Iraq Elections: Ballots And Bombs
Today Iraqi voters are going to the polls despite deadly bomb attacks on polling stations which already killed at least 38 people and dozens were wounded. Most of the attacks took place in Baghdad. The 2010 elections are the second parliamentary elections since the toppling of Saddam Hussein following the US invasion in 2003. Around […]
40 Years Later US Bombs Still Kill In Laos
A Legacy Of The Vietnam War It is one of the legacies of the war in Vietnam. Even so the conflict in Vietnam ended in 1975 countries such as Laos and Cambodia are still paying an heavy price as the authorities still struggle to get rid of a massive quantity of unexploded bombs. Between 1964 […]
House Foreign Affairs Committee Recognizes Armenian Genocide
In a razor thing vote of 23-22, the US House House Foreign Affairs Committee formally recognized the genocide of ethnic Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago. Turkey recalled it’s ambassador for consultation. The measure may be brought before the full House floor in a matter of weeks.
Iraq: Three Suicide Bomb Attacks Kill 33 Ahead Of Election
Today, in the central city of Baquba at least 33 people have been killed and 55 seriously wounded after three coordinated suicide bomb attacks. The attackers targeted a government building, then a nearby traffic intersection and later the hospital where the wounded were taken for emergency treatments. The city of Baquba is the capital of […]
Africa: Celebrating 50 Years Of Independence From Colonial Powers
Time Line The year 1960 marked a sea of change in most sub-Saharan Africa. Fourteen countries in West Africa became free from their French colonial ruler, the Belgian Congo became Zaire, Somalia and Nigeria broke from the control of the vanishing British empire. The new nations were following in the footsteps of Liberia, a state […]
