(RFE/RL) — Pakistani police have arrested about a dozen children suspected of planting explosives for militants in Quetta, the capital of restive Balochistan Province. Local police chief Mir Zubair Mahmood displayed the young boys to the media at a news conference on March 13. Mahmood said the children came from poor families and were recruited [...]
Pakistani Police Accuse Children Of Planting Bombs In Quetta
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Obama Urges Pyongyang To End Nuclear, Missile Testing
U.S. President Barack Obama is calling for North Korea to take “confidence building measures” aimed at diffusing tensions, such as ending its nuclear and missile testing. In an interview Wednesday with the U.S. television network ABC, Mr. Obama said countries would reciprocate if they saw any kind of responsible behavior from the North Korea. He [...]
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Andy Rubin To Step Down As Google’s Android Head – Report
Andy Rubin will no longer be leading the charge for Android at Google, the company announced. According to VentureBeat, Chrome head Sundar Pichai will step up to replace Rubin, while also maintaining his regular duties. It sounds like Rubin will remain at Google, but he’ll be working on other projects outside of Android. “Most people [...]
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Watchdog Says Cambodia Headed For One-Party State
Cambodia is on the road to authoritarianism and its political processes are backsliding, an election monitoring group said Tuesday ahead of a national election in July which the opposition says will not be free and fair. The Committee for Free and Fair Elections (Comfrel) warned in its annual report that Cambodia’s democracy is “increasingly fragile” [...]
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The Road Ahead For Bulgaria – Analysis
By Daniel Wagner and Giorgio Cafiero Tens of thousands of Bulgarians have held protests across their country over the past month. Their grievances range from a poverty rate above 22%, skyrocketing utility costs and rising unemployment, to cronyism and corruption. The self-immolation of four demonstrators and violent clashes between protestors and police underscore the rising [...]
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Xi Jinping Becomes China’s President
By William Ide China’s National People’s Congress has voted to elect Xi Jinping as the country’s next president. The largely ceremonial procedure marks the completion of China’s once in a decade leadership transition that began late last year. Over the past few months, Mr. Xi and China’s new team of leaders have been raising expectations [...]
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Rand Paul’s Drone Crusade Needs A Slight Adjustment – OpEd
The media seemed to treat Rand Paul’s query to Attorney General Eric Holder about the targeting with drones of U.S. citizens on American soil as kinda kooky—that is, implying that it could never happen in the great United States. Nationalistic war hawks, such as Senators Lindsay Graham and John McCain, also pooh poohed the idea [...]
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Armenia: Yerevan Keen To Opt Out Of New Russian-Led Bloc
By Emil Danielyan Despite its long-standing close ties with and strong dependence on Russia, Armenia looks set to avoid joining a new Russian-led union of former Soviet republics. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, who won a second term in a disputed election in February, has successfully navigated apparent Russian pressures and moved his country closer to [...]
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Maghreb Countries Wrap Up Military Exercise
By Jemal Oumar A multi-national military exercise aimed at improving maritime security and communication co-operation ended Thursday (March 14th). The new marine drill, dubbed “Saharan Express 2013″, was launched off the Mauritanian and Senegalese coasts. Mauritania, Morocco, France, Britain, the United States, and several other African and European countries took part in the week-long exercise. [...]
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Syria: Time For Inaction? – Analysis
By Adam Garfinkle s the new, very marginally more muscular, U.S. disposition toward the Syrian opposition a good idea? To answer this question properly, we have to take a step back about two years to get some perspective on where we are, as opposed to where we could’ve been. When the mayhem started in Syria [...]
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Iranian Warplane Fails To Intercept U.S. Drone, Says Pentagon
By Jim Garamone An Iranian military jet tried to intercept an unarmed American MQ-1 remotely piloted aircraft over international waters March 12 but it was discouraged from accomplishing that mission, Pentagon officials said today. The MQ-1 aircraft was conducting a routine classified surveillance flight over international waters in the Arabian Gulf. Iran sent an F-4 [...]
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Morocco-US FTA Could Open Up Trade Opportunities In Whole African Continent – OpEd
U.S. policy toward Africa has been on autopilot for much of the past four years, following a laundry list of good intentions that established priorities for Africa’s well-being and U.S. security interests. However, a truly sustainable and forward-looking U.S. policy toward Africa should refocus attention on Africa’s opportunity as an economic powerhouse of the future, [...]
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Rand Paul Exposes The Democrats – OpEd
Republican Senator Rand Paul is a Kentucky conservative, and a proud Tea Party member. Paul publicly stated that he opposes the Civil Rights act of 1964, the legislation which at last gave some semblance of legal rights to black Americans. Paul typifies all of the beliefs central to right wing Republican dogma. He is against [...]
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Former Web Producer Indicted For Conspiring With “Anonymous” Members To Attack Internet News Site
A former web producer for a Tribune Company-owned television station in Sacramento, Calif., was charged Thursday in an indictment for allegedly conspiring with members of the hacker group “Anonymous” to hack into and alter a Tribune Company website, the Justice Department announced. Matthew Keys, 26, of Secaucus, N.J., was charged in the Eastern District of [...]
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Iraq War Cost US More Than $2 Trillion – Study
The US war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with $490 billion more owed in benefits to combat veterans, a recent study revealed. The report found that total expenses in the unavailing conflict could balloon to $6 trillion over the next 40 years. The study, conducted by the Costs of War Project by the Watson [...]
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Russia, Europe To Launch Joint Mars Mission To Sample Soil For Signs Of Life
Russia and Europe signed a deal on Thursday for a joint Mars mission which will bore beneath the Red Planet’s surface for soil samples they hope will solve the mystery of whether there is life beyond Earth. The announcement comes amid heightened excitement over the search for life on the planet in our solar system [...]
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Dynamics Behind France’s Commitment To Syrian Peace
By Walid Belbachir “Bashar-Al Assad is the murderer of his people. He must leave power – the sooner the better. Until now, the actions taken to that end have come up against two obstacles. The first derives from the lack of consensus at the UN Security Council, because of the Russians and Chinese. The second [...]
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Cambodia: Journalist Free Tomorrow, But Exposed To Threat From Suspended Sentence
Radio journalist Mam Sonando will be free tomorrow morning after a Phnom Penh appeal court today quashed the 20-year jail sentence he received last October on charges of inciting an armed insurrection and usurping official functions, but gave him an eight-month jail term on a new charge of inciting illegal deforestation. The appeal court also [...]
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Cambodia: Ieng Sary Death Shows Khmer Rouge Court Failings, Says HRW
The death of Ieng Sary, on trial before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia after indictment for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, means that another senior leader of the Khmer Rouge has not been held accountable for his crimes. Ieng Sary, the foreign minister of the Khmer Rouge regime that ruled [...]
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Michigan To Take Over Detroit’s Finances
By Maria Young The once-booming city of Detroit became the largest city in United States history to be taken over by its home state, when Michigan Governor Rick Snyder on Thursday appointed an emergency manager to oversee Detroit’s finances to try and avoid bankruptcy. “This is about a situation that’s been evolving for 50-plus years, [...]
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