U.S President Barack Obama’s recent visit to India increased expectations of more strategic partnership between U.S and India. The visit was seen to be very useful for both countries, as well as Pakistan – a…
Category: Global Issues
As the leaders of the world’s biggest powers gather for a Group of 20 summit, their South Korean hosts talk hopefully of the organization as a steering committee of the world. But there are so…
The G-20 summit neared an agreement that appears to have settled the currency issues which until the summit remained at the center of bilateral relations between major economies in the world. But it is still…
Leaders of the world’s top Group of 20 (G20) economies, who collectively produce over 85 percent of global wealth, meet in Seoul from November 11-12, to coordinate collective efforts aim at redressing world economies following…
After the November 2 congressional elections in the U.S., Democrats suffered their worst electoral defeat in decades, losing more than 50 seats in the House of Representatives, according to the CBS News. For the first…
Former President George W. Bush continues to be beyond shame. Those favored with an advance copy of Bush’s memoir, Decision Points, say it paints a picture of a totally unapologetic Bush bragging, for example, about…
China’s pattern of economic growth is changing. The country is depending more and more on domestic consumption than external demand. Previously, beginning from the 1980’s and 1990’s, when China’s economy first began rapid expansion, economic…
A senior Egyptian source told the London-based Arabic daily Al-Hayat his government was holding talks with several countries to organize an international peace summit shortly, according to Haaretz. “The peace summit is meant to reaffirm…
A human rights watchdog has slammed the U.N. secretary-general for failing to press China’s president to release an imprisoned Nobel Peace laureate, accusing Ban Ki-Moon of caring more about his own re-election than the protection…
Japan has expressed anger over Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s visit to the Southern Kuril Islands. Japan considers the Kuril Islands to be its Northern territories. Medvedev is the first Russian or Soviet leader to ever…