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- Sustaining War On Terrorism: Singapore’s International Counterterrorism Cooperation – Analysis
- Who Cares For A Voiceless Minority In Myanmar? – OpEd
- Critical Times For Algeria – Analysis
- China And The US: Fifth Strategic And Economic Dialogue – Analysis
- Doha Dialogue, Obama’s Zero And The Afghan Future: Advantage Taliban – Analysis
- US House Votes Down Attempt To Halt NSA Surveillance Program
- Is Obama Committing Treason? – OpEd
- Pope Francis Embraces, Voices Love For Drug Addicts At Rio Hospital
- World Bank Should Emphasize Public Participation In Turkmenistan, Says HRW
- New Apple Products Expected In September
- Refresh To Google Nexus 7 Series Officially Announced
- Facebook Shares Soar 18% Amid Strong Mobile Ad Sales
- India-Bangladesh Relations: Can Be More Than Bilateral – Analysis
- Kachchatheevu: Political Opportunism To The Fore – Analysis
- The Post-Racial President’s Profiling: DWW (Defending While White) – OpEd
- Armed Forces In Kashmir: Saviours Or Killers? – OpEd
- Copperhead – OpEd
- Pakistan: PPL Announces Gas And Condensate Discovery
- Egypt: What Now? – OpEd
- Why Trillion-Dollar Annual Deficits May Only Go Away Temporarily – OpEd
- Livni Squeals, Kerry Deals And The EU Picks Up The Tab – OpEd
- Immutable Egypt: Gaza Bonds – OpEd
- Is The ACA A Jobs Killer? – OpEd
- Time To Decide: Concentrated, Privatized Wealth Or Shared Prosperity And Economic Democracy – OpEd
- Montenegro’s First Gay Pride March Attacked
- Morocco-Senegal: Pragmatism And Economic Diplomacy – OpEd
- Russia’s Military Response To The Asia Pivot: Flexing Small Muscles – Analysis
- Hezbollah Official To Meet With EU
- ArcelorMittal Automotive Joint Venture VAMA Unveils Brand In China
- What Slavery Cost – OpEd
Posted: 25 Jul 2013 12:15 AM PDT
In
the fight against terrorism, Singapore has cooperated and collaborated
with its regional and international counterparts to deter and disrupt
terrorist networks. Since September 11, 2001, Singapore’s military, law
enforcement, and security and intelligence services have provided
steadfast assistance and advice to their counterparts in the region and
beyond. By Rohan Gunaratna Singapore has been [...]
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Posted: 25 Jul 2013 12:07 AM PDT
By
Aijaz Zaka Syed The United States says it’s concerned over the growing
Islamophobia around the world. In its annual report on the state of
political and religious freedom around the world, the State Department
has denounced a sharp spike in anti-Muslim sentiment and violence:
“Government restrictions, which often coincided with societal animosity,
resulted in [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 11:59 PM PDT
By
Emily Boulter Over a two-month period Algerian president Abdelaziz
Bouteflika vanished from the country’s political scene. He was reported
to have suffered a mild stroke and travelled to France in order to
receive medical care. His absence sparked rumors that the 76-year-old
president had either passed way or was in a coma. There were [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 11:54 PM PDT
By
Teshu Singh The fifth annual China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue
(S&ED) was held in Washington D.C on 10-11 July 2013. Notably, the
groundwork for the meeting was already done during the Xi-Obama meeting
and further cemented by an article written by Yang Jiechi (Chinese State
Councillor) in Washington Post titled, “US China can forge [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 11:52 PM PDT
By
D Suba Chandran Obama has floated another Zero Option (remember the
earlier Prague speech on global nuclear disarmament that won him the
Nobel?), this time on the number of American troops to stay in
Afghanistan after 2014. This statement, whether bluff or threat, follows
Karzai’s angry remarks and Afghanistan’s official protest against the
dialogue [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 11:33 PM PDT
By
Cindy Saine The U.S. House of Representatives has narrowly defeated an
amendment that would have ended a National Security Agency surveillance
program that collects hundreds of millions of Americans’ phone records.
