Sri Lanka: Humanitarian disaster in making

Sri Lanka: Humanitarian disaster in makingActivists expressed their deep anguish and concern on unabated mass killings in Sri Lanka which is, as they underlined, "no short of a humanitarian disaster in northern Sri Lanka"."We also protest the covert provision of economic and...

Scarred and Shunned, the Girl Still Struggling for Survival

Scarred and Shunned, the Girl Still Struggling for Survival Anjali SinghLucknow: A lone tear drop flowing down her faceless visage is the only indication of the pain and humiliation Saukari Devi has been forced to live with for so long. For forty four years, she has been...

Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day

Israel marks Remembrance Day as the country shuts down all entertainment centers. Tomorrow at 10 AM Israel Time there will be a 2 minute siren. During this time all transportation will stop by the side of the road...

"Is the World Ignoring Sri Lanka’s Srebrenica?"

The New York Times blog, Lede, carries a post authored by Robert Mackey, under this title, seeming to want to up the ante on MIA and Arundathi Roy's wild accusations, that others, like Indi.ca, have taken up. The post itself is that familiar mixture of sanctimoniousness and...

More Terror Outfits may get inspiration from Canada LTTE rallies.

Remember the Bush “shoegate”? That inspired a rain of "flying foot wares" all over the world - of  various sizes and types -  hurled at many politicians. The organized LTTE supporters invasion  of  the streets of Canada and Other Western countries...

Kenyan Police Brutally Attack Samburu Maasai Community

Since February 12, Kenyan government forces have launched a series of ongoing assaults on the indigenous Samburu people in the remote northern region of the country, using helicopter gunships and armed ground forces...

Five Kids Found Shot Dead After Dad's Suicide

  Update:  The mother tearfully spoke with reporters on Monday.She said she'd had enough, and wasn't going to take the abuse anymore.  She didn't return home from work Friday evening but told the...

Suicide bomber kills 5 policemen in Islamabad

A suicide bomber has killed five policemen when they detonated a bomb near a security base in Islamabad. It is thought that the bomber slipped into the base and went towards a mess tent; a number of police were also injured. This is the second such attakc in a number of...

Riot police officers place City protestors under siege & man dies

Marc Wadsworth for The-Latest.com Photograph: Deborah Hobson Big media headlines screamed "Riot police battle anarchists in City". One seasoned Fleet Street colleague told me wearily that press photographers and broadcast media cameras outnumbered G20 protesters when a...

Love That Hate!

This article is a riveting and refreshing point of view that leaves us asking more questions then it answers."" By Paul Kengor We must teach our children to hate," Vladimir Lenin instructed his education commissars. The Bolshevik godfather declared that hatred was not only...

Hillary Clinton in Mexico Today

Update: I watched an interview with Hillary Clinton this morning, she's quite a lady. Her visit to my country has attracted attention in a very positive way. I was happy to hear we share the same opinion, there's...

India’s juggernaut has lost its way

Indians have worked hard in recent years to cultivate their country’s image as a thrusting young Asian superpower on the up and up. But the aspiration to be more millionaire than slumdog appears badly served by an ossified political system that is offering the same old...

Thuggery in Khlong Toei again.

A market trader and one of the guards were attacked and injured yesterday at the Khlong Toei market in Bangkok.  According to today's Bangkok Post, the attacks occurred at the same time that Kuhn...

Canadian Student Foils Attack of U.K. School

Montreal's Concordia University student J.P. Neufeld was browsing the forum of technology website newgrounds.com on Tuesday when he came across the first of a string of alarming threads, along with a picture of a gas...

Violence in the Lower Mainland

Violence in the Lower Mainland has escalated over the month of March. While most of the violence is a continuation of the gang warfare, even innocent victims are being caught in the wave of violence.Earlier this week in the evening, a Simon Fraser University student was...

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