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Lebanon Gang Arrested After Deadly Raid On Syria Border

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The Lebanese Army apprehended Saturday four gunmen who were trying to flee from Arsal, the country’s defense minister said, a day after an ambush on the military claimed the lives of an officer and a soldier in the border town. “The [Lebanese] Army arrested four gunmen who were trying to make their way out to [...]

Europe Remains Cornerstone Of U.S. Engagement, Biden Says

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By Jim Garamone Europe remains the cornerstone and catalyst for America’s engagement with the world, Vice President Joe Biden said in Munich today. The vice president spoke at the annual Munich Security Conference, where he also addressed the situation with Iran and what the nations of the world can do together to confront the terrorist [...]

China: Stop Sentencing Tibetans for “Inciting” Immolations, Says HRW

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Chinese judicial authorities should immediately release two Tibetans who were found guilty in legal proceedings that relied solely on confessions they gave during five months in detention, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch has documented endemic use of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and coercion of Tibetans in detention. On January 31, [...]

Has The Arab Spring Brought Any Change?‏ – OpEd

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Change the guard, but the world goes on. Obama rescues two Vietnam veterans of the worst military and moral defeat the U.S. has ever witnessed, to conduct foreign policy and security of the only world superpower that actually exists. John Kerry, at the State Department, and Chuck Hagel, a controversial former senator, at the Pentagon. [...]

India Needs To Engage With Maldives, Not Detach Itself – Analysis

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Foreign policy making in a nation aspiring to be a global power of consequence is expected to become increasingly sophisticated as years pass by. In Maldives, however, New Delhi’s policies continue to display elements of infantilism. A series of blunders since the past one year pose the real danger of alienating Maldives for good. Contrary [...]

AFC Announces Litmus Test Post-Bin Hammam Presidential Election

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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has announced an election to replace its banned former head, Mohammed Bin Hammam that will determine the group’s sincerity in breaking with the past by acting on recommendations for reform and ensuring good governance. The election comes against the backdrop of multiple scandals that have rocked soccer’s governing bodies. Mr. [...]

Daimler AG To Invest In BAIC Motor For A Twelve Percent Stake

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Daimler AG and Beijing Automotive Group (BAIC) will significantly deepen their already strong strategic partnership. According to a binding agreement signed between executives of the two companies, Daimler AG is going to invest in BAIC Motor, the passenger car unit of BAIC Group, one of the leading automotive companies in China. This important joint strategic [...]

Type II Diabetes And The Alzheimer’s Connection

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A research team in Israel has devised a novel approach to identifying the molecular basis for designing a drug that might one day decrease the risk diabetes patients face of developing Alzheimer’s disease. The team will present its work at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society (BPS), held Feb. 2-6, 2013, in Philadelphia, [...]

Israeli Attack On Syria Was An Unprovoked Act Of Aggression – OpEd

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By John Robles The recent attack by Israel on Syria has escalated the situation in the Middle East and has now pulled even more players into the conflict which was and has been from the very beginning an internal Syria conflict. Syria has been torn apart by internal strife fueled by outside terrorists and mercenaries [...]

Egypt Opposition Demands Morsi To Step Down

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Egypt’s key opposition bloc has supported calls for President Mohamed Morsi to resign amid continuing protests across the country a day after clashes in the capital Cairo left one person dead and dozens injured, media reported. According to Saturday’s statement from the National Salvation Front quoted by Al Jazeera, “the Salvation Front completely sides with [...]

Israeli Soldiers Use Tear Gas, Stun Grenades To Evict Palestinian Camp

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Israeli soldiers have used tear gas and stun grenades against a group of rock-throwing Palestinians trying prevent the dismantlement of a camp in the disputed West Bank territories. Both sides sustained injuries as the IDF removed dozens of tents. ­The violence initially erupted after Palestinian protesters erected a new camp called “Al Manatir” in the [...]

Rasmussen: NATO Must Be Ready For Any Future Threat

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By Cheryl Pellerin On the second day of the Munich Security Conference, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told the international audience here that the end of the war in Afghanistan gives the alliance a chance to plan for the future. The end in 2014 of NATO’s biggest operation gives NATO a chance to generate key [...]

Biden Says U.S. Ready To Meet Bilaterally Over Iran Nuclear Crisis

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By Charles Recknagel for RFE/RL U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden has said at a major international security conference in Germany that the United States is willing to meet bilaterally with the Iranian leadership over the Iranian nuclear crisis. Biden said that said Washington’s longstanding offer to meet bilaterally in addition to multinational negotiations still “stands, [...]

Morocco Strongly Condemns Attack Against U.S. Embassy In Turkey‏ – OpEd

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The Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a communiqué strongly condemning the attack that struck on February 1, the United States Embassy in the Turkish capital, Ankara. “The Kingdom of Morocco has learned with great sorrow the news of the terrorist attack that targeted the U.S. embassy in Ankara, expresses its solidarity with the Republic [...]

Israel’s Netanyahu Receives Mandate To Form Coalition

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Israeli President Shimon Peres on Saturday tasked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with forming a new government, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported. Netanyahu, who was reelected on January 22, has 28 days to form the government. He may request a two-week extension from the president if necessary. The coalition negotiations are set to begin on Sunday. [...]

Moving Gypsy Children’s Classes To France Police Station Is Xenophobia, Hindus Assert‏

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Reportedly refusing Gypsy (Roma) children access to schools in southeast France and forcing them to attend classes in police station was simply xenophobia and apartheid and should not be acceptable in 21st century Europe, Hindu statesman Rajan Zed stated in Nevada (USA) today. Reports suggest that after being refused access to schools, Roma children were [...]

Iran Lauds Capabilities Of New Fighter Jet

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Iran unveiled its latest domestically built fighter jet today, February 2: the Qaher-313 (Conqueror-313). Iranian media report that the Iranian Defence Minister, Commander Ahmad Vahidi, told reporters the “advanced fighter jet Qaher 313, built completely by Iranian experts, can fly at low altitudes, carry a payload of domestic weapons and ammunition with a surface that [...]

South Korea Calls Emergency Conference Due To Pyongyang’s Forthcoming Nuclear Blast

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President Park Geun-hye of South Korea is calling an emergency conference involving the country’s political parties due to the forthcoming nuclear explosion in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, according to the South Korean President’s spokesperson. Park Geun-hye warned Pyongyang earlier that the world community would severely punish North Korea if it conducts the third [...]

Fitch Revises Netherlands’ ‘AAA’ Rating Outlook To Negative

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Fitch Ratings has revised the outlooks on the Netherlands’ ratings to negative from stable, and has affirmed the long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) at ‘AAA’, the agency reported Tuesday. Fitch also affirmed the Netherlands’ Country Ceiling at ‘AAA’ and short-term foreign currency IDR at ‘F1+’. “The Outlook revision to Negative from [...]

Kosovar, Serbian Presidents To Discuss ‘Normalization’

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(RFE/RL) — Kosovar President Atifete Jahjaga tells RFE/RL that she and Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will discuss the normalization of bilateral relations when they meet on February 6. The meeting in Brussels under the auspices of the European Union is the first between Kosovar and Serbian presidents. In an interview on February 5 with RFE/RL, [...]
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