More than 300 people were reportedly killed in airstrike near a bakery in the town of Halfaya in the central Syrian province of Hama. “There is no way to really know yet how many people were killed. When I got there, I could see piles of bodies all over the ground. There were women and [...]
Syria: Reports Of Hundreds Killed And Injured In Air Strike
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Macedonia: Illegal Fishing Ring Broken Up
By Miki Trajkovski A number of Lake Ohrid police force members were arrested on charges of organising and participating in an illegal fishing ring earlier this month, the first anti-corruption action in which a senior police official was arrested. Lake Ohrid Police Commander Dario Kleckaroski, who is responsible for protecting the lake from criminal activity, [...]
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Ansar Al-Din, MNLA Sign Deal In Algiers
By Hayam El Hadi Two Malian rebel groups on Friday (November 21st) said they were committed to suspending hostilities and holding peace talks, despite condemning the UN’s approval of plans for an African-led intervention to reconquer the country’s Islamist-held north, AFP reported. Ansar al-Din and the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) signed [...]
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Moderate Quake Strikes Off Coast Of Georgia
(Civil.Ge) — 5.7- magnitude earthquake hit in the Black Sea more than 30-km from the Georgian coast at about 5:31pm local time, according to the Georgian Seismic Monitoring Center (GSMC). Tremors were also felt in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, more than 300 kilometers away from the Black Sea coast. Tremors were also felt in the [...]
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Chavez Condition More Stable – Vice President
The health of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been stabilizing in recent days as he recuperates at a clinic in Havana from a fourth operation to remove cancerous tissue, the Venezuelan vice president said on Saturday. Vice-President and Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro, whom Chavez named as his possible successor before the operation, said the president [...]
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Pakistan: State Minister’s Killing Dampens Holiday Spirit
The Christian community in Peshawar has expressed grief over the killing of a provincial minister in a Taliban suicide attack yesterday and has warned churches to curb planned Christmas activities. Senior Minister Bashir Ahmad Bilour, 69, of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province was killed on Saturday along with eight others by a suicide bomber. Eighteen others were [...]
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Torture, Torture Everywhere – OpEd
For those of us who have been arguing for years that senior officials and lawyers in the Bush administration must be held accountable for the torture program they introduced and used in their “war on terror,” last week was a very interesting week indeed, as developments took place in Strasbourg, in London and in Washington [...]
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Argentina: The Political War Behind The Media Law
By Jenny Manrique For almost a year, the Argentine people have attended to a judicial and media battle that is being fought on the podium, in the streets, and of course, in the media, because of the enforcement of the Law on Audiovisual Communication Services, promulgated in 2009, and on which President Cristina Fernández de [...]
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North Korea Develops Missiles Capable Of Reaching US, Claims South Korea
Pyongyang is developing missiles capable of reaching the US, South Korean officials have claimed. The allegations came as North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un called for the development of more powerful rockets after the successful launch of a satellite. The North’s launch of a three-stage Unha-3 rocket on December 12 prompted numerous allegations that the event [...]
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Russia-India Summit’s Agenda – OpEd
By Anna Forostenko Vladimir Putin will travel to New Delhi on December 24 for an official visit expected to focus strategic partnership, trade, investment, and military-technological cooperation. This year marks the 65th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Immense progress has been made over the past six-and-a-half decades. In 2012, [...]
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Warfare Accountability: Impact Of Transnational Politics – Analysis
War is conducted in an environment in which activists regularly launch public advocacy campaigns of naming and shaming in order to pressure the belligerents. Yet, the targeted actors can challenge the facts and interpretations and turn the table on them. This may, however, prove politically costly to the belligerents in the longer term. By Pascal [...]
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Between Developmentalism And Populism: Walking A Tightrope In Southeast Asia – Analysis
Southeast Asian economies remain resilient to weak global growth primarily due to buoyant domestic consumption backed by strong government spending. Given the scarce resources of governments, they have to strike a balance between populist measures and fiscal discipline. By Julius Cesar I. Trajano DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION, primarily fuelled by household and government spending, currently serves as [...]
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Fast Tracking Regional Integration Through Georgian-Russian Railway Link- Analysis
By Ian F. Carver In a recent poll conducted in Georgia by the National Democratic Institute, 68 percent of respondents expressed their approval of a Georgian pledge to reestablish their country’s railway link with Russia via the breakaway region of Abkhazia1. With the smoke now clearing in post-election Georgia, barriers to regional integration are slowly [...]
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Counterinsurgency In India: Lessons From The Punjabi Insurgency – Interview
By Sergei DeSilva-Ranasinghe As one of the most lethal insurgencies in post-independence India, the Sikh uprising in the Punjab during the 1980s through to the early 1990s, is one of the key counterinsurgency victories in South Asia, and arguably one of the more important counterinsurgency case studies since the end of World War II. Former [...]
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Pitched Battles: The Role Of Ultra Soccer Fans In The Arab Spring – Analysis
For decades soccer has constituted an alternative public space in the Middle East. Largely unnoticed by international experts, soccer provided a venue for the expression of pent-up anger and frustration against authoritarianism. By the time the Arab revolt erupted in December 2010, soccer had emerged as a key nonreligious, nongovernmental institution capable of confronting repressive [...]
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Unfinished Business: Islamist Terrorism Threat In “Post-Peace” Mindanao – Analysis
The neutralisation of a Malaysian bomb plotter linked to the Jemaah Islamiyah in Davao underscores the latent threat posed by Islamist extremists in the southern Philippines, despite the recent signing of a framework agreement between the Philippines Government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). By Joseph Franco On 14 December 2012, Philippine law [...]
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Top Iranian University Among New Sanction Targets
The EU has imposed sanctions on Iran’s top institution of technology, Sanati Sharif University in Tehran. Sanati Sharif University is among the 18 new institutions and companies sanctioned by the European Union. According to AFP, Sanati Sharif was put under sanctions due to suspicions that it is involved in Iran’s atomic program. The EU announced [...]
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165 Flood Warnings Issued In England, Wales
Flooding and heavy rain are continuing to cause problems in south-west England and parts of Wales and Scotland, BBC News reported. Overnight, a woman was found clinging to a tree after she was swept away from her car near Barnstaple, north Devon. One severe flood warning remains in Cornwall, and there are about 165 flood [...]
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Iran Condemns UN New Resolution
Iran has strongly condemned a recent resolution by the UN General Assembly on the situation of human rights in the country, saying it has been adopted by the world’s major rights violators. “Unfortunately and in line with a trend established over the past few years, a number of Western countries led by Canada and the [...]
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US On Arunachal – Analysis
By C. Raja Mohan As territorial disputes between China and its neighbours acquire a sharper edge, how America talks about them becomes an important part of the unfolding geopolitical dynamic in Asia. In the East and South China Seas, which have become the new theatres of regional rivalry, Washington has carefully avoided backing the territorial [...]
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