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- Burma’s Thein Sein White House Visit Is Reward For Reforms
- US State Department Releases 2012 International Religious Freedom Report
- China: Police Probe Fresh Clashes In Inner Mongolia
- US Arctic Strategy A Hazard To Us All – OpEd
- The European Dream Fading Away – Analysis
- US Eyes North Korean Missile Launches
- In Bahrain An Uprising Unabated – OpEd
- Muslims And The War On Terror – OpEd
- Ron Paul: The IRS’s Job Is To Violate Our Liberties – OpEd
- North Korea Fires Missiles For Third Day In Row
- Kosovo Looks To EU Trade Agreement
- Bangladesh: Industry And Human Rights – OpEd
- Iran: New President, New Direction? – OpEd
- Li Keqiang’s India Visit: Why Trade And Not Border High On Agenda – Analysis
- Russia, Peru To Sign MiG-29 Jet Upgrade Contract
- South China Sea: Indian Defence Minister Makes Strong Assertions – Analysis
- German Foreign Minister Encourages Serbia’s EU Progress
- Another Hotspot In The Chinese Seas – OpEd
- The Use Of Anabolic steroids May Affect Future Mental Health
- CIA: An Idea Whose Time Has Gone – OpEd
- India: Assam Troubled Again? – Analysis
- India Anti-Maoist Operations: Vital Intelligence – Analysis
- Saudi Arabia To Allow Women Into Stadiums – Analysis
- Two Militants Captured In Moscow, Planning Terrorist Attack
- US Drone Strike In Yemen Kills Two Suspected Al-Qaeda Members
- Remembering Perot: Last Chance For Americans Against Globalization – OpEd
- Debt Ceiling Suspended As US Takes On $300bn In New Debt After Hitting $16.7 Trillion
- Kerry Travels To Mideast For Syria Talks
- Analysts Support Greek Sale Of Gambling Monopoly
- Morocco Looks To Modernise Counter-Terror Methods
Posted: 20 May 2013 01:54 PM PDT
Burmese
President Thein Sein is visiting the White House, becoming the first
leader of his nation to do so in nearly half a century. It marks the
latest U.S. effort to reward him for introducing reforms after decades
of military rule. The White House meeting with President Barack Obama
also represents a rapid diplomatic boost [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 01:48 PM PDT
The
US State Department released Monday its 2012 International Religious
Freedom Report, which notes that religious freedom is declining in many
parts of the world. Speaking at its presentation, Secretary of State
John Kerry said the report, “shines light on the challenges that people
face as they seek nothing more than the basic religious freedom, [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 01:13 PM PDT
Chinese
authorities in Inner Mongolia are investigating fresh clashes between
ethnic minority Mongolian herders and Han Chinese settlers over land, as
Beijing continues to expand farming and mining in the area, an official
source said on Monday. A dozen Mongolian herders in were “severely
beaten” while defending their grazing lands after “more than a hundred”
[...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 12:56 PM PDT
By
Yulia Zamanskaya Despite giving lip service to the problems of global
warming and climate change in its new National Strategy for the Arctic
Region, the new document largely focuses on how the US can exploit the
region’s vast untapped oil, gas and mineral resources while paying
little to no attention to the values of [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 12:52 PM PDT
By
Roberto Savio The European Union has asked its citizens to brace for
further economic misery. In a report on European economic prospects
released on May 3, the European Commission said that further
deterioration is expected to last at least until 2015. But, as every
such report says, things will then get better! Unemployment in [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 12:32 PM PDT
By
Jim Garamone The United States continues to call on North Korean
leaders to exercise restraint and abide by their international
obligations, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said today. North
Korea fired five short-range missiles in the past three days, and
reporters asked Little if this is a North Korean return to the
provocative behavior [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 10:53 AM PDT
By
Husain Abdulla More than two years after peaceful demonstrators took to
the streets to demand reforms, Bahrain’s uprising has not abated.
Activists and opposition groups continue to demand the basic human
rights and political reforms promised to them by their government.
Rather than meet the opposition’s calls for reform, the government of
Bahrain has [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 10:43 AM PDT
By
Faisal Kutty A tipoff from a prominent Toronto imam more than a year
ago appears to be at the heart of arrests at the end of April in the
alleged VIA Rail terror plot in Canada. In fact, counterterrorism police
began their press briefing by thanking Muslim leaders. Even in the
Boston marathon tragedy, national and local Muslim organizations have
condemned the bombings. [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 10:19 AM PDT
“What
do you expect when you target the President?” This is what an Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) agent allegedly said to the head of a conservative
organization that was being audited after calling for the impeachment
of then-President Clinton. Recent revelations that IRS agents gave
“special scrutiny” to organizations opposed to the current
administration’s policies [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 10:16 AM PDT
North
Korea launched another two short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan
on Monday, marking the third straight day of firings, South Korea’s
defense ministry said, Yonhap reported. Both appeared to be KN-02
surface-to-surface missiles, a ministry official said. “We are closely
watching the movements of the North’s military in case of further
launches,” he [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 09:40 AM PDT
By
Muhamet Brajshori By launching a free trade regime with the EU, as part
of its Stabilisation Association Agreement, Kosovo is hoping to
increase the amount of agricultural products that it exports to the 27
member countries in order to improve revenues. Arta Istrefi, an advisor
to the trade minister of Kosovo, said that the [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 09:38 AM PDT
By
Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Last
week, thousands of mourners gathered at the remains of the Rana Plaza
factory complex in Bangladesh to pray for the 1,127 people who died when
it collapsed on 24 April. The poignant remembrance of the victims of
this dreadful tragedy came amid a succession [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 09:20 AM PDT
On
11 May 2013, only minutes before the deadline, a surprise candidate
registered himself to stand in the Iranian presidential elections due to
be held on 14 June. The current incumbent – the controversial Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad – has served his statutory two terms, although whether he
was in fact entitled to his second period in [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 09:08 AM PDT
By
Prof. B. R. Deepak Wealth (fu) and power (qiang) has remained the dream
of China throughout its long history. The best manifestation of this is
reflected during the modern period when China was down and out with the
defeats it suffered at the hands of foreign powers starting from the
Opium War (1840). The [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 09:06 AM PDT
Russia
and Peru will sign a contract to upgrade Lima’s fleet of Mikoyan MiG-29
Fulcrum fighters by the end of May, Konstantin Biryulin, deputy head of
Russia’s Federal Military-Technical Cooperation Service, said on
Monday, May 20, according to RIA Novosti. Belarus sold around twenty of
the fighter jets to Peru in 1997. According to defenseindustrydaily.com,
[...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 09:02 AM PDT
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Dr. Subhash Kapila Introductory Observations The South China Sea region
has been converted into a militarily turbulent one due to the illegal
claims by China declaring sovereignty over the entire South China Sea.
