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NATO Agrees On Locaction Of Patriot Missile Deployments In Turkey

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The three NATO Allies which have agreed to provide Patriot missiles to augment Turkey’s air defences – Germany, the Netherlands and the United States – have agreed on the locations where the batteries will be deployed, according to a statement released by NATO. According to NATO, the location was decided jointly with Turkey as the [...]

Omanis Line Up To Cast Their Votes In Municipal Elections

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The voters in Oman responded with unexpected enthusiasm for the first Municipal Council elections on Saturday. “Voters lined up to exercise their franchise even before the centre opened at 7am,” Abdul Majid Al Hooti, a returning officer, told Gulf News amidst constant flow of voters lining up at the Jaber Bin Zaid School for Muttrah [...]

Tajikistan: Diar Dushanbe A Symbol Of Qatar’s Desired Future Outlook – Analysis

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The recent opening of a visitor centre by Qatari Diar in Tajikistan’s capital, Dushanbe, is a further sign of Qatar’s desire to diversify it’s economy and use it’s economic wealth to increase it’s global clout. Wholly controlled by the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Qatari Diar opened the centre in December. The visitor centre is the [...]

Is Yamouk Headed For The Same Fate As Nahr Al Bared? – OpEd

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Some Palestinian here in Damascus, from the Palestinian writers union with whom this observer has been meeting, including independent researcher Hamad Said Al-Mawed, are saying so. Admittedly there are some similarities between the two camps fate. Both among the ‘better’ of the 57 Palestinian refugee camps in the hosting countries, of Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, the [...]

Mullaititivu Tamils: The Real Ambassadors Of Reconciliation‏ – OpEd

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By Shenali Waduge The Mullaitivu district was the preferred home, training and hiding base of the LTTE leader for over 3 decades. It was also where the LTTE met its Waterloo. 30 years of absolutely no changes despite a host of foreign NGO/UN presence has seen remarkable changes in just 3 years something people need [...]

Tibetans Jailed For Political Offenses Suffer Abuse At Chinese Prison Near Lhasa

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Tibetan political prisoners held at a facility outside the regional capital Lhasa are routinely subjected to torture and other forms of abuse, often leading to physical harm from which they do not recover, a recently released prisoner said. Harsh treatment is common at the Chushur Prison, located about 48 kilometers (30 miles) southwest of Lhasa, [...]

Mind Control: The CIA’s Experiments On Involuntary Human Subjects – OpEd

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On September 16, 2001, Dick Cheney warned that in order to deal with the terrorism threat: “We have to work the dark side, if you will. Spend time in the shadows of the intelligence world.” It was as though the CIA was being directed to venture into unfamiliar territory. An ABC News report broadcast in [...]

Syria Bags Pyrrhus Victory On The Soccer Pitch – Analysis

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Supporters of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad portrayed this weekend’s winning of the West Asian soccer championship by defeating Iraq as a unifying, national achievement against all odds. Yet, Syria’s success 22 months into an increasingly brutal civil war hardly constitutes the equivalent of Iraq’s winning of the Asian Cup in 2007 at the peak of [...]

Bedford Falls Or Pottersville? – OpEd

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Every year about now I watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” again to remind myself what Frank Capra understood about America — its essential decency and common sense. In many ways the nation is better than it was in 1946 when the movie first appeared. Women have gained economic power and reproductive rights; we enacted Civil [...]

Candlelight Vigil Held For India Gang Rape Victim

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Protesters in India’s capital have held a candlelight vigil Saturday for a 23-year-old female student who was gang raped. Earlier in the day, thousands marched in New Delhi shouting “we want justice” as police struggled to control the crowd, using tear gas and water cannon. Demonstrators demanded the death penalty for the six men arrested [...]

US Department Of Defense Says Sexual Assault Reporting Up At Service Academies

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By Claudette Roulo Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta called for “a strong and immediate response,” after a Defense Department report released today indicated that sexual harassment and assault remain persistent problems at the nation’s military academies. Army Maj. Gen. Gary S. Patton, the director of DOD’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, told reporters the [...]

FBI Questions Tunisian Man Over Benghazi Consulate Attack

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A Tunisian man has been questioned by the FBI in connection with the September 11 bombing of the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed four diplomats. After months of failed attempts, he was examined as a “witness” – without legal counsel. ­Ali Harzi was extradited to Tunisia after being arrested in Turkey in October, [...]

Peru And Chile: The Mournful 19th Century Fate Of Peru’s Doughty Huascar Amidst Its Current Maritime Dispute With Chile – Analysis

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By Larry Birns In January 2008, Peru called Chile before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague in order to resolve a maritime dispute between the two countries. Both belligerents, dispute the exact metrics of the current maritime border that for decades has embittered relations between both countries; the area of the maritime [...]

Syria: 200 Assad Soldiers Guarding Damascus Airport Defect

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At least 200 members of a Syrian regime force deployed to protect Damascus’ international airport have defected as clashes broke out near the presidential palace in the capital, a member of the opposition military told Al Arabiya channel yesterday. The Free Syrian Army said clashes continued through yesterday morning at the airport road, adding that [...]

Our Fear Of Criticizing The Brotherhood – OpEd

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By Abdulrahman Al-Rashed Since their rise to power, the Brotherhood in Egypt has become the holy cow that many refrain from criticizing for fear of attacking Islam. This type of rule will not be accepted, for the Brotherhood is a political party with rights and obligations just as the other parties. The protectors of the [...]

Close Kyrgyzstan-Turkey Ties Stall And Sputter – Analysis

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By Bernhard Schell Kyrgyz President Almazbek Sharshenovich Atambayev and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are leaving no stone unturned to intensify and deepen cultural, political, economic and military relations between the two countries based on vision of a Turkic peoples’ identity. But both at home and abroad they do not always come across undiluted [...]

Ireland’s EU Term Presidency: Turkish Restart For More Chapters – Analysis

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By Vildan Özkan Ireland will take over the next half-year term presidency of the Council of European Union which has already brought about a wide-range of discussions and optimistic commentaries with respect to Turkey’s recently stagnant relations with EU. A good majority of people from the Turkish side take this as good news, a positive [...]

White House Web Petition Calls For US Blacklisting Of Russian Lawmakers

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Over 35,000 people have signed a petition on the White House website urging the enactment of the Magnitsky Act. This would blacklist a majority of Russia’s parliamentarians, who supported a new law banning US citizens from adopting Russian children. The petition called on the Obama administration to “identify those involved in adopting such legislature responsible [...]

Syrian Opposition In Damascus Surrenders

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Swarms of Syrian militants are surrendering to the government troops around Damascus, local media reports. Over the last 72 hours regular army units delivered powerful blows on the militants in several places to the south-east of Damascus and put them to flight. Meanwhile, the media report with reference to the Syrian opposition that a bakery [...]

Gun Control: An Incomplete Answer For A Desensitized Society – OpEd

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It takes a horrific event, one close to home and which affect people we identify with, to give us a momentary shock capable of re-sensitizing us; taking us, at least in the short term, from a state of indifference to one of genuine concern. This December 14, the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in [...]
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