Expressing shock at the reported derogatory remarks against women at Thiruvananthapuram public event on February eight of an official of Government of India’s National Service Scheme (NSS), Hindu statesman Rajan Zed has asked immediate official apologies and action against the official involved. Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, in a statement in [...]
Shocked At NSS Comments On Women, Zed Asks Apology From India’s Youth Minister
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Afghan Peace Process Roadmap To 2015: Internal Security Nightmare For India? – Analysis
A four page document titled the ‘Peace Process Roadmap to 2015’ seems to be scripting events and future developments in AfPak. Reportedly drafted by the Afghan President Karzai and his inner circle, the document’s western ‘tone and tenor’ has led some analyst to suspect a foreign linkage. The ‘roadmap to 2015’ on the letter head [...]
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Tunisia Seeks Path To Unity
By Yasmin Najjar Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali on Saturday (February 9th) threatened to quit, warning of chaos unless a new government were formed. Jebali said he would resign within days if key ministries held by fellow Islamists were not filled by non-partisan technocrats, TAP reported. His comments came as several thousand supporters of his [...]
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New Resort Is Latest Boost For Macedonia
By Miki Trajkovski The recent announcement that Indian multi-billionaire Subrata Roy plans to build a world-class resort on Lake Ohrid is viewed as both a boost for Macedonia’s tourism industry and a major step in the country’s ongoing quest to lure international investment. Roy’s Saharayan Macedonia will occupy 240 hectares of property on the southern [...]
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Serb, Kosovo Leaders To Address North Status
By Bojana Milovanovic and Linda Karadaku As several practical issues are coming to a close between Belgrade and Pristina, the status of northern Kosovo remains an outstanding obstacle that the EU said will only be solved through the ongoing dialogue between the two countries. The EU said three dialogues are needed. “One between Pristina and [...]
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Allen Passes NATO Security Assistance Command To Dunford
By Jim Garamone U.S. and NATO leaders today congratulated Marine Corps Gen. John R. Allen for a job well done as commander of the alliance’s International Security Assistance Force and praised Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. as the strategic leader needed for the next phase of the command. At a ceremony here, Allen [...]
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Lavrov Defends Russian Ban On U.S. Adoptions
(RFE/RL) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has defended recently adopted legislation that bars U.S. citizens from adopting Russian children. In an interview aired in the Russian Far East, Lavrov said the law was a response to “numerous” reports of Russian adoptees being killed or abused. “The United States is the only country from which [...]
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China, Japan Dispute Confronts Obama Second Term Asia Agenda
By Scott Stearns There is increasing hostility between China and Japan over disputed islands in the East China Sea. What does the maritime dispute means for President Barack Obama’s second term Asian agenda? Most recently in the ongoing dispute, Japan has charged that its vessels and aircraft in the area have been targeted by Chinese [...]
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North Korea Conducts 3rd Nuclear Test, Warns More ‘Measures’ May Come
A defiant North Korea has conducted its third nuclear test, prompting a wave of international criticism from governments and other organization. It also said that more “measures” may follow, raising concerns that more nuclear devices may be exploded. Pyongyang said the Tuesday morning explosion was part of an effort to protect its national security and [...]
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UNSC Condemns North Korea Nuclear Test, Vows Action
The UN Security Council on Tuesday “strongly condemned” North Korea’s third nuclear test and vowed to take action against Pyongyang, the president of the Security Council said. “The members of the Security Council strongly condemned this test, which is a grave violation of Security Councilresolutions,” South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan, whose country is president [...]
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The FISA Model For Summary Execution? – OpEd
Dianne Feinstein and some liberals have suggested that, if the president’s targeted killing policy is too unilateral, the remedy might be found in something modeled after the FISA court. Make no mistake: Such a court would be nothing more than a rubber-stamp. At best. In 1978, after Church Committee hearings exposed massive abuse of FBI [...]
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Iran Starts Turning Enriched Uranium Into Fuel
Iran’s Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday February 12 that Iran has begun turning some of its 20-percent-enriched uranium into fuel Iran reports that Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said on Tuesday February 12 that the transformation of 20-percent-enriched uranium into fuel for Tehran’s research reactor is in progress, and all of the necessary reports have [...]
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Pope’s Last Mass Will Be Ash Wednesday In St. Peter’s
By David Uebbing Amid the buzz created by the Pope’s announcement that he will retire, it could be easy to miss the fact that his last Mass will be on Ash Wednesday and not in the normal location for the first day of Lent. “It’s very clear that St. Peter’s is a much bigger church [...]
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Arrested Development – OpEd
In this report1, B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights organization, examines the ramifications of the Wall and the so-called security fence on nearby Palestinian communities. Its construction started in 2002. On July 9th, 2004, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an advisory opinion that Israel’s building of this monstrous Wall was illegal and should be [...]
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Deadline Looms For Macedonia Local Elections
By Sinisa Jakov Marusic As the deadline nears for a decision on the announced opposition boycott of the local elections, EU politicians are heading to Skopje to kick start dialogue between opposition and government. As the deadline to submit lists of candidates for the March local elections looms on February 16, it will soon be [...]
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Nepal: Maoists Suggest A Neutral Government Under The Chief Justice – Analysis
By Dr. S. Chandrasekharan. Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai met President Yadav on 10 Feb 2013 and told him that since the political parties failed to forge a consensus for leading the government to conduct the elections, his party has floated the proposal to form a government under the leadership of the Chief Justice of the [...]
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India: Half Empty In Odisha – Analysis
By Fakir Mohan Pradhan Speaking in the State Assembly on December 3, 2012, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik claimed that situation was improving in Naxal [Left Wing Extremism (LWE)]-afflicted Districts due to “strong action” taken by Security Forces (SFs). “Districts such as Jajpur, Dhenkanal, Nayagarh, Deogarh, Mayurbhanj, Sambalpur and Gajapati have not witnessed any Maoist [Communist [...]
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The Southern Man And His Cosmopolitan Ghetto: Making Sense Of Yair Lapid And The Israeli Center – OpEd
Former anchorman and middle-class darling Yair Lapid stunned the Israeli political scene in the recent elections. His party, Yesh Atid (There is a Future) won 19 seats, second in size only to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s Likud-Beiteinu alliance, thus ensuring that Lapid will play a pivotal role in the next [...]
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Bangladesh: Justice And Blood – Analysis
By Sanchita Bhattacharya On February 5, 2013, at least three people were killed and another 35 were injured when cadres of the Jamaat-e-Islam (JeI) and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), protesting against the ongoing War Crimes (WC) Trial, clashed with the Police during the party enforced country wide dawn-to-dusk hartal (general shut down) [...]
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India’s Geneva Vote On Sri Lanka And Sampur Power Betrayal? – OpEd
By Shenali Waduge Let’s put things in perspective. Whatever Resolutions are brought, whoever votes against Sri Lanka, whatever embargoes are imposed, Sri Lanka will continue to rally round its valiant Armed Forces because they remain the only military to eliminate a terrorist movement. No country can diminish this achievement and we stand proud of our [...]
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