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- US Has Ethical Responsibility For Health Of Guantanamo Prisoners – Hagel, Dempsey
- US Criticizes Russian Missile Sale To Syria
- India And China In The Arctic: Breeching The Monopoly – Analysis
- Uncertainty About Canada’s Arctic Vision – Analysis
- Philippines Tells Nationals In Taiwan To Lie Low
- Undocumented Immigrants In US Mostly Christian – Study
- Serb Ex-NBA Star Danilovic Stabbed
- Li Keqiang’s Visit To India: What Promise Does It Portend? – Analysis
- India And China In The Arctic: The New Great Game? – Analysis
- Peru: Government’s Revenge On Lawmaker
- Separatism In Eurasia: Grassroots Growing In The Wrong Direction – OpEd
- Stupid Regulations – OpEd
- Paraguay Among Latin American Nations With Robust Growth
- When Thein Sein Uses Political Prisoners As Image Building Tool
- The UN, Integrated Systems And American Intransigence To Accountability – OpEd
- The Syrian Crisis: The Option – OpEd
- WestMinister’s Take On Future Of Afghanistan – Analysis
- Burma: New Doubts About Pace Of Reforms, Says HRW
- Obama Turns Focus On Middle-Class Jobs
- Pakistan: Who Is Pulling The Strings? – OpEd
- North Korea Launches Three Short-Range Missiles
- Obama Talks About How To Build A Rising, Thriving Middle Class – Transcript
- Thailand: Deliver Justice For 2010 Political Violence, Says HRW
- US Criticizes Russia On Missiles To Syria
- UN General Assembly Vote Reflects Shift In Syrian Public Opinion – OpEd
- Drone Pilots Expose Politicians’ Lies – OpEd
- Climate Change: Everest’s Ice Is Disappearing – OpEd
- Obama, Burma President Thein Sein To Discuss Reform Progress, Challenges
- Demonizing Mandy Patinkin Is A Tough Sell – OpEd
Posted: 18 May 2013 04:20 PM PDT
By
Amaani Lyle Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and the chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff Martin E. Dempsey said Friday the United States has an
ethical responsibility to assure the health and well-being of detainees
at the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where some have been on a
hunger strike for several months. [...]
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Posted: 18 May 2013 04:14 PM PDT
The
top U.S. military officer says Russian missile shipments to Syria are
“ill-timed” and “very unfortunate.” The remarks by General Martin
Dempsey were the first U.S. confirmation that Russia made the sale of
so-called ship-killer cruise missiles to Syria. Dempsey, the chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Friday the missiles will embolden
President [...]
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Posted: 18 May 2013 03:53 PM PDT
By
Vijay Sakhuja China’s long wait for a ‘permanent observer’ status in
the Arctic Council, a top-level intergovernmental regional body, is
finally over. At the Eighth Ministerial Meeting in Kiruna in Sweden, the
Arctic Council (five Nordic countries, Russia, Canada, and the US)
finally agreed to invite China, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea,
and Italy [...]
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Posted: 18 May 2013 03:41 PM PDT
By
R. Nastranis While scientists and environmentalists watch the Arctic as
a bellwether of global climate change, and nations and corporations
seek to exploit its oil, gas and mineral reserves as well as new
shipping routes, rapid and even abrupt changes occurring on multiple
fronts across the polar region are threatening to cause irreversible
impact [...]
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Posted: 18 May 2013 03:30 PM PDT
The
Philippines advised its nationals living in Taiwan to stay at home or
commute directly to and from work to avoid “hate assaults.” Amadeo Perez
Jr., head of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office in Taiwan, said
that “tension is high” after the shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by
the Philippine Coast Guard last week. [...]
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Posted: 18 May 2013 03:28 PM PDT
A
new study says that undocumented immigrants to the U.S. tend to be more
Christian than the general population, while new legal permanent
residents tend to be less Christian. The Pew Research Center estimated
that 83 percent of undocumented immigrants are Christian, with most
coming primarily from Latin America and the Caribbean. As of 2011, [...]
