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• Innocent People Massacres in Syria

  23 April 2013 ( #United Nations, #United States, #Syria, #Bashar al-Assad, #Houla, #Jdeidet al-Artouz, #Jdeidet al-Fadl, #Innocent People Massacres in Syria, #Damascus )

  Statement: At least 108 people have been documented as killed and up to 400 more are likely to have died in an almost week-long offensive by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Detail: On May 25, 2012, 108 people were murdered in the Syrian...

• World Hunger Facts and Figures

  13 August 2013 ( #Malnutrition, #Asia-Pacific, #Africa, #World Hunger Facts and Figures, #Developing country, #Children, #Asia, #World Food Programme, #Pacific )

  2. The vast majority of hungry people (98 percent) live in developing countries, where almost 15% of the population is undernourished. 3. Asia and the Pacific have the largest share of the world's hungry people (some 563 million) but the trend is downward....

• Use of chemical weapons and war brutulities in Syria

  05 June 2013 ( #United Nations, #Syria, #Bashar al-Assad, #United Nations Human Rights Council, #Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, #John Kerry, #Skype, #Use of chemical weapons and war brutulities in Syria, #Damascus )

  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...

• Pakistan Election Results 2013

  12 May 2013 ( #Pakistan Muslim League (N), #Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, #Muttahida Qaumi Movement, #Balochistan Pakistan, #Awami National Party, #Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, #Pakistan Election Results 2013, #Pakistan, #Pakistan Peoples Party )

  Election Results 2013 Contesting Parties NationalAssembly SindhAssembly PunjabAssembly KPKAssembly BalochistanAssembly Summary 180/272 34/130 131/297 76/99 19/51 PML(N) 87 1 93 10 5 PTI 27 0 11 25 0 PPPP 23 24 2 2 0 Independent 18 0 16 10 4 Pashtoonkhwa...

• Aung San Suu Kyi

  02 June 2013 ( #Myanmar, #Nobel Peace Prize, #NLD, #Suu Kyi, #National League for Democracy, #Jawaharlal Nehru Award, #Aung San Suu Kyi, #Burma, #Thein Sein )

  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)...

• Sepratist and Independence Movements in India

  04 July 2013 ( #Independence Movements in India, #Khalistan Movement, #India, #Tripura, #Bodoland, #Assam, #Mumbai, #Separatism, #Arunachal Pradesh )

  Dozens Of Independence Movements Increasing In India. Currently 67 separatist movements are working in India. 17 of them have strong following and influence in different states. Mumbai, India: India is the only country in world where more than 50 independence...

• Al Faisaliyah Tower-Riyadh

  05 May 2013 ( #Younis Mohammad Ibrahim al-Hayyari, #Hotel, #Travel and Tourism, #Lodging, #Saudi Arabia, #Riyadh, #Al Faisaliyah Tower-Riyadh, #Middle East, #Al-Qaeda )

  The Al Faisaliyah Center (or Al Faisaliah Center, Arabic: برج الفيصلية ) is a commercial skyscraper located in the business district of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It is the third tallest building in Saudi Arabia after the Kingdom Centre and Abraj Al Bait ....

• Eurozone unemployment rate hits record high

  01 May 2013 ( #Belgium, #IHS Global Insight, #Eurozone, #Eurostat, #European Union, #Portugal, #Greece, #Spain, #Eurozone unemployment rate hits record high )

  Unemployment rose to a record high of 12 percent in February in the Eurozone, according to the latest data released by the EU's official statistics agency.The Belgium-based Eurostat said on Tuesday that some 19.07 million people in the 17-member currency...

• Google Glass

  14 May 2013 ( #Google Glass, #Udacity, #Sebastian Thrun, #Glass, #Ray-Ban, #Google, #Warby Parker, #Thad Starner, #Project Glass )

  Google Glass (styled as "Google GLΛSS") is a wearable computer with a head-mounted display (HMD) that is being developed by Google in the Project Glass research and development project, [7] with the mission of producing a mass-market ubiquitous computer....

• Austerity

  29 April 2013 ( #Gross domestic product, #Debt-to-GDP ratio, #International Monetary Fund, #IMF, #Austerity, #Ireland, #GDP, #American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, #Economic growth )

  In economics, austerity describes policies used by governments to reduce budget deficits during adverse economic conditions. These policies can include spending cuts, tax increases, or a mixture of the two. [1] [2] [3] Austerity policies may be attempts...

• Financial Crises

  01 May 2013 ( #Economic bubble, #United States, #Financial Crises, #Business, #Wall Street Crash of 1929, #Bank run, #Currency crisis, #Financial Services, #Cyprus )

  The slogan in the window "Come In, Let's Talk Together" was particularly effective today. The term financial crisis is applied broadly to a variety of situations in which some financial assets suddenly lose a large part of their nominal value. In the...

• Bungladesh Garment Factory Deaths

  01 May 2013 ( #Dhaka, #Sohel Rana, #Bungladesh Garment Factory Deaths, #Primark, #European Union, #Asia, #Government, #Bangladesh, #Capital punishment )

  More than 400 people are now confirmed dead after the collapse of the building housing clothing factories in Bangladesh a week ago. 149 people are still missing. Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of the capital, Dhaka, in protests...

• Illegal Workers in Saudi Arabia

  12 May 2013 ( #Illegal Workers in Saudi Arabia, #Consul (representative), #Arab News, #Philippine, #Jeddah, #Saudi Arabia, #Riyadh, #Middle East, #Filipino people )

  Tens of thousands of illegal expatriate workers have registered with their consulates over the past 30 days in an effort to get an airline ticket home, consulates and embassy officials told Arab News. An estimated 6,000 Pakistanis, 60,000 Indians, 10,000...

