Iran’s currency suffered another steep drop after the nuclear talks in Almaty failed to achieve any palpable results. Reports from Iran indicate that the dollar was traded on Sunday March 7 for 1,500 rials more than on the previous day. Similarly, the price of gold rose by four percent. Some analysts had attributed the recent [...]
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By Arakan Rohingya National Organisation Arakan, Burma Our attention has been drawn to the news item dated 6th April 2013 of the Daily Independent, Dhaka, Bangladesh under the caption, “180 Rohingyas arrested in Cox’s Bazar”. We strongly reject the news which says, “Arakan Rohingya National Organization (ARNO) activists gave money to thousand Rohingyas on refugee [...]
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Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died on Monday at the age of 87 following a stroke, her spokesman announced. “It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother, Baroness Thatcher, died peacefully following a stroke this morning,” Lord Bell said. British Prime Minister David Cameron called her a “great [...]
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By Bojana Barlovac Serbia says it will seek a new round of talks with Kosovo, blaming the failure of the last round on the lack of safeguards offered to the Kosovo Serbs. Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Aleksandar Vucic, said that the government will ask for a new round of Belgrade-Pristina talks following the breakdown of [...]
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South Korea clarified Monday it had seen no fresh signs of North Korea preparing a fourth nuclear test, after earlier saying that activity was intensifying at the communist state’s main atomic site. “There are activities” at the North’s Punggye-ri test site, but they “appear to be usual routine activities”, Defence Ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok said. [...]
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Argentina and Iran agreed to establish a “truth commission” aimed at analyzing responsibility for the 1994 attacks on a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. The rapprochement, however, follows a larger rationale, argue Shawn VL and Giorgio Cafiero. By Shawn VL and Giorgio Cafiero Iran’s alleged role in the 1994 attack on the Jewish-Argentina Mutual [...]
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South Stream is an ambitious endeavor of Russia’s energy giant Gazprom to get direct access to the EU energy market. It is portrayed and criticized by some politicians in Europe as a “dangerous” gateway to a broader economic relationship with Moscow. Remarkably enough, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Hungary have one-by-one opted for the project. [...]
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It’s been almost two decades since the “Kitty Hawk incident” (1994) and the display of American naval power in the Yellow Sea. Since then, no US aircraft carrier has had a presence north of the East China Sea. But that will come to an end shortly as the U.S.S. George Washington is on its way [...]
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It is only uncommon that the appointment of an ambassador to a ‘non-plum’ country generates so much of brokering within New Delhi’s power centres. But in the past months, the selection process with regard to Myanmar did, providing thereby many interpretations jostling to capture the full picture. This was seen, as several newspaper reporters projected, [...]
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Although Ron Paul has left Congress, he will likely remain an influential voice: the libertarian-leaning Texas Republican has launched his own homeschooling curriculum for students, which he hopes will be “revolutionary” in restoring limited government. “We cannot expect a federal government controlled school system to provide the intellectual ammunition to combat the dangerous growth of [...]
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European Union officials should press the Turkmen foreign minister for concrete human rights improvements during his meetings in Brussels on April 9, 2013. Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov is scheduled to meet in Brussels with EU High Representative Catherine Ashton and other high-level EU officials to discuss energy issues and Turkmenistan’s potential accession to the World [...]
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By Scott Bobb U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Israel for talks aimed at reviving Middle East peace negotiations. Kerry is meeting with senior Israeli officials Monday after visiting Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas Sunday night. Secretary of State John Kerry attended ceremonies in Jerusalem marking the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were [...]
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By Fakir Mohan Pradhan Even as the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) central committee member Arvind Singh alias Arvindji continued to fox the Security Forces (SFs) pursuing him in Jharkhand, the Maoists, in an attack in broad daylight on April 4, 2013, killed five personnel of the Jharkhand Armed Police (JAP) near a crowded bus [...]
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By Giriraj Bhattacharjee A total of 2,009 cadres of the Dilip Nunisa faction of Dima Halam Daogah (DHD-N) surrendered on March 9, 2013. Those who surrendered include 691 armed cadres (39 of them women) and 1,318 overground workers known as ‘public relations officers’. The cadres deposited a total of 144 assorted weapons, including AK-series assault [...]
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By Dr. S.Chandrasekharan. On an appeal filed by the team of lawyers defending Nasheed’s case, the Chief Judge of the High Court, Ahmed Shareef ordered the special court formed to try former President Nasheed’s case to halt the trial until it decides on the legitimacy of the panel of judges appointed to examine the case. [...]
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By Dr. Subhash Kapila Russia’s strategic pivot to the Asia Pacific indicated in his address at the APEC Meet in September 2012 at Vladivostok has all the ingredients of emerging as a strategic game-changer in the highly militarised region dominated by any number of conflictual flashpoints from North Korea down to the South China Sea [...]
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By Vijay Sakhuja During March 2013, there was a port call to Vishakhapatnam in India’s eastern coast by the Myanmar Navy flotilla, comprising of a frigate and a corvette. While India is opening up and encouraging such interactions, what is significant about this port call from the Myanmar Navy? Are defence ties between the two [...]
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By Sabahat Khan The Arab Spring represents a series of uprisings which had less in common with each other than its broad-brush characterization suggested and each uprising in its own way pointed to future crises born out of tribal, sectarian, or ideological rivalries. It is now apparent that the Arab Spring set off a complex [...]
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Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has broken his arm while riding a bicycle during a visit to Turkey, Democracy&Freedom Watch said. He is undergoing medical treatment in Istanbul and all his meetings are postponed. The accident was reported by Turkish media, and the president’s Facebook page later confirmed it with a brief message: “Mikheil Saakashvili was [...]
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Seven people were killed in clashes between army deserters and tribesmen in south Yemen on Monday, April 8, officials and residents said, in another sign of disorder in a country of multiple conflicts next to oil export giant Saudi Arabia, according to Reuters. Restoring security in Yemen is a priority for the United States and [...]
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