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Need For Caution On Space-Related Academic Exchanges With China – Analysis

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According to a report carried by “The Hindu” of April 4, 2013, “the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), a Government-run research university known for its work on China’s space programme, signed on April 3 a first of its kind Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Karnataka-based Manipal University paving the way for closer collaboration on joint [...]

Edge Of Chaos – OpEd

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By Kazi Anwarul Masud Intellectuals from the East, the West, the post-second world war financial institutions and the leaders of the world, singly and collectively, are now expressing their anxiety about increasing poverty afflicting many countries of the world. Astounding information is now being revealed through studies by world renowned economists and statesmen. Economists from [...]

United States: Strategic Blunders In East Asia – Analysis

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By Dr. Subhash Kapila East Asia has figured high in the United States strategic calculus ever since the end of the Second World War. Right till China made a strategic swing away from the former Soviet Union, the Eastern littoral of Asia resting on the Western Pacific presented a solid shield of Communist States allied [...]

Iranian Nuclear Negotiators Arrive In Almaty

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The Iranian delegation has arrived in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in preparation for the latest meeting with the G5+1 to discuss nuclear concerns. Iran has been urged by Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief and chief negotiator for the G5+1, to respond to the package it was offered in the last round of talks. The Mehr [...]

Albania Restores Macedonian Names In Mala Prespa

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By Miki Trajkovski The decision by Albania’s parliament to restore Macedonian place names in Mala Prespa furthers Macedonia-Albania relations and fosters minority integration, experts said. The names in Mala Prespa, a region in southeastern Albania with a predominantly Macedonian population, were changed to Albanian names by authorities in Tirana during the authoritarian rule of dictator [...]

Half Of Americans Fear Losing Guns To Background Checks

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A new poll said nearly half of American voters believe the government could use information from universal background checks to confiscate legally-owned guns from citizens. The latest Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday showed 48 percent of those surveyed said the government could use background check data to confiscate legally-owned guns, while 38 percent said that [...]

Kosovo: Talks Need Not Remain Stalled Over Courts And Police – Analysis

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Despite EU and US pressure, the latest round of talks between Belgrade and Pristina failed to produce agreement on the north and an “association” of Serb municipalities. The issue between the two sides has been presented as one over granting an association “executive powers.” This is a false issue since the Ahtisaari Plan provides for [...]

Obama To Return 5% Of His Salary To U.S. Treasury

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President Barack Obama will return 5% of his salary to the U.S. treasury in a show of solidarity with federal workers affected by $85bn in government-wide spending cuts, The Guardian reports. Hundreds of thousands of workers could be forced to take unpaid leave if Congress fails to reach an agreement soon to undo the cuts, [...]

Inspiration Is Contagious: Indians, Workers, Climate, Food And Torture Activists, And A Polar Bear – OpEd

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By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers As we look around the US and the world, we see that people everywhere are in revolt against the growing dominance of big finance capital which exploits the planet and all living things for profit. These activists for peace and justice are inspiring more and more people to rise [...]

Cyprus: Let’s Go Back To Basics – OpEd

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By Adrian Salbuchi Can we have a common-sense explanation of why eurozone finance gone mad threatens to kill the otherwise healthy real economies of European Nations? Much is being said about the Euro crisis exploding today in Cyprus which – like its recent Greek, Irish, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian versions – continues to fester like [...]

The World’s Oldest Hatred – OpEd

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Mankind’s capacity for hatred never fails to impress me. It is the source for the evils of war, genocides, and the long litany of horrors. In the last century it manifested itself with the Armenian genocide by the Turks, the Holocaust by the Nazis, the inter-tribal massacres in Rwanda, and, of course, wherever you found [...]

Pakistan Bogus Degrees Scandal: Former Lawmakers Fall Like Ninepins

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Different Pakistani courts have put big question marks over the political careers of several former lawmakers who had deceived the system by using fake educational certificates to fulfill electoral conditions. The most recent wicket to fall was Pakistan Peoples Party’s Jamshed Dasti who had won a seat in the 2008 general election, according to Dawn [...]

M.J. Akbar: A Renowned Indian Journalist And Author – OpEd

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By Farouk Luqman My first meeting with the famous Indian journalist and author, M.J. Akbar, took place during a so-called colloquium — seminar — at the American University in Cairo. Al-Ahram daily, one of the leading Egyptian newspapers, co-hosted the event. A number of writers from various parts of the world were also invited to [...]

Mark Knopfler Axes Russia Shows, Citing NGO Raids

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Celebrated British rock guitarist and singer Mark Knopfler on Thursday canceled concerts in Moscow and St. Petersburg, citing a wave of spot checks by Russian authorities on prominent rights groups and other nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). “Given the crackdown by Russian authorities on groups including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, I have regretfully decided to [...]

The Totalitarianism Of Universal Background Checks – OpEd

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Finally, some sanity, and from a somewhat unexpected source. The ACLU is concerned about the civil liberties implications of the new Harry Reid Senate bill to establish so-called “universal background checks” for firearms purchases. The organization has tended toward silence on gun rights, but at least now it recognizes aspects of the problem with this [...]

Is Queen Elizabeth Spending Too Much? – OpEd

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By Vivienne Nunis For the diamond jubilee year Queen Elizabeth received 31 million pounds of public money. This year she’ll have 36.1 million to maintain her palaces, pay her footman and travel to official engagements. Amid heavy government rhetoric about austerity the extra 5 million has angered many. Graham Smith leads the lobby group Republic. [...]

Iran Says P5+1 Must Recognize Uranium-Enrichment Right

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Secretary of Iran Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili has called on the P5+1 group of world powers to recognize Iran’s right to peaceful nuclear energy, particularly its right to enrich uranium. Jalili reaffirmed the Iranian nation’s inalienable right to enrich uranium as a signatory of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The Iranian chief negotiator [...]

Kyrgyzstan: Violence Mars Supreme Court Hearing

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iolence in the courtroom during an April 2, 2013 Supreme Court hearing undermined the fairness and integrity of the process. The court overturned the acquittal of an ethnic Uzbek charged with crimes relating to June 2010 ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan and sent his case for retrial. During the hearing, observers in the courtroom repeatedly [...]

Dempsey: North Korea’s Activities Follow Familiar Pattern

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By Claudette Roulo Although they have generated tension in the United States, North Korea’s recent activities are part of a cycle, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said today. “There’s been a pattern throughout the last 25 or 30 years of provocation to accommodation to provocation back to accommodation,” Army Gen. Martin E. [...]

The Koreas On Brink Of War

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North Korea has advised foreign countries including Russia to evacuate their diplomats from Pyongyang. This follows the deployment of two truck-based Musudan missiles close to the country’s coast of the Sea of Japan. Capable of flying to a distance of at least 3,000 kilometers, these weapons now have South Korea, Japan and even the strategically [...]
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