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Tameem in his Environment day Speech spoke about Haiti’s Food crisis 2 out of 3 people face hunger Tameem spoke about this year’s Theme Think.eat.save ant-food waste campaign, World Environment day event this year aim to reduce “foodprint by become more aware of the environmental impact of food waste and loss across the food supply […]

June 11, 2013 | By | Reply More
20,000 children die of hunger daily Tameem calls for immediate action to save “1.3 billion tonnes of food wasted every year”

20,000 children die of hunger daily Tameem calls for immediate action to save “1.3 billion tonnes of food wasted every year”

June 5, AP – Tameem highlighted shocking figures of world hungry children, According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), every year 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted. This is equivalent to the same amount produced in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, 1 in every 7 people in the […]

June 7, 2013 | By More
Trouble time for Musharraf, Pakistani court imposed travel ban

Trouble time for Musharraf, Pakistani court imposed travel ban

March 30, ISLAMABAD AP – The interior ministry issued directives to the immigration authorities to put Musharraf’s name on the Exit Control List (ECL), reported Xinhua, citing Radio Pakistan.   Pakistan on Saturday stopped former president Pervez Musharraf from leaving the country a day after a court ordered it. It also sent a notification to […]

March 30, 2013 | By More
Glamorous first lady Peng Liyuan has emerged as Chinese diplomacy’s latest star

Glamorous first lady Peng Liyuan has emerged as Chinese diplomacy’s latest star

A celebrated performer on state television, Peng featured prominently in Sunday’s Chinese media coverage of husband and President Xi Jinping’s activities in Moscow. The visit is Xi’s first since he assumed the presidency earlier this month. Glamorous new first lady Peng Liyuan has emerged as Chinese diplomacy’s latest star, charming audiences and cutting a very […]

March 24, 2013 | By More
2 inmates in a daring day light escaped from Quebec jail in helicopter

2 inmates in a daring day light escaped from Quebec jail in helicopter

SAINT-JEROME, Quebec (AP) — Quebec provincial police said later that they had arrested three people about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of the Saint-Jerome jail from which the inmates escaped. One of those arrested was 36-year-old inmate Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau. Two Quebec inmates climbed up a rope into a hovering helicopter to make a daring daylight […]

March 18, 2013 | By More
Russia invites US for missile talks

Russia invites US for missile talks

Russia has invited US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey to Moscow for talks that will include the missile defence issue, his Russian counterpart General Valery Gerasimov said. ‘Missile defence will be one of the points of our discussion,’ Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, said at a meeting […]

March 7, 2013 | By More
Berlusconi sentenced to a year in jail

Berlusconi sentenced to a year in jail

An Italian court on Thursday sentenced former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to a year in prison over the publication of leaked transcripts from a police wiretap in a newspaper that he owns. Berlusconi, who faces two more verdicts this month for tax fraud and having sex with an underage prostitute, can appeal the conviction which […]

March 7, 2013 | By More
Cameron rejects call for new economic policy

Cameron rejects call for new economic policy

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday vowed to maintain a course of budget austerity, rejecting calls to focus more on economic growth despite an embarrassing credit ratings downgrade. Cameron argued that the U.K. is beginning to see signs of progress in debt reduction thanks to his government’s tough spending cuts and tax increases and […]

March 7, 2013 | By More
UN troops seized by Syrian rebels appear in video

UN troops seized by Syrian rebels appear in video

BEIRUT (AP) — Several United Nations peacekeepers from the Philippines who were abducted by Syrian rebels said in videos posted online Thursday that they are safe and sound, even as activists reported clashes and shelling in the area where U.N. troops are being held. Opposition fighters detained 21 Filipino peacekeepers near the village of Jamlah […]

March 7, 2013 | By More
Syria rebels seize UN convoy near Golan

Syria rebels seize UN convoy near Golan

Beirut: 7 March 2013 Syrian rebels say they have seized a convoy of United Nations observers near the Golan Heights, according to videos posted on the Internet site YouTube on Wednesday by a violence monitoring group. A young man saying he was from the “Martyrs of Yarmouk” brigade said the convoy would not be released […]

March 7, 2013 | By More