“Close Chavez Ally Re-elected As Venezuelan Assembly Speaker” plus 19 more : Eurasia Review
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- Close Chavez Ally Re-elected As Venezuelan Assembly Speaker
- AQIM Members Seek To Renounce Terrorism
- Georgia: Protesters Press For Saakashvili’s Resignation
- Iran’s Former Intelligence Chief Slams Justice System
- 9-Year-Old Pakistani Girl Kidnapped And Gang-Raped
- The Tinderbox Of North East Asia – Analysis
- Bethlehem Prepares For Orthodox Christmas
- Disaster Scenario In Syria – Analysis
- Belgrade’s Platform For Kosovo – Analysis
- Kidnapped Algerian Diplomats In New Terror Tape
- Hindus Welcome Canadian Prime Minister’s Meeting With Aboriginal Leaders
- Canada’s Shameful And Unending Disdain For Omar Khadr – OpEd
- Burma: Civilians Horrified By Kachin War
- Turning Natural Resources To Strategic Assets: China’s Rare Earth Monopoly And Lessons For The Philippines – Analysis
- Former Algerian PM Pushed Out – OpEd
- Technology Servitude – OpEd
- Saudi Arabia Joins US In Drone War, Obama Obfuscates – OpEd
- Four People Killed Inside Colorado House, Including Gunman
- Obama: Working Together In New Year To Grow Our Economy And Shrink Our Deficits – Transcript
- Tsunami Warning Canceled For Alaska, Canada
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Posted: 05 Jan 2013 10:47 PM PST
Venezuela’s National Assembly has re-elected Diosdado Cabello as speaker. He is a close ally of ailing President Hugo Chavez and could take over as caretaker leader if Chavez steps down or dies. Cabello promised to defend what he called the Chavez revolution when he was sworn in on Saturday. The president’s allies hold a majority [...]
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Posted: 05 Jan 2013 06:22 PM PST
By Jemal Oumar Recent defections indicate that al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is becoming more fragile due to the disintegration of its internal structure over the last few months. Terrorism analyst Abdul Hamid al-Ansari explained to Magharebia that the breakdown of AQIM is not happening the way of other organisations. “Since AQIM took so [...]
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Posted: 05 Jan 2013 06:20 PM PST
Large-scale protests have swept Georgia’s major cities, with protesters urging that President Mikhail Saakashvili step down. According to the Voice of Russia correspondent, the key event was a rally outside the Georgian President’s residence in Tbilisi. The organizers have delivered an ultimatum whereby Saakashvili should resign before January 20th, the date of expiry of his [...]
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Posted: 05 Jan 2013 06:13 PM PST
In a rare move likely to put the spotlight on the Iranian justice system, former Iranian intelligence minister Ali Younesi launched a series of criticisms against the country’s judiciary for its lack of independence. In an interview with Jamaran, a site close to the family of the late Imam Khomeini, Ali Younesi said judges were [...]
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Posted: 05 Jan 2013 06:11 PM PST
A nine-year-old Pakistani girl has been taken to the hospital in critical condition after being kidnapped and brutally gang-raped. The girl’s mother has named the abusers, but no arrests were made. The girl was admitted to a hospital in Bahawalpur after being raped on Wednesday. She remains in critical condition due to loss of blood [...]
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Posted: 05 Jan 2013 11:55 AM PST
By P K Ghosh As thousands of neatly lined North Korean civilians and soldiers cheered with somber faces shivering during the endless speeches on their country’s technological prowess at Pyongyang, the world at large was deeply unhappy. Coming eight months after the unsuccessful launch of a similar rocket last April the speeches and celebrations were [...]
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Posted: 05 Jan 2013 11:39 AM PST
As temperatures drop and rain falls on the holy land, Bethlehem, considered to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, prepares to host Orthodox Christmas celebrations on Sunday. The Assyrian Patriarch is scheduled to arrive in the city at 8 a.m., followed by the Coptic Patriarch at 10.30 a.m. and the Greek Orthodox Patriarch at 2 [...]
