Pope Francis said on Saturday the spate of conflicts around the globe today were effectively a "piecemeal" Third World War, condemning the arms trade and "plotters of terrorism" sowing death and destruction.
Politics
Residents of revolt-torn Indian Kashmir turned their wrath on state administrators for failing to provide them with succour after the worst flooding in over a century, angrily dumping food parcels into gutters.
Rescuers raced to help communities hit by landslides in Indian Kashmir on Friday while thousands were stranded, homeless and hungry in the city of Srinagar, most of which was submerged by the region's worst flooding in 50 years.
Iran said world powers should abandon their "illogical demands" over its nuclear program, ahead of talks on Thursday to try to bridge wide differences in positions and end the decade-old dispute by late November.
(GPDN)-An evening panel discussion sponsored by The Light Millennium, co-sponsored by the Federation of World Peace and Love (FOWPAL), Advancing Eco Agriculture and Stirring the Pot Productions, occurred on the second day of the 65th Annual UN-DPI/NGO Conference.
(GPDN)-An evening panel discussion sponsored by The Light Millennium, co-sponsored by the Federation of World Peace and Love (FOWPAL), Advancing Eco Agriculture and Stirring the Pot Productions, occurred on the second day of the 65th Annual UN-DPI/NGO Conference.
A surge in Scottish support for breaking away from the United Kingdom has made an independence vote in nine days too close to call, a poll showed on Tuesday, as London scrambled to shore up the 307-year union by pledging more autonomy to Scotland.
Tests with ships will begin in mid-2015 on a new set of locks that are a key component of an expansion of the Panama Canal, the waterway's chief said on Sunday.
Arab League foreign ministers agreed on Sunday to take all necessary measures to confront Islamic State and cooperate with international, regional and national efforts to combat militants who have overrun swathes of Iraq and Syria.