News Ahead: The World’s Most Alarming Moments

Millions of refugees fled from Somalia.

Somalia’s civil war still capture the memory of most people though it occurred in 1997, and thus they are shocked when having heard of more than 1 million people fleeing from their homes to save their lives. As a result, the world has to deal with an increasing refugee settlement’s problem thereafter.

The U.S. force mistakenly flew over the United States with nuclear bombers.

In August 1997, a U.S. Air Force B-52 strategic bomber aircraft carried along with six nuclear missiles without the acknowledgment of the in-charge personnel flying over more than half area of the United States. The flaw in the inspection process has resulted in nuclear head not being controlled as long as 36 hours.

The global cases of AIDS have been overestimated.

In November, 1997, the United Nations has reduced the number of the global AIDS carriers to 33 million as the relevant agency of this organization has overestimated the global HIV infectious carriers as high as 6300000 cases.

The White House failed in playing political role due to its improper political influence towards its administrative personnel.

In July 1997, the United States Congress Oversight Committee revealed that although most of the relevant laws prohibit government officials to participate actively in activities related to political campaigns, the seniors’ officials of the Office of National Drug Control Policy repeatedly appeared in the mid-term election in 2006 while the Republican Party’s election campaign was held.

The treatment for Tuberculosis (TB) remain unchanged within half a century.

According to the statistics of World Health Organization (WHO), 41 countries worldwide so far have confirmed with XDR TB cases, and TB treatment has been reported the highest failure rate particularly in Europe.

Angola’s economic growth was regarded as the first in the world.

After Angola ended its 30 years long civil war, there was a substantial increase in oil production 5 years after the civil war. The oil extraction which is located in the sub-Saharan African countries has blessed Angola with an economic growth rate of 24%, and thus putting Angola as the world’s fastest growing economic nation.

Americans are still regarded as the world’s biggest obese community.

The United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the rate of children obesity is in an alarming state. In conjunction to the rise of children obesity, the obesity rate for the adults was reported as 34%. The study showed no significant increase in an adult obesity rate from 2003 to 2006, nevertheless, experts did not think that obesity problem in the United States has overcome with satisfying results.

A huge oil field was accidentally found in Brazil.

In November 1997, one huge oil field was found offshore in Brazil. Although Brazil is a self-supply oil producing country, the discovery of the new oil field undoubtedly has added the economic benefit to Brazil particularly dealing with the production of oil. It is also expected that Brazil may become one of the world’s major oil production countries among other giant oil production countries such as Saudi Arabia, Brunei, and Venezuela. The rise of Brazil may become a new competitor to these nations in terms of the oil issue that the world is facing now.

The United States has abused government expenditure.

The US Democratic Party has always pledged to cut down the government expenditure, but many members of the Democratic Party have abused the government expenditure through various filthy and wicked channels. One of the representatives from Pennsylvania has approved the funding of 160 million US dollars which included 23 million US dollars for the National Drug Intelligence Center in his hometown in 2007.