America Seeks to Prevent Pakistan from Uprooting its Presence The Dawn reported on 27 October, "Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif will visit the United States next month for talks with senior US military commanders and defence officials. This will be Gen Sharif's first visit to the United States as the army chief, a position he assumed on Nov 29, 2013... During the week-long visit, starting on Nov 16,…

News: Turkey gives a harsh response to YPG's "FSA is not allowed in" statement for crossing Kobane: "No FSA, No Peshmerga". The Peshmerga group who is expected to be sent in order to break the ISIL invasion which is going on now for 45 days, has finally arrived in Şanlıurfa after leaving from Arbil International Airport at late hours last night. While everybody expected the Peshmerga to enter Kobane, 200…

News: The number of children who have admitted to attempting suicide has soared by 43% in a year, the British children's charity ChildLine has revealed. The counseling service said it has received more than 34,000 consultations with children who talked about wanting to kill themselves in 2013/14 - an increase of 116% since 2010/11. Nearly 6,000 of these children had told a counselor that they had previously attempted suicide- a…

News: British-based charity Oxfam issued a rallying cry against inequality on Wednesday with the release of its "Even it Up" report, which found that the number of billionaires had doubled worldwide since the economic crisis. The report stated "the poorest struggle to get by while their neighbours prosper". It calculated that the wealth of the world's 85 richest people grew $668 million each day. "If Bill Gates were to cash…