Das Leben wird schwieriger für Chinas gewachsene Mittelschicht. Entgegen den Erwartungen ist die Inflation jetzt wieder markant gestiegen – Hauptursache war ein Schub bei den Lebensmittelpreisen. Zugleich deuten Daten auf ein Nachlassen des Wirtschaftswachstums hin.

In China ist im März die Inflation stärker als erwartet gestiegen. Hauptgrund dafür sind höhere Lebensmittelpreise.

„We would like to make a partnership with an international satellite company to launch an Afghan satellite,“ said Abdul Malak Nazari, a board member on Afghanistan‘s telecoms regulator, which is handling the tender process.

„The company will be selected through a process of procurement … they will surely pay for the satellite,“ he told the Guardian.

Citizens in the Canadian city of Lethbridge, Alberta are demanding that the local government stop adding fluoride to their drinking water, Press TV reports.

Im autoritär regierten Aserbaidschan haben etwa 3.000 Oppositionsanhänger die Freilassung politischer Häftlinge gefordert. Sollte Staatschef Ilham Aliyev nicht bald demokratische Reformen einleiten, würden in der öl- und gasreichen Südkaukasus-Republik Hunderttausende auf die Straße gehen, warnte der Chef der oppositionellen Partei Musavat (Gleichberechtigung), Isa Gambar, in der Hauptstadt Baku.

Repairing a broken heart is never easy, especially when fear runs deep.Too many elders within my Jewish community feel exhausted thinking about finding a solution to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict and finding peace between the Jews and Muslims of the world.

As a young Jewish American who has studied in China, taught English in India, and has friends all over the globe, I am honored to work with Ambassador Akbar Ahmed, a passionate supporter of interfaith dialogue, who the BBC calls the “world’s leading authority on contemporary Islam.”

He said Colombo is concerned over the impact of a nuclear disaster in one of the plants in India could have on Sri Lanka. The two nations are divided by a narrow strip of sea.

China’s top military newspaper has told troops to ignore rumours on the internet and steel themselves for “ideological struggle” — an apparent reference to talk of a coup as the ruling Communist party faces a leadership transition.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, many strategists suggested that the Cold War arms race had bankrupted its economy and caused its downfall. More than 20 years later, it appears that some in Washington are driving the U.S. toward a similar fate.

Bereits im November hatte es in Südossetien eine Präsidentschaftswahl gegeben. Dabei setzte sich in der Stichwahl überraschend die frühere Bildungsministerin Alla Dschiojewa gegen Kokojtys vom Kreml unterstützten Kandidaten, Katastrophenschutzminister Anatoli Bibilow, durch. Das Oberste Gericht erklärte das Wahlergebnis aber für ungültig und setzte Neuwahlen an.

Trip by Recep Tayyip Erdogan is first to China by a Turkish leader for 27 years and is designed to boost business ties between the booming economies

+++ Achtung, Achtung – Nachrichten aus dem Weltreich: Obergeheime, supergeheime, megageheime Atombombenrakete in Nordkorea wird gerade startklar gemacht. Oberabendländisch-pro-kontinentale Staatssicherheitsmedien Eurasiens und Ozeaniens enttarnen teuflischen Plan ausgehungerter antiostasiatischer Ostasiaten. Stan Grant von der CNN Corporation bringt es auf den Punkt: “Ist das wichtiger als Ihre Leute zu ernähren?” +++

CNN‘s Stan Grant reports on North Korea‘s planned test-launch of a long-range rocket.

Still, much of the world suspects this is the launching of the next phase of the regime‘s missile program, meant to test missile technology under the guise of a satellite launch. The head of the launch site, Jang Myong Jin, told CNN‘s Stan Grant he is „disturbed“ by these allegations.

„Can‘t you see with your own eyes this is not a missile, this is why we invited you,“ Jang Myong Jin told CNN‘s crew.

Pyongyang, April 8 (KCNA)

Nordkorea hat am Sonntag Vertretern von ausländischen Medien den Startplatz des Satelliten „Kwangmyongsong-3″ gezeigt.

The leaders of thousands of forest-dwelling tribesmen who have fought for years to preserve their ancestral lands from exploitation by an international mining corporation have promised to continue their struggle whatever the decision in a key hearing before India’s supreme court on Monday.

The latest travel warning followed the formal resignation of Mali‘s president, Amadou Toumani Toure, on Sunday. He has been in hiding since the March 22 coup.