The US and EU have announced new sanctions in the hope of persuading Iran to abandon its alleged nuclear weapons programme, though how effective these will be is questionable.
Recall that in late December, Egyptian authorities raided the offices of numerous nongovernmental organizations, including the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute, which are funded mostly by US taxpayers through the National Endowment for Democracy.
A controversy has broken out this week that epitomizes how bold the Islamic supremacist forces in the U.S. have become, and how weak and supine those who are charged with protecting the public have become.
The world's largest drug field was formerly in the Bekaa Valley where the land is warm and moist. Reflecting the poor state of agriculture in the Muslim world, some of the most arable land in Lebanon where the Romans raised acres of wheat was turned over to cannabis and opium production.
ERBIL (AKnews) -- The Iraqi government will soon form a committee to either restore confiscated Kurdish and Turkmen lands in Kirkuk or compensate them. Speaking to AKnews, Kheyrullah Hassan, Iraqi Trade Minister (a Kurd) told AKnews that the minister will work to annul nine orders by Saddam Hussein's deposed regime under which some 400,000 acres of
Ealing, England -- EResidents bowed their heads in a minutes silence this morning in memory of those who died in acts of genocide throughout the world. It followed a tree planting ceremony outside the council's Perceval House offices in Ealing Broadway to mark Holocaust Memorial Day.
BAGHDAD (UPI) -- Iraq is facing worsening water shortages caused by the failure of successive postwar governments to ensure supplies and extensive dam-building in neighboring states that could trigger sectarian conflict.