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Iraq conflict threatens vital growth of oil sector: analysts
AFP, Published on 22/06/2014
» Escalating violence in Iraq is threatening the development of some of the world's largest oil reserves at a time when OPEC's number-two producer was expected to be a key future supplier.
Name, shame, repeat
Alan Dawson, Published on 22/06/2014
» Pretty well the whole world knows that the traffic in Thailand is horrible, but events in the past week showed that the trafficking is even worse.
Downgrade threatens ties with US
News, Post Reporters, Published on 22/06/2014
» Questions are being raised over the future of relations with the United States after Washington delivered a damning report detailing rampant exploitation of migrant workers in Thailand.
Obama must reject call to bear arms
News, Published on 22/06/2014
» As soldiers of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (Isis) paraded their victory in the streets of Mosul last week, they did so astride US aid — literally. The grainy video that was released on Thursday showed heavily armed men riding in Humvees that had been provided to the Iraqi army by the US. After the Iraqi forces in the area, weakened by Baghdad’s deeply sectarian policies, collapsed like a paper bag, the hardware fell into the hands of militants who are irrevocably anti-American.
Shiite fighters parade as militants take Iraq border town
AFP, Published on 21/06/2014
» Shiite fighters paraded in Baghdad Saturday in a dramatic show of force aimed at Sunni militants who seized a Syrian border crossing, widening a western front in an offensive threatening to rip Iraq apart.
Sunni militant infighting kills 17 in Iraq's Kirkuk
AFP, Published on 21/06/2014
» Sunni militants who fought together to capture swathes of Iraqi territory have turned their weapons on each other during clashes in Kirkuk province that cost 17 lives, sources said Saturday.
Downgrade a wake-up call
Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 21/06/2014
» Washington's decision to downgrade Thailand in its annual human trafficking review is a wake-up call to improve the treatment of workers across the entire export supply chain, says a human rights campaigner.
Thailand slams US trafficking report
Online Reporters, Published on 21/06/2014
» The Foreign Affairs Ministry has slammed the United States for downgrading Thailand in its human trafficking report and urged it to reconsider the decision.
UN says 10.8 million Syrians need aid
AFP, Published on 21/06/2014
» The number of Syrians in urgent need of humanitarian aid has jumped to 10.8 million -- nearly half of Syria's population of 22 million -- United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon said.
Iraq Shiite cleric says Sunni militants must be ousted
AFP, Published on 21/06/2014
» Iraq's top Shiite cleric has urged all of its people to unite and expel Sunni Muslim insurgents, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki came under growing pressure at home and abroad.