More ivory tusks were confiscated in 2011 than during any other year since 1989, which was when the buying and selling of ivory was outlawed, reports the international wildlife trade NGO Traffic. The group announced that elephants experienced a “horrible [...]
Egypt has promised the United States that it will end its attacks and raids on the offices of democracy groups and NGOs, the US State Department has announced. Officials have reassured that property seized during the raids would be given [...]
Venezuela witnessed a record number of violent crimes and murders in 2011, according to a local campaign group. The group (Venezuela Violence Observatory) announced that nearly 19,336 people have been murdered this year, making an average of 53 victims a [...]
Young Americans have spoken on why so many of them have ended up in bother with the authorities. Recently, a study found that nearly a third of young people in the US have been arrested before reaching the age of [...]
In a long-anticipated report by the Chinese government, sloppy management and design flaws caused a bullet train to crash in July 2011, in which 40 people were killed and a public outcry was sparked over the dangers of the country’s [...]
China has won its bid for petroleum exploration and extraction in Afghanistan, granting the country access to potentially millions of barrels of oil. The Afghan cabinet has approved a deal to grant China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) the right to [...]
Tens of thousands of protesters have gathered in central Moscow to express anger over alleged electoral fraud. They have made a resolution to boycott Vladimir Putin during next year’s presidential elections. Alexei Navalny, one of the protest leaders, spoke to [...]
Syria’s Observatory for Human Rights has declared that shelling and gunfire in the violent city of Homs has left 23 people dead. The instability occurs before the visit of Arab League observers in the capital, Damascus. Opposition activists are urging [...]
Cuba’s President Raul Castro has told lawmakers that the country would not be pushed into moving too quickly to ease travel bans on Cubans, blaming continued hostility from the US for his vigilant approach. Cuba has been teeming with speculations [...]
Famine-affected Somalis may lose their access to about $100 million in remittances from relatives living in the US, according to charities. NGOs have urged the Treasury and a US bank to not disrupt cash transfers to Somalia, a place where [...]
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