Archive for: June, 2014

Rebels claim to control largest oil refinery in Iraq

iraqi oil refinery attack

The jihadists claim to have taken full control of the largest oil refinery in Iraq, in Baiji, north of Baghdad. The information is confusing. A “reliable source” has assured the journalist Richard Galpin BBC that there are about 160 militants inside while the New York Times reporter, CJ Chivers, who accompanied Kerry on this tour, […]

U.S. condemns harassment of press but maintains its alliance

Egypt US flags

With war in Iraq and Syria, Libya chaos and thinking in Washington that the Arab Spring was just a bad dream that brought disorder and instability, the United States returned to the old ways that ensured an uneasy Pax Americana in the region. Egypt anchorage during the first decades of power in the Middle East […]

Suspected Boko Haram attack causes 30 dead in Nigeria

boko haram

At least 30 people have died in a series of attacks attributed to militia Boko Haram according to local authorities and residents of the area. These murders were carried out during a series of attacks by insurgents in the village of Kummabza in Borno State (Nigeria), during the last seven days, according to residents who […]

Putin drops option to intervene militarily in Ukraine

vladimir-putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin has given a clear signal that he has no intention to intervene militarily in Ukraine and proposed the Federation Council to set aside the provision that allowed him to send troops to Ukraine. On Tuesday, before leaving on an official visit to Vienna, Putin sent this proposal to Valentina Matvienko, the […]

95 Cosa Nostra members arrested in Italy

italian police

A total of 95 suspected members of Cosa Nostra have been arrested today in Palermo, the capital of the Italian island of Sicily, accused of having extorted for years Sicilian businessmen. The operation, which involved Carabinieri, Guardia di Finanza police and managed to dismantle the dome of the clans that controlled Resuttana and San Lorenzo […]

Hong Kong defies Beijing with a consultation on universal suffrage

hong kong polls

Nearly 700,000 people have passed through the polls, physical or virtual, in Hong Kong since last Friday to participate in the referendum called for by the Occupy Central pro civil liberties movement to reclaim the public to appoint the head of the local government elections 2017, as Beijing has promised. The Chinese government has flatly […]

Dr. Qadri announces rallies to support operation against terrorists

Dr. Qadri arrive in lahore

Pakistan Awami Tehrik chief Dr Tahirul Qadri has announced peaceful rallies will be held during the next four weeks for the success of the military operation in North Waziristan while addressing a press conference at Minhajul Quran Secretariat in Lahore this Tuesday June 24, 2014. Dr. Qadri further said that operation Zarb-e-Azb in North Waziristan […]

Punjab government releases arrested PAT workers

PAT and police clashes in lahore

Punjab government has decided to release all the arrested workers of Pakistan Awami Tehreek and Minhajul Quran as part of the negotiations between Dr. Tahirul Qadri and Governor Punjab Mohammad Sarwar. According to reports in local media, Punjab government had instructed the Punjab police to provide foolproof security to Pakistan Awami Tehreek leader Dr. Tahirul […]

US needs immigration reforms to boost economy

US needs immigration regorms

When millionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson does not like beating around the bush, and in his last message to the Republicans who have always supported with generous contributions, not mince words: U.S. needs immigration reform that gives a solution to the situation of the 11 million people living illegally in the country and are necessary to […]

FO denies Afghan allegations of Pakistan involvement in Kunar

Tasnem-Aslam-FO-spokesperson

The Foreign Office said Pakistan government rejects the Afghan allegation baseless and fabricated regarding the recent attacks in the Kunar province of Afghanistan. The spokesperson Tasneem Aslam said that such allegations by Afghan officials would undermine peace efforts between the two countries . Foreign Office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam said in a statement that it is […]

Syria completes delivery of all declared chemical weapons

syria chemical weapons

Syria has finished delivering the last chemical weapons declared to the international community to be destroyed, as announced on Monday the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), to coordinate the destruction of the arsenal. “At this moment I’m talking about, the vessel carrying chemical weapons just left the port of Latakia “, said […]

Al Maliki warns Kerry that militants threaten world peace

kerry meets with al maliki in baghdad

The Secretary of State of the United States, John Kerry, has arrived in Baghdad Monday, the Iraqi capital, to meet with Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki on the issue of Jihadist progress in the region. According to the Shiite prime minister of Iraq, the advancing jihadi are a threat world peace. Kerry reiterated U.S. commitment […]

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