Political Affairs

English: Ban Ki-moon Ban Ki-moon (Hangul: 반기문 ; Hanja: 潘基文 ; born 13 June 1944) is the eighth and current Secretary-General of the United Nations, after succeeding Kofi Annan in 2007. Before becoming Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in South...

The 2008 Pakistan earthquake was a magnitude Mw 6.4 earthquake that hit the Pakistani province of Balochistan on October 29, 2008. The US Geological Survey reported that the quake occurred 60 km (37 mi) north of Quetta and 185 km (115 mi) southeast of...

The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicenter near the town of Léogâne (Ouest Department), approximately 25 km (16 miles) west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. The earthquake occurred at 16:53 local time...

Lockerbie disaster memorial (Lockerbie cemetery) Pan Am Flight 103, also commonly referred to as the Lockerbie bombing, was the bombing of a Pan Am transatlantic flight from London Heathrow Airport to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on...

The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a gas leak incident in India, considered the world's worst industrial disaster. [1] It occurred on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide...

English: Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant The Chernobyl disaster (Ukrainian: Чорнобильська катастрофа, Chornobylska Katastrofa – Chornobyl Catastrophe) was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant...

A NATO airstrike has killed 11 children and one woman in the East of Afghanistan, report local officials. A house collapsed during the attack, causing the casualties and leaving six women injured. The civilians were killed during a joint Afghan-NATO operation...

A view of Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley The Panjshir offensives (Russian: Пандшерская операция - Panjsher Operations) were a series of battles between the Soviet Army and groups of Afghan Mujahideen under Ahmad Shah Massoud for the control of the strategic...

A street in Fallujah heavily damaged by the fighting. The Second Battle of Fallujah — code-named Operation Al-Fajr (Arabic,الفجر "the dawn") and Operation Phantom Fury — was a joint U.S., Iraqi, and British offensive in November and December 2004, considered...

Iguazu Falls, view from the Argentine side Deutsch: Iguazú-Wasserfälle, von der argentinischen Seite aus gesehen Português: Cataratas do Iguaçu a partir do lado argentino Español: Las cataratas del Iguazú vistas desde el lado argentino Iguazu Falls, Iguazú...