Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who is recovering from cancer surgery in Cuba, will not attend his inauguration, scheduled for January 10. Chavez’s health problems have fueled political uncertainty and fears of outside meddling. Government officials said Tuesday that the swearing-in would be postponed as the 58-year-old president is not fit to return to Caracas by [...]
Chavez Inauguration Postponed Amid Growing Health Fears
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Oregon’s Columbia Helicopters Confirms Death Of 7 Employees In Peru Helicopter Crash
Oregon-based Columbia Helicopters confirmed Tuesday the loss of seven employees in a crash of a Model 234 helicopter in Peru. The employees included five American citizens and two Peruvian citizens. The helicopter was working near Pucallpa, Peru, under contract to support petroleum exploration operations. No other persons were on board the tandem-rotor helicopter when it [...]
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Latvia Parliament Denies Hindu Prayer Request
The Latvia Parliament (Saeima) has denied the request for a Hindu prayer. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed’s request to lead the Saeima chapel Thursday 8:30 a.m. service with Hindu prayers has ended in a denial with the response: Saeima chapel is arranged in a way that suits the needs of Christian tradition. Every Thursday at 8:30 [...]
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Morocco-US: Diplomatic Coordination And Serious Strategic Dialogue – OpEd
Both diplomatic and economic relations between Morocco and the United States have sometimes evolved in different ways, but they have never witnessed an overall positive development until the current reign of King Mohammed VI. Since his accession to the throne in 1999 , the Moroccan monarch has indeed done everything to reduce the distance between [...]
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The Assad Conundrum – Analysis
The rotten apple of the Arab Spring and 21 months long Syrian unrest against president Al Assad, has though assumed the shape of a an unending mass demonstration but simultaneously is still a catch-22 situation especially for the Non-Arab Muslims and to the political analysts as well. On one hand, the people are shouting for [...]
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Lundin Petroleum Spuds Appraisal Well On Johan Sverdrup Discovery
Lundin Petroleum said Tuesday that the wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS has commenced the drilling of appraisal well 16/3-5 in PL501 on the Johan Sverdrup discovery, located in the North Sea sector of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The well is located in the south eastern part of the discovery. The objective of the [...]
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Syria And The Limits Of Diplomacy – OpEd
Who would believe that the massacres in Syria perpetrated by the Syrian army and the pro-Bashar al-Assad will ever stop. Following the Hula massacre on May 25, the UN said that most of the approximately one hundred people that were killed including children, were killed by a bullets in the head. Crush or be crushed: [...]
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Algeria: Terrorist Attacks Drop
By Walid Ramzi Algerian security reports describe 2012 as the calmest year in the last decade. Armed attacks fell to their lowest level since 2002, with the most significant decrease found in the traditional strongholds of terrorism in the east. Carefully planned security operations succeeded in neutralising top leaders of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb [...]
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Where Are The Nobel Poets Of Santiago? – OpEd
It was here that Salvador Allende died for our sins Some say his own But the Republic was torn to shreds by Nixonian men with stiff faces Cold hearts And loud bombs Death caravans roamed the streets And women fled to heaven looking for missing children And also here I discovered that Santiago is still [...]
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Jewish Groups Showed Cavalier Disregard For Welfare Of American Troops – OpEd
In 1990, American troops deployed to Saudi Arabia in advance of the Gulf War against Iraq, were advised by the Pentagon — then under Dick Cheney’s control — that they should not make pro-Israel, anti-Arab remarks while stationed in the Islamic kingdom. That might sound like a no-brainer — clearly it was advise crafted for [...]
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The Delhi Incident And China’s Information Vs Security Paradox – Analysis
By Gunjan Singh The recent incident of rape and violence against a woman in New Delhi received unprecedented media attention in China. The most simple and obvious factor behind this was that the Chinese government saw yet another opportunity to showcase to its people that democratic governments face a number of problems and therefore compared [...]
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Venezuela Court Endorses Chavez Inauguration Delay
Venezuela’s top court endorsed the postponement of Hugo Chavez’s inauguration this week and ruled on Wednesday that the cancer-stricken president remained the South American OPEC nation’s leader. The 58-year-old socialist has not been seen in public nor heard from in almost a month following surgery in Cuba. The government says he is in a delicate [...]
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China: Show Of Courage By Reformist Weekly’s Journalists
Reporters Without Borders pays tribute to the courage of the Chinese journalists who are protesting against restrictions on freedom of information following the censorship of an editorial in the Guangzhou-based reformist weekly Nanfang Zhoumo on 3 January. Headlined “The Chinese dream, the dream of constitutionalism,” the original version talked of hopes of change for the [...]
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Dozens Injured In New York City Ferry Crash
A commuter ferry in New York City crashed into a pier Wednesday morning, injuring more than 50 people, including two critically, local officials said. The privately operated SeaStreak ferry, which departed from Highlands, New Jersey, was attempting to pull into Pier 11 in Lower Manhattan at around 8:40 a.m. (1340 GMT) when it struck the [...]
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Morsi To Mediate Hamas, Fatah Unity Talks
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi will mediate talks in Cairo between Fatah and Hamas following a conflict between the two Palestinian factions that began in 2006. Morsi will attempt to broker a deal between the Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, head of Fatah, and Hamas’ Khaled Meshaal. Fatah was ousted from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip after [...]
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Israeli Officials Worried About Hagel As U.S. Defense Secretary – OpEd
Israel’s Speaker of the Parliament (Knesset) Reuven Rivlin stated on Tuesday that the incoming U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s is a definite reason to worry about drastic changes in American military policy, an Israeli police and counterterrorism official told the Law Enforcement Examiner on Tuesday. “The concern is not only Israel’s and not only connected [...]
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The Burden Of Muslims - OpEd
Violently controlled in Iraq, jeopardized in Iran, distressed and starved in Palestine, at odds in India, alienated in Australia, secularized in Turkey, stereotyped in America, segregated in Britain, restricted in France, bombed and impoverished in Afghanistan, estranged, disturbed and confused in Egypt, oppressed in Tunisia, communalized in Nigeria, radicalized and sensitized in Pakistan, massacred in [...]
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Panetta: Fiscal Crisis Poses Biggest Immediate Threat To Dept Of Defense
By Karen Parrish The “perfect storm of budget uncertainty” howling around his department is the biggest immediate threat facing the U.S. military, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told reporters here today. Panetta and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stressed during a regular Pentagon press conference that unless Congress [...]
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Will The US Trade In Israel For Turkey? – Analysis
A potential shift from Tel Aviv to Ankara might happen in the near future. What might make this big step possible? There will soon be new US leadership in the foreign affairs community that are sympathetic to a larger regional perception and possibly willing to go beyond Israel for the sake of gaining Central Asia. [...]
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U.S. Says Releasing Dead Bin Laden Photos Still Dangerous
(RFE/RL) — The U.S. government says it is still not ready to release photographs taken of slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s body because they still could lead to violence. Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, is using the Freedom of Information Act to seek the release of photographs. But the Central Intelligence Agency has [...]
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