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Pakistan Democracy: Interview with Husain Haqqani

Husain Haqqani
October 15, 2008

Just When Africa’s Luck Was Changing

August 6, 2009
Contrary to the initial belief that Africa would escape the impact of the credit crisis because of its little to no investment in the global subprime market, the continent is feeling the pinch. According to the World Bank, African economies will grow at a meager 3 percent this year compared to 6...

5.5M Britons “Opt to Live Abroad”

December 26, 2006
If not for immigration, the UK would experience a drop in population, considering about 10 percent of British citizens choose to live abroad. Both young and retired Brits try living overseas, and most are professionals. "Britain is truly at the crossroads of the global movement of people,...

Logging Boreal Forest Could Detonate Massive “Carbon Bomb,” Says Report

April 14, 2008
The boreral forests of Canada store more than 25 times carbon dioxide that is currently released in world’s annual fossil-fuel emissions, reports an article from the Canadian Press. “About 80 percent of the carbon is stored in the soil as dead organic matter. The rest is stored in the forest's...

Nations Join the U.S. in Banning Canada's Beef

May 22, 2003
For the first time, mad cow disease appeared in a ranch in North America. While Canadian officials are trying to find out where this cow might have gotten infected and convince people that beef from Canada is still safe to be eaten, several countries have decided to put a temporary ban on beef...

Paulson Financial Regulation Reform Plan Already Faces Discounting

April 4, 2008
The mortgage-backed securities crisis has resulted in turmoil in the global markets, but politics could get in the way of any quick fixes of the US financial system, reports Thomson Financial News. Three short-term recommendations in the proposal from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson include...

Megafires May Change the Southwest Forever

July 1, 2011
Fires sweeping through remote areas is a natural occurrence. But the same can’t be said about the record-setting megafires raging in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The megafires, large and intensely hot, more regular in occurrence and more destructive, could permanently alter the ecology of that...

Violence Spreads After Kashmir Shrine Siege

August 8, 2008
Kashmir, a subject of dispute for nuclear powers India and Pakistan since both states gained independence in 1947, is the home for a growing separatist movement by majority Muslims who would like to shake off Indian rule in that region. Hindu-Muslim clashes increased since June, when Kashmir...
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