By Frank Jack Daniel TAWANG, India (Reuters) - It has all the appearance of an arms race on the roof of the world. [caption id="attachment_2327" align="alignright" width="198"] Art of Construction[/caption] Asia's two great powers are facing off here in the eastern Himalayan mountains. China has vastly improved roads and is building or extending airports on its side of the border in Tibet. It has placed nuc ...

[caption id="attachment_2302" align="alignright" width="128"] Obama Worries. How to save Israel ?[/caption] By Laura Rozen July 28, 2012 "Al-Monitor" -- A US group that supports the Free Syrian Army has received a waiver from the US Treasury Department authorizing it to provide logistical and financial support to the armed Syrian resistance. The waiver was received from the Treasury Department Office of For ...

  Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe - and that make clear who the real enemy is by Bill McKibben If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven't convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climate change: June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States. That followed the warmest May on record fo ...

[caption id="attachment_2294" align="alignright" width="182"] US President[/caption] Posted by Maidah Zaheer While speaking at the National Urban League, US President Barack Obama has accepted in principle the fact that anyone can own a gun but the gun should be appropriate to the occasion.   Against the backdrop of the midnight massacre of 12 persons in the movie hall in Aurora, he said that an assault rif ...

[caption id="attachment_2282" align="alignright" width="113"] Saudi Arabia[/caption] Posted by  Zaheerul Hassan According to reliable sources , the  recent spate of news floating around the Internet which claim a blast at the Mukhabarat al-Aa'mmah or General Intelligence Directorate of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh are absolutely fake and concocted, said a senior Saudi security official when contacted by this scri ...

[dropcap color="#000000" font="helvetica" fontsize="14"]The future of the world's largest democracy hinges on how well it integrates its biggest minority.[/dropcap] By SADANAND DHUME India's Supreme Court is this week reviewing whether Muslims deserve affirmative action, and this has once again ignited a debate on how the world's largest democracy treats its biggest minority. India's left-leaning intelligen ...

By Mark Magnier NEW DELHI — A few years ago, Ankur Suri saw a friend beaten up by fellow classmates after he emailed pornography to female friends — or rather, his computer had. In desperation, the friend went to authorities, who declined to investigate because they didn't really understand the problem of how his computer had been infected by malicious spam. "I'd rather go to Google or Facebook than deal wi ...

President Hamid Karzai and Afghan lawmakers called on the NATO coalition this week to stop demolishing Western military bases, saying that the facilities could be converted to schools, clinics and government offices. As NATO troops continue their withdrawal from Afghanistan, U.S. and coalition officials have begun to identify and dismantle bases that the Afghan army lacks the capacity to inherit or that are ...