China has announced its plans to award ‘Confucian’ Peace Prize – its own version of the Nobel Peace Prize reports Agence France-Presse. One of the organizers – Tan Chzhanlyu – said that in 2010 the winner of this award will be Lien Chan, former Vice President of Taiwan. He will receive about 15 thousand dollars [...]
There is still no trace of Tanya Shannon, 40, from Ransom, Illinois, who disappeared after a car crash in which her husband was killed on Sunday. Authorities have no clue where the woman, a mother of four, could have gone. Her husband Dale Shannon was found dead behind the wheel. Search is still continuing for [...]
Commemorative ceremonies are being organized across the United States in honor of the Pearl Harbor Day Martyrs. December 7, considered as D day in the American history, is observed by all the citizens of the country as Pearl Harbor Day in honor of those who gave their lives for the country in the Japanese attack [...]
187,000 square miles in Alaska have been set aside by the Obama administration as a “critical habitat” for polar bears, to ensure that the animals fight off extinction. The current greatest threat to polar bears is climate change, which is causing the Arctic sea ice to melt. Nearly 95 percent of the designated habitat is [...]
The US has increased diplomatic pressure on China due to its coddling of North Korea and inaction over the rogue states recent actions. The US has accused China of “enabling” North Korea in attacking South Korea, as well as starting its secretive uranium enrichment program. The US has recently formed a strategic alliance with South [...]
President Barack Obama is planning to soon recall the diplomats, whose names were mentioned in Wikileaks, reports The Daily Beast, citing a source in the US administration. The authorities explained this decision by saying that ‘disclosures’ by WikiLeaks has made it just not only impossible but also dangerous to continue the employment of said staff [...]
At least 22 people have been killed while fighting the grassland fire in the Tibetan mountains, reports Chinese news agency Xinhua. The fire broke out in the Daofu Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, 580 kilometers from Chengdu (Sichuan province) Sunday afternoon. More than 2 thousand people were engaged in putting out the fire that engulfed over 46 hectares [...]
Authorities raided a house last Thursday in Phoenix, Arizona, and rescued 10 children, aged 2 to 17, from a human smuggling operation. The children were illegal immigrants who were being held for ransom. Arrested were a man and a woman, Jaime Cruz Gutiérrez, aged 44, and Olga Marino Fuentes, aged 41. Both are Mexican citizens [...]
Leaked diplomatic cables by controversial site WikiLeaks revealed that China is wary of the web and is possibly directing hacking operations against several sites, including American military and political sites, as well as the servers of online search engine giant Google. China’s top leadership, the Politburo Standing Committee, is allegedly obsessed by Google due to [...]
Iran has now claimed self-sufficiency for its entire nuclear fuel cycle last Sunday, with the delivery of its first domestically mined uranium for processing. The uranium ore concentrate, dubbed as yellowcake, was mined from the Gachin uranium mine in southern Iran, and was delivered for reprocessing to the conversion facility based in the central city [...]