Russia is set to ink a massive Chinese oil deal and to take over Armenia's natural gas industry.

1. U.S. human trafficking report singles out two post-Soviet states

Russia and Uzbekistan are among the world’s “worst of the worst” human trafficking offenders, according to the U.S. Department of State.

In its Trafficking in Persons Report 2013, the State Department downgraded the post-Soviet states to its Tier 3 list of countries that neither comply with minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking nor are trying to do so. The U.S. government might withhold foreign aid to these and other basket-case countries as a result.

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Russia and China have reacted angrily after the US downgraded them in a report on efforts to fight human trafficking.

 
Russia spoke of its "indignation". A Chinese official called the report an example of an "arbitrary judgement".
The annual US Department of State report relegated Russia and China into its lowest category, which also includes Iran and North Korea.
Uzbekistan also fell to Tier 3 in the report, published on Wednesday.
The 21 countries in Tier 3 may face sanctions in areas including cultural and education programmes, and the US could withdraw its support for loans from the World Bank or International Monetary Fund.

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US President Barack Obama used a speech in Berlin to call on Russia to revive the push for a world without nuclear weapons

US President Barack Obama used a speech in Berlin to call on Russia to revive the push for a world without nuclear weapons, offering to cut deployed nuclear arsenals by a third, but Moscow immediately poured scorn on his proposal.
Speaking in Berlin where US Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan gave rousing Cold-War speeches, Obama urged Russia to help build on the "New START" treaty that requires Moscow and Washington to cut stockpiles of deployed nuclear weapons to 1,550 each by 2018.

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Results from Iranian presidential election start to trickle in.

-- The lines extended into the street at times, voters waiting to pick their choice to succeed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Some 70% of some 50 million registered voters -- men and women, young and old -- turned out according to state broadcaster Press TV, to pick a man who'll deal with high-stakes challenges domestically and internationally.

And now the results are starting to trickle in.

Based on two sets of still very early results, centrist candidate Hassan Rouhani had more votes than any other candidate, Interior Ministry officials said early Saturday.

As of about 7:15 a.m. Saturday (10:45 p.m. ET Friday), Rouhani had 834,859 votes; Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf had 320,562; Saeed Jalili had 257,822; Mohsen Rezaei had 214,368; Ali-Akbar Velayati had 106,144; and Mohammad Gharazi had 25,324.

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Re-enforce your purpose

I can’t emphasize strongly enough that knowing your purpose is crucial for your life course. Every young person comes to a time when he or she leaves childhood and enters adulthood. This is the time in which young people are trying to discover who they are and why they are. This is also often the time when we lose them or gain them----lose them to a destructive lifestyle and a wasted life or gain them for a positive, fulfilling future. Purpose, therefore is key to a young person’s effectiveness and happiness in life. 

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becoming a successful doctor

Being a doctor is a very challenging yet fulfilling career choice. But successfully agreed upon as being essentials to becom ng a successful doctor.

Aside from having technical knowledge, a good doctor must be a “people person’’ since the job entails a lot of interaction with patients, families, and other professional in the field. Doctors must effectively communicate with patients. Especially when patients are baffled by the complexity of their conditions. Doctors must also deliver bad news to patient and their families. This is perhaps one of the hardest tasks that a doctor must learn to do, but learning to do so with compassion is critical to a doctor’s success. 

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Dreaming Of A Better Nigeria

It is know that nigeria is turning into something else and we have entrust the leadership into the hands of the government and yet notting has been done. the world is becoming more insecure for the youngstars. and even our fathers and forefathers have not help. and expirience which is also known as the best teacher has not help us either. it is high time our fathers pave the way for the youth at hand to glamoriously lead us into our glaring glory.
           This is my pledge to Nigeria. 


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'Turkish leader set to meet with protesters after day of clashes, chaos.

 
-- They've faced off with police on the streets of Istanbul, breathed in tear gas, braved water cannons, and hoped and prayed the protest camp they set up in a downtown park won't be overtaken.

On Wednesday, some of their leaders are set to sit down face to face with the man they railed against as being too stubborn, too heavy-handed, too dictatorial: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

What began in late May as a demonstration focused on the environment -- opposition to a plan to build a mall in Istanbul's Gezi Park -- has evolved into a crusade against Erdogan that's spread around the country.

The official response has fanned the fury of protesters. Many of them are young professionals who considered themselves apolitical but now feel moved to action given what they see as an unnecessarily harsh, obstinate government.

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