The vote turned into a clash between President Barack Obama and
Democratic and Republican national security leaders in Congress on one
side, who [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 11:30 PM PDT
I
have been trying to remember a president that someone did not want to
impeach. An effort was made to impeach Andrew Johnson but failed by one
vote. Nixon resigned when he was informed that he would face impeachment
for the Watergate scandal. Bill Clinton faced impeachment, but even
Republicans did not want to vote [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 11:28 PM PDT
At
a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Pope Francis said his namesake St.
Francis of Assisi put his conversion into action when he embraced a man
with leprosy, saying this is a model for the life of a Christian. “This
brother, suffering and an outcast, was the ‘mediator of light … for
Saint Francis of [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 11:26 PM PDT
The
World Bank should urge the Turkmen government to make a commitment to
governance reforms before it moves to normalize relations with
Turkmenistan, Human Rights Watch and Crude Accountability said today.
The bank’s board of directors is scheduled to consider a reengagement
strategy for Turkmenistan on July 25, 2013. Turkmenistan is one of the
most [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 11:25 PM PDT
Tim
Cook says Apple has some great stuff coming “in the fall, and across
all of 2014” and the company’s latest earnings guidance may offer a
clue, AllThingsD reports. For its fourth quarter, Apple said it expects
revenue of $34 billion to $37 billion with gross margins of 36 percent
to 37 percent. And according [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 11:23 PM PDT
The
much-awaited refresh to the Google Nexus 7 series has finally been
officially announced, Neowin reports. Having been leaked previously over
and over, the specs confirm what most already know. Featuring a 7-inch
HD screen with a 1920 x 1200 resolution (323 ppi), the device also packs
an Adreno 320 GPU, a 1.5GHz snapdragon processor, [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 11:21 PM PDT
Shares
in Facebook have leapt 18% as it beats earnings expectations with
stronger than expected mobile ad sales, BBC News reports. The company
reported profits of $333m in the second quarter. “The work we’ve done to
make mobile the best Facebook experience is showing good results and
provides us with a solid foundation for the [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 11:19 PM PDT
By
Bhaskar Roy Bangladesh Foreign Minister Ms. Dipy Moni will be in New
Delhi on July 25, 2013 on a three day visit. It is expected to be a
preparatory one paving the way for Prime Minister Sk. Hasina’s official
visit in August at the invitation of the Indian Prime Minister, Dr.
Manmohan Singh. Ms. [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 11:17 PM PDT
By
Prof. V. Suryanarayan Thirty nine years have elapsed since the signing
of the India-Sri Lanka Maritime Boundary Agreement, 1974, which
delimited the maritime boundary in the Palk Bay. As a consequence of
delimitation the island of Kachchatheevu was gifted to Sri Lanka. The
tiny island was a part of the Zamindari of the Raja [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 11:16 PM PDT
What
would it have taken for the jury that acquitted George Zimmerman to
find him guilty? Well, try this on for size: imagine that instead of
emerging from his encounter with Trayvon Martin bloodied with a broken
nose, he didn’t have a scratch on him. Imagine he had also admitted he
confronted Martin with gun [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 10:57 PM PDT
My
teacher says, “A soldier who thinks that he is designed to kill in
today’s fourth generation war (4GW) makes a poor professional”. The
incessant blunders by armed forces in Kashmir or Northeast India reveal
the non-professional approach of Indian soldiers/policemen. It
goes without saying that, soldiering/policing today is not just
neutralising the enemy, but encompasses [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 10:48 PM PDT
Copperhead
was a name for Northern Democrats opposed to the Civil War. Now it’s
also the name of a remarkable new film: CopperheadTheMovie.com. This is
not the first film about a family opposed to the Civil War. Many will
probably recall the 1965 film Shenandoah starring Jimmy Stewart. But
Copperhead is the one to see. [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 10:46 PM PDT
Pakistan
Petroleum Limited (PPL) on Monday announced discovery of condensate and
gas reserves in Sanghar District of Sindh, just a month after finding
petroleum reserves in the same area in another well. This is the fourth
significant announcement by PPL since June. Discoveries in quick
succession are the result of PPL’s aggressive exploration policy it
