One of the state-run coal mines in the Xinxing mine in Heilongjiang province caved in after a massive blast tore through the mining area, killing 42 miners and trapping 66 other miners, with the rescue efforts at their peak to rescue the miners.
This latest tragedy has brought the spotlight to the highly dangerous mining industry [...]

After a prolonged tug or war between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United Nations, Tehran has finally declined to accept the nuclear deal offered by the U.N to Iran, in lieu of a complete deactivation of all nuclear activities by Iran. The country has clearly stated that, the stockpile of low enriched uranium [...]

A prominent Iranian lawmakers has stated that, if Russia fails to comply with its weapons supply commitment on time, the long standing diplomatic relations between the two countries could be harmed. The statement comes in the wake of a delay in an anti-aircraft missile defense system that Russia was supposed to deliver to Iran.
The defense [...]

Russian President, Dmitri A. Medvedev has stated that, Russia might stand with the United Nations and the western governments in imposing sanction on the Islamic Republic of Iran, if the current nuclear deal negotiations are failed. The nuclear deal proposed by the international community to Iran is aimed at reducing the amount of enriched uranium [...]

US intelligence appears to be following closely the increase in Kazakhstan’s nuclear commerce. A new report reveals that ‘Kazakhstan might be looking to do business with other, less responsible regimes, too.’ These other nuclear vendors have a shady record when it comes to weapons proliferation.
Thus far, Kazakhstan has cooperated with the US on key denuclearization [...]

The Secretary General of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Anders Fogh Rasmussen, urged the member states and the international community to continue their support for NATO efforts in Afghanistan and prevent the now war torn nation into becoming a safe haven for Al-Qaeda again. Taking a shot at the critics of the War on Terror, [...]

According to Western diplomats, Iran promised ‘to send about 80 percent of its stockpile of low-enriched uranium to Russia and France for processing and return to Tehran to replenish dwindling fuel stocks for a reactor in the capital that produces isotopes for cancer care.’ Iran’s low-enriched uranium stocks total around 1.5 metric tons. Received fuel [...]

Over the years, Goldman Sachs has declared that the emerging nations like Brazil, Russia, India and China. (BRIC) will be the economic powerhouses in future. Citigroup too has declared the increasing influence of China and India in the rest of the world with their increasing prosperity.
However, this economic prosperity has not actually trickled down the [...]

That Iran has become nuclear is no longer a matter of doubt. ‘The Iranians are in fact moving rapidly toward a weapon.’ It has also managed to deceive US intelligence during the Bush administration. It was only during the Obama administration that Iran was discovered to be on full speed at producing nuclear weapons. Dealing [...]

The Vietnam War showed the world ‘the futility of Western powers using force in somebody else’s country.’ The US learned some hard lessons from the failure. Today, ‘Vietnam haunts Barack Obama as he decides what to do in Afghanistan’ which he calls the ‘war of necessity.’
The US counter-insurgency strategy, while ‘seeking to exorcise the ghost [...]