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The Rock Band (Pragaash) Row In Kashmir Valley – OpEd

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Introduction Smaller issues turn people into monsters in Kashmir and more often due to media hyperbole. There has been a plethora of infamous Chalo’s (protest marches) and Bandhs (civil curfews/shutdowns) during the past few summers — be that infamous Amarnath Land Row, (2008), The violent unrest of 2009 (Shopian Double rape and Murder case row) [...]

Obama To Visit Israel With Intention To Revive Peace Process‏ – OpEd

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On February 6, the White House announced the upcoming visit in March of the U.S. President Barack Obama to Israel. This will be his first visit to Israel since he took office. The President will also visit Paestine and Jordan. Several U.S. officials advised the President to reactivate the process of peace negotiations between Israelis [...]

Obama Drones Creating Fear Among Americans – OpEd

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The Department of Justice memo, titled “Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen who is a Senior Operation Leader of al-Qaeda or An Associated Force,” that was obtained by the Fox News Channel’s chief national security correspondent Catherine Herridge, defines drone attacks on U.S. citizens who were involved in violent attacks as [...]

China’s Sudan Challenge – Analysis

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By Giorgio Cafiero Sudan and China have enjoyed cordial relations for decades, developing a fruitful economic and political partnership dating back to their mutual estrangement from the West in the late 1980s and early 1990s. But Sudan’s 2011 partition has presented China with a new set of challenges. The ongoing failure of Sudan and South [...]

Should Pakistan Negotiate With TTP? – Analysis

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According to media reports Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has expressed willingness to talk to the Government of Pakistan (GoP) and has set two conditions for the talks. It has blamed the GoP for not taking earlier ceasefire offer seriously. The TTP spokesman expressed lack of confidence over the military but expressed willingness to talk if Maulana [...]

Police Refusal To Secure Egyptian Matches Spotlights Rift With Military – Analysis

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A refusal by Egyptian security forces to police soccer matches spotlights differences between the interior and defense ministries at a time that President Mohammed Morsi is under mounting pressure to reform the country’s law enforcement institutions, widely despised for their role as the enforcers of the repression of toppled president Hosni Mubarak’s regime and continued [...]

South China Sea Energy Profile: Critical World Trade Route And Potential Source Of Hydrocarbons – Analysis

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The South China Sea is a critical world trade route and a potential source of hydrocarbons, particularly natural gas, with competing claims of ownership over the sea and its resources. Stretching from Singapore and the Strait of Malacca in the southwest to the Strait of Taiwan in the northeast, the South China Sea is one [...]

EU Leaders Set Broad Outlines Of Budget Deal

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European Union leaders have agreed the broad lines of a deal on the bloc’s budget for 2014-202 that would fix total EU spending at 960 billion euros over the seven-year period. “We feel pretty confident that we have the framework for a deal,” said one EU official speaking on condition of anonymity. “The deal is [...]

7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Solomon Islands, After Series Of Tremors Over 2 Days

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A 7.1 magnitude earthquake has struck just off the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean. No immediate reports of casualties or damages are available at the moment. The epicenter of the quake was at a depth of 9km, some 23km from the provincial capital of Lata, the US Geological Survey said. The Pacific Tsunami Warning [...]

Top US Officials To Visit Moscow Amid Chill In Russia-US Relations

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By Andrei Ptashnikov High-ranking US government officials are expected to undertake a series of visits to Moscow next week. The first to arrive is Rose Gottemoeller, the United States Department of State’s Assistant Secretary for Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance. After Hillary Clinton was replaced by John Kerry, Mrs. Gottemoeller has regained her position and [...]

China To Build Uzbekistan Pharmaceutical Plants

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Uzbekistan’s State Joint Stock Concern Uzfarmprom has signed deals with Chinese companies to build pharmaceutical enterprises in the Tashkent region worth a total $26.8 million, an Uzfarmprom representative said on Friday. Huaian Rich International will build an ethanol manufacturing factory with capacity of 500,000 decaliters a year, as well as a bottle-cap making facility. Investment [...]

Russia To Try And Move Forward Middle East Peace Talks

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Russia will try to break through the stalled peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, the Russian foreign ministry said Friday. A cabinet meeting on Feb. 20 will be dedicated to discuss possible means break through the stalemate and resume negotiations, ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevic said in a statement. The Arab League and Arab countries [...]

Russia’s Housing Crisis A Driver Of Public Discontent – OpEd

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Much of political analysis in Russia these days focuses on President Vladimir Putin’s ability to balance competing interests within the elite, while at the same time managing always-present destabilization risk through a mixture of repression, nationalism, and pandering.  But the analysis becomes confusing doesn’t it always?) when the intra-elite disputes shift between clans, competitors, and [...]

Kenya: Ensure Violence-Free Polls, Urges HRW

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The Kenyan government’s limited progress on promised reforms and failure to address ongoing and past human rights abuses have contributed to tensions across Kenya prior to national elections on March 4, 2013, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The authorities should take urgent steps, including the arrest and fair trial of all [...]

Teen Peace Activist Shot By Taliban Discharged From British Hospital

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(RFE/RL) A Pakistani teen peace activist has been discharged from a British hospital after reconstructive surgery on her skull. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham said that Malala Yousafzai had made a good recovery and her rehabilitation will continue in her family’s temporary home in the city. Malala, 15, left the hospital on February 7 [...]

Another “Advanced” Iranian Weapon – Analysis

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Iran unveiled the Qaher 313— a modern fighter jet with purported stealth capabilities made in-country. Some have expressed doubt that aircraft is real. Iran has in the past made official announcements through the state run FARs news agency to boost its international image which have latter turned out to be false. In 2011, Tehran claimed [...]

Generalissima Clinton Expanding The Empire – OpEd

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Hillary Clinton has completed her four-year tenure as Secretary of State to the accolades of both Democratic and Republican Congressional champions of the budget-busting “military-industrial complex,” that President Eisenhower warned about in his farewell address. Behind the public relations sheen, the photo-opportunities with groups of poor people in the developing world, an ever more militarized [...]

Solomon Islands Assess Tsunami Damage

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By Phil Mercer Six thousand people are now thought to have been made homeless by a tsunami that struck the Solomon Islands Wednesday. The government says at least 13 people were killed. Charities say food and water is running low in makeshift hillside camps where villagers in the Santa Cruz Islands have sought shelter. Another [...]

German Minister Resigns Amid Plagiarism Scandal

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German Education and Research Minister Annette Schavan announced her resignation on Saturday following a plagiarism scandal, Spiegel Online reported. The minister, whom the German magazine describes as “one of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s closest confidants,” was stripped of her doctorate by the University of Dusseldorf on Tuesday. The university’s faculty council ruled that she committed [...]

Sheriff Arpaio Enlists Martial Arts Film Star Steven Seagal To Train School Guards‏

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In spite of being denigrated by Democrats in his state, the man known as “America’s Toughest Sheriff” is enlisting the assistance of movie star Steven Seagal, who is known for his unarmed combat prowess, to train volunteer armed guards to protect Arizona schools within his jurisdiction against gunmen and other violent perpetrators this weekend, according [...]
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