Terrorists struck once again in Jenin this past week killing four, wounding twenty-eight civilians, including two journalists and four children and women. FULL STORY...
My Hideous Progeny
Society + Culture
By James Secor
Sunday, 04 March 2007
I live in Guangzhou, one of the largest cities in China, the People's Republic of China. It is also one of the more modern and, like Shanghai, boasts a long history of international influence. FULL STORY...
Hundreds of US soldiers have entered Baghdad's Shia-dominated Sadr City in the first major push into the area since a US-led security crackdown began last month.
The United Arab Emirates has ordered local banks to freeze the accounts of 21 individuals and nine businesses suspected of involvement in laundering drug money, the UAE central bank governor said on Saturday.
China is to increase its defence spending by 17.8 per cent this year. A spokesman for the National People's Congress, said on Sunday, that the planned allocation for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) for 2007 was about $44.94bn.
The leaders of Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to fight the spread of sectarian strife between Sunnis and Shias in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East.
Iran's national airline has begun a service to Venezuela via Damascus in what Syria's transportation minister said was a move to end the "harassment" that Muslim travellers allegedly face post-September 11.