{"id":8585,"date":"2014-06-04T14:54:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T09:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/jwt2015\/?p=8585"},"modified":"2017-05-31T12:39:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T07:39:32","slug":"world-top-10-stories-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/others\/general\/world-top-10-stories-3\/","title":{"rendered":"World Top 10 Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Whose Faith, Whose Girls?, United We Stand, Divided We Fall, The Wrath of Nature, Another Plus for Pakistan, India Modi-fied, At the End of Their Tether, Denouncing the US Hegemony, Under the Boots Again, Still the ‘Securest Area’\u009d?, Easy SIMs, No More Stupid!,<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Whose Faith, Whose Girls?<\/b><\/span>
\n On the night of 14′ 15 April 2014, approximately 276 female students were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria. The kidnappings were claimed by Boko Haram.<\/span><\/p>\n

United We Stand, Divided We Fall<\/b><\/span>
\nOn April 23, President Mahmood Abbas’s Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Gaza-based group Hamas agreed to a unity pact. The move envisions a unity government within five weeks and national elections six months later.<\/p>\n

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The Wrath of Nature<\/span><\/b>
\nOn May 2, a double landslide first buried an entire village and then made it a mass grave of more than 2500 people including hundreds of rescuers in the Argo district of Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province.<\/p>\n

Another Plus for Pakistan<\/span><\/b>
\nOn May 05, two Pakistani students, Shahzaib Ali and Muhammad Faaiz Taufiq, were granted Cambridge 800th Anniversary Scholarships for undergraduate studies at the University of Cambridge. They will be provided full funding, covering fees and means-tested maintenance.<\/p>\n

India Modi-fied<\/span><\/b>
\nOn May 16, The BJP, led by Narendra Modi, won the Lok Sabha elections, with 282 seats on its own. BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) got 336 seats in the lower house of India’s Parliament.<\/p>\n

At the End of Their Tether<\/span><\/b>
\nOn May 21, responding to recent insurgent attacks on security forces, Pakistan Army pounded militant hideouts near the Afghan border with warplanes and helicopters killing 60 hard-core terrorists. The airstrikes mainly targeted Mir Ali region of North Waziristan.<\/p>\n

Denouncing the US Hegemony<\/span><\/b>
\nOn May 22, Russia and China vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution referring the Syrian crisis to the International Criminal Court for investigation of possible war crimes.<\/p>\n

Under the Boots Again<\/span><\/b>
\nOn May 22, Thailand’s military took control of the government and suspended the constitution. The cabinet has been told to report to the military, TV broadcasting remains suspended and political gatherings have been banned.<\/p>\n

Still the Securest Area\u009d?<\/span><\/b>
\nOn May 23, frustrated at not having their complaints heeded, a large contingent of Sikhs, brandishing traditional daggers and shouting slogans, descended upon Parliament House to protest the desecration of their holy book in Sindh.<\/p>\n

Easy SIMs, No More Stupid! <\/span><\/b>
\nOn May 24, CEOs of Ufone, Mobilink, Zong, Warid and Telenor and Chairman NADRA, Imtiaz Tajwar, signed an agreement that prohibits issuing any SIM after July 31, 2014 without verifying applicants’ identities from NADRA’ biometric database.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whose Faith, Whose Girls?, United We Stand, Divided We Fall, The Wrath of Nature, Another Plus for Pakistan, India Modi-fied, At the End of Their Tether, Denouncing the US Hegemony, Under the Boots Again, Still the ‘Securest Area’\u009d?, Easy SIMs, No More Stupid!, Whose Faith, Whose Girls? On the night of 14′ 15 April 2014, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131,7603],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jworldtimes.com\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}