On Monday, the Iraqi people experienced an upsurge in terrorist attacks including 10 car bomb attacks that targeted both Muslim and Christian civilians, as well as members of the Iraqi police and military forces, according to Law Enforcement Examiner’s Israeli counterterrorism source. “The Iraqi people are drowning in terrorist attacks and there appears no end [...]
Iraq ‘Drowning’ In Terrorist Attacks, Say Counterterrorists
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Violence In Connecticut: Why? – OpEd
By Robert J. Burrowes The tragic shootings in Connecticut again raise the perennial question ‘Why are human beings violent?’ Are we genetically programmed to be violent? Is violence socially learned? Or are some individuals just ‘psychotic’? Perhaps the most important question is this: Can we do anything to end human violence? Because of the death [...]
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Allama Iqbal’s Vision Of Khudi (The Self) -The Pristine Glory Of Man: A Conceptual Outline – Speech
Tilismi bood wa adm,naam hai jiska Adam Khuda ka raaz hai,qadir nhi hai jis pe sukhan” . (The talisman wrought from mud and clay, whom we give the name of man, is mystery known to God Alone, its essence true we cannot scan). Esteemed Chair Prof. Margoob Banhali, Eminent Iqbalian Scholars-Prof. Ubaid ur Rehman Hashmi, [...]
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Sri Lanka: What Reconciliation If The “Learned” Mourn Terrorists As Martyrs? – OpEd
By Shenali Waduge The world would have been a better place but for a handful of people who are directly or indirectly responsible for the state of anarchy and disunity throughout the world. They do not function in isolation and if people were to open their eyes and spend some time to find the truth [...]
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SAMs For Uncle Sam – Book Excerpt
By William T. Hathaway Merna al-Marjan is a young Iraqi who is currently in Germany studying European history. We talked in her dormitory room, a spartan but functional cubicle in a building that embodies a hopeful change in European history: it was constructed in the nineteenth century as an army barracks but now houses university [...]
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Commissioner Štefan Füle Comments After Cooperation Council With Georgia – Transcript
By Commissioner Štefan Füle Let me echo Minister Kozakou-Marcoullis in welcoming our Georgian friends to Brussels today. Our meeting comes only three weeks after High Representative Ashton visited Georgia, and only a month ago Prime Minister Ivanishvili and President Saakashvili were in Brussels. A few weeks before that, I was myself in Georgia. So this [...]
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Stop Overfishing: Fisheries Committee Approves Major Reform For “Blue Europe”
The EU’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) needs radical reform to cut fishing to sustainable stock levels, end discards, and use better long-term planning based on reliable scientific data, said Fisheries Committee MEPs on Tuesday. Overfishing is widely seen as the worst failure of the current CFP, dating from 2002. The new one is to take [...]
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EU To Join With World Bank To Develop Water And Energy In Central Asia
EU Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs, announced a grant to the World Bank Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) in support of water and energy in Central Asia. The signing of the contribution agreement will take place during a meeting with Philippe Le Houérou, Vice President of the World Bank. During the meeting the Commissioner and [...]
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EU Assistance To Boost Montenegro’s Reforms In Accession Process
The EU has earmarked EUR 21.3 million to support Montenegro on its way towards the EU accession. The funds will focus on key reform areas, including strengthening of the justice system and public administration, better protection of the environment, and rural development. They will also further help align Montenegrin laws to EU standards in such [...]
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UBS Authorizes Settlements Of LIBOR-Related Claims With US And UK Authorities
Swiss bank UBS will pay around $1.5 billion in an agreement where it admitted that it tried to manipulate interest rates. UBS announced Tuesday that its Board of Directors has authorized settlements with the US Department of Justice and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in connection with their investigations of benchmark interest rates. The proposed [...]
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North Korea’s Rocket Launch: Opportunity For Regional Cooperation? – Analysis
North Korea’s rocket launch could be an opportunity for regional cooperation in Northeast Asia despite ongoing territorial disputes. However will the opportunity be lost amid the leadership transitions in China, Japan and South Korea? By Sarah Teo On December 12, North Korea successfully launched a rocket to put a working satellite in orbit. According to [...]
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After School Shooting, Obama To Address Gun Violence
Prompted by last week’s Connecticut school shooting which killed 26 people, U.S. President Barack Obama will, on Wednesday, outline a process for formulating policies to address gun violence. The effort is expected to be led by Vice President Joe Biden. White House aides say the president is not expected to call for specific measures. On [...]
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Eastern Congo: The ADF-Nalu’s Lost Rebellion
The fight against entrenched armed groups in eastern Congo such as the ADF-Nalu needs to switch from a military to an intelligence-based approach. Eastern Congo: The ADF-Nalu’s Lost Rebellion, the latest briefing from the International Crisis Group, examines how the Allied Democratic Forces-National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (ADF-Nalu), a Congolese-Ugandan armed group, shows [...]
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Israel-Palestine Stalemate: Old Models For Conflict Resolution No Longer Realistic – Analysis
Middle East Conflicts, all linked to one another, are getting out of hand and becoming resistant to any external mediation. The United States is seemingly displaying a new-found interest in resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict after the failed attempt of 2009. President Obama seems to be behind these efforts, as he certainly would like to leave [...]
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Crystal Meth: The Evil Face Of Drugs – OpEd
By Chrissy Burns Recent, shocking anti-drugs advertisements show the devastating and irreparable effects of a drug called Crystal Meth, a highly addictive and damaging illegal substance. The pictures pull no punches in their approach to getting across just how severely this substance affects people and have been produced in such a way as to show the effects [...]
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The Problem Of Gun Control – OpEd
When something is considered natural, it is bound to have been fictionalised to begin with. The debate on gun control in the United States is a case in point, the flipside of a fictionalised form of American exceptionalism. Gun control, according to such opponents as Steve Dulan, is not a viable proposition in the United [...]
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UN Launches Desperate Bid For Syrian Refugee Funds
The United Nations has appealed for $1.5 billion to provide aid for those affected by the Syrian conflict. The two appeals, launched on Wednesday, are designed to help over one million people who have fled their homes to escape the 21 month uprising. Refugees are currently in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt. A UNHCR [...]
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Iran: MP Calls For Apologies In Beheshti Case
Ali Motahari, an Iranian conservative MP, has called on the Interior Minister and the head of the security forces to “apologize to the family of Sattar Beheshti, the people and the leader of Iran” for the blogger who died in custody a few days after his arrest by cuber police. Motahari told the Khaneh Mellat [...]
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South Korea Elects First Female President, Daughter Of Ex-Dictator
South Korea has elected its first female president in a clear victory for conservative Park Geun-Hye, the daughter of the country’s former dictator. With more than 70 percent of votes counted so far, the 60-year old Park took almost 52 percent, over 48 percent for her left-wing rival, human rights lawyer Moon Jae-in. Though an [...]
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Stability At Stake In West Africa – OpEd
‘Many of us may not be able to point to Mali on a map,’ began National Public Radio show host Neal Conan last Thursday, “but this landlocked nation in West Africa has emerged as a crisis.” The buzzword is, of course, Al Qaeda. Although it is the least urgent component of the current Malian turmoil, [...]
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