A Voice of the Unheard Tuesday, August 25, 2026
North Korea announced Tuesday plans to launch a satellite in February, following rumors about the preparation by Pyongyang of a ballistic missile test, an announcement soon accompanied by threats of US sanctions on UN. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) said earlier have been warned by the communist regime of its intention to launch a satellite...
KABUL: US Special Forces battled the Taliban forces that laid siege to the main airport in Kunduz city in northern Afghanistan. The fighting at the airport started on Sept. 29, just one day after the Taliban seized control of the city. The engagement between Coalition forces belonging to Operation Resolute Support and Taliban fighters was...
HONOLULU, Hawaii: General Rashad Mahmood, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee arrived in the United States on an official visit to attend ‘2015 Chiefs of Defence (CHOD) Conference’ in Honolulu. The focus of the conference which is being attended by military leadership of more than 20 countries, will be on ‘Addressing Shared Security Challenges and...
NEW YORK: Senior officials of the member countries of Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process met earlier Sunday on the sidelines of the 70th UNGA Session in New York. The Senior Officials Meeting, co-hosted by Pakistan and Afghanistan, was the 12thmeeting at this level since the Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process began in 2011. The agenda of the current...
The US “trashes” more than a third of its food supply. According to a new a report published by the Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC), the equivalent of $165bn of uneaten food is discarded each year by Americas during a time of rocketing food prices and drought conditions. Sana Gunders, a project scientist at the...
A man coldly shot two journalists from a US local television Wednesday and filmed the scene himself which Bryce Williams published the videos on the social networks. The killer died in the early afternoon to a gunshot wound that was self-inflicted. Former colleague journalists, he justified his actions in a long rambling manifesto sent to the...
The future of Sim Sim Hamara has gone into doubts as the US government has finally decided to pull funding amid the corruption allegations. The US government had allocated $20m to fund a Pakistani version of the Sesame Street show with a hope to lift Pakistan’s doleful literacy rate and to help the youth to...
“I will have to be made for cancerous brain tumors”, said Thursday afternoon former US President Jimmy Carter, 91, live on TV. He had called the press on Thursday, August 19, as he had promised a week ago, Wednesday, August 12, after announcing be suffering from liver cancer being extended. A surgery to remove a liver tumor had “revealed...
North Korea shelled a unit of South Korean soldiers, provoking an immediate response. North Korea bombed on Thursday a unit of the South Korean army, provoking an immediate response. The North Korean bombardment, which would be a rocket attack, occurred on the western part of the border that divides the Korean peninsula. In reply, South Korea...
Pinnacle Foods Group has had fines amounting to $156,700 which was decided by the US Department of Labour’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The firm, based in New Jersey, has been cited for 27 serious health and safety violations including exposing employees to breathing in ammonia at the site in Fayetteville, Arkansas. OSHA started...