News: President Obama must be counting down the last few days till the end of October, for it has been a month of mayhem for US prestige on the world stage. Today, 28th October, the US ambassador to Spain was summoned by the Spanish government to explain the revelations in two Spanish newspapers, El Mundo and El País, that the National Security Agency (NSA) has collected data on 60 million…

Headlines: BRICS Countries Build New Internet to Avoid NSA Spying Saudi Arabia Warns of Shift Away from U.S. over Syria, Iran US Drawdown in Afghanistan Sees World's Biggest Garage Sale Secret Memos Reveal Explicit Nature of US-Pakistan Agreement on Drones Details: BRICS Countries Build New Internet to Avoid NSA Spying BRICS countries are close to completing a brand new Internet backbone that would bypass the United States entirely and thereby…

News: On Monday, 14th of October 2013, the US Special Envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, James F. Dobbins, visited Pakistan. The US Embassy in Islamabad said in a press release that "Dobbins discussed US-Pakistani relations, regional security, and Afghanistan with Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar, Advisor to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz, and Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani". Comment: The American special…

News: This week, world leaders have been gathering at the APEC 2013 Economic Summit in Bali, Indonesia. This year, the APEC Women and the Economy Forum has adopted the idea of "Women as Economic Drivers" as its key theme and called for government and private sector measures and programs to encourage more women into employment and business, as well as to aid the growth of enterprises owned by women. It…