By Luke Coffey In May, representatives from the eight Arctic countries that serve as permanent members of the Arctic Council will meet in Kiruna, Sweden, for the Arctic Council’s State of the Arctic meeting. At this time the applications of 14 countries and organizations seeking observer status in the Arctic Council will be considered. Among [...]
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In the morning of April 5th, the President of the Republic of Paraguay, Dr. Federico Franco Gomez gave an extensive speech and introduced his government’s recent reforms before the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS). Dr. Franco was invited as a guest of honor by the Secretary General of the OAS, Jose [...]
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By Dr. Teck Young Wee Below are excerpts of an interview by Dr. Hakim of Nao Rozi, an Afghan National Army veteran, and now a member of the Afghan Peace Volunteers. Excerpts of Video Transcript: “Veterans commit suicide from a good conscience” – Nao Rozi Nao Rozi : I was an Afghan soldier for 2 [...]
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Hacktivist group Anonymous has launched a second massive cyber attack against Israel, dubbed #OpIsrael. The collective threatens to “disrupt and erase Israel from cyberspace” in protest over its mistreatment of Palestinians. Dozens of Israeli websites were unavailable as of early Sunday. In a video message posted on YouTube, Anonymous said that on April 7, “elite [...]
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A top South Korean national security official said Sunday that North Korea may be preparing a missile test or another provocative act this week by warning it soon will be unable to guarantee diplomats’ safety in Pyongyang. Kim Jang-Soo – chief national security adviser to President Park Geun-Hye said a test-launch or other provocation could [...]
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Israel is, of course, fairly remote from any part of the north Atlantic, so it would be reasonable to wonder why it should have any sort of connection with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). But then NATO has itself travelled a fair distance since 1949 when, after much discussion and debate, the North Atlantic [...]
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Nations and nation systems did not emerge without a history. Nations like Sri Lanka have a rich cultural and historical heritage they should not feel shy about. The modern day liberal secularists would profane a different notion but against the heritage of the past what have these liberals given for history to remember? International diplomacy [...]
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Al-Qaeda’s chief, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has called on Muslims from Arab Spring countries to unite and form one giant Islamic state, AP reported on Sunday. In a series of online announcements the leader of the terrorist group also warned France about its intervention in Mali, where the Islamic Maghreb branch of al-Qaeda was attempting to take [...]
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US Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday that Turkey can play a major role in the Middle East peace process, calling it a “vibrant and energised” country. “Turkey can be a key, an important contribution to the process of peace in so many ways,” Kerry told reporters. “A country as vibrant and energised as [...]
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The forthcoming Pakistani elections to the National Assembly on May 11, 2013, should be of close interest to India. Will the elections pave the way for another five years of civilian rule uninterrupted by Army intervention or will there be new instability prompting the Army to intervene? It is too early to answer this question, [...]
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By Kashinath Pandit The hypocrisy of the workable alliance between NC and Congress in the State lies exposed in the aftermath of Afzal Guru’s execution. Neither the PDP, nor its allies on the Opposition benches, or the majority of the NC ruling party members hid their sympathy with Afzal Guru. Indeed, for many MLAs, both [...]
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I wrote the following article for the “Close Guantánamo” website, which I established in January 2012 with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required to be counted amongst those opposed to the ongoing existence of Guantánamo, and to receive updates of our activities by email. As the hunger strike continues [...]
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The company behind the world’s largest online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, claims a French intelligence agency summoned one of its volunteers, forcing him to delete content after the website turned down their request to remove ‘classified’ information. French Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence (Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur) demanded that Wikipedia management delete a part of an [...]
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By Inés Benítez Based on the number of trials conducted and the area of land planted, Spain accounts for 42 percent of all field trials of genetically modified crops in the EU, according to figures from the European Commission Joint Research Centre. “Experimentation is being carried out on a wide scale with no knowledge of [...]
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(CORDIS) — Bones have an amazing ability to regenerate after suffering slight damage. Past a certain point however, this natural healing process is really put to the test. When breaks are too big, bones need a helping hand…or a screw or a nail. Despite huge advances in regenerative medicine, metal inserts are still used to [...]
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(EurActiv) — The offshore financial industry has been hit by the leak of 2.5 million secret bank accounts of companies and nationals in 170 countries to 86 journalists worldwide, under the leadership of the International Consortium of investigative journalism. Publication began this week. The leak of two million emails and other documents, mostly from the [...]
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By Rodolfo C Estimo Jr. Saudi Arabia is fast emerging as a regional hub for the automobile industry. The signs are clear. Big and well-known players like Jaguar Land Rover have come to manufacture cars in the Kingdom. Jaguar Land Rover is a subsidiary of India’s Tata Group, which also manufactures passenger cars. This comes [...]
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Rosneft President and Chairman of the Management Board Igor Sechin went to Yerevan with a working visit to discuss the prospects of strategic cooperation in the energy sector with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan. The Armenian leader expressed confidence that Rosneft’s entering the Armenian market would create incentives for a further expansion of the economic cooperation [...]
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My answer is “No” but I think the question needs to be asked. It was provoked in my mind by a recent Ynet op-ed article by Ziv Lenchner, described as a left-leaning, Jewish Israeli artist. The headline over his piece was Israelis to Obama – we don’t care, don’t bother us. Lenchner’s article, published on [...]
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The Final Almaty statement by the Islamic Republic of Iran Iran’s top negotiator Saeed Jalili issued the following statement at the end of four rounds of talks with P5+1 in Almaty: I start by thanking the brotherly government and people of Kazakhstan for hosting the second round of Almaty talks between the Islamic Republic of [...]
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