PARIS: Western and Arab powers have reacted angrily to Russia and China’s veto of a Security Council resolution on the Syria crisis, but Moscow and Beijing insisted the text had needed more work. Russia, a long-time Syrian ally, and China had on Saturday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning the Syrian government’s deadly crackdown [...]
DAMASCUS: Syrian forces killed at least 217 civilians, including women and children, in a “massacre” in the central city of Homs, a rights group said on Saturday, ahead of a UN vote. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 138 of the fatalities were caused by mortar fire in the Al-Khalidiya district of Homs, which [...]
UNITED NATIONS: Negotiations over a draft UN Security Council resolution condemning the Syrian regime’s deadly crackdown stalled again on Thursday, diplomats said, despite attempts to satisfy Russian concerns. The meeting was “not so good,” India’s ambassador to the United Nations, Hardeep Singh Puri, said after a day of talks ended without agreement on how to [...]
DAMASCUS: Fresh bloodshed swept Syria as the West and Arab League kept up their push for quick UN action to stop the regime’s ‘killing machine,’ but holdout Russia vowed to veto any unacceptable proposal. Wrangling at the United Nations on Wednesday came as fierce clashes across Syria killed 59 people, mostly civilians, the Syrian Observatory [...]
UNITED NATIONS: Western powers clashed with Russia at the United Nations on Tuesday as they pushed for a UN resolution demanding the resignation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and an end to his “reign of terror.” The diplomatic wrangling at the United Nations UN came as fighting escalated between Syrian government forces and rebels, and [...]
DAMASCUS: Damascus has slammed what it termed “aggressive” statements made by the United States and other Western nations ahead of a UN Security Council session on the spiralling violence in Syria. “The aggressive American and Western statements against Syria are escalating in a scandalous manner,” said a foreign ministry statement distributed by the official SANA [...]
DAMASCUS: Syrian forces intensified their crackdown on Friday, with activists reporting 120 people killed in two days, as European and Arab nations pressed the UN Security Council to call on President Bashar al-Assad to stand down. The head of an Arab League monitoring mission said unrest had soared this week in a significant way, especially [...]
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council will discuss the Syria crisis on Friday, and western and Arab nations could make public their draft resolution condemning the government’s deadly crackdown, diplomats said. The unexpected meeting was announced by French diplomats after representatives of the council’s five permanent members — Britain, China, France, Russia and the United [...]
Washington, DC: Joining issue with those suggesting that Washington’s influence was on the decline, President Barack Obama has asserted that America remains the one indispensable nation in world affairs and he intended to keep it that way. “Yes, the world is changing; no, we can’t control every event. But America remains the one indispensable nation [...]
CAIRO: The Arab League on Sunday asked the UN to support a new plan for resolving the crisis in Syria that sees President Bashar al-Assad transferring power to his deputy and a government of national unity within two months. Assad should “delegate powers to the vice-president to liaise with a government of national unity,” to [...]
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About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
Kubra Fatima Ask any Hyderabadi what they love about the City and they will have many things to say — food, greenery and people being the usual suspects. On the contrary, if you ask them what they hate and ‘travelling in an auto’ will be the first response. Even though going around the twin cities [...]
Expecting a Sunday feast, I went to the dining table eagerly looking forward to the best of my mother’s cooking. I lifted the lid on the big casserole and found pulao with corn. I didn’t know what to make of it. I believe my mother makes the best peas pulao. But to have corn replacing [...]
Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena Just a few days ago, when Mumbai Indians played the Sunrisers in Mumbai, I found myself standing on Marine Drive, outside ‘D’ road, along with my brother, waiting for our sons to amble out after the match (which to the pride of this city’s dwellers, MI won). It took several moments for the [...]
No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg
There is a ridiculous debate going on after the reports on spot-fixing emerged: should IPL be scrapped? Even if IPL were the first sporting event to be tainted by spot-fixing, it would be senseless to even suggest that it be scrapped. Since that is not the case, talking of scrapping is, pardon the coarse expression, [...]
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