Section: The Daily Heights (Pakistan)
2014 harmful year for children: UN
Globally, 230 million children now live in countries and areas engulfed in aroused conflict. PHOTO: AFP UNITED NATIONS: Year 2014 has been a harmful year for children with adult to 15 million swept adult in wars in a Central African Republic, Iraq, South Sudan, a Palestinian territories, Syria and Ukraine, a UN children’s organisation...
US rejects calls for covenant expelling nukes
Efforts towards serve measures, including during a new NPT examination discussion in May 2015, have also been stymied by tensions between Moscow and Washington over a Ukraine crisis, experts say. STOCK IMAGE VIENNA: The US deputy during a vital discussion on chief weapons deserted calls Tuesday for a covenant immediately expelling them, observant...
Diamond deals to supplement flicker to India-Russian ties
Russian President Vladimir Putin. PHOTO: REUTERS. MUMBAI: India’s gemstone attention will wish to supplement some flicker to ties between New Delhi and Moscow this week by persuading Russia to massively boost a exports of diamonds approach to a tellurian heart of slicing and polishing. Vladimir Putin’s two-day revisit to a Indian...
Ailing Malaysia Airlines to postpone shares Dec 15
Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER moody MH318 to Beijing sits on a tarmac as passengers are reflected on a potion during a boarding embankment during Kuala Lumpur International Airport. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airlines pronounced a shares will be dangling from a country’s batch sell on Dec 15 underneath a supervision...
Study finds Pakistan’s online space increasingly ‘not free’
Pakistan slid dual points from 67 in 2013 on a leisure measure to 69 in 2014. PHOTO: AFP Increasing attempts by a supervision to quell entrance to calm online while seeking introduction of laws that extent polite liberties online, has landed Pakistan among a 10 misfortune countries for net freedom, a investigate expelled by Freedom House on...
Pakistan has world’s second largest save of anti-personnel landmines: Report
In 2013 there was an normal of 9 victims a day, compared to 25 daily when a Landmine Monitor initial started recording misadventure rates in 1999. PHOTO: AFP WASHINGTON: In an age where tellurian efforts to exterminate landmines are temperament fruit, Pakistan is one of usually 4 countries in a universe that still produces anti-personnel...
Oil prices strike five-year lows, weighing on appetite stocks
The unabated cost thrust comes after a 12-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries opted Thursday to keep a common outlay roof during 30 million barrels per day, where it has stood for 3 years. STOCK IMAGE Crude oil prices sank to five-year low points on Monday, boring down a share prices of appetite companies, while miners were...
NATO ‘very concerned’ by Russian troops rave in Crimea
U.S. General Philip Breedlove, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, shake hands with a Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk (R) during their assembly in Kiev on Nov 26, 2014. Breedlove was in Kiev for high-level talks with Ukraine’s leaders over a predicament that has sent a West’s family with Moscow to their lowest lessen...
CIA arch weighs desirous renovate of view agency
Some experts and former comprehension officers worry a CIA has turn pre-occupied with paramilitary operations during a responsibility of normal comprehension entertainment and analysis. PHOTO: AFP WASHINGTON: CIA Director John Brennan has systematic a unconditional inner examination that could dramatically change how a country’s heading...
MH17 disadvantage dismissal starts in easterly Ukraine
Members of a Dutch trade group watch as tools of a disadvantage of a Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 are private and installed on a lorry during a pile-up site circuitously a encampment of Grabove in eastern Ukraine, on Nov 16 2014. PHOTO: AFP GRABOVE, UKRAINE: Work started Sunday to mislay a disadvantage of Malaysia Airlines moody MH17 from...
