Daily News Roundup – October 19 2012
Europe Hollande: new bank deal eases Eurozone strains The French President, Francois Hollande, has said that a new deal to build a banking union next year will assist the Eurozone’s fusion and ease economic fragmentation. T...
Cluster Bombs: The Weapon That Kills For Years
Cluster bombs have proved to be a deadly weapon used by many countries around the world. They not only kill civilians in large numbers but also contaminate the land for decades after the explosion. Ninety percent of all recorde...
WATCH: International Women’s Day – The Girl Effect
Defining themselves as a global movement, The Girl Effect is one of many campaigns demanding the world to acknowledge women and girls as key players to the development and poverty debate. Created by the Nike Foundation and in c...
It’s the economy, Catalonia
Beyond a shadow of a doubt, the Euro-zone crisis has been used in many parts of the Old Continent as a fuel for the treacherous machine called “separatism”.
Central Asia’s Rulers View Turkish “Soap Power” With Suspicion
Back when the post-Soviet states of Central Asia gained independence, there was much talk of Pan-Turkism, a word that had been largely forgotten during seven decades of communism and Russian linguistic influence. The idea th...
WATCH: The Syrian Puppets of Freedom
Demonstrations calling for freedom at the heart of the palace of Bashar al-Assad (or Bisho, as a sarcastic nickname); puppets taking the forms of children, martyrs, shabbiha, and freedom fighters; a dictator screaming, “I am ...
