The Massacre of Mosul; 40,000 Civilians Killed.

                                      ISIS terrorist  body

More than 40,000 civilians were killed in the devastating battle to retake Mosul from Isis, according to intelligence reports revealed exclusively to The Independent - a death toll far higher than previous estimates.

Residents of the besieged city were killed by Iraqi ground forces attempting to force out militants, as well as by air strikes and Isis fighters, according to Kurdish intelligence services.

Residents of the besieged city were killed by Iraqi ground forces attempting to force out militants, as well as by air strikes and Isis fighters, according to Kurdish intelligence services.

"Kurdish intelligence believes that over 40,000 civilians have been killed as a result of massive firepower used against them, especially by the federal police, air strikes and Isis itself," Mr Zebari added.

 

                                         Suffering peoples

Mr Zebari, a native of Mosul and top Kurdish official who has served as the Iraqi finance minister and prior to that foreign minister, emphasised in an exclusive interview that the unrelenting artillery bombardment by units of the Iraqi federal police, in practice a heavily armed military unit, had caused immense destruction and loss of life in west Mosul.

Buddhism post Cultural Revolution a success, Dr, Lobsang Sangay said.

The President of Central Tibetan Administration, Dr Lobsang Sangay addressed the students and faculty at the Central University for Tibetan Studies, Varanasi (CUTS) on Friday, July 14th. The University is a premier institute for Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, sciences and language that was founded by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
Addressing the audience of students and faculties, the President said, “His Holiness the great 14th Dalai Lama’s visionary leadership has triumphed Cultural Revolution and China’s successive efforts to erase Tibet. The traditions of the Nalanda Mahavihara that were destroyed in Tibet continue to flourish in exile.”
“In destroying monasteries and religious institutions in Tibet, as the late Panchen Rinpoche declared in his 70,000 character petition, the Chinese Communists tried to eliminate the Tibetan identity, culture and its Buddhist traditions and they thought they had succeeded,” Dr Sangay said.

A - victory in a real people's struggle. Government takes over - The Nevil Fernando Hospital.

One ruler makes a mistake and another one corrects.

This can be pointed out  as one chance that we can defeat any  enemy forces by means of  deduction, goal, aligning together.

The ruler's  decision will not change as the  government's  repression  and  education has ceased for many years and ended with the student struggles carried out by the life sacrifices.

The government today (July 17) took over Dr. Neville Fernando Hospital in Malabe by signing the relevant agreement between Dr. Neville Fernando, Chairman of the Hospital and the Ministry of Health, in the presence of President Maithripala Sirisena.

Dr. Neville Fernando and Secretary to the Ministry of Health Janaka Sugathadasa signed the agreement.

Australian assistance to combat dengue fever in Sri Lanka.- Foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop

Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop, who is to visit Sri Lanka this week, will announce Australian assistance to combat dengue fever in Sri Lanka together with President Maithripala Sirisena, Australian Foreign Affairs Ministry announced today.

She will visit India and Sri Lanka from 18-20 July to strengthen  bilateral, economic and security relations with two important partners in region.

New research is to be believed women say that they have the best sex of their lives at the age of 36.

A survey commissioned by the contraceptive app Natural Cycles revealed that women have the best sex of their lives at the age of 36.

Most of us believe that we have the best sex of our lives when in our 20s. However, if new research is to be believed women say that they have the best sex of their lives at the age of 36.

The research was commissioned by the contraceptive app Natural Cycles, and they asked 2,600 women about orgasms, how attractive they felt and how much satisfaction they derived from sex.

The answers were studied according to the different age groups, younger (below 23), middle (23-35) and older (36 and above). As far as attractiveness was concerned, women aged 36 felt the most confident in their skin and 8 out of 10 said that they felt sexy.

The world's best tourist paradise is Palawan Island Philippines.

Palawan Island in the Philippines has been crowned the Best In The World by travellers

It’s the third year in a row the remote island, surrounded by 1,800 small islets and famed for its white beaches, stunning views and crystal clear water, was given the crown.

