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Mass Prayers Held For Tibetan Self-Immolators

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More than 1,500 people held a mass prayer gathering this week in a Tibetan-populated county in China’s Qinghai province to honor self-immolation protesters who have “sacrificed their lives for Tibet,” sources said. The Feb. 25 service in the Dzatoe township of Tridu (in Chinese, Chenduo) county followed a subdued two-week observance of the normally festive [...]

The Mercedes-Benz E 63 AMG: New Benchmark In Performance And Dynamism

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Mercedes-AMG continues to champion performance, dynamism and efficiency: the new E 63 AMG is now also available as a particularly exclusive and powerful S-Model with an output of 430 kW (585 hp), 800 Newton metres of torque and featuring a newly developed performance-oriented AMG 4MATIC all-wheel-drive system. The AMG 5.5-litre V8 biturbo engine continues to [...]

Western Sahara Occupied, Africa Re-Colonised – OpEd

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By Malainin Lakhal The conflict in Western Sahara seems to gain more and more visibility and importance in the regional and international geopolitics this last decade, despite the great lack of media coverage and academic analysis of its different facts, aspects, possible consequences and perspectives. It is thanks to some brilliant academics, jurists, human rights [...]

China’s Strategy For The Philippines – Analysis

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The standoff in the Scarborough Shoal between China and the Philippines not only demonstrated Manila’s commitment to defend its maritime territory, but also Beijing’s determination to maintain its territorial aspirations at all costs. Knowing what strings to pull to pressure the Philippines, Beijing engaged in a series of de facto economic reprisals. For its part, [...]

Yemen: Probe Into Arms Cargo, Suspected Aid To Rebel Group

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The United Nations investigation was completed yesterday into an arms shipment intercepted by the Yemen coast guard headed to an unknown destination. According to the official SABA news agency, the UN team arrived on request of Sana’a authorities and that suspicions are that the arms were destined for the al Houthi rebels, active in the [...]

US Defense Secretary Hagel Details Results Of Sequestration Uncertainty

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By Jim Garamone Soldier and Marine training, Air Force flying hours and Navy steaming days are being curtailed thanks to the $47 billion in cuts DOD must make before Sept. 30, 2013, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said today. The secretary stressed at the start of his first press conference as Defense Secretary that the uncertainty [...]

Pentagon Lifts F-35 Grounding Following Inspections

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By Amaani Lyle The Defense Department lifted its grounding of the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter jet after analysis concluded that a cracked turbine blade in an engine on a single plane resulted from overuse in test operations, according to an official with the F-35 Joint Program Office. In an email statement, the official, [...]

Briefing On U.S. State Department’s Release Of Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact State For Keystone XL

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Kerri-Ann Jones,  Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Via Teleconference, Washington, DC Note: U.S. Department of State Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement MR. VENTRELL: Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us for this call. This is an on-the-record call. We have with us Assistant Secretary Kerri-Ann Jones, who [...]

The Oft-Predicted Fickle Syrian ‘Tipping Point’ Has Tipped – OpEd

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This observer lost count more than a year ago of the sheer number of predictions by analysts and lobbyists that the “tipping point” signaling the Assad government’s collapse was a sure thing and would happen any time now. “It’s just a matter of days, not weeks” President Obama declared back in 2011. Based on personal [...]

Temporary Cover To Be Built Over Collapsed Chernobyl Roof

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A temporary cover will be built above the collapsed section of Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant, the chief engineer said late on Friday. Wall panels and parts of the roof caved in on February 12 in the turbine hall at the plant’s Reactor Number Four, the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster. The damaged area covered [...]

U.S. Cardinals Say Next Pope Must Be ‘Man Of Deep Faith’

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Countering much speculation that next Pope will be chosen based on geographic concerns, three American cardinals say the best candidate to succeed Benedict XVI is a man of holiness who can communicate the Gospel. “Our people back home and throughout the world are all praying for this event, that we will be guided to be [...]

Georgia: Saakashvili, Ivanishvili May Meet On Monday

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(Civil.Ge) –  Georgia’s PM Ivanishvili is ready to meet President Saakashvili on Monday morning as offered by the latter, PM’s office said in a brief statement on Friday evening. It emerged earlier on Friday that efforts were underway to arrange a meeting between Saakashvili and Ivanishvili as both of them expressed readiness to meet each [...]

Mexico And Colombia Victims Laws: Broad Enough To Bring Justice? – Analysis

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By Hannah Stone Mexico has followed Colombia’s footsteps by passing a sweeping law that aims to compensate victims of the country’s drug war. Both projects are incredibly ambitious, and may yet heal some of the wounds left by years of violence–if implemented correctly. On January 9, Mexico’s new president signed a new law to help and compensate [...]

Iran Viewpoint: Suspension For Suspension! – OpEd

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By Abolqasem Qasemzadeh The recent meeting between Iran’s representatives and those of the P5+1 group of world powers – the United States, Britain, France, China, and Russia, plus Germany – wrapped up in the Kazakh city of Almaty on Wednesday. The two parties to the negotiations have described them as productive, noting that the two [...]

Time For Outrage: The Culture Of Resistance – OpEd

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By Kevin Zeese and Margart Flowers “Ninety-three years old. The last leg of my journey. The end is in sight. I am lucky to be able to seize the time I have left to reflect on my lifelong commitment to politics: the Resistance and the program designed sixty-six years ago by the National Council of [...]

IMF To Revise U.S. Growth Forecast, Sequester Blamed

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By Mil Arcega Now that the deadline for a Congressional compromise has passed, the process of cutting $85 billion from the federal budget begins. Economists say the impact will not be immediate, but the fallout already has begun. With across the board budget cuts all but guaranteed, some government agencies already have placed a freeze [...]

Several Houses In Florida Evacuated As Man-Swallowing Sinkhole Grows

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Residents are being evacuated from several houses in Seffner, which are next door to the one where a man was swallowed by a sinkhole as he slept. The hole is believed to be growing. Several Faithway Drive houses were determined by investigators to be in danger, as the authorities warned the sinkhole was unstable and [...]

Iraq’s Finance Minister Resigns At Anti-Maliki Protest

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Iraq’s Finance Minister Rafa al-Essawi announced his resignation on Friday at an anti-government Sunni protest, after more than two months of demonstrations demanding an end to marginalization of their minority sect. State television quoted Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s office as saying the resignation of Essawi, a leading Sunni and Iraqiya member, would not be accepted [...]

Macedonian Police Say 22 People Injured In Ethnic Protests

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(RFE/RL) — Police say at least 22 people, including 13 police officers, have been injured in two days of protests in Macedonia’s capital, Skopje. The protests, which erupted late on March 1 and continued overnight, were initiated by ethnic Macedonians angry at the appointment of ethnic Albanian Talat Xhaferi’s as defense minister. Xhaferi is a [...]

Kerry In Egypt Among Bickering Politicians

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By Edward Yeranian U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Egyptian government officials and a number of opposition politicians Saturday on his maiden visit to Cairo as the new top U.S. diplomat. The visit comes amid political turmoil in the run-up to controversial parliamentary elections scheduled to begin in April. The visit of the [...]
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