The stakes are high in Nigeria as the day of the elections, already postponed by a month, steadily draws nearer. Security has been a dominant issue, with the recent cancellation of a football match with Bolivia’s national team being only the latest event to draw attention to concerns surrounding Nigeria. These concerns, currently, lay primarily […]
KASHMIR-A SYMBOL OF PAKISTAN’S FAILURE?
During his address to the UN General Assembly in September 2012, Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari candidly expressed his anguish on the failure of the international community to resolve the long outstanding Kashmir issue. Speaking on this occasion, Zardari had said that “Kashmir remains a symbol of the failures, rather than strengths of the UN […]
Swedish prosecutors softer, but would US spare Assange?
Many justice-seekers who want to see whistleblowing website WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange free are a bit relaxed today after the Swedish prosecutors have opted for travelling to UK to question him in sexual assault cases. But the suspicion that the US and its allies — UK, Sweden and Australia — won’t let Assange survive hassle-free […]
Profiling ups risk for Asian rhino horn mules
Rhino horn syndicates may have replaced Vietnamese couriers with white South Africans to courier the illegal horns on commercial flights from Africa to Asia because of courier profiling. Anti-wildtrade NGO TRAFFIC’s rhino and elephant specialist Tom Milliken has speculated that the syndicates may have stopped using Vietnamese students to carry contraband horns in their airplane […]
Tarigami for cessation of hostilities along the border
Srinagar, February 01, (Scoop News)-Expressing deep concern at the increased incidents of ceasefire violation on Line of Control (LoC) and the plight of border residents CPI (M) State Secretary and MLA Elect Kulgam Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami on Sunday urged the leadership of India and Pakistan to intervene in order end the border skirmishes. In a […]
Italy’s Persecution of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito Recalls the Dreyfus Affair
Introduction and Premise On March 25, 2015, the case against Seattle native Amanda Knox and her one time Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, will be heard by the Italian Supreme Court in what may be the pair’s final attempt to set right a miscarriage of justice reminiscent of the infamous Dreyfus Affair of the nineteenth century. […]
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