The world's most authoritative body on climate change science recently published a report emphasising that climate change is happening even faster, and with more damaging effects, than previously anticipated. The United NationsIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report made clear that climate change will be harmful for all of us - and not only for a few remote island states or polar bears - by affecting the world's food supply. Although the Panel has...
"In actuality, how Turks and Armenians, as the owners of this common history, can together, through dialogue and empathy, reach a just memory of the tragic events of 1915, which occurred during the great human sufferings of World War I, is already being examined thoroughly and in all its dimensions....
TweetMadrid, April 24 (IANS/EFE) Spain's economy will grow at an average of 1.5 percent in 2014-15, authorities said. "Everything indicates that the Spanish economy's recovery has continued in the first quarter of the year," Xinhua quoted Economy MinisterLuis de Guindos as saying Wednesday. Spain...
The world's biggest election in India, which passed the halfway mark last week, has entered its second-biggest day of staggered polls, in which Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party is widely seen as the front-runner to be country's next prime minister. In the...
The UNSecretary General has accused all parties in Syria's civil war of "flagrant violations" of international law over the delivery of aid. Ban Ki-moon urged the Security Council to act to implement a resolution passed in February demanding greater access. In his second report to...
Asymmetrical wars in Afghanistan, Vietnam, and now in Syria demonstrate all too clearly that relatively small numbers of belligerents can carry out successful military operations against superior forces. But still, firepower is extremely important. A country's projection of power relies in...
VIDEO: Bite of Noor in Dari below and in Central NewsOCN video folder Afghanistan&aposs election commission has delayed releasing preliminary results from the country&aposs April 5 presidential election to allow more time to investigate possible fraud. A...
