The state of Israel has announced that, it will be expanding its settlement plans in Jerusalem in a sector that was captured by the Israeli Defense Forces in the year 1967. The Palestinians on the other hand have long been claiming that the Jerusalem district belongs to Palestine. This latest decision from Jerusalem, has put [...]

The South Korean government has given its approval to a free trade agreement, suggested by the government of India, that would allow both countries to greatly cut down on tariffs and enjoy a mutual financial relationship that would additional boost to the bursting economy of two of Asia’s leading economies. The vote on agreement was [...]

There have been great people who deserved the Nobel Peace Prize more than Henry Kissinger or Yasir Arafat but, then again, the award-giving Norwegian Nobel Committee reserves the right to choose. Here are some of those who missed the rightful glory.
Gandhi should have been an obvious winner. Who to better embody the spirit of peace [...]

The Kyoto Protocol which did not achieve general success is about to expire. To replace it is the new climate treaty that will be forged in Copenhagen this December. More than thought of as a historic global agreement, the Copenhagen treaty is ‘the culmination of a 20-year process,’ and is ‘the last chance to save [...]

Climate change causes significant changes in the quality and availability of water resources, affecting many sectors including food production, where water plays a crucial role. Climate change will increasingly drive ecosystem including marine ecosystems and biodiversity loss, affecting individual species and significantly impacting ecosystems and their related services, on which society depends. It increases land [...]

The G20 meeting is being held in Pittsburgh, US for a two day long summit. This meeting could be a fruitful and an anticipated one for many emerging nations. There could be a shift in the voting powers of the emerging nations.
The IMF being a 186 member-states organization is mainly dominated by the US and the [...]

Antitrust regulatory agencies of the European Union opened an investigation on Thursday to investigate the background of the Sun Microsystems acquisition by Oracle, in s USD 7 billion operation, due to concerns that the deal would threaten competition in the database market.
The delay may affect the Sun, the fourth largest maker of computer servers of [...]

The proposals presented on this week by the British government, of cutting the access to the internet users suspects of downloading material illegally with copyright, created agitation. The measure represents a great change position, sending the message of a more punitive posture.
In June, the government had sketched a more gradual plan, under which the internet [...]

The more active and threatening extreme-right movement from Europe party is in Hungary. It calls himself Jobbik (Movement to a Better Hungary) and has three representatives in the European Parliament.
There are suspicions that members of Jobbik are behind 16 attacks with Molotov cocktails and firearms against the gypsy community registered from July of 2008, that [...]

The beautiful country of Spain is not stranger to international terrorism and after a brief period of null in terror attacks, Spain today witnessed a massive terrorist car bomb attack that injured numerous police officers and their family members. The car bomb went off before 4.am at a police barrack in Burgos, which located in [...]