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Media Grope For Clarity On Clinton’s Health

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American media were awash with speculation Monday on the exact nature and seriousness of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s health problems following news of her hospitalization after doctors diagnosed her with a blood clot. The announcement late Sunday that Clinton, 65, had been admitted to a hospital in New York for treatment of the [...]

Abbas Too Weak To Make Transition From PA To Functioning State – OpEd

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By Hasan Afif El-Hasan After wasting twenty years of negotiations in which basic Palestinian rights were squandered while Israel was colonizing the West Bank and Jerusalem and millions of Palestinians rot in refugee camps, Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), decided to ask the UN General Assembly to recognize Palestine as non-member [...]

US: Lousy Deal On The Edge Of The Cliff – OpEd

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The deal emerging from the Senate is a lousy one. Let me count the ways: 1. Republicans haven’t conceded anything on the debt ceiling, so over the next two months – as the Treasury runs out of tricks to avoid a default – Republicans are likely to do exactly what they did before, which is [...]

Will Syria Go On The Offensive At The Hague? – OpEd

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(La Maison d’Avocats, Damascus) — Even before the historic 139 to 8 vote of the UN General Assembly on November 29 of this year which opened up a plethora of legal remedies for Palestinians, a “legal intifada” — to borrow a phrase from Francis Boyle, Professor of International Law and a longtime advocate of advancing [...]

US ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Deal Reached?

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With only hours left until the end-of-year fiscal cliff deadline, a Democratic aide has claimed the White House and congressional Republicans have made a deal regarding the fiscal cliff and that the vote could still take place in 2012. ­Vice President Joe Biden was set to sell the agreement to Senate Democrats at a meeting [...]

Whither The EU Spring? – OpEd

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By Dr. Murray Hunter European integration grew out of a desperate need to find a way to co-exist. Only then could the once-isolated and culturally unique nations of Europe break the cycle of military conflict that had ravaged the continent throughout its history. The union pulled together a divided Europe and later stretched its arms [...]

Messi Named Best 2012 Footballer

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FC Barcelona striker Lionel Messi (Argentina) has been named the 2012 top footballer in Spain, a poll conducted by the Marca daily says. The 25-year-old player set a record with 50 goals in a single league season and 91 in a single calendar year. Second comes Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo of “Real”. Radamel Falcao, who plays [...]

Syria Without Assad And Fears For Egypt – OpEd

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By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed What if a third year passes and our hopes are dashed and Bashar Assad still remains the president in Damascus? In such an event, we do not have many options but to apologize, retreat or pay a price for the wrong reading of the situation. Although I was careful not to [...]

Georgia: In New Year Address Saakashvili Offers Five-Point Plan For Cooperation With Govt

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(Civil.Ge) — In his New Year’s address to the nation President Saakashvili said Georgia was now in “downward spiral” with ongoing “destruction of democratic institutions” and “systematic degradation of relations” with western allies. In his 13-minute video address shown on TV before midnight on December 31 and before PM BIdzina Ivanishvili’s New Year message, President [...]

Ron Paul’s New Year’s Message To Congress: Follow The Constitution – OpEd

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As I prepare to retire from Congress I’d like to suggest a few New Year’s resolutions for my colleagues to consider. For the sake of liberty, peace and prosperity I certainly hope more members of Congress consider the strict libertarian-constitutional approach to government in 2013. In just a few days, Congress will solemnly swear to [...]

US ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Agreement To Include Farm Bill Fix

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By Steve Baragona For many Americans, New Year’s Eve focused on the U.S. Congress going over the so-called “fiscal cliff” of massive tax hikes and spending cuts. But congressional gridlock has produced another precipice, this one in the dairy aisles of U.S. grocery stores. Beginning in the Great Depression of the 1930s, Congress wrote legislation [...]

Over 60 Killed, Dozens Injured In Ivory Coast NYE Stampede

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At least 60 people have died and 49 more were injured by stampeding crowds during New Year’s fireworks in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, Interior Minister Hamed Bakayoko said Tuesday. The government says 60 people had died, with an average age of 18. Earlier, Lt. Col. Issa Sako told local media that over 200 were injured. Over [...]

‘We Were Part Of Each Other’s Fabric’ – OpEd

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Daniel Levitin writes: Tom was one of those people we all have in our lives — someone to go out to lunch with in a large group, but not someone I ever spent time with one-on-one. We had some classes together in college and even worked in the same cognitive psychology lab for a while. [...]

Egypt Arrests Israeli Activist Traveling To Gaza – OpEd

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Last summer, after leaving IDF service, Andrei Pshenichnikov, age 24, underwent a radical political conversion.  He began working with anti-Occupation groups and decided to renounce his Israeli citizenship.  Further, he actually moved to the Deheisha refugee camp outside Bethlehem and took up jobs working for a hotel and construction there. But the Shabak grew suspicious [...]

Hindus Laud Pope On Highlighting Growing Rich-Poor Gap

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Hindus have commended His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI for highlighting growing inequality between rich and poor. In his homily at mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City on New Year’s Day, Pope reportedly said: … world is sadly marked by “hotbeds of tension and conflict caused by growing instances of inequality between rich and [...]

Congratulations To Carlos Latuff And Jakob Augstein: A “Hit List” Of The Most “Anti-Semites” In The World – OpEd

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The “Simon Wiesenthal Center” (SWC) in Los Angeles was once famous for tracking down former Nazi criminals. This was long ago. The institution still derives its reputation from its former purpose. Today the SWC annually publishes a “hit list” of the most “anti-Semites” in the world. Third place in their “Anti-Semitism” list was awarded to [...]

Main Climatic Issues Of Pakistan In 2012 – OpEd

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Pakistan is basically an agricultural country, the landscape is predominantly arid. Water, already a scarce commodity in most parts of the country, is now facing further shortages. Because of the poverty and population growth, there has been an over-exploitation of natural resources. An unplanned increase in industrialisation and urbanisation has led to pollution in water, [...]

Re-Launching The Egyptian Premier League: A Barometer For Morsi’s Performance – Analysis

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The re-launch of the Egyptian premier league has become a barometer for how President Mohammed Morsi is coping with key issues, including reform of the hated police and security forces and their role in the new Egypt, holding those responsible for the death of hundreds of protesters in the last two years accountable and rooting [...]

Pakistan: Attackers Kill 7 Aid Workers, Doctor In Swabi District

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(RFE/RL) — Gunmen have ambushed and shot dead six female aid workers and a male doctor in the Swabi district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. District police officer Rashid Khan told Radio Mashaal that the victims all worked for the Pakistani charity Ujala (Light) in the village of Sher Afzal Banda. They were killed at [...]

EU Tightens Cross-Border Cash Control Regulations

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Tighter regulations on the movement of cash across borders come into force across the European Union from Tuesday, Russia’s RBK news site reports. From January 1, anyone crossing European countries’ borders with cash in any currency worth 10,000 Euros or more will have to declare this sum, RBK explains. The declaration will include the individual’s [...]
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