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Posted: 18 May 2013 03:23 PM PDT
(RFE/RL)
— Former Serbian and NBA basketball star Predrag Danilovic has been
stabbed and seriously injured in a bar fight. Danilovic was stabbed at a
cafe in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, early on May 18. Danilovic, 43,
was hospitalized with serious injuries to his head, arms, and abdomen.
Doctors said he was stable following surgery. [...]
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Posted: 18 May 2013 02:58 PM PDT
The
Prime Minister of China Li Keqiang who assumed office in March is
arriving in India from May 19 to 21 as part of his first round of
overseas visits after becoming Prime Minister. He also travels to
Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany. He clubbed his visits to India and
Pakistan on his way to Europe [...]
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Posted: 18 May 2013 02:56 PM PDT
By
Ramesh Ramachandran Energy rivalry took India and China first to
Central Asia and then to Africa. Now, they are scrambling for resources
and attendant benefits on the icy slopes of the Arctic. On 15 May 2013,
the two Asian giants were made observers in the Arctic Council, an
intergovernmental forum, to provide a means [...]
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Posted: 18 May 2013 02:53 PM PDT
Leftist
leader and lawmaker Javier Diez Canseco passed away on May 4 without
Congress having complied with the Supreme Court’s ruling that forces it
to reinstate him to his seat after having been unjustly suspended last
November. Diez Canseco, leader of the Socialist Party (PS), was elected
to Congress in 2011 through the Peru Wins [...]
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Posted: 18 May 2013 02:50 PM PDT
By
John Storey Over the past year, tensions between ethnic Chechens and
the Ingush of Russia’s North Caucasus region have increased
dramatically. The provocative de jure annexation of parts of Ingushetia,
Russia’s smallest republic, by Chechnya in February was soon topped in
audacity by an unexpected “visit” of 300 or so Chechen officials (many
of [...]
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Posted: 18 May 2013 02:47 PM PDT
I
received a postcard in yesterday’s mail. The first paragraph reads:
“The City of Tallahassee’s Office of Cross-Connection Control monitors
actual or potential backflow via cross connections with non-approved
water sources. We are committed to the quality of water delivered to our
customers, and your drinking water remains clean and free of
contaminants [sic]. Our [...]
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Posted: 18 May 2013 02:42 PM PDT
In
early May, BBVA Bank Paraguay presented its Latin American economic
growth outlook for 2013 and 2014, predicting the economies that will
lead global growth. BBVA estimates that the pace of global development
in 2013 will be 3.3 percent, only a tenth of the estimated growth in
2012. In 2014 it will reach rates close [...]
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Posted: 18 May 2013 02:39 PM PDT
Burma
Campaign UK has criticized the Burmese President Thein Sein for once
again using political prisoners’ releases as an image building exercise
before his official visit to the USA. The London based rights body
slammed Mr Sein for taking this decision just hours before leaving for
America, where he is scheduled to meet the US [...]
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Posted: 18 May 2013 02:34 PM PDT
By
Clive Hambidge Integrated Systems In Wikipedia we find this, concerning
an overview of the meaning ‘integrated systems’ “A system is an
aggregation of subsystems cooperating so that the system is able to
deliver the overarching functionality. System integration involves
integrating existing often disparate systems. System integration is also
about adding value to the system, [...]
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Posted: 18 May 2013 02:29 PM PDT
By
Jeremy Salt While all options are said to be still on the table,
Barack Obama is clearly backing away from any deeper involvement in
Syria now it is clear that nothing but direct intervention is going to
bring down the government in Damascus. In the past few months alone the
armed groups have lost [...]
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Posted: 18 May 2013 02:27 PM PDT
Introduction
In its recent report-“Securing the Future of Afghanistan,” the UK House
of Commons Defence Select Committee calls for measures to help
establish a “peaceful and functioning” Afghanistan. The report, which
pays tribute to the service and sacrifices of British troops, focuses on
an issue that is engaging most NATO/ ISAF countries at this moment
[...]
