Pakistan is hosting four-way talks Monday on reviving the Afghan peace process. The talks include Afghanistan, china and the United States. Sartaj Aziz, who is Pakistani Pri...
http://www.voanews.com/content/talks-on-afghan-peace-process-open-in-pakistan/3139601.html
The United States Navy just struck an iceberg. It won’t sink the fleet, but it will damage its ability to deter emerging global conflicts. And one of those challenges became...
Beijing (AFP) Jan 4, 2016 - The leader of the main exile Syrian opposition group will visit china this week, Beijing said Monday, despite the country repeatedly blocking UN S...
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Syrian_opposition_leader_to_visit_Beijing_China_999.html
Photo by _Gavroche_ [https://www.flickr.com/photos/60969081@N00/] There are many disturbing signs that the West is creating conditions in the Middle East and Asia that could...
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/slouching-toward-global-disaster
[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6buNd58a7-A/VoJ7VAVJYwI/AAAAAAAAS3Y/4h-IADVC4FU/s1600/dog%2Band%2Belephant.png] THE TRAJECTORIES OF THE MONETARY POLICY AT THE FEDERAL RESERVE AND...
OUR TOP TEN BLOG POSTS BY READERSHIP IN 2015. This post was originally posted [http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/five-myths-about-governance-and-development] on Feb...
http://blogs.worldbank.org/publicsphere/6-2015-five-myths-about-governance-and-development
"Be quiet! Don't cry! Shhh." I cried my way through Hanya Yanagihara's novel A Little Life. Critics have called it "exquisite," [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/05/2...
Highs, lows and remarkable moments of the year. Style Weekly's annual rating of the city zeitgeist. +9: BICYCLES BECOME THE SPOKE OF THE CITY The year of the bike was dom...
http://www.styleweekly.com/richmond/richmond-ranked-the-score-2015/Content?oid=2277099
It was a strong year for Virginia writers and literature in general. Literature in 2015 saw old stalwarts making good and exciting new voices rising above the din. And from...
http://www.styleweekly.com/richmond/2015-virginia-literature-a-year-in-review/Content?oid=2276752
Aditya Basrur [https://www.quora.com/profile/Aditya-Basrur] New York Times had an interesting article on china's Foreign Investments - The World According to china. [http://...
https://www.quora.com/What-is-Chinas-interest-in-Zimbabwe/answer/Aditya-Basrur
[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NpA4osmDfdw/VnwywfYQXlI/AAAAAAAAAP0/iun88E28cqo/s1600/IDC_Rubin_Center_E_BL.jpg] The Rubin Center Needs Your Support to Continue Its Groundbreakin...
MinnPost photo by Chuck Haga Children of refugees pictured in June at the International Refugee Day observance in Grand Forks, North Dakota. EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. – Habib...