Syrians Vote Amidst Battle; Assad Poised to Be Back
The Reuters News Agency reported that Syrians voted on Tuesday in an election which is expected to deliver an overwhelming victory to President Bashar al-Assad in the midst of a civil war that has fractured the country and killed more than 160,000 people. Assad’s opponents including rebel fighters, the political opposition in exile, Western […]
Palestinian Govt Sworn in; Israel Slams US support
Forging a historic reconciliation between the Fatah and the Islamist Hamas factions, Palestinian authority President Mahmoud Abbas was swore in a unity government in Palestine on Monday. It is for the first time in seven years that one government is in charge, administering both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The long-awaited government […]
Recent Polls: Is Far Right Still Right?
Two immensely feared leaders have achieved decisive mandate and people all over the world are watching each step they are going to take to know whether they would be true to the publicized images about them or whether they would transcend them. Narendra Modi, while being celebrated in the west as being a champion of […]
Snowden, NSA clash over released Email
Edward Snowden and the U.S security officials produced contradictory statements regarding an email exchanged between Snowden and the National Security Agency (NSA)’s Office of General Counsel on April 5, 2013. The email which was released on Thursday shows him questioning NSA’s mandatory legal training programs. But it provided no evidence about him raising any complaints […]
National Spelling Bee Championship Ends In a Tie
Ansun Sujoe, 13, and Sriram Hathwar, 14, won the 2014 Scripps National Spelling Bee competition on Thursday, May 29, in National Harbor, Maryland. Both were declared co-champions after twenty two rounds of the competition which started on Tuesday. Sujoe of Fort Worth, Texas, correctly spelled the word “feuilleton”, which means part of a European newspaper […]
Iraq: 27 killed in Attacks, Including at Shia Mosque
Around 27 people were killed in a spate of attacks in Iraq, including a suicide bombing at a Shia Mosque in Baghdad, AFP news reported this morning. In the blast at the , at least 19 people were killed and 34 wounded. Journlists have been prevented from taking photos or video-shooting the scene in the […]
Modi-Sharif talks Highlight Terror, Trade
The meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif stole the limelight of Mr Modi’s First day in the Office. Mr Modi Tuesday asked Nawaz Sharif to clamp down on terror outfits in Pakistan and to speed up the progress in the trail of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. The two leaders […]
Obama: ‘It’s not US Job to Perfect Afghan’
US President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that we had to recognize Afghanistan would not be a perfect place. He added: it is not America’s responsibility to make it one. The future of Afghanistan must be decided by Afghans. He said that the US forces would have been completely pulled back from the war torn […]
French Fiction Written in Urdu
Frenchman Julien Columeau came to Pakistan at the age of 30 as a humanitarian worker, but a knack for languages and love of books have made him one of the country’s most innovative Urdu novelists. Writing mainly historical fiction with a prose described as vivid and forceful, critics say that Columeau, now 41, has […]
Egypt Demurs; China to Dismantle Sphinx Replica
A Chinese replica of the iconic Sphinx will be dismantled after an Egyptian ministry complained about the structure. The massive copy of the ancient statue has been erected in the northern province of Hebei. However, Egypt’s ministry of antiquities has complained to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) about the imitation, the […]
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