Palawan, the largest and most sparsely populated island in the Philippines, has shipwrecks and reefs which make it perfect for scuba diving and snorkelling.

Emerald green jungle-filled mountains appear to rise from the turquoise waters and secluded beaches make it a perfectly romantic paradise.

Palawan is also home to a five-mile-long underground river, considered one of the world’s wonders of nature, and visitors can get a boat through its limestone caverns.

Aside from boat, one of the preferred modes of transport on the island is by motor-run tricycle.

11 years imprisonment, Chinese Nobel laureate dies.

  The Chinese activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has died at the age of 61, the government has said.

The country’s most famous political prisoner was being treated for terminal liver cancer in a heavily-guarded hospital in northeast China. Mr Liu had been transferred from prison last month where he was serving an 11-year term for “subversion”.

Mr Liu might be a name rarely uttered in the west but many argue the unsung hero must be remembered alongside the other big name dissidents of the 20th century.

The human rights activist, who took part in the 1989 pro-democracy Tiananmen Square demonstrations, was arrested in 2008 after writing a pro-democracy manifesto titled Charter 08 in which he called for an end to one-party rule and advances in human rights. It was signed by thousands of people in China.

Brazil's former president LULA - jailed for 9.6 years.

Lava Jato judge, Sergio Moro, sentenced the former leader to nine years and six months in prison for passive corruption and money laundering.

In a surprising turn of events, federal judge Sergio Moro, sentenced Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to nine years and six months in prison for passive corruption and money laundering on Wednesday, July 12th.

The former leader is charged with accepting million-dollar renovations on a beachfront apartment from large construction and engineering firms in exchange for ‘advantages’ in public contracts, including those with state-owned oil giant Petrobras.
“The transfer [ownership] of the apartment and the renovations, as well as the payment of storage costs, would represent an undue advantage in a corroboration of corruption and strategies used for this transfer and payment would constitute a money laundering offense,” read the verdict handed down by Moro.

The largest icebergs ever recorded has broken free of Antarctica.

One of the largest icebergs on record has broken away from an ice shelf in Antarctica.

Researchers who have been monitoring a huge crack in the larsen C Ice Shelf,   which had left a vast iceberg more than a quarter the size of Wales “hanging by a thread”, say the rift has finally completed its path through the ice.

The final breakthrough happened between Monday and Wednesday and was detected in data from Nasa’s Aqua MODIS satellite instrument.

“Some of the ice may remain in the area for decades, while parts of the iceberg may drift north into warmer waters.”
Although the iceberg weighs a trillion tonnes, it was already floating before it calved away so will have no immediate impact on sea level.

The Sri lankan government forgives elephant owners.

In recent times, the most talked about was the illegal possession of elephants.This is a nasty undertaking, the government accuses. In spite of this, there is a problem with how to act in this manner, in what manner the law has been analyzed.

 Sri Lanka’s government says it is ready to forgive the owners of poached elephants and give them a chance to apply for license

A group of wealthy businessmen, a Buddhist priest and other social higher-ups on trial in Sri Lanka for allegedly keeping illegally captured elephants may get their animals back — legally.

Sri Lanka’s government says it is ready to forgive the owners of poached elephants and give them a chance to apply for licence provided they can prove in court that they did not know the animals that were confiscated from them had been illegally captured from the wild.

Dambulla cave temple temporarily closed

The archaeological advisory board of Sri Lanka has decided to temporarily close down the historic Rangiri Dalule Cave temple in Sri Lanka, declared as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Local and foreign tourists will be closed until the cave complex is re-informed.


A sacred pilgrimage site for 22 centuries, this cave monastery, with its five sanctuaries, is the largest, best-preserved cave-temple complex in Sri Lanka. The Buddhist mural paintings (covering an area of 2,100 m2 ) are of particular importance, as are the 157 statues.