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Posted: 05 Jan 2013 11:35 AM PST
By Ihsan Bal Many international affairs specialists and diplomats, including U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, are now saying openly that the fighting in Syria is drawing to a close and that the overthrow of the regime could happen any time. There is also talk that the countries to which Bashar al-Assad might escape and [...]
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Posted: 05 Jan 2013 11:32 AM PST
Serbia’s platform for negotiations on Kosovo can be seen as a first real effort to accommodate the diametrically opposed views of Kosovo and Serbia on final status, while also recognizing the realities on the ground in north Kosovo. By Gerard M. Gallucci Last month, the Serbian government readied presentation of its platform for negotiations on [...]
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Posted: 05 Jan 2013 11:30 AM PST
By Walid Ramzi and Bakari Gueye Three Algerian diplomats kidnapped by terrorists in Gao last April appeared in a new video posted online Tuesday (January 1st) by Mauritania’s al-Akhbar. The hostages are shown sitting on the ground surrounded by their armed captors from al-Qaeda splinter group Movement for Tawhid and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO). [...]
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Posted: 05 Jan 2013 11:23 AM PST
Hindus have welcomed the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s gesture of reportedly agreeing to meet the delegation of First Nation leaders on January 11. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, called it a “step in the right direction”. Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, stressed that all [...]
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Posted: 05 Jan 2013 11:20 AM PST
Three months ago, Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen seized as a child and held and abused by the US government in Guantánamo for ten years, was returned to Canada, where he now languishes in a maximum-security prison. Technically, the Canadian government is entitled to imprison him for another five years and ten months, according to [...]
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Posted: 05 Jan 2013 11:19 AM PST
Civilians have been terrorized by Burma’s military airstrikes on ethnic rebel territory in northern Kachin state, a group trying to mediate between the warring sides said Friday, amid an escalation of fighting. “Honestly, the fighting has intensified right now. There is a very low possibility of restarting peace talks at this moment,” said Mya Aye, [...]
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Posted: 05 Jan 2013 11:16 AM PST
Control over natural resources can be a major national objective which, if successful, can bring enormous benefit to a country. One illustrative case in point is China’s virtual monopoly of rare earth metals (REM). Rare earths are a group of 17 elements known as the lanthanide series, with the addition of scandium and yttrium. Although [...]
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Posted: 05 Jan 2013 11:11 AM PST
The Secretary General of the National Democratic Rally (RND), Ahmed Ouyahia presented Thursday his resignation to the head of the Algerian political party, the main ally of the National Liberation Front (FLN) that has led the government since the last legislative May elections, reported local media. “It is now official, the resignation of Ahmed Ouyahia [...]
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Posted: 05 Jan 2013 11:09 AM PST
Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high tech devices, while driving, while walking, while shopping, while in groups of friends, while in restaurants, while waiting in doctor offices and hospitals, while sitting in toilets – everywhere. While connected electronically, they are inattentive to and disconnected in physical reality. People [...]
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Posted: 05 Jan 2013 11:07 AM PST
By John Robles Although the US has not officially declared war on any country, this time Yemen, drone attacks are on the rise and in Yemen went from eight in 2011 to 53 in 2012. The new US policy of prosecuting their “war on Terror” in now “kill or kill” as it is inconvenient to [...]
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Posted: 05 Jan 2013 11:05 AM PST
Four people have been killed inside a house in Colorado, including the gunman. It remains unclear whether officers shot the suspect or if he shot himself. “We’re just getting in there with our crime scene detectives, so obviously we’ll have to determine if it was our rounds or his rounds,” Police Sgt. Cassidee Carlson told [...]
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Posted: 05 Jan 2013 10:58 AM PST
n this week’s address, President Obama talked about the bipartisan agreement that Congress reached this week which prevented a middle-class tax hike, congratulated the newly sworn-in Members of Congress, and looked forward to working with the new Congress in the new year to continue to grow our economy and shrink our deficits in a balanced [...]
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Posted: 05 Jan 2013 10:55 AM PST
U.S. officials have canceled a tsunami warning for parts of southern Alaska and the Pacific Coast of Canada, following a strong 7.5 magnitude earthquake that shook an area just off the Alaska coast. Officials say tsunami waves are no longer a threat to the area. Alaskan officials had urged evacuations in some low-lying regions on [...]
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