"We have received positive signals from both sides. Emercency renews its offer to facilitate the positive development of the matter, asking for absolute silence from the press", says dr. Gino Strada, founder of the italian Ngo Emergency, interviewed by PeaceReporter. Earlier in the day, Shahabuddin Atal, spokesperson of the taliban commander Mullah Dadullah, had declared to the afgan press agency 'Pajhwok' that "there is some progress and we have received positive signals".

The House of Commons passed the contested Trident atomic weapons programme

An attack by Naxalites has killed fifty-five people in Chattisgarh

Russians step up aerial and artillery attacks, even in residential areas

East Timor population revolts in support of rebel leader Alfredo Reinado

They called them the dishonourable children. Today the illegitimate children of Norwegian women and Nazi soldiers, the "Lebensborn Kinder", are suing the Norwegian government for the discrimination they’ve suffered in their lives for discrimination

On March the Malaysian Parliament is scheduled to deliberate a controversial bill that, once approved, would lead to the actual segregation of all the foreign workers living in the country. The migrant workers are held responsible by the government for the 40% sharp increase in crime rate last year. But, more often, they're the first victims of criminality

A turning-point in peace talks, president and rebels agree

Without a thought to the problems of wedded couples in the west, couples who are in love in Saudi Arabia are made to divorce and, in some cases, sent to prison.

After the Mecca agreement, in Palestine new polls show a drop in support for Hamas

A proposal of reform of "re-education through work" of dissidents is put forward

After almost a century in existence, the oldest kibbutz in Israel privatizes to keep up with the times

The musical “West Bank Story:” Israeli and Palestinian in laughter and conflict

Attacks on cars in full daylight, thefts, bank robberies: a wave of violence has struck the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, claiming more than 50 victims in the last three months

Whoever crosses the border between the USA and Mexico has more than the desert to face