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Economic Survey Reveals Iran’s Slowdown

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Iranian Parliament’s research centre has announced that a survey of 98 economic organizations from across the country reveals that production at these organizations has fallen by 40 percent in the past year. The 40-percent drop is accompanied by a 36-percent increase in job losses in the same period. The report adds that the prices of [...]

Mursi Treads A Difficult Path – OpEd

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By Osama Al Sharif EGYPT’S contentious constitution was approved this week following a two-phase referendum with over 60 percent of those participating voting “yes”. It was a valuable victory for the Islamists who saw the poll as a vote of confidence for President Muhammad Mursi. But that victory came at a heavy price for a [...]

EU High Representative Catherine Ashton On Referendum In Egypt – Statement

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The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice- President of the Commission Catherine Ashton issued the following statement today: ***** I have followed very closely the holding of the referendum on the draft Constitution on 15 and 22 December in Egypt. I welcome the peaceful and orderly environment [...]

Terror Lurking In A Christmas Tree? Israel Tries To Ban Non-Jewish Celebrations – OpEd

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By Jonathan Cook Israel’s large Palestinian minority is often spoken of in terms of the threat it poses to the Jewish majority. Palestinian citizens’ reproductive rate constitutes a “demographic timebomb”, while their main political programme – Israel’s reform into “a state of all its citizens” – is proof for most Israeli Jews that their compatriots [...]

Russia-India Strategic Partnership 2012: Contextual Imperatives For Enhancement – Analysis

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By Dr. Subhash Kapila “India is one of our strategic privileged partner …. and speaking from the point of view of geographical representation …. India is number one”. — President Putin, December 2004 “The Declaration of Strategic Partnership between India and Russia signed in October 2000 became a truly historic step. The developments of the [...]

Algeria Prepares For ‘Guerrilla’ Warfare

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By Walid Ramzi The Algerian military is running combat simulation exercises on rocky terrain, ahead of possible confrontations against armed Islamists and terrorist brigades from northern Mali. Since al-Qaeda and the Movement for Tawhid and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) are well-armed with weapons smuggled from Libya and stolen from within Mali, the Algerian army [...]

Bangladesh Firm On Pakistan Apology – Analysis

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By Rajeev Sharma It was a five-hour visit to Dhaka but it was long enough to bring Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar face-to-face with a reality that she and her countrymen have long tried to gloss over but the people of Bangladesh have not. Her host, foreign minister Dipu Moni surprised her by bringing [...]

Could Bangladesh Politics End In Chaos? – Analysis

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By Kazi Anwarul Masud Situation in Bangladesh is moving towards an explosion due in part to violence let loose by the Jamaat-e-Islami demanding the release of their leaders now being tried for crimes against humanity committed during the liberation war in 1971 in collaboration with the occupying Pakistani army. While the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party(BNP) [...]

The Amazingly Popular Bush Tax Cuts – OpEd

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As we prepare to go off the edge of the fiscal cliff (no big deal, I argue here), one thing all parties agree on, amazingly enough, is that they want to keep the Bush tax cuts. These are the tax cuts the Democrats have vilified, and President Obama campaigned against. Now, everyone wants them to [...]

Burma: Arakanese Party Warned Over Inflammatory Pictures

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By Hanna Hindstrom The government has threatened legal action against the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party (RNDP) for publishing pictures of the woman whose rape and murder sparked sectarian violence in June, according to a report by the Narinjara news journal. The Union Election Commission summoned RNDP leaders to Naypidaw on Monday and demanded an explanation [...]

Iran: Khamenei Directly Responsible For House Arrest Of Opposition Leaders, Says Police Chief

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is personally responsible for ordering the house arrest of opposition leaders, says the country’s Police Chief. In an interview with the ultra-conservative newspaper Keyhan, Commander Esmail Ahmadi Moghaddam said that during the unrest that rocked Iran following the 2009 presidential election, security officials presented Khamenei with a list of forty [...]

“Les Miserables,”“Django Unchained” Top Christmas Box-Office

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“Les Miserables” stormed the Christmas Day box office Tuesday, December 25 taking in an eye-popping $18.1 million on its first day of release. And Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” wasn’t far behind, debuting to $15 million, TheWrap said. Universal’s star-studded musical and the Weinstein Company’s R-rated slave-era Western posted the second- and third-best Christmas openings ever. [...]

Synthetic Drugs: A New Chinese Threat? – OpEd

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By Yelena Kovachich Far Eastern customs officers and policemen sealed off a large synthetic drugs channel from China into Russia. The illegal substances were shipped inside international postal packages. The drug traffic channel was discovered after a Vladivostok resident was detained while trying to collect at the post office a package from Shanghai, which contained [...]

Russia’s Federation Council Approves Adoption Ban

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(RFE/RL) — Russia’s upper chamber of parliament, the Federation Council, has unanimously approved a controversial ban on U.S. citizens adopting Russian children. It now goes to President Vladimir Putin to sign or turn down. The legislation is part of a bill proposed by Russian lawmakers to retaliate against a recently signed U.S. human rights law [...]

Obesity May Be Declining Among Preschool-Aged Children Living In Low-Income Families

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“Obesity and extreme obesity in childhood, which are more prevalent among minority and low-income families, have been associated with other cardiovascular risk factors, increased health care costs, and premature death. Obesity and extreme obesity during early childhood are likely to continue into adulthood. Understanding trends in extreme obesity is important because the prevalence of cardiovascular [...]

Dominican Republic: Women Fight Against Gender-Based Violence

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By Crosby Girón Dominican women will no longer tolerate gender-based or domestic violence, and groups of women voiced their concerns and made this known throughout the year. November was a key month in their struggle, however, because it was then that they finally started to see results. According to Dominican media reports, the Dominican Republic [...]

Indigenous Chileans Continue To Oppose Pinochet-Era Highway Project

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By Marianela Jarroud For more than two decades, Mapuche indigenous people in the Chilean region of Araucanía have been fighting the construction of the Ruta Costera (Coastal Highway), a megaproject initially conceived during the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990) which has already caused significant archeological and cultural losses and damages. The Coastal Highway is meant to [...]

The Signs Of Change In Syria – Analysis

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By Rajeev Agarwal In contrast to the events of the past 18 months, ongoing developments in Syria seem to suggest an end to the conflict. There are signals from Assad’s staunch allies like Russia, China and may be even Iran that it is time for him to go. And internally, there have been dissensions and [...]

China-India Relations: Are Trade Issues Likely To Cause Even More Problems? – Analysis

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By R. S. Kalha When issues pertaining to Sino-Indian relations are discussed, a natural corollary is to focus attention entirely on the boundary question. That may have been a truism in the past, but what is fast emerging on the horizon are difficult questions pertaining to trade, commercial and economic relations that need as urgent [...]

Japan: The Challenges Before Shinzo Abe – Analysis

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By Pranamita Baruah In the recent general election held in Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) won 294 seats in a landslide victory while the ruling DPJ managed to win only 57 seats. As the President of LDP, Shinzo Abe is expected to become the next Prime Minister on December 26. The LDP [...]
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