Britain, France and the US, along with several Arab countries, are to join forces to throw a protective ring around the Libyan rebel stronghold of Benghazi as soon as a UN security council vote on military action is authorised, according to security council sources. A source at UN headquarters in New York said military forces could be deployed "within hours" of …

As the battle rages in Libya and scores, if not hundreds, die daily, the picture is slowly emerging giving a hint of who is fighting whom for what, and who is on whose side. The conflict in Libya has all the features of a civil war. The country is divided along the people's love and hatred for the embattled Muammar …

February 26, 2011, marks the eighth anniversary of the imprisonment of Dr. Rafil Dhafir. Dhafir continues to pay the price for feeding the children of Iraq during the US- and UK-sponsored UN sanctions against that country. According to the United Nations’ own statistics, every month throughout the 1990′s, 6,000 children under the age of five in Iraq were dying from …

The All Ceylon YMMA Conference, as one of its major projects , will be granting 150 Scholarships to 150 Students sitting for the G.C.E. (O/L) and (A/L) Examinations in 2011/2012. The Ceremony to handover these ScholarshipS will be held on Saturday 19th March 2011 at the YMMA Conference , Dr. A.M.A. Azeez Auditorium starting from 9.a.m.. Students from various parts of the …

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 8, 2011 (IPS) – When Muammar el-Gaddafi went on an arms-buying spree in the 1970s and 80s – stockpiling a staggering array of sophisticated weapons systems both from the East and West – the United States warned that Libya was in danger of becoming one of the world's most "overarmed" countries. If military forces from the United …