[...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 10:44 PM PDT
In
the wake of the military coup of July 3rd 2013, the question that is on
the lips of many people is what is going to happen now in Egypt? How
will the situation evolve? What is the future of the 80 million people
who live in that ancient land? It would be hazardous to [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 10:37 PM PDT
By Michael
Lombardi Politicians and the mainstream will certainly love this… Last
week, Moody’s Investors Service changed its outlook on the U.S. national
debt from negative to stable. (Source: Reuters, July 18, 2013.) Despite
the credit reporting agency’s “upgrade” on U.S. national debt, my
opinion remains the same: the U.S. national debt has taken on a life of
[...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 10:33 PM PDT
It
was reportedly a hectic and intense past weekend in Washington and
London according to an emailed report from a Capitol Hill source, as the
Obama and Cameron administrations tracked down and button-holed the
leaders of the 28 European Union delegations gathering in Brussels to
finally vote on whether Hezbollah’s ‘military wing’ should be
sanctioned, [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 10:30 PM PDT
Gaza
will remain a matter of national security for Egypt. And regardless of
who is in charge in Gaza, Egypt will also remain a strategic asset for
Gaza, a lifeline for its people, and a mainstay of its peace and
stability. These are the irreversible facts of the ties between Egypt
and Gaza. In other [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 10:27 PM PDT
Opponents
of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 have claimed the bill is
having a negative impact on employment. In doing so, they argue that the
sanctions to be applied under the bill to firms who do not provide
insurance to their full-time workers are causing employers to change
their hiring patterns. One claim [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 10:23 PM PDT
By
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers One of the major conflicts of the era
that is not often highlighted for public debate is whether we want an
economy that privatizes government services and public resources and
continues to concentrate wealth; or whether we want to develop an
economic democracy that invests in the public interest [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 10:21 PM PDT
Montenegro’s
first Gay Pride march went ahead in the coastal town of Budva despite
attacks by anti-gay protesters who threw stones and bottles. The
country’s inaugural gay rights parade, named Seaside Pride, was attended
by an estimated 120 people on Wednesday in Budva. The parade went ahead
for around 20 minutes after delays caused by [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 10:19 PM PDT
From
July 25 to July 27, Macky Sall, president of Senegal, will begin an
official state visit to Morocco and will be received by King Mohammed VI
in Casablanca. This visit comes four months and ten days after the
March 15 visit that the King made to Dakar. It was the first visit by
the [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 10:14 PM PDT
On
July 12, during a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Defense
Minister Army-General Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s commander-in-chief ordered
a “surprise inspection” of combat forces in the country’s Far East. In
the early hours of July 13, according to the defense ministry website, a
“snap military exercise” commenced, described as the largest military
exercise in [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 10:11 PM PDT
Hezbollah
official Ammar Moussawi will meet with the European Union
representative in Lebanon, a statement from Hezbollah’s press office
said Wednesday, after the EU listed the party’s military wing as a
terrorist organization. Moussawi, who heads Hezbollah’s international
relations department, will meet with Ambassador Angelina Eichhorst
Thursday at 3:00 p.m. in the Beirut’s southern suburb [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 10:09 PM PDT
Valin
ArcelorMittal Automotive Steel Co., Ltd. (VAMA), the joint venture
between ArcelorMittal and Valin Steel, officially unveiled its brand
today in Loudi, China. Mr. Wang Jun, chairman of VAMA, and Sanjay
Sharma, CEO of VAMA, attended the ceremony and presented VAMA’s brand
strategy. The VAMA brand, symbolised by its new logo, represents the
unity between [...]
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Posted: 24 Jul 2013 10:04 PM PDT
As
I head off to a rally for Trayvon Martin, I notice a column by Bob
Koehler in which he says the unpaid work of slaves in the United States
is now estimated at $1.4 trillion. Oddly, that’s not terribly far from
the $1.2 trillion or so, possibly more now, that we spend each year
[...]
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