On 21st January the UN Security Council adopted resolution 1909 supporting the Nepalese government’s request to extend the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Nepal until 15th May 2010. The Representative of the Secretary-General in Nepal Ms. Karin Landgren said:
The Security Council is strongly supportive of Nepal’s peace process and wishes to see it [...]
President Museveni opened the National Resistance Movement conference in Entebbe on 12th January with a long speech in which he clarified the government position on an anti-homosexuality bill passing through the Ugandan parliament.
When I was at the Commonwealth Meeting, The Prime Minister of Canada, came to see me about gays, Prime Minister Gordon Brown came [...]
EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy is to be received by the Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on Thursday 14th January 2010. The two will have a working lunch followed by a press conference.
The agenda includes discussions on the economic situation and the future EU growth strategy (the ‘2020 strategy’), follow-up of the UN Climate [...]
The Muslim group “Islam4UK” has today been proscribed by UK Home Secretary Mr Alan Johnson under anti-terrorism laws.
Islam4UK hit the headlines a month or so ago when the group announced plans for a parade in Wooton Bassett, the English town which has become synonymous with the war in Afghanistan. Every British soldier killed in the [...]
In a move which The Age newspaper have called “pushing the country towards being like repressive regimes such as China and Iran”, Australian Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Steven Conroy, yesterday announced plans to introduce legislation before the next General Election which would force ISPs in Australia to block black-listed websites which [...]
Skirmishes in Yemen over the weekend between Saudi forces and Yemeni rebels have left a number of civilians dead. Meanwhile the Saudi Prince, Sultan bin Abdulaziz, took time out to visit soldiers injured in the fighting with between Houthi Shia rebels and the Yemeni & Saudi forces.
The violence is centred on the Sadaa region which [...]
Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi (73) was yesterday attacked at a political meeting in Milan by a man who, according to eyewitnesses, hit the Italian premier in the face with a small statuette.
Berlusconi awoke this morning in hospital, after reportedly suffering a fractured tooth and a broken nose.
The suspect was immediately arrested and has already [...]
In my capacity as editor of The Global Herald, yesterday evening I briefly took down the article written by Sunny Sharma, “Why the Arab-Israeli Conflict?” after it received a small raft of comments. After reviewing all of the comments, the article itself and the original article within The Guardian upon which Sunny bases much of [...]
After reading an article in the Guardian by a British Jewish journalist I begin to question myself of why the Arab Israeli conflict is so emotive to me compared to other ongoing conflicts around the world
The Swedish Presidency of the EU is keen to introduce the right to translation for suspects throughout the EU in a deal that could be reached as early as next week. In July, The European Commission presented a proposal to give suspects the right to translation and interpretation during criminal proceedings. At the same time, [...]
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