united-nations/ Friday, May 17th, 2013 Ferrahian students at UCSD Model UN BY ALEXA KOVACS On the weekend of April...Read more...
Issues highlighted by the Prime Minister in his inaugural address like skill development training...
INVC, Delhi, The 45th Session of the Indian Labour Conference (ILC) today concluded with a resolve to provide universal social security coverage and assured pension to the entire working population. During the course of...Read more...
UNDP advises Uganda on poverty eradication
Government has been called on to consider the rural communities during the planning process if the country is to increased household incomes that will reduce poverty levels. The call was made by the United Nations Development...Read more...
Western Sahara profile
xml feed A mainly desert territory in north-west Africa, Western Sahara is the subject of a decades-long dispute between Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario Front. The territory is phosphate-rich and believed to have...Read more...
Comment on Zim woman guns for top UN agency post by Mama majak ywca Nig
NYARADZAI Gumbonzvanda, a Zimbabwean, is in the running for the post of executive director of UN Women which fell vacant when the first head, Michelle, Bachelet resigned in March to campaign in the Chilean presidential...Read more...
U.N. panel Sanctions delaying NKorea nuke program
UNITED NATIONS A U.N. expert panel's report says North Korea is still trying to import and export nuclear and ballistic missile-related material but financial and trade sanctions are slowing progress on their prohibited weapons...Read more...
Comment by 'wmylnkkg' on Human Rights Group Documents Pollution on Gaza Beaches Due to Siege
Gaza City, Palestine—The signs which dot the beach along the Gaza City waterfront are clear: "THIS BEACH IS POLLUTED," they read, and yet they seem to serve only as obstacles for children running to the sea rather than warnings...Read more...
Tanzania: Eat Insects! Yes, but Beware…
Africvillemagazine - Focus on Africa News Alerts [Daily News]INDIGENOUS knowledge should be put in the forefront in the wake of a recent United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) report that advocates for people to...Read more...
Comment on Why Most Nigerians Do Not Trust President Jonathan And His Administration By Charles...
Why Most Nigerians Do Not Trust President Jonathan And His Administration By Charles Omole As the Cuban missile crisis raged in October 1962; the US president sat in the White House and called the leaders of the key nations...Read more...
Of Course Iran is Chairing the UN Disarmament Conference
In the parade of United Nations absurdities, here comes Iran’s four-week presidency of the UN Conference on Disarmament — an arrangement that the U.S. Mission to the UN has described as “unfortunate and inappropriate,” and...Read more...
