The progression of the SARS pandemic is unprecedented. According to a
Reuters report, "Hong Kong Health System on Brink as SARS Spreads" , Thu April 10, 2003 11:48 AM ET:
The deadly SARS virus has pushed Hong Kongs health care system to the brink of collapse, hospital workers said Thursday, as anxiety grew over the spread of the flu-like illness. A qu...
Our organisation"Ahl-ul-bait World Assembly" has sent 10 tons of blunkets for damaged people in Afganistan.These blunkets would be distributed in mountainous a...
Every decade or so, we should remind ourselves of who the Iraqis are:
1. Twelve-thousand years ago, they invented irrigated farming. They got to be s...
NGos are invited to nominate young people to participate in the WYSE International conference that will be held in the Dominican Republic in August 2003. WYSE ...
American forces have reached the heart of Baghdad. Battles
raged overnight and this morning for a presidential palace on the
banks of the River Tigris. A n...
In Syria prospects of ending the crisis look bleak, with the UN Security Council struggling to agree on an appropriate response. The Assad regime?s brutal crackdown, including shelling of central city Homs, shows no sign...
In Iraq, the official withdrawal of the last U.S. combat troops, nearly nine years after the invasion, was quickly followed by a political crisis. Authorities issued an arrest warrant for the country?s top Sunni politician,...
The Democratic Republic of Congo?s presidential and parliamentary vote went ahead on 28-30 November, after a campaign marred by violence and amid allegations of rigging and mismanagement. Political rallies were banned in the wake of...
Deadly clashes between government forces and the insurgent Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) broke out in the troubled southern Philippines in October.
In Sudan a Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) offensive in Blue Nile state, and renewed clashes in Southern Kordofan between the SAF and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, fuelled fears of a return to civil war.