On the whole, The Royal Family rarely speak of their beliefs, but Queen Elizabeth II has written about her faith in a foreword to a new book entitled The Servant Queen and the King She Serves. “I have been, and remain, very grateful to you for your prayers and to God for his steadfast love,” The Queen wrote. “I have indeed seen his faithfulness.” The Bible Society will publish…

President Barack Obama has issued an executive order imposing new sanctions on N Korea, after its "illicit" nuclear test and satellite launch. It freezes N Korean gov.  property in America and bans US exports to, or investment in, N Korea. The 6 January nuclear test and 7 February satellite launch were violations of existing UN sanctions. The order also greatly expands powers to blacklist…

Russian president Vladimir Putin declares sudden withdrawal of Russian force against IS in Syria. Vladimir has sent Russian troops to Syria 5 months ago, paying no heed to the US criticisms. Moscow demands that the expedition to destroy IS and rebels against Bashar Al Asad, president of Russia’s allied coutry Syria, is successful. In a meeting with the defense and foreign ministers Putin…

A military aircraft crashed in the Amazon area in Ecuador, when nineteen soldiers were bounding for parachuting course, leaving all 22 passengers dead. The president of Ecuador Rafael Correa informed on twitter that none of the passengers are alive. Correa twitted, “There are no survivors. It’s a tragedy.” Israel made aircraft ‘Arava’ crashed in the Pastaza…

  A small plane of Tara Air went missing in the mountain region of Nepal with 21 people on board. The plane was scheduled to land in the town of Jomsom, said Tara Air spokesman Bhim Rai. It took off Wednesday morning from the city of Pokhara.  Contact with the plane was lost just after 8 minutes of take-off. The flight duration was supposed to be 19 minutes.The plane was carrying a…

Russia has rejected accusations that it committed war crimes by targeting health facilities in Syria, even as the death toll from airstrikes on hospitals rose and growing condemnation over the Kremlin’s aerial campaign. “We categorically do not accept such statements, the more so as every time those making these statements are unable to prove their unfounded accusations in any way,”…

Hard on the heels of falling oil prices and affordable shale comes another dramatic energy change for the industry: the falling cost of solar energy. This has many implications, but the most immediate impact is on the nuclear power industry, large parts of which may have just become obsolete. This means that the new nuclear power plants being planned by India, especially those with foreign collaboration,…

Taiwan said Wednesday that China had positioned anti-aircraft missiles on a disputed South China Sea island claimed also by Taiwan and Vietnam and watched closely by Washington. Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense said in a statement it had "grasped that Communist China had deployed" an unspecified number of missiles on Woody Island in the Paracel group. The move would follow China's…

China's first case of the Zika virus has been found in a 34-year-old man who recently traveled to Venezuela and is now making a speedy recovery, the government said Wednesday. The man from the southern city of Ganzhou had been treated in Venezuela on Jan. 28 before returning home on Feb. 5 via Hong Kong and the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, the National Health and Family Planning Commission…