UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned the crisis on the Korean peninsula may become “uncontrollable,” BBC News reported. He once again urged North Korea to tone down its “provocative rhetoric” and to keep open a joint North-South Korean industrial complex. Also on Tuesday, April 9 North Korea warned foreigners in South Korea to take evacuation [...]
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That America created only 88,000 jobs in March, less than half the number anticipated, was jolting news, indicating the recovery that the White House has boasted about may not be at hand. But in that March jobs report, there was more disturbing news. While unemployment fell to 7.6 percent, the reason it fell is alarming. [...]
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By Col. R. Hariharan Why the North Korean stand off? There are both contemporary and historical reasons behind the North Korean threat to launch an offensive against South Korea and strike at U.S. bases in Guam and Hawaii. North Korea (Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea –DPRK) and South Korea have been having an uneasy relationship [...]
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Until recently Tunisia was considered to be a minor league and relatively underexplored venue in Africa’s rapidly expanding oil & gas scene. This situation has quickly changed with new bid rounds and forced relinquishments creating an opportunity for new companies to come in. Major American E & P companies like Shell have jumped at the [...]
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Landmines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted by communist New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in the past 10 years have killed 113 people and injured 262 others, the military said today. “The noted increasing trend on the use of IEDs by the NPA shows that the insurgents are shifting strategies due to their dwindling numbers [...]
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By Cheryl Pellerin Through its actions over the past weeks, the United States has shown that it is committed to maintaining peace and security on the Korean Peninsula and throughout the Asia-Pacific region, Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter said yesterday. Speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Carter said the United States is [...]
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By Gurmeet Kanwal Once again India has been forced to abstain from voting in favour of a discriminatory global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) – after its unpleasant experience with the NPT and the CTBT in the past. The treaty, aimed at laying down common international standards and limiting the illicit sale of conventional arms, was [...]
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By Giuliana Sgrena Tunisian families have begun to dread knocks on their doors, or late-night phone calls, fearing that the messenger will bear the news that their son has been smuggled out of the country to join the “jihad” in Syria. Families here told IPS that they have no way of contacting their sons once [...]
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History is nothing if not interesting, and that it most definitely is. Today, Palestinian refugees are being severely punished in Lebanon and deprived of their most elementary civil right to work or to even own a home. This massive volition of international humanitarian law is partially being inflicted out of revenge for some Palestinian refugees’ [...]
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An earthquake has almost completely destroyed three cities in Iran, IRNA news agency reported. Dozens of people were killed and over 800 injured. The epicenter of the 6.3 magnitude earthquake was 90 kilometers from the city of Bushehr, near Iran’s nuclear power plant. According to the agency, neither the station nor the houses of its [...]
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U.S. President Barack Obama plans to introduce a budget proposal he says is aimed at stimulating the middle class and introducing reforms aimed to cut deficits. Obama will send the proposal to Congress on Wednesday. The proposal has drawn criticism from Republicans and Democrats. Republicans led by the House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner are [...]
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The Arab Spring could not be avoided; the old geopolitics of the region is permanently changed. Hence we must begin re-imagining the moral map of the Middle East, considering that we are at the beginning of a new era; one in which the problems that the new political institutions have to deal with are enormous. [...]
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By Alexey Eremenko Radioactive fallout from South Korean nuclear plants blown up by enemy saboteurs could be, for Russia, the worst consequence of a Korean war – should one happen, Russian analysts said. “You could have five or six Chernobyls take place over a relatively small territory,” said Alexander Zhebin, who heads the Center for [...]
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Jack Teitel, the ‘flower’ of American Jewry, has received two life sentence from an Israeli court for his acts of terror against Palestinians, Christian missionaries, gays, Israeli leftists, and even the Israeli police. This is the final act in a drama that began nearly two decades ago ,when he made aliyah from his Florida home. [...]
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By Marija Ristic Ahead of a UN debate on war crime tribunals, Serbia has again asked the UN to allow Serbs convicted by the Hague Tribunal to serve their sentences in Serbia. On the eve of a UN debate supported by Serbia, the country’s Prime Minister, Ivica Dacic, has asked the UN Secretary General, Ban [...]
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As a rule, libertarians incline toward wishful thinking. They constantly pluck little events, statements, and movies from the flow of life and cry out, “Eureka! Libertarianism is on the march!” With some of my friends, this tendency is so marked that I have become amused by its recurrent expression—well, there he goes again! Some of [...]
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Egyptian authorities should bring to justice those responsible for the sectarian violence that left five Christians and one Muslim dead on April 5, 2013, in the town of Khosus, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should also investigate police failure to intervene effectively to prevent an escalation of violence outside the main Coptic cathedral [...]
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By Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund Economic Club of New York, New York, April 10, 2013 Introduction: Status of the global economy Good afternoon. Let me begin by thanking the Economic Club of New York—and especially chairman Roger Ferguson and president Jan Hopkins—for inviting me today. I know that Wendell Wilkie—a presidential candidate [...]
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The new US Secretary of State, John Kerry, has tentatively dipped his toe into the murky waters of the Arab-Israeli dispute, and has already had it nipped rather badly − not once, but several times. Barack Obama returned to the White House at the start of his second presidential term clearly determined to make headway [...]
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By Commodore R. S. Vasan (Retd.) It is difficult not to come across print or a visual media report that does not carry news almost on a daily basis, about the intrusion of the Indian fishermen in to Sri Lankan waters and being apprehended by the SL Navy. That the Indian fishermen are violating the [...]
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