I have always known that India is an over populated country, however I’ve never really focused on the effect that so many people in one area have on the planet. When I think of the population problem in India I automatically think of the traffic because of the many pictures I have seen and not the pollution that is inevitably… Read more »
Every winter, a thick blanket of smog descends on large parts of India and people begin a losing fight against the frightening levels of pollution. Thousands land up in doctors’ clinics with breathlessness, fill up hospital beds with lung problems and many are forced to stay off school or work. And with measures announced by the federal and state governments… Read more »
Mass rally comes as parliament speaker refuses to recognise Rajapaksa’s controversial appointment as PM. Tens of thousands of people have rallied in Sri Lanka‘s capital, Colombo, in support of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s controversial appointment as prime minister. Monday’s rally, near the parliament house, came amid a deepening constitutional crisis triggered by President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to replace Prime Minister Ranil… Read more »
Riot reportedly broke out in the city of Khujand late on Wednesday, confirmed by the city government. At least 25 inmates and two security officers have been killed after a riot broke out at a high-security prison in Tajikistan, three security sources said on Thursday. The violence started late on Wednesday when an inmate, believed to be a member of the… Read more »
Pakistan’s Supreme Court Wednesday overturned the conviction of a Christian woman facing execution for blasphemy in a landmark case which has incited deadly violence and reached as far as the Vatican. Blasphemy is an incendiary charge in deeply conservative Muslim Pakistan, where even unproven allegations of insulting Islam and its Prophet Mohammed can provoke death at the hands of vigilantes… Read more »
The Iranian nuclear program has become a more present issue as the the years of development have progressed. Iran has their back up against a wall with nowhere to go, besides build nuclear weapons. The strategy that they play is nerve wracking for many surrounding countries, as well as the countries that depend on their trade negotiations with Iran. The… Read more »
One US soldier was killed and another wounded in an “apparent insider attack” in Kabul on Saturday, NATO said, in the latest such assault on international forces in Afghanistan. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the third so-called “green-on-blue” attack in less than three weeks that have rattled foreign troops tasked with training and assisting the war-torn country’s… Read more »
The United States will add 700 individuals and entities to its Iran blacklist and pressure the global SWIFT banking network to cut off Tehran when expanded sanctions are put in place next week, US officials said Friday. But eight countries will be able to continue importing Iranian oil at lower levels in order to avoid upsetting global crude markets when… Read more »
Pakistan’s Supreme Court Wednesday overturned the conviction of a Christian woman facing execution for blasphemy in a landmark case which has incited deadly violence and reached as far as the Vatican. Blasphemy is an incendiary charge in deeply conservative Muslim Pakistan, where even unproven allegations of insulting Islam and its Prophet Mohammed can provoke death at the hands of vigilantes… Read more »
Sri Lanka’s President lifted a suspension of parliament Thursday and called a meeting of lawmakers next week that could end an increasingly bitter power struggle between two rival prime ministers, officials said. The climbdown by Maithripala Sirisena, who sparked the crisis by sacking Ranil Wickremesinghe as prime minister and naming former strongman leader Mahinda Rajapakse in his place, could lead… Read more »