China in the process has not only resorted to escalated military
brinkmanship but also resorted to use of armed force and [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 08:59 AM PDT
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Florian Franze Foreign minister Guido Westerwelle expressed hopes that
Serbia’s deal with Kosovo would be properly implemented so that Belgrade
will get a start date for EU accession talks. Westerwelle said that if
tangible results are achieved in the implementation of the
Belgrade-Pristina deal, he could send a positive signal to his country’s
parliament [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 08:56 AM PDT
By
Lucia Pivetta Another fishing incident has recently sparked friction in
the seas off China’s coast, this time in the South China Sea, drawing
attention to the volatility and militarisation of the region. On 15 May,
the island of Taiwan, which is claimed by China, imposed sanctions on
the Philippines. This occurred when the Philippines [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 08:54 AM PDT
There
is a link between use of anabolic-androgenic steroids and reduced
mental health later in life. This is the main conclusion of a new study
on elite male strength athletes that researchers from the University of
Gothenburg recently published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
Twenty per cent of the subjects in the study [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 08:50 AM PDT
By
David Swanson There’s a contradiction built into every campaign promise
about transparent government beyond the failure to keep the promises.
Our government is, in significant portion, made up of secret operations,
operations that include warmaking, kidnapping, torture, assassination,
and infiltrating and overthrowing governments. A growing movement is
ready to see that end. The Central [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 08:18 AM PDT
By
Giriraj Bhattacharjee On April 19, 2013, an Inspector of a commando
unit of the Assam Police, identified as Lohit Sonowal, two militants of
the ‘Independent’ faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom
(ULFA-I), and one civilian, were killed in an encounter at Kordoiguri
village in Tinsukia District. The militants killed in the encounter
[...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 08:15 AM PDT
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Fakir Mohan Pradhan Inflicting significant losses on the Communist
Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), the Greyhounds commando Force of the
Andhra Pradesh Police (AP), on April 16, 2013, shot dead at least nine
Maoists in a fierce encounter at Puvarti village in the Sukma District
of Chhattisgarh, close to the Inter-State border with Andhra Pradesh.
[...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 08:13 AM PDT
Saudi
Arabia, under domestic and international pressure to grant women
sporting rights, is creating separate stadium sections so that female
spectators and journalists can attend soccer matches in a country that
has no public physical education or sporting facilities for women. The
move announced by the recently elected head of the Saudi Football
Federation, Ahmed [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 08:09 AM PDT
Two
militants who were planning terrorist attack were captured today during
the special operation performed by FSB in the suburban town of
Orekhovo-Zuevo “In the course of the operation one FSB officer was
injured”, says the National Anti-Terrorism Committee of the Russian
Federation. Earlier, NAC reported that during the special operation a
group of three [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 08:06 AM PDT
Two
al-Qaeda militants were killed in an American drone strike in central
Yemen on Monday, AFP reported. The attack took place in the Khobza area
of the central province of Baida, the agency quoted an unnamed official
as saying. Yemen’s defense ministry reported that “two members of
Al-Qaeda as they as they left a farm [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 08:01 AM PDT
It
was the time to go to the barricades, not just unionized labor but the
rest of America’s middle class that union activism had helped create. It
was the time to reverse the ill-advised globalist course in which
Reagan and Bush Sr. had taken the nation. And, as it later proved out,
it was to [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 07:55 AM PDT
America’s
ticking debt bomb has been reset. Washington has suspended the debt
ceiling, setting a date, and not a concrete dollar sum as a deadline, an
unprecedented first in US history. Citing ‘extraordinary measures’, the
US Treasury has further delayed tackling America’s debt, and will wait
until Labor Day, September 2nd, to revisit the burgeoning [...]
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Posted: 20 May 2013 07:52 AM PDT
By
Scott Stearns U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry travels Monday to the
Middle East for talks on holding a Syrian peace conference. Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad has said he doubts the U.S./Russian initiative
can stop the fighting. The latest effort to end Syrian violence aims to
bring together for the first time envoys from [...]
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Posted: 19 May 2013 09:52 PM PDT
By
Andy Dabilis Greece Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said the sale of
gambling monopoly OPAP shows that Greece is serious about making reforms
as a condition of rescue aid. The deal, which will give Czech-Greek
consortium Emma Delta a 33 percent stake in the gambling monopoly, will
bring in 712 million euros. “It is important [...]
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Posted: 19 May 2013 09:50 PM PDT
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Mohamed Saadouni and Hassan Benmehdi Morocco should update its methods
for gathering intelligence on extremists and give its security services
the tools needed for this, participants in a recent Kenitra seminar
agreed. The goal of the May 10th meeting held by the National Security
Directorate General (DGSN) was to co-ordinate national security efforts
to [...]
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