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Top Terrorism Risk list by Maplecroft (198 countries)
August 04, 2011Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- Maplecroft, a consultancy firm that studies and monitors political, economic, social, and environmental risks, developed the Terrorism Index to allow business to identify and monitor the risks posed...
Barack Obama meets with the Tibetan separatist, Dalai Lama XIV, in spite of China's anger
July 17, 2011Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- Despite all the requests, appeals, protests and outrages from Beijing the U.S. president Barack Obama met Dalai Lama XIV, Tibet’s spiritual leader, in the White House. The Chinese authorities have...
India says Pakistan 'a terror sanctuary'
May 02, 2011The killing of Osama bin Laden near Islamabad is proof that "terrorists belonging to different organisations find sanctuary in Pakistan", Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram says. President Obama's statement that the Al-Qaeda leader was killed...
India: Anna Hazare calls for anti-corruption protests
April 08, 2011Fasting Indian social activist Anna Hazare has called for mass protests by his supporters against corruption. The 72-year-old campaigner is on the fourth day of a hunger strike to push for stringent new anti-corruption laws. He wants his followers...
NATO denies plan to expand special operations into Pakistan
December 23, 2010The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan has denied a New York Times newspaper report that U.S. forces are planning to expand special operations raids into Pakistan's tribal areas, where Afghan Taliban have their hideouts. South Asia experts here in Washington...
Chinese Premier visits India to discuss complex relationship
December 16, 2010Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is on a three-day visit to New Delhi for a series of meetings with India's top leaders. The two rising Asian powers insist the world is big enough for both of them to prosper - but negotiations over sensitive security issues...
The IMF’s thorny transatlantic feud
September 10, 2010by Kati Suominen In a move likely to please China, India, and Brazil, but force a confrontation with Europe, the Obama administration last month blocked plans that would maintain the current size of the board of directors of the International Monetary...
Indian court convicts 8 in Bhopal disaster
June 07, 2010An Indian court Monday found eight people guilty of negligence in failing to prevent one of the world's worst industrial accidents that killed thousands of people. In December of 1984, a lethal plume of (methyl isocyanate) gas escaped from a storage...
The BRICs: Building blocks of a new world order that diminishes the West?
April 23, 2010By Daniel Twining Last week’s summit among the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, and China occasioned predictable analyses of the dawn of a new world order led by these developing giants. Their scale is indeed breathtaking. Each is subcontinental...
Secretary Hilary Clinton remarks: Foreign Policy Address at CFR
July 15, 2009Foreign Policy Address at the Council on Foreign Relations Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Washington, DC July 15, 2009 Thank you very much, Richard, and I am delighted to be here in these new headquarters. I have been often to, I guess...