Political Affairs

The honeymoon period of incoming Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his party Pakistan Muslim League (N) is almost over and tough challenges lie ahead. He has to grapple with a flailing economy, chronic power shortages and the country’s security crisis,...

United Nations human rights investigators said on Tuesday they had "reasonable grounds" to believe that limited amounts of chemical weapons had been used in Syria and warned that the shattered country was in "free-fall". In their latest report, they said...

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Bradley Edward Manning (born December 17, 1987) is a United States Army soldier who was arrested in May 2010 in Iraq on suspicion of having passed classified material to the website WikiLeaks. He was ultimately charged with 22 offenses, including communicating...

The Myanmar government has reaffirmed a 2005 policy which punishes Rohingya women who bear more than two children with hefty fines and loss of legal rights for the children. This is the first time in the modern world a government is imposing population...

English: Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) meets with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. Aung San Suu Kyi MP AC (Burmese: ; MLCTS: aung hcan: cu. krany , / aʊ ŋ ˌ s æ n . s uː ˈ tʃ iː / , [2] Burmese pronunciation: [àʊɴ sʰáɴ sṵ tɕì] ; born 19 June 1945)...

The Mona Lisa (or La Joconde, La Gioconda). The Mona Lisa ( La Gioconda or La Joconde ) is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about,...

Destrucion of Khalid bin al-Waleed Mosque in #Syria

The S-300 (NATO reporting name SA-10 Grumble) is a series of initially Soviet and later Russian long range surface-to-air missile systems produced by NPO Almaz, all based on the initial S-300P version. The S-300 system was developed to defend against...