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(BBC) Afghanistan country profile ; Pakistan post 2008 elections - Updates
U.S. deploys 4,000 Marines in major Afghan offensive
With the backing of helicopter gunships, nearly 4,000 U.S. Marines and 650 Afghan soldiers launched a ground campaign in the volatile Helmand River valley, where poppy crops provide the Taliban with a significant source […]

Healthcare reform in the United States
Under the current system, Americans have achieved rather extensive health care coverage for a high percentage of its citizens, but at excessive cost and with a significant portion of the population receiving inadequate treatment or monitoring. President Obama’s challenge will be to overcome the sanctity of the free enterprise […]

China in internet filtering climbdown
(FT) China has agreed to delay implementation of its policy to have all new computers in the country equipped with a controversial internet filtering software, averting the threat that PC makers not complying by Wednesday would face fines.
12 June
Chinese Embassy Responds Regarding Kidnapped Christian Attorney Gao […]

More on Water and on Wednesday-Night.com     Thirst a powerful slide show on water ; Stockholm International Water Institute ; Nanotechnology for clean water
Clean Water Should Be Recognized as a Human Right
Firstly, access to clean water can substantially reduce the global burden disease caused by water-borne infections. Secondly, the privatization of water—as witnessed in Bolivia, Ghana […]

Statement by a group of Iranian bloggers about the Presidential elections and the subsequent events
 
1) We, a group of Iranian bloggers, strongly condemn the violent and repressive confrontation of Iranian government against Iranian people’s legitimate and peaceful demonstrations and ask government officials to comply with Article 27 of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Constitution which […]

For a long time, we resolutely abstained from publishing a page dedicated to Israel because we find it impossible to formulate a definitive opinion on the rights and wrongs of the sixty-year-old question, let alone advocate with conviction a solution to the problem that is at the root of so much of what ails the […]

Ethiopian scientist who helped increase sorghum yields wins World Food Prize
Dr. Gebisa Ejeta was honoured at the U.S. State Department Thursday for his breakthroughs in developing drought and disease-resistant forms of sorghum, which is an African diet staple. According to the U.S.-based World Food Prize Foundation, which awards the prize annually to individuals who have […]

(CBC Archives) Massacre in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square live reporting from June 4 1989
Jeff Widener: Returning to Tiananmen Square
 

Jeff Widener/Associated Press
Tiananmen Square
By Nicholas D. Kristof
In the spring of 1989, Tiananmen Square, set in the center of Beijing, became the site of largest pro-democracy movement in China in the 20th century.
It began that year with Hu Yaobang, […]

Allmand still in the game
By HUBERT BAUCH,

Warren Allmand.
Photograph by: Vincenzo D’Alto, The Gazette
Settling in at his city hall office for a recap of his remarkable political career, Warren Allmand pulls out a memento one of his constituents sent him after he announced earlier this month that he wouldn’t be running in any more elections.
This after […]

Al Jazeera Q&A: Sri Lanka’s civil war ; Sri Lanka on Wednesday-Night.com
(CBC) Sri Lanka’s president on Sunday rejected a call by the United Nations secretary general to lift restrictions on aid delivery to overcrowded displacement camps, saying the army must first finish screening the hundreds of thousands of Tamil refugees. More
21 May
SRI LANKA: What’s […]