Op Rana is a senior editor with China Daily’s opinion department. He has a particular focus on international politics and environmental protection.
Children, innocent souls too young to fathom the wicked ways of the world, have become easy targets of religious extremists across the world.
The future of the world, going by changes in climate and weather, and conferences like the one at Lima, is indeed in peril.
The annual ritual of UN climate change conference is on in the Peruvian capital of Lima in a year which is almost certainly going to be the hottest on record.
India is a signatory to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. But will India take the responsibility?
The G20 have taken a step back from that unscientific stance by agreeing to mobilize "finance for adaptation (to) and mitigation" of climate change.
Despite knowing full well he will face stiff opposition from a Republican-dominated Congress to cut US emissions by 26 to 28 percent from 2005 levels by 2025, Obama went ahead with the deal.
The world will be a cleaner and greener place if developed countries such as the US help developing nations cut carbon dioxide emissions.
The word "risk" has been used 351 times in the 127-page final draft of the synthesis report that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sent to governments across the world last month.
The investigation into the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash hasn't reached anywhere, at least officially, even a month after it blew up into pieces.
Why should the world be bothered about 1,600 Palestinians killed in Gaza in the Israeli offensive against Hamas since July 8?
Iraq is on the verge of collapsing and foreign military intervention (this time invited) seems inevitable.
The World Cup, in its first week, has already produced enough shocks and surprises, heartbreaks and euphoria, upsets and linear scripts.
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