The infant mortality rate in the United States has dropped substantially over the past half-century, but broad disparities remain among racial groups, and the country stacks up poorly next to other industrialised nations. In 2004, the most recent year for which statistics are available, roughly seven babies died for every 1,000 live births before reaching their first […]
G8 Broken promises
The British government stands accused of breaking its G8 pledge to help defeat Aids after it revealed it would only marginally increase its contribution to the Global Fund for Aids, Malaria and Tuberculosis. The International Development Secretary, Douglas Alexander, promised £1-billion over the next eight years to the fund, but campaigners said this fell far […]
No Religious Test Shall Ever Be Required
Paragraph 3, Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution reads, “. . . all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or […]
ADOPTION – Know Its Historical Roots
Adoption-the act of establishing a person as parent to one who is not in fact or in law his child. Adoption is so widely recognized that it can be characterized as an almost worldwide institution with historical roots traceable to antiquity. In most ancient civilizations and in certain later cultures as well, the purposes served […]
Turkey Is Unsatisfied With Europe Over PKK
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has harshly criticized the European Union for not doing enough to take on the PKK. He had said that the nations under the European Union had not extradited the members of the PKK to Turkey. So far, Turkey has asked the EU numerous times to do more against the PKK such as […]
Iraq’s PKK Proposal Rejected by Turkey
The Turkish government had explains that Iraq’s proposals on taking action against the PKK will take too long to work. They have cited that to be the reason for rejecting all of Iraq’s proposals on the PKK so far. So far, both governments are trying to avert possible military action into northern Iraq which is […]
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