Asia
India’s Swine Flu Panic
More people die every single day in India from tuberculosis and diarrhea-related diseases than the total number who have perished worldwide from the...
Upcoming Afghan Presidential Election
With Afghanistan's presidential election to be held on August 20, candidates held campaign rallies across the country. Afghan and foreign troops deployed in...
Read moreU.S. Launches Offensive Against Taliban
A joint U.S.-Afghan military assault began against Dahaneh, a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province on August 12. Associated Press journalists traveling...
Read moreChina Warns Against an Arms Race in Space
Building on a February 2008 proposal by the governments of China and Russia, the communist regime in the People’s Republic of China is...
Read moreU.S. Targets Afghan Drug Lords Tied to Taliban
The United States has placed 50 suspected Afghan drug traffickers with ties to the Taliban on a Pentagon target list of 367 insurgents...
Read morePakistan’s Taliban Chief Baitullah Mehsud Is Killed
Pakistan's foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, told reporters in Islamabad on August 7, "According to my intelligence information, the news [that Taliban leader...
Read moreAhmadinejad Sworn in as Iran’s President Amid Protests
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in for a second term as Iran's president on August 5, as hundreds of opposition supporters demonstrated against his...
Read moreU.S. Journalists Come Home After N. Korean Pardon
Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the two American journalists arrested by North Korean border guards on March 17 after straying into North Korean...
Read moreCommunism Still Stands in the “Stans”
The mass media tells us that communism around the world fell with the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It’s almost...
Read moreIran Detains Three American Tourists
At least two Iranian state-run TV stations — Press TV and al Alam — reported on August 1 that the nation's border police...
Read moreTerrorist Targeting of Police
To the headlines listed below could be added hundreds more cataloging the concerted global attack by terrorist organizations against law enforcement. ...
Read moreAdvisers Call for Afghanistan Troop Buildup
Voice of America (VOA) News reported on July 29 that Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) — a...
Read moreIranian Police Clash With Mourners
Hundreds of mourners gathered at Tehran's Behesht-e Zahra cemetery on July 27 to honor those killed in the unrest that followed the June...
Read moreGates Indicates Faster Iraq Pullout
Voice of America (VOA) News reported on July 29 that Defense Secretary Robert Gates — speaking after a two-day visit to Iraq —...
Read moreObama Presses Israel on West Bank Settlements
U.S. special envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell wrapped up three days of talks in the Middle East on July 28, telling...
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