UNICEF Airlifts Humanitarian Supplies For Displaced, Conflict-Affected...
A cargo plane carrying emergency supplies for children affected by the conflict in Iraq arrived in Erbil on Tuesday, according to UNICEF. The plane, coming from Dubai, brought 33 metric tonnes of...
View ArticleCentral Asian Countries Pledge Action On Climate Change
Climate change poses an undisputable challenge to Central Asian countries now, more than ever. At a time when an annual temperature increase of even 1 or 1.5 degrees can have a significant impact on a...
View ArticleSmall Scale Irrigation: Large Scale Benefits For Pakistan’s Balochistan
Constituting almost 44% of the country’s total land mass, Balochistan is the largest province of Pakistan, with a population of nine million people. Despite being water scarce, agriculture and...
View ArticleMuslims Denounce Persecution Of Iran’s Baha’is, Call For Religious Coexistence
In the Middle East, Africa, and Europe, prominent Muslims have spoken out recently against the persecution of the Baha’is in Iran, denouncing the religious intolerance that is the motivating force...
View ArticleUnited States: Lagging On Landmine Ban, Says HRW
The administration of President Barack Obama should conclude a five-year-long policy review and announce a decision to join the treaty to ban landmines, said Human Rights Watch. In March 2014, Human...
View ArticleKids With Strong Bonds To Parents Make Better Friends
What social skills does a three-year-old bring to interactions with a new peer partner? If he has strong bonds to his parents, the child is likely to be a positive, responsive playmate, and he’ll be...
View ArticleShedding Light On Threat Of Terrorism At Qatar’s 2022 World Cup – OpEd
By Dr. Quintan Wiktorowicz The British media has leveled a number of accusations against the State of Qatar in the wake of FIFA’s selection of the tiny Muslim nation as host of the 2022 World Cup....
View ArticleMental Toughness: Why Reaching The Top In Football Is All In The Mind
Research has revealed the mental edge that drives Premier League football players to succeed from a young age, including dealing with criticism, confronting challenges after repeated failures, and not...
View Article24th ASEAN Summit And Myanmar’s Journey: Challenges Ahead – OpEd
By Sampa Kundu The newly built Myanmar International Convention Center in the beautifully constructed yet remote from the real Myanmar, capital city of Nay Pyi Taw, was the venue where Myanmar hosted...
View ArticleBeyond Iraq: Causes And Consequences Of ISIS Advance – OpEd
By Daniele Grassi It is quite astonishing how rapidly the fragile state building in Iraq is imploding, leaving rubble on which the militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Syria (ISIS) advance...
View ArticleSouth China Sea: Rightness Is Mightiness, Not Vice Versa – OpEd
By Nguyen Hung Son Recently, several Chinese officials, diplomats and scholars have expressed their views regarding the on-going “oil-rig” incident in the South China Sea, justifying the oil-rig...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Justice Key To End Anti-Muslim Violence, Says HRW
The Sri Lankan authorities should urgently investigate recent deadly violence against minority Muslim communities, Human Rights Watch said today. The violence, which began on June 15, 2014, after a...
View ArticleThe Central African Crisis: From Predation To Stabilisation
To stabilise the Central African Republic (CAR), the transitional government and its international partners need to prioritise, alongside security, action to fight corruption and trafficking of natural...
View ArticleEU Increases Humanitarian Assistance To Iraqis Fleeing Violence
The European Commission will increase its humanitarian assistance to Iraq by €5 million following the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people as a result of the recent attacks perpetrated by...
View ArticleSport Seen As Growth Engine For EU Economy
Sport is an important economic sector in the EU in its own right, with a share in the national economies which is comparable to agriculture, forestry and fisheries combined. Moreover, its share is...
View ArticleDwarf Galaxies Formed More Than Their Fair Share Of Universe’s Stars
They may be little, but they pack a big star-forming punch. New observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope show small galaxies, also known as dwarf galaxies, are responsible for forming a large...
View ArticleCan We See The Arrow Of Time?
Algorithm can determine, with 80 percent accuracy, whether video is running forward or backward By Larry Hardesty Einstein’s theory of relativity envisions time as a spatial dimension, like height,...
View ArticleModi’s Foreign Policy Challenges: Sixer Is Not Enough – Analysis
By C Uday Bhaskar Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Bhutan on June 15-16, and this was the first foreign visit by the newly elected Indian leader, thereby highlighting the centrality accorded to the...
View ArticleBacked By Pakistan, LeT A Major Challenge For India – Analysis
By Anurag Tripathi On June 8, 2014, two Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) militants, including one ‘divisional commander’, identified as Bilal Ahmad Bhat alias Bilal Lelhari, and his associate, identified as...
View ArticleRussia: 8 Protesters Found Guilty In Flawed Case, Says HRW
On June 20, the Moscow City Court heard an appeal filed by eight Bolotnaya protesters – Andrey Barabanov, Yaroslav Belousov, Aleksandra Dukhanina (Naumova), Sergey Krivov, Denis Lutskevich, Aleksey...
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