Iran has strongly criticized the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for mishandling the Islamic Republic’s nuclear energy program and “remote-controlling” its negotiations with Tehran. “The source of this problem is not Iran; it is the way the secretariat is managing this sort of remote-controlling negotiation which does not work,” Iran’s Ambassador to the IAEA Ali [...]
Iran Claims IAEA Chief Remote-Controlling Negotiations
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France: Steps To Protect Gravelines Nuclear Plant From Oil Disaster
A catastrophic fire and explosion at a Total oil terminal could affect safety at the adjacent Gravelines nuclear power plant, an annual review of nuclear safety in France has revealed. Total and EDF will make changes to avoid effects on nuclear safety from a previously unconsidered scenario. In the 1970s two major industrial developments began [...]
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US Sanctions Individuals Linked To North Korean Weapons Of Mass Destruction Programs
The US State Department said it welcomes the unanimous passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2094. The State Department said that North Korea’s nuclear and missile proliferation activities violate the UN Security Council sanctions regime comprised of resolutions 1718 (2006), 1874 (2009) and 2087 (2013), destabilize the region, and undermine the global nonproliferation [...]
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Algeria Gets Serious About Corruption
By Fidet Mansour Algerian politicians on Monday (March 4th) responded to the inauguration of the headquarters of the Central Office to Combat Corruption (OCRC). Finance Minister Karim Djoudi at Sunday’s opening expressed the state’s commitment to “stop at nothing to fight corruption or any other type of economic crime”. The office’s headquarters came at a [...]
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5 Broken Cameras: ‘Ich Bin Ein Bil’iner!’ – OpEd
This does not happen every day: a Minister of Culture publicly rejoices because a film from her country has not been awarded an Oscar. And not just one film, but two. It happened this week. Limor Livnat, still Minister of Culture in the outgoing government, told Israeli TV she was happy that Israel’s two entries [...]
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Kerry’s First Trip Abroad Tackles Familiar Issues
By Al Pessin U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s first trip abroad last week made news on a couple of issues, but largely covered familiar ground with longtime U.S. allies in Europe and the Middle East. Kerry’s first stop was familiar territory for a U.S. secretary of state, number 10 Downing Street, the residence of [...]
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Pakistan’s Friends And Foes – OpEd
It is not a cliché, but the harsh and cruel reality that Pakistan faces the most difficult time and its very existence is in danger. Many countries face external threats but their people stand united and fight to avert the worst. Pakistan has everything, but its people just can’t be termed a nation. At the [...]
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Large Blast Heard In Afghan Capital Kabul
Unconfirmed reports say the blast happened near the Afghan defence ministry. The cause of the blast is not clear and it is not known if there are casualties. The explosion happened shortly after the new US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in Afghanistan on an official visit. A spokesman for the Nato-led International Security Assistance [...]
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Libya: Still Waiting On A Viable State – Analysis
By Zak Rose There was a widespread belief in the Western world that a post-Gaddafi Libya would be sympathetic, and quite possibly take on the form of a democratic, secular government. This belief was fueled by the fervor with which rebel forces rose up across Libya, and the eagerness with which they parroted Western talking [...]
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Naxal Violence: Is The Maoist Base Slipping In Odisha? – Analysis
By Deepak Kumar Nayak On 20 February 2013, 113 tribal activists shunned ties with the Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh (CMAS), said to be a frontal organization of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), and surrendered before Narayanpatna police in Koraput district. Since January this year alone, around 778 CMAS activists of the Nachika Linga-led faction [...]
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Iran-Egypt Rapprochement: Compulsions And Realities – Analysis
By Rajeev Agarwal During his 7 February 2013 visit to Cairo to attend the OIC Summit, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on Egypt to form a strategic alliance with Iran. A few days earlier, on 4 February, he had expressed his optimism about the visit and relations with Egypt by saying: “The political geography of the region [...]
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BRICS Development Bank: Figuring Out The Durban Bid – Analysis
By Jagannath P. Panda Will the Durban BRICS leadership summit finalize setting up the BRICS Development Bank? The summit, scheduled for 26-27 March 2013, is the fifth BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) summit. Its theme is: BRICS and Africa – partnerships for integration and industrialization. South Africa, as is well known, has massive mineral reserves and is [...]
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Obama’s Chance To Renew Middle East Peace Process – OpEd
By Doron Pely President Barack Obama’s upcoming trip to the Middle East presents an opportunity to move the dormant Palestinian-Israeli peace process forward. If he’s serious about making progress, the president should take into account how dispute resolution works in the Arab and Muslim world and note how little resemblance it bears to the West’s [...]
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The Russian Stake In Afghanistan – Analysis
By David Satter As the U.S. prepares to withdraw from Afghanistan, perhaps no nation has more to fear from the consequences than Russia which faces the possibility of both instability in Central Asia and the radicalization of its own Muslim population. In the wake of the attack on September 11, 2001, Russia lent its support [...]
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UN Hostages Released Into Jordanian Custody
A group of 21 Filipino U.N. peacekeepers seized by Syrian rebels in the Golan were handed over to Jordanian authorities on Saturday, just after the expiry of a deadline for their release, a watchdog said. “The peacekeepers have been transferred from the (Golan) village of Jamla, where they were held, towards the Yarmuk valley on [...]
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Egypt Declares State Of Emergency In Sinai Over Possible Jihadist Attack
Egypt has declared a state of emergency in Sinai due to intelligence about a possible jihadist attack against police, the country’s state news agency reports. “The minister of the interior has raised the level of emergency in North and South Sinai after receiving information that jihadist groups intend to attack police buildings there,” Reuters cited [...]
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Egypt: Rioting Ultras And Striking Police Officers May Ease Security Reform – Analysis
The fall-out of last year’s death of 72 soccer fans in a politically-loaded stadium brawl has brought the need for reform of Egypt’s Mubarak-era law enforcement and judiciary to a head with football supporters in Egyptian cities protesting the verdict in the trial of those accused of responsibility for the incident and security officials striking [...]
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Hazards Of Journalism In Assam – OpEd
India remains a dangerous country for journalists and even more so for those working in the northeastern state of Assam. While 35 journalists have been killed across India in two decades, Assam alone has lost more than 20 editor-journalists and nobody has been convicted in any of these cases. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), [...]
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Survival In A Leaderless And Defenseless World – OpEd
Let us take a fleeting look at some of the pressing global challenges of our time. According to a United Nations report, about five percent of total Syrian population – that becomes at least one million, has fled the country and only since last January, numbers of such people are around 4000,000. In its two [...]
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Morocco-US: Historical Relations Open Up To Promising Prospects – OpEd
Every time the issue of relationship between the two countries is brought up, there is always a historical fact that characterizes this powerful relation: Morocco was the first country to recognize the independence of the United States. Since then, the two countries have always deployed tremendous efforts to consolidate their already excellent bilateral relations. This [...]
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