“An Argentine province turned away two Carnival cruise ships on Monday, the latest salvo in Argentina’s dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands. The cruise ships, the Star Princess and the Adonia, were refused entry to Ushuaia, Argentina, after stopping at the Falklands en route to Chile.” – The New York Times This could be [...]
“Rebel groups said Monday they had captured a Sudanese Army garrison near the border with South Sudan. The rebels said they killed 130 members of the government forces in the attack. ” The New York Times Sudan came asunder last year, with the birth of South Sudan, a new state in the international system. And [...]
“Wearily accustomed to being the focus of bad news, Pakistanis celebrated on Monday after a filmmaker from Karachi won the country’s first Academy Award, for a documentary about the victims of gruesome acid attacks.” – The New York Times Although the Pakistani woman did a wonderful job which was recognized and awarded, the issue came [...]
“The politically charged trial here of employees of four American-backed nonprofit groups was adjourned Sunday less than two hours after it began, amid signs that the case was growing into a broader indictment of Egypt’s alliance with the United States.” – New York Time Great, these fools have made a mockery of the Egyptian system [...]
“Administration officials described growing concern about a drawdown by the United States that hinges on the close mentoring and training of Afghan army and police forces.” – New York Times The recent week demonstrated to the world that, regardless of what America says, regardless of what the press has reported in the past about the [...]
An atheist, in Pennsylvania, dressed up in a zombie costume during a Halloween parade; the zombie was apparently in his view the Prophet of Islam; the judge tossed the case out calling the man a doofus (Source). This man, clearly intended to send a message to the Muslim community — he knew what happens when [...]
“The Taliban took the four men to the main bazaar in a southern Afghanistan district at evening prayer on Sunday, regional government officials said, denounced them as government spies because they were carrying satellite phones, then beheaded them in front of local residents who had been summoned to watch.” – New York Times In the [...]
“The killing of two American service members on Thursday by a man in an Afghan Army uniform comes at a time when the United States military is already reviewing procedures used to vet members of the Afghan security forces.” New York Times It is becoming more clear, that, what has been told to the public [...]
“Electricity from solar panels and wind turbines has revolutionized life in rural Palestinian herding communities: Machines, instead of hands, churn goat milk into butter, refrigerators store food that used to spoil and children no longer have to hurry to get their homework done before dark. But the German-funded project, initiated by Israeli volunteers, is now [...]
“At the center of the debate is the question of Iran’s ultimate ambitions, and despite a new report claiming that Iran has accelerated its uranium enrichment program, American analysts said there is no hard evidence of plans to build a nuclear bomb.” – The New York Times If you think that country is building a [...]
