The Chinese government has just recently announced that it will grant farmers throughout the country the right to own farmland; this new proclomation comes forth in an effort to help fight off starvation and increase food production. |
President Nicolas Sarkozy has now threatened to take a publishing company to court unless the company withdraws a “voodoo manual” from bookstores that includes a doll bearing the president’s likeness. |
Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan seized control of a bus and proceeded to kill at least 25 Afghan civilians who were on board. |
After more than 60 years, trade has once aghain opened across the de facto border which divides the Indian and Pakistani parts of the disputed region of Kashmir. |
A new planned international summit between Europe and America over the financial crisis turned into a heated debate as to whether capitalism has a future. |
Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, receently told reporters that his country would support the endeavor that allows U.S. troops to stay positioned in Iraq under a United Nations mandate. |
The countries of Hungary and Iceland are struggling with all their might to fight off bankruptcy; the horrific problems have arisen due to the crash associated with their banking systems. |
The missiles that were reently fired by a remotely piloted American aircraft into a Pakistani village near the Afghan border were apparently aimed at a prominent Taliban commander reports now confirm. |
Pakistan is on the verge of bankruptcy and is asking the International Monetary Fund for aid. |
The Ukraine has just turned down a Russian proposal of which the details include textending the lease for the naval base that is currently being used by the Russian Black Sea Fleet. |
Taliban members killed an aid worker in Kabul for trying to spread Christianity. |
The ultra-Orthodox Shas Party has reported that it will not join the government that Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has been trying to assemble. |
Afghanistan’s appeals court sentenced a reporter to 20 years in prison for blasphemy; the sentence commuted a death sentence that was criticized by the United Nations, Reporters Without Borders has stated. |
Sister Emmanuelle, a revered nun throughout France, who has given her time and effort to numerous causes for humanity has died at age 99. |
