More than 30,000 members of the Mayagna indigenous community are in danger of disappearing, along with the rainforest which is their home in Nicaragua, if the state fails to take immediate action to curb the destruction of the Bosawas Biosphere Reserve, the largest forest reserve in Central America and the third-largest in the world.

Israels Außenminister Avigdor Lieberman ist wie üblich außer sich und behauptet, dass die Demonstranten „Terroristen im wahrsten Sinn des Wortes“ sind, und sagt, dass er den Sicherheitsminister dringend bittet, Strafverfahren gegen sie alle wegen „Aufwiegelung“ gegen das Militär einzuleiten.

Es verbietet wegen der Bedeutung des Wassers für das Leben, die Wirtschaft und die Umwelt alle Formen der Privatisierung. Ebenso wenig kann Wasser Gegenstand einer kommerziellen Vereinbarung der nationalen Regierung mit einer anderen Regierung, eines multilateralen Abkommens oder eines privaten internationalen oder nationalen Unternehmens sein. Wasser soll ausschließlich ein öffentliches Gut sein.

Commander of Chitrakonda Area Committee of the banned CPI (Maoist) Pangi Mangaraju, who is under remand at the Central Jail here, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from the bars of a ventilator of a bathroom in the early hours of Saturday.

Indyk, 62, has left his position for his previous role of vice president and foreign policy adviser at the Brookings Institute. According to USA Today, Kerry accepted Indyk‘s resignation and has appointed Indyk‘s deputy, Frank Lowenstein, as acting special envoy.

When I was managing director of Al-Jazeera’s English network in Qatar from 2008-10, the question I was asked most related to the Canadian government led by Stephen Harper. “Please help us understand,” the question went, “how Canada can so suddenly change from being a respected honest broker in the region to becoming a strident cheerleader for only one side?” I could never find an answer that made sense.

He said he had also conferred with high officials of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, and they expressed confidence in Pakistan’s economy and its financial institutions.

„What was the role of former Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry in the elections?,“ he asked. Imran Khan also criticised Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and warned him not to politicise the issue of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). He accused Prime Minster Nawaz Sharif of keeping him in dark about the North Waziristan operation. He said the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government would make appropriate plans for the IDPs. Imran condemned the Sindh as well as Punjab governments for imposing ban on the entry of IDPs to the provinces. „Why have they shut doors on the IDPs? Aren‘t they (the IDPs) Pakistanis?“ he asked.

The minister also said that the last year election was transparent and Hanif Abbasi lost his seat which he had repeatedly been winning in the past. On Friday, Imran announced that he will lead a ‘million march’ towards Islamabad on August 14 if PTI’s demands not fulfilled. “You have one month to get us the answers,” he asked the government.

Five years ago, SOA graduate Romeo Vasquez Velasquez and others forced their way into the home of democratically elected Honduran President Mel Zelaya and put him onto an airplane out of the country, an airplane that first stopped to re-fuel at the US Palmerola military base. As Hondurans massively mobilized to demand the return of their President, they were met with repression and violence that continues today. The ultra-right party that took power in the military coup consolidated their stranglehold on the country through elections marked by fraud and vote buying this past November. Now, with murders and killings taking place across the country, the judicial system seems to be more efficient at prosecuting those who speak up for justice than those who murder and plunder the country. The government has intensely militarized the country in the name of security while meticulously turning Honduras‘ resources and public goods over to private corporations. It‘s no wonder thousands of children are fleeing Honduras to the United States.