In a Washington hospital on Monday Richard Holbrook, the famous American diplomat, died of a torn aorta. Among his colleagues in the Department of State he was better known by the nickname of ‘Bulldozer’ and ‘Raging Bull’ because of his dramatic and sometimes uncompromising style of work. On Friday afternoon 69-year-old U.S. special envoy for [...]
The greatest difficulty facing the ratification of any deal regarding emissions control is the home front in the United States. According to Todd Stern, the Special Envoy representing American interests, China’s recent move may help facilitate US participation in an international treaty to fight global warming. Around 200 countries are supporting modest measures. China, one [...]
For Several days government entities and large companies, which utilize the internet for business, have gone to considerable length to close down WikiLeaks. It started with the deactivation of its primary web address due to Amazon’s discontinuing their service citing breach of the terms and conditions. This was followed by PayPal deciding to stop receiving [...]
The arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange last Tuesday in Britain has complicated efforts by the US to extradite and try him for disclosing confidential documents which has caused embarrassment and strained US international relations. Assange has been both called worldwide as a dangerous agent for releasing secret documents and as a champion for the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The fire, which broke out on Thursday near the Israeli city of Haifa, has already destroyed 5 million trees over an area of 5 thousand hectares. This was said in a statement by Jewish National Fund – the main organization dedicated to greening of Israel. They have been successful in stopping the advance of fire [...]