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In Teeming India, Water Crisis Means Dry Pipes and Foul Sludge

October 3, 2006
Some middle-class neighborhoods in India’s wealthiest cities have ample plumbing and the infrastructure for supplying water, but not the actual liquid itself. India’s major cities fail to provide reliable tap water throughout the day, and this article from “The New York Times” describes how some...

Clinton Calls on Bush to Make Deal with North Korea

April 14, 2003
"Former President Bill Clinton says he agrees with the Bush administration's fight against terrorism. But, he said it's North Korea, not Iraq that poses the biggest threat with its weapons of mass destruction." Clinton also declaims the Bush administration's tax cut...

Once Again Divided

October 20, 2003
It's not only the western media's portrayal of the Iraqi war that has Arab journalists up in arms – some are not so happy at the perceived inaccuracies in other Arab sources. At the Third Arab Media Forum last week in Dubai, discussions disintegrated into shouting matches as journalists...

The Controversial Search for the God Particle

September 10, 2008
Throughout history, science has inspired awe in some and fear from others; skeptics scoffed at Galileo Galilei for pointing out that the earth rotates the sun, Charles Darwin for offering a theory on evolution, and NASA for putting men on the moon. A large hadron collider, switched on in Geneva...

Democracy Won, but do Americans Care?

February 1, 2005
The largely successful democratic election in Iraq was made possible only by tens of thousands of deaths, both Iraqi and American. In the United States, many initial supporters of the war are growing increasingly wary of mounting costs and casualties, suggests this Daily Star commentary. This...

UN Agency Still Probing Iran's Enriched Uranium

August 26, 2003
A recent report from the UN nuclear watchdog agency was optimistic about Iran's increased cooperation in recent months, but was riddled with doubts about the country's nuclear ambitions. In the report, the IAEA praised Iran because it "has demonstrated an increased degree of...

North Korea Says Its Arms Will Deter U.S. Attack

April 7, 2003
After having been virtually silent since the US-led invasion of Iraq began, North Korea's government is once again proclaiming the right to protect itself against any US aggression. "The Iraqi war shows that to allow disarming through inspection does not help avert a war but rather...

The Arab Spring’s Chill Winds

April 27, 2011
The uprisings in the Arab world – especially in Libya – are slowing economic growth in Bangladesh. Remittances sent from the Arab world represent 12 percent of Bangladesh’s GDP. “Bangladesh depends on remittances from the Middle East more than any other large country,” explains this article in the...
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