2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded

2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded

(VNA/VOVworld) – The Nobel Committee has announced the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine in Stockholm, Sweden. The Nobel recipients are John B Gurdon of England and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan...
Security in Afghanistan: a difficult blank to fill in

Security in Afghanistan: a difficult blank to fill in

(VOVworld) – The international community always worries about security in Afghanistan even with the US forces and the International Security Assistance Force remaining there. When the mandate of the NATO troops ends...
Syrian crisis more likely to spill over borders

Syrian crisis more likely to spill over borders

The tension between Syria and Turkey has dramatically increased over the past three days, stoking fears that the Syrian internal crisis would spill over borders, through various ways, to its neighbors...

Islamist militants denounce verdicts

An Egyptian court has upheld death sentences for 14 Islamist militants involved in attacks on the army and police in the Sinai Peninsula last year. The court in Ismailia sentenced four other militants to life...
Libya arrests 50 after attack on US consulate

Libya arrests 50 after attack on US consulate

Libyan President Mohammed Magarief said on Sunday that about 50 people have been arrested in connection with the deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi last week, which he said was planned by...
Iraqi vice-president sentenced in absentia to death

Iraqi vice-president sentenced in absentia to death

Iraq’s fugitive Sunni vice-president Tareq al-Hashemi was sentenced on Sunday to death by hanging on charges he masterminded death squads against rivals in a terror trial that has fuelled sectarian tensions...
Ramadan ends on unpeaceful note

Ramadan ends on unpeaceful note

(VOVworld)- The Muslim holy month of Ramadan is over. According Ramadan tradition, people were supposed to pray and do good deeds during this month, but conflicts and bloody clashes in...