• Boston Marathon Blast

  15 April 2013 ( #Boston Marathon, #The Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel, #Explosion, #Police, #North Carolina, #Finish Line Inc., #Boylston Street, #Boston Marathon Blast, #Associated Press )

  A series of explosions erupted near the finish line at the Boston Marathon on Monday. The Bosto... n Police Department confirmed that they were looking into an explosion, but had no further comment. The Associated Press reported that the authorities were...

• North Korea Threatened to attack US

  26 March 2013 ( #North Korea Threatened to attack US, #United States, #Korean People's Army, #Seoul, #Guam, #Asia, #North Korea, #South Korea, #Korean Central News Agency )

  امریکا پر حملے کیلئے شمالی کوریا کا فوج کو تیار رہنے کا حکم شمالی کوریا نے امریکا کے تین علاقوں پر میزائل حملے کی دھکمی دیتے ہوئے اپنی فوج کو تیار رہنے کا حکم جاری کردیا ہے۔ فرانسیسی خبر رساں ادارے اے ایف پی کے مطابق شمالی کوریا نے امریکا پر راکٹ حملے...

• Pak-India cricket relations

  31 March 2013 ( #Sports, #Cricket, #Zaka Ashraf, #India, #Pak-India cricket relations, #Pakistan, #Pakistan national cricket team, #Indian Premier League, #Board of directors )

  According to media news Indian and Pakistan cricket boards have agreed to start cricket relations between both countries. According to Indian Board chairman Pakistan team will visit India in December this year for playing three one day internationals...

• Soviet Defeat in Afghanistan

  30 March 2013 ( #Soviet Defeat in Afghanistan, #United States, #War in Afghanistan (2001–present), #Soviet, #Panjdeh Incident, #Afghanistan, #Jimmy Carter, #Soviet Union, #Russia )

  Soviet troops (in right row) withdrawing from Afghanistan in 1988. Afghan government BTR on the left The Soviet war in Afghanistan lasted nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Part of the Cold War, it was fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces...

• Nitaqat law in Saudi Arabia

  31 March 2013 ( #Saudi, #Work permit, #Labour Ministry, #Nitaqat, #Saudi government, #Migrant worker, #Small and medium enterprises, #Nitaqat law in Saudi Arabia, #Saudi Arabia )

  The Nitaqat law, introduced to accelerate the nationalisation process, makes it mandatory for small and medium businesses to hire one Saudi national for every 10 migrant workers they employ. "About 250,000 trade, industrial and service firms have been...

• Raising Corruption in Pakistan

  31 March 2013 ( #Islamabad, #Pakistan Steel Mill, #Pakistan International Airlines, #Asia, #Jeddah, #Pakistan, #Pakistan Railways, #Supreme Court, #Raising Corruption in Pakistan )

  With government silence and weak laws corruption is becoming part and parcel of daily lives of Pakistani people. Due to political influence, corruption, non merit and miss management profitable institutions like Pakistan Railways, Pakistan International...

• Peace Agreement Between Turkish Governemnt and PKK

  30 March 2013 ( #Turkish government, #Peace Agreement Between Turkish Governemnt and PKK, #Iraq, #Kurdistan Workers, #Politics of Turkey, #Abdullah Öcalan, #Turkey, #PKK, #Moro Islamic Liberation Front )

  The recent peace deal between the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Turkish government has proven again that war leaves behind nothing but hatred, death and destruction. Last year, a peace agreement signed between the Phillipine government and the...

• US Credit Rating

  31 March 2013 ( #US Credit Rating, #United States, #War in Afghanistan (2001–present), #Iraq, #Iraq War, #Osama Bin Laden, #Afghanistan, #Greece, #Soviet Union )

  For the first time in history the United States lost its credit rating from AAA to AA+ and now fear is growing that it will affect major economies around the world. Several European economies are passing through worst stage of their history. Greece, Spain...

• Hans Martin Blix

  26 March 2013 ( #Iraq, #Blix, #Liberal People's Party, #Dimitris Perrikos, #Hans Martin Blix, #Soviet Union, #United Nations Monitoring Verification and Inspection Commission, #International Atomic Energy Agency, #Hans Blix )

  Hans Martin Blix ( listen ( help · info ) ; born 28 June 1928) is a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party. He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1978–1979) and later became the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency...

• Life and History of Mohamemd ElBaradei

  26 March 2013 ( #Nobel Peace Prize, #Mohamed Morsi, #Hosni Mubarak, #National Salvation Front, #Mohamed ElBaradei, #Mohamed Mustafa ElBaradei, #International Atomic Energy Agency, #ElBaradei, #Egypt )

  Mohamed ElBaradei, a former head of the UN nuclear watchdog and a Nobel peace laureate, resigned after just weeks in office as Egypt's vice president for foreign affairs following a deadly police crackdown on supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi....

• Colin Powell

  26 March 2013 ( #President, #United States Army, #Facebook, #United State, #Facebook features, #George W Bush, #United States Secretary of State, #Colin Luther Powell, #Colin Powell )

  ( Colin Luther Powell ( pron.: / ˈ k oʊ l ɨ n / ; born April 5, 1937) is an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army . [1] He was the 65th United States Secretary of State , serving under U.S. President George W. Bush...

• LHC verdict on Kalabagh Dam.

  03 March 2013 ( #Lahore, #Pakistan government, #Energy crisis, #Kalabagh Dam, #Kalabagh, #Faisalabad, #Pakistan, #Karachi, #High Court )

  The High Court in Karachi, Sindh Pakistan According to media news The High Court in Pakistan ordered the federal government to implement decisions of the Council of Common Interests and build the Kalabagh Dam as soon as possible to meet current power...