Many countries in the world on Thursday voiced their opposition to any military intervention in unrest-torn Libya amid increasing calls for enforcing a no-fly zone over the North African country. The Syrian Foreign Ministry said…
Category: Global Issues
Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak says his country will ask for another 20 billion dollars from the United States to modernize Israeli arsenals and maintain what he called its “qualitative progress” in military matters concerning…
Everyone remembers U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech at Cairo University on June 4, 2009, in which he proclaimed his solidarity with the suffering of the Palestinian people living under Israeli occupation. In it, he promised…
American government accused of spending millions on courses giving police a distorted impression of Muslims. The US government is being accused of pumping millions of dollars into unregulated training schemes for local police officers and…
Rising steel and oil prices in Russia, more honest disclosure in Brazil and booming economies in China and India have fueled a spike in billionaires in the so-called BRIC countries. Moscow is now home to…
By Radio Havana Cuba: The news is really impressive by itself: a 12 year-old boy in a rural community in the United States shot and killed his parents and assaulted his two brothers, but even…
By Amira Soltane (‘Expression, Algeria): Contrary to appearances, Al-Jazeera is the best-protected network on the planet, because it has succeeded in collecting and aggregating news coming from the West toward the East. What a funny world…
By Mario Augusto Jakobskind (Brasil de fato, Brazil): Barack Obama is only repeating what successive American governments have done over time in Latin America. Once again, the Israeli government was able to make the United Nations…
Army kills three men and one woman as thousands of women protest against Laurent Gbagbo holding onto power. Marches by thousands of women in protest at Ivory Coast‘s president Laurent Gbagbo have ended in bloodshed…
[Editorial] Among UN Security Council members, China and Russia are the only members not to involve in US/NATO-led military plot to invade Libya. In addition to three former colonial powers who are, absurdly and unjustly,…