http://www.allvoices.com/ en-us According to the BBC, hundreds of thousands of Muslims have taken part in a massive protest rally in Indian-controlled Kashmir's main city, Srinagar. The rally ended with call for a three day hartal or strike, beginning Saturday, in the famed... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1164475 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:10:54 -0700 Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, more commonly known as Joseph Stalin, or Uncle Joe as Churchill called him, must be turning in his grave at the recent turn of events in his native Georgia. The situation is full of ironies. Stalin was... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1124402 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:34:50 -0700 After three days of fighting with Georgia, it has become clear that after hibernating for many years, Russia is back in business as a great power to be reckoned with, respected and feared by its neighbors. It may be recalled... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1087890 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:40:31 -0700 According to a New York Times story by Deborah Sontag datelined August 3, eight years ago, Mr. Jiménez, 35, an illegal immigrant working as a gardener in Stuart, Florida, suffered devastating injuries in a car crash with a drunken local.... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1038178 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:49:56 -0700 Mt. Everest is the world's highest mountain by over 200 meters but K-2 at 8611 meters is the one that strikes terror in the heart of the bravest climber. The ratio of deaths per attempt is far higher than for... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1031212 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:24:11 -0700 According to a New York Times story dated August 1, American spy agencies have concluded that members of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) helped plan the deadly July 7 bombing of the Indian embassy. The conclusion is said to be... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1021751 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:03:49 -0700 Theo Rosmulder, 52, is a former pest-control officer turned gold prospector who stupidly got separated from his group in Australia's Outback, while engrossed in looking for the noble metal. As expected, he almost perished from thirst and hunger but then... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/1006773 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:11:28 -0700 The Pakistan People's Party government has been belabored sufficiently for its breathtakingly defective decision to place the ISI under the Ministry of Interior, which it had to revoke hastily. Now it would be more constructive to consider timely measures to... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/992236 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:02:30 -0700 The war in Iraq and Afghanistan continues to claim hundreds of lives every month. The global economy remains under severe stress. Climate change represents a potentially devastating threat to Planet Earth. So, Senators Obama and McCain have a number of... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/985485 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:31:24 -0700 In a New York Times Op Ed article dated July 18, and titled "Using Bombs to Stave Off War", Prof. Benny Morris of Ben-Gurion University warns that Israel "will almost surely attack Iran's nuclear sites in the next four to... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/920413 Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:33:26 -0700 The New Yorker cover cartoon portraying the Democratic presidential candidate Mr Barack Obama as a Muslim and his wife as an Afro terrorist raises legal, moral and political issues. From a legal point of view, the cartoon is more or... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/896215 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:30:14 -0700 Increasingly, news is becoming a red hot commodity. The first newsman to report Osama bin Laden's hideout could earn tens of millions of greenbacks from the media, not to mention the bounties. But stories about wars, pestilence and their purveyors... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/884077 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:26:35 -0700 The New Yorker magazine, long regarded as the considered, rational voice of the most sophisticated circles of New York City, has published a shocking cartoon cover in its July 21 issue depicting Mr Barack Obama in traditional Muslim garb and... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/876630 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:29:54 -0700 The Romans had a great civilization, but their concept of sport and entertainment was bloodthirsty and extremely callous by modern standards. They made men fight with other men to the death as gladiators; they also sometimes arranged interspecies fights on... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/860529 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:59:25 -0700 In the latest of the tit for tat statements and actions that have characterized the Middle East in recent weeks, the BBC reports that Mr Ehud Barak, Israel's defence minister has warned that his country would be ready to act... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/847254 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:38:45 -0700 According to the New York Times of July 9, the suicide car explosion that killed more that 40 people outside the Indian embassy in Kabul, including two important members of the mission, has sparked a debate whether India needs to... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/832468 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:34:54 -0700 World leaders partake a six-course lunch followed by an eight-course dinner with five wines and champagne at the G8 summit where the global food crisis tops the agenda. According to Robert Winnet of the Telegraph, the leaders were served 24... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/824044 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:24:08 -0700 According to Anthony Loyd's article in The Times today, Afghanistan's descent into a Hobbesian hell began 30 years ago when President Sardar Mohammad Daoud Khan was overthrown in a bloody Marxist coup. Perhaps a more authentic date was 1973, when... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/817749 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:26:12 -0700 One of surest ways of not winning the war against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan is to keep bombing Afghan wedding parties or their caravans. According to Rahim Faiez's AP report in the Charleston Daily Mail of July 6th,... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/808940 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:36:06 -0700 According to a BBC report of July 4, West Bengal crab fisherman fisherman Fatik Halder has survived a tiger attack in the Sunderbans mangrove forest. The forest straddles India and Bangladesh and is home to the largest concentration of tigers... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/803888 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:01:01 -0700