The Internet platform Wikileaks in cooperation with three major media sources published on Sunday secret reports about the war in Afghanistan. They convey an unadorned image of the situation in the country and have triggered an international uproar. Europe’s press is divided about this new transparency. The war in Afghanistan is lost After the publishing [...]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have announced at a meeting in Yekaterinburg that they plan to step up economic cooperation between their countries. The press writes that while contracts running into the billions will improve relations, democratic reforms in Russia remain indispensable. Reforms secure the market As Russia’s biggest foreign investor [...]
Spain has defeated the Netherlands to win the FIFA World Cup for the first time. The press urges politicians to learn from the harmonious play of the Spanish team, praises the unaccustomed unity of the Netherlands during the World Cup and takes heart that at least in football, Europe is right at the top. Harmonious [...]
Applauding Church of England for women priests, Hindu statesman Rajan Zed has urged it to go forward with ordaining women bishops. General Synod (parliament) of the Church is meeting in York (founded by the Romans in 71 CE) in United Kingdom from July nine to 13 and women bishops’ legislation is one of the major [...]
HTML5 is said to be the language of the next generation of the World Wide Web and, compared to other coding types, has unparalleled opportunities. So you’ve heard all rumors about HTML5 would take over Adobe Flash. While most web community argues that it’s possible or not, you must be wandering what makes HTML5 so [...]
The President of the European People’s Party (EPP), Wilfried Martens, congratulated this morning the newly-appointed Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radičová and her centre-right government, following the recent victory of EPP and like-minded parties at the 12 June parliamentary elections. The new centre-right government follows the 4-year Coalition Agreement that was signed between the SDKU-DS (EPP), [...]
On July 1, 2010 in the framework of the business program of the First International Forum “Engineering Technologies 2010” the agreement on establishment of the Interstate Corporation of Development was signed. The aim of the Corporation is to develop scientific and industrial and high-technology cooperation in the CSTO countries. Secretary General of the Collective Security [...]
Germany wants Russia to withdraw its forces from Transdnestr, a breakaway territory located between the Dniester River in eastern Moldova and Ukraine, in exchange for promoting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s May 2008 initiative on drafting a European security pact, the paper’s sources say. The EU would subsequently be willing to discuss this new continental security [...]
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) is going to reward people helping the secret services to uncover and prevent terrorist attacks and catch those masterminding them. In the past the FSB has occasionally paid civilians for their services: in March 2005 they handed over $10 million for help in the killing of Chechen rebel leader [...]
Perturbed Hindus have asked for the immediate withdrawal of skateboards and pet/dog clothing carrying images of Hindu deities sold by a Redwood City (California, USA) based firm Zazzle, calling it inappropriate. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that Hindu deities were meant to be worshipped in temples or home [...]
