Monthly Archive: November 2015
Heavy rains in Yemen added to the ongoing humanitarian crises in the war-torn country this week. Cyclone Chapala made landfall Tuesday, bringing with it what was massive rain fall the country where more than...
President Barack Obama made his highly-anticipated, and long-awaited announcement on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. FSRN’s Nell Abram has more. Download Audio “The State Department has decided that the Keystone XL pipeline would not...
More than a week after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake shook the northern areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, relief work has barely started. The earthquake killed more than 250 people, injured another 1600 and damaged...
“Shell No!” is again a rallying cry for environmentalists in Western Washington committed to derailing the oil giant’s plans to build a rail spur for its Puget Sound refinery. Years of derailments and explosions...
The New Zealand government released the final text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, the White House followed suit hours later. The massive trade deal, which includes 12 countries and 40% of the world’s economy,...
Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi says she will rule the country in a position higher than that of president if her party wins parliamentary elections on Sunday. The historic polls are part...
Noted Indian human rights activist, Irom Sharmila, today completed 15 years of what is perhaps the longest hunger strike in history. Sharmila is demanding the repeal of a draconian law that gives Indian security...
TransCanada, the company behind the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, has asked the State Department to pause the review process of its pipeline application – just as the president was expected to issue a final...
There’s much to be said about cows, but being a security threat isn’t often one of them. In 1987, however, in a small town near Bethlehem in the West Bank, Israeli authorities targeted 18...
Turkey’s ruling AK Party staged a stunning turnaround Sunday. The Islamist-rooted party managed to reverse losses from the June elections and return to power as the dominant political force in the country. Analysts predict...