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UN Security Council slams the LTTE, lauds the GoSL

UN Security Council, after it's first formal session on the situation in Sri Lanka has come down heavily on the LTTE. Furthermore, it has acknowledged the legitimate right of GoSL to combat terrorism.The UNSC has...

Surrender and renounce terrorism - UN Security council to LTTE

At last UN Security Council too asked LTTE to surrender immediately and renounce terrorism. This demand to the LTTE was announced in a press meeting happened after the discussion in a UNSC meeting that discussed...

Venezuela looks further East: Chavez in Japan

Caracas, Venezuela, 6 April 2009. After including Japan in his international tour at a very short notice, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visited Tokyo on Monday. Chavez met with Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso...

Australia Pledges $10 Million in Aid to Zimbabwe

Every now and then I'll hear something in the news that makes me proud that I am from Australia.  Today Australia is pledging aid and money to those less fortunate in Zimbabwe. Australia has an embassy in...

Blogs, YouTube: the new battleground of Gaza conflict?

In the following article by Yigal Schleifer at the Christian Science Monitor, summits his perspective on the  use of web 2.0 to analyse the recent Israeli attack on Gaza. According to...

Israel forms war crime defence team to protect army officials

Despite an investigation which the Israeli military announced this week into the use of white phosphorous in Gaza since 2006, international efforts to bring those responsible for the recent events have not...

Israel lifts Gaza International press ban after troop departure

The most criticised ban on foreign journalism has been lifted by Israel as " the last IDF soldiers who took part in the ground operation against Hamas in Gaza left the area". the press restriction was enacted...

Venezuela breaks diplomatic ties with Israel over Gaza massacre

Caracas, Venezuela, 14 January 2009. Today, the Venezuelan government announced the severing of diplomatic relations with Israel due to its nonobservance of UN resolution and the systematic persecution of...

A pulverised Muslim leadership

By Shireen M Mazari Once again the tragic pulverization of the Muslim leadership has revealed itself in the mumblings and fumblings that have followed the launch of the new Israeli military campaign to annihilate the Palestinian people that dare to seek an end to Israel’s...

UN divided on Gaza resolution, Kadima grows in popularity

As the UN Security Council remains divided over the wording of a resolution on Israeli attacks on Gaza put forward by Libya, the incumbent  Kadima administration in Israel grows in popularity. This...

Venezuelan Chavez shocked by US' Gaza reaction

The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez criticised the US stand on the Israeli attack on Gaza. He also called criminal the Israeli raid on Palestinians. "The remark came after Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for...

UNSC: Halt all violence in Gaza now

As the sad event of the Israeli attack on Gaza unfolds worldwide, the UN Security Council has called on both "Israel and the Palestinians to immediately halt all violence." This call echoes other made by other...

Brazil's foreign policy: The samba beat, with missteps

The following article at the Economist recounts the Brazilian diplomatic mischiefs in the region amid the recent celebration of the LatAm Summit. It also analyses the Brazilian falling of grace with left...

Lord Bingham: Iraq war 'violated rule of law'

As US President George W Bush prepares to leave office, a renewed interest on the legality of the Iraq invasion has emerged in the UK.  This time, it is a lordly dispute. "Lord Bingham said Lord Goldsmith had...

The secret Downing Street memo

"Written by www.daily.pk    Monday, 10 November 2008 22:35 SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL - UK EYES ONLY DAVID MANNING From: Matthew RycroftDate: 23 July 2002S 195 /02cc: Defence Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Attorney-General, Sir Richard Wilson,...

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