Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
The great kingdom that lies along the banks of the river Niger is Nigeria. A woman controls the wealth of this natural resource rich nation. (more…)
Tags: Dr. Ngozi-Okonjo-Iweala, economic growth, Occupy, Occupy Nigeria
Posted in Africa, AP-Business, AP-World, DailyNews-World, News, Nigeria, World | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

The body of the 54th woman to be killed by a man (boyfriend, friend, relative) in Italy has been found after having been missing for two days. (more…)
Tags: Human Rights, Life, Thoughts, Women's Rights
Posted in DailyNews-World, honor killings, World | No Comments »
Thursday, April 5th, 2012

On Wednesday morning, the bodies of the four people killed in the shootings at a Jewish School in Toulouse, France, arrived in Jerusalem for burial, and the nation came together as one family in grief. (more…)
Tags: Current Events, France, Israel, Jewish School in Toulouse, Thoughts
Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu, conflict, DailyNews-World, France, Humanities, Israel, World | 1 Comment »
Saturday, March 24th, 2012
![In Lebanon, a Syrian man from Homs. [Photo: Haifa J. Church]](http://surfaceearth.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Haifa-J-Church-Syrian-man-from-Homs2.jpg)
Viewpoint from a Syrian in Lebanon whose family is still in Holms
On March 23, 2012, a Syrian man named Hussein was walking by the Sea Port in Lebanon with a sad look on his face. His heart was somewhere else. (more…)
Tags: Assad, Current Events, Homs, Lebanon, Syria
Posted in Assad, conflict, DailyNews-World, Homs, Lebanon, Middle East, Syria, World | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012

The delicate balance between the ultra-religious, national-religious, and secular Israelis has always been wrought, (more…)
Tags: Current Events, Haredi, Haredim, Israeli, Orthodox, worldNews
Posted in conflict, DailyNews-World, Israel, Middle East, World | No Comments »
Saturday, February 11th, 2012

Israelis all over the country were putting up their defensive guards this week, as a photograph surfaced on www.facebook.com with the caption “An Israeli soldier holding down a Young Palestinian Girl”. (more…)
Tags: Current Events, Human Rights, Israel, Politics, worldNews
Posted in conflict, DailyNews-World, Israel, Middle East, World | No Comments »
Monday, January 23rd, 2012

Jews and Christians world over donate generously to the Israeli cause, (more…)
Posted in awareness, DailyNews-World, Equality, Impact Your World, Israel, Jerusalem, Middle East, People, World | No Comments »
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

TEL AVIV – President Barack Obama and his NATO partners remain delusional and are now probably quaking in their designer shoes over a potential military confrontation with the Big Russian Bear. (more…)
Tags: Israel, NATO, Obama, Russia
Posted in DailyNews-World, Israel, Middle East, Syria, World | No Comments »
Friday, December 30th, 2011

It has been 3 Years since Operation Cast Lead, a 3 week offensive in Gaza which began in late 2008 and ended in January of 2009. (more…)
Tags: Gaza Strip, Gilad Shalit, Hamas, offensive, OPERATION CAST LEAD
Posted in Arabic, conflict, DailyNews-World, Israel, News, World | No Comments »
Monday, December 19th, 2011

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently commented that the status of Israel as a democracy is in danger, due mostly to its increasingly worrisome treatment of women. (more…)
Tags: Current Events, Israel, Jerusalem, Middle East, Rosa Parks
Posted in Culture, DailyNews-World, Declassification of women, defamation, Dignity, Female, God, Israel, Jerusalem, Middle East, Philosophy, World | No Comments »
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

According to Transparency International Mexico ranks 89th out of 180 countries surveyed in terms of corruption. Does this mark President Calderon’s Mexico as a failed state or just a troubled state? (more…)
Tags: corruption, democracy, drug cartels, failed state, felipe calderon, Mexico, United States, violent deaths, war on drugs
Posted in DailyNews-World, Mexico, News, World | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Anders Behring Breivik spent eight years planning two deadly attacks. In less than two hours, he had killed 76 innocent people and injured many others. Chaos and destruction had been bought to the peaceful country of Norway. (more…)
Tags: Breivik, Norway, Oslo, World
Posted in DailyNews, DailyNews-World, Norway, Opinion, Opinion-World, Oslo | No Comments »
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

Srebrenica Massacre Memorial Gravestones
In July 1995, Bosian Serb troops marched into the town of Srebrenica. After six days, around 7,500 Muslim men and boys were brutally murdered. One man ordered the execution of these innocent people, his name Ratko Mladic. The genocide of Srebrenica became the worst single atrocity in Europe since World War II. (more…)
Tags: Bosnia, ethnic cleansing, genocide, Ratko Mladic, Serbia, Srebrenica
Posted in Bosnia, Bosnian War, DailyNews-World, ethnic cleansing, genocide, Ratko Mladic, Serbia, Srebrenica, World | No Comments »
Saturday, May 14th, 2011

Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the leading candidate for president of France, was arrested Saturday at the JFK International Airport in New York just minutes before departure. (more…)
Tags: breaking news, Current Events, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, International Monetary Fund, Politics, rape
Posted in DailyNews, DailyNews-World, France, IMF, International Monetary Fund, Politics, World | 4 Comments »
Monday, March 14th, 2011

Over 9,500 Reported Missing in One Japanese Coastal Town
Over 9,500 people are “unaccounted for” in just one town, Minamisanriku – roughly half the town’s population. This drives the potential casualty count well above the 2,500 already confirmed dead by Japanese officials. Sad as this is, the story gets worse, much worse: (more…)
Tags: breaking news, Current Events, Earthquake, Japan, tsunami
Posted in Asia-Pacific, DailyNews, DailyNews-World, earthquake, Japan, tsunami, World | 2 Comments »
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
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Anti-government protesters have been camped out in Sanaa for days demanding the president to step down [Reuters
SANA’A, YEMEN- Several people were killed and a countless number of others, hundreds maybe a thousand, injured, many seriously, in some Yemeni cities including the capital Sana’a where the security forces attacked early Saturday morning the tens of thousands of the sit-inners outside Sana’a University.
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Tags: breaking news, Current Events, President Saleh, SANA’A, worldNews, Yemen
Posted in Arabic, conflict, DailyNews-World, Middle East, News, Opinion, Opinion-World, SANA’A, Taiz, World, Yemen | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
An anti-government sit-inner died from his injuries on Wednesday a day after riot police and pro-regime bullies opened fire at and sniped a group of the thousands of the youths who have been conducting a sit-in outside Sana’a University in Yemen’s capital for a fourth week. (more…)
Tags: and Riots, Current Events, Demonstrations, Middle East, protests, Sana'a University, Taiz Yemen
Posted in DailyNews-World, Middle East, Opinion, Opinion-World, Sana'a University, Taiz, World, Yemen | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Military in Israel unveils a fleet of huge unmanned aircraft capable of reaching the Persian Gulf. The announcement comes as pressure mounts on Iran over it’s nuclear ambitions. (more…)
Tags: Current Events, Israel
Posted in DailyNews-World, Middle East, World | No Comments »
Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Bilin Village "Advatar" Protest
The Palestinian village of Bil’in reenacts the James Cameron film Avatar in their demonstration against the Israeli security barrier. (more…)
Posted in DailyNews-World, World | 1 Comment »