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Posted: 18 May 2013 02:23 PM PDT
The
United States should use the upcoming visit by Burma’s president to ask
tough questions about the slowing pace of human rights reforms and
insist on implementation of past commitments, Human Rights Watch said
today. President Barack Obama is hosting a visit to Washington, DC, by
Burma’s president Thein Sein on May 20-21, 2013. Six [...]
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Posted: 18 May 2013 02:22 PM PDT
U.S.
President Barack Obama says he is focusing on ways to help the American
middle class make economic gains, to bring them in line with the
economic recovery of big business. Obama said in his weekly address
Saturday that he has been visiting cities across the country that are
doing “interesting and creative” things to [...]
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Posted: 18 May 2013 02:19 PM PDT
PML-N
leader Shahbaz Sharif has warned the caretaker prime minister not to
make appointments to certain key posts at the behest of President Asif
Zardari. He reminded him to respect the people’s mandate as he was
legally, morally and politically obliged to respect this mandate and
warned of a stern stance if the caretakers did [...]
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Posted: 18 May 2013 02:08 PM PDT
South
Korea’s Ministry of Defense has detected three launches of short-range
guided missiles by North Korea, it said. Two launches were fired on
Saturday morning and another one in the afternoon, reports Yonhap news
agency. The missiles were fired from the east coast into the Sea of
Japan, the report says. They were likely shore-based [...]
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Posted: 18 May 2013 02:05 PM PDT
In
this week’s address, President Obama talked about his belief that a
rising, thriving middle class is the true engine of economic growth, and
that to reignite that engine and continue to build on the progress
we’ve made over the last four years, we need to invest in three areas:
jobs, skills and opportunity. Remarks [...]
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Posted: 17 May 2013 09:57 PM PDT
Three
years on, the Thai government has failed to fulfill its promise to
impartially prosecute all those responsible for the 2010 political
violence, Human Rights Watch said Friday. Amnesty legislation being
proposed by leading members of the ruling Pheu Thai Party would shield
perpetrators of serious abuses from accountability and should be
rejected. “Three years [...]
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Posted: 17 May 2013 09:55 PM PDT
(RFE/RL)
— The top U.S. military officer has denounced Russia for providing
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime with anti-ship missiles,
saying the weapons will only worsen the Syrian war. The comments by
General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, came
after “The New York Times” reported that Russia recently delivered a
shipment [...]
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Posted: 17 May 2013 09:23 PM PDT
It’s
not hard to find critics of the Assad government in the Governorate
(Muhafazat) of Homs or for that matter, to varying degrees in Syria’s
other thirteen Governorates according to Syrian analysts interviewed by
this observer and reports from human rights groups including lawyers
representing dissidents in Syria. However, after nearly 27 months of
turmoil, [...]
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Posted: 17 May 2013 08:57 PM PDT
By
David Swanson Our elected and unelected officials tell us that drone
strikes target top level enemies of the United States who are imminent
threats to us, and that killing innocent people is avoided altogether or
minimized. Congressional hearings, with a couple of excellent
exceptions, question outside academics about the legality of this
purported strategy. [...]
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Posted: 17 May 2013 08:47 PM PDT
By
Graham Land The glaciers of Mount Everest have lost 13% of their mass
during the past 50 years, according to a new study. Since the 1960s
smaller glaciers (less than one square kilometer) have shrunken by a
whopping 43%. Data beginning in the early 1990s also shows declines in
snowfall and a significant rise [...]
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Posted: 17 May 2013 08:41 PM PDT
By
Dan Robinson Burma’s President Thein Sein holds talks on Monday with
President Obama at the White House. The discussions will focus on
progress in reforms, barriers toward greater democratization and next
steps in the changing U.S. – Burma relationship. November 2012. Barack
Obama becomes the first serving U.S. president to visit Burma. He meets
[...]
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Posted: 17 May 2013 08:05 PM PDT
By
Annie Robbins Mandy Patinkin is to receive an award from the American
friends of an Israeli medical center at their gala at the Harvard Club
in New York next month, and the award is rankling the right guard. The
Jewish Press– the same Jewish Press that published Lori Lowenthal
Marcus’s bizarre rant about Dustin [...]
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