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‘Lebanon Monday reiterated its right to liberate the remaining villages still occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. In a statement to mark the 15th anniversary of the withdrawal of Israeli forces from most […]
‘Sri Lanka’s newly elected President Maithripala Sirisena announced Friday that the import of the World’s most used herbicide glyphosate will be banned with immediate effect. The release of already imported stocks has also been stopped. […]
‘In the Netherlands, people who have been spraying their lawns and gardens with Roundup will have to find another way to protect their land from pests. Late last year, the Dutch parliament voted to ban […]
‘US Department of Justice investigators have identified criminal wrongdoing in General Motors’ failure to announce technical faults in an ignition switch, which is tied to scores of deaths. The defective ignition switch issue has been […]
‘In April 2001, a Navy symposium entitled “Naval Operations in an Ice-Free Arctic” was mounted to begin to prepare the service for a climate-change-induced future. Fast forward to June 2015. In what the military refers […]
‘It stands not merely as a stark obituary but a broader death sentence of the Arab Spring. The message is fundamental: whoever is voted in the aftermath of enthusiastic protest against authoritarian regimes in the […]
‘This year the twentieth anniversary of the massacre in Srebrenica is being observed. On July 11 a huge spectacle will take place at the Srebrenica Memorial center specially constructed for that purpose. It will feature […]
‘The death toll from a heatwave in India rises to more than 500 people as weather forecasters warn of a “severe heatwave” ahead. In the capital city of New Delhi, a high of 44 C […]
‘Iranian commander Major General Qassem Soleimani has slammed the United States over the recent fall of the Iraqi city of Ramadi to the Takfiri ISIL terrorist group. Soleimani, who is the commander of the Islamic […]
‘Russia has congratulated Poland’s opposition candidate Andrzej Duda on his victory in presidential polls, saying Moscow-Warsaw relations would reinforce the entire Europe. In a congratulatory message on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin also called for […]
‘Fighters from Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement together with members of allied Popular Committees have launched an attack against a Saudi military base as Riyadh presses ahead with its air campaign against its impoverished and conflict-ridden […]
In an opinion piece published in the Financial Times, China’s ambassador to Great Britain, Liu Xiaoming, had some sage advice for those skeptics who see China’s New Silk Road initiative as a geopolitical grab for greater land and maritime power in resp…
Andrzei Duda of the conservative PiS party won yesterday’ s second round of Presidential elections in Poland with 52%, against incumbent President Bronislaw Komorowski who got 48%.
Duda, presently a Member of the European Parliament, will take office …