China s One Child Calamity

We share the grief expressed about the tragic loss of those two leaders.

Over the past year, we have been tragically reminded of human vulnerability in the face of natural disasters.

These opportunities need to be seized with as much alacrity as the world has responded to Asia s sorrow.

After the Kursk catastrophe, Putin was asked what really happened. It sank, he replied, with a somewhat macabre smile.

That phenomenon had increased following the tragic events of 11 September 2001.

But that day, it struck a chord that I couldn't switch off from.

Russia, of course, has no appetite to repeat the Soviet Union s calamitous military adventure in Afghanistan.

Whenever a tragedy strikes there, the process is almost always the same family and friends come together to care for the deceased, dressing them as best as they can to prepare them for their journey onward.

Mr. Al Ghanem (Kuwait) said that the Palestinian situation was catastrophic because of continued Israeli practices against the encircled and defenceless Palestinian people.

NEWPORT BEACH As we all struggle to comprehend the economic and financial impact of Japan s calamity, it is tempting to seek historical analogies for guidance.

Yet in many places, Governments and individuals continue to violate the rule of law, often without consequences for them but with deadly consequences for the weak and the vulnerable.

His exposé of the SARS epidemic cover up forced China's government to confront the disease more openly and aggressively, averting a public health catastrophe.

If there was an incident today where a hundred kids died in some tragedy or where, say, a hundred kids were kidnapped and then rescued by special forces, I mean, it would be all over the news for a week, right?

Convinced that the continuing existence of nuclear weapons poses a threat to all humanity and that their use would have catastrophic consequences for all life on Earth, and recognizing that the only defence against a nuclear catastrophe is the total elimination of nuclear weapons and the certainty that they will never be produced again,

Convinced that the continuing existence of nuclear weapons poses a threat to all humanity and that their use would have catastrophic consequences for all life on Earth, and recognizing that the only defence against a nuclear catastrophe is the total elimination of nuclear weapons and the certainty that they will never be produced again,

Convinced that the continuing existence of nuclear weapons poses a threat to all humanity and that their use would have catastrophic consequences for all life on Earth, and recognizing that the only defence against a nuclear catastrophe is the total elimination of nuclear weapons and the certainty that they will never be produced again,

Convinced that the continuing existence of nuclear weapons poses a threat to all humanity and that their use would have catastrophic consequences for all life on Earth, and recognizing that the only defence against a nuclear catastrophe is the total elimination of nuclear weapons and the certainty that they will never be produced again,

Convinced that the continuing existence of nuclear weapons poses a threat to all humanity and that their use would have catastrophic consequences for all life on Earth, and recognizing that the only defence against a nuclear catastrophe is the total elimination of nuclear weapons and the certainty that they will never be produced again,