Pakistan and India, No peace in the middle-east or anywhere else for that matter.

India is a nation that has been able to recover from colonial rule and war. They are nation that the media has shed a positive light upon. While many statements made about India are quite true, there is another side, which eludes the inattentive viewer. India is actually involved with many "black-market trades", ranging from drugs to diamonds. We all know about the conflict in Africa, mostly in west and south Africa, involving Africa's most precious resource, diamonds. As many know, this inhumane activity is perpetuated by the buying, and cutting of the gems from other nations. But, as many don't know, one of the nations which imports large amounts of diamonds unapproved by the UN Kimberly Process is India. Also, the importation into India of unrefined opium from south-east Asia is often looked the other-way upon.
Yet, India is not the only problem. There is Pakistan, the political arch-nemesis of India. Pakistan has been viewed in a negative light by most Americans, and they have earned it some-what. This nation is responsible for the allocation on terrorist cells, the perpetuating of a nuclear arms race, and the production of an intense cultural war. While they aren't responsible for the destructive diamond mining in Africa, they are responsible for assisting the unsafe mining of Uranium. Many workers mining the radioactive material are subject to many forms of cancer.
The tension these two countries have are not the only issue that they have created, and it is my belief that we should look beyond an age old cultural conversation.  

Sudan

There is many things that don't quite make the news. This could be something that truly does not belong in the news, such as a man winning world's best hot dog consumer, or something important to our everyday life, like Sudan becoming two states. Many conscious news readers would be aware of the Sudan's division, but there are too many casual news watchers/readers that are unaware of this particular middle-eastern (politically, not geographically) conflict. I think that everyone should be aware of the Republic of Sudan, and Republic of South Sudan, Darfur, and the Eastern Front. But this something that will probably never be achieved.