Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has raised the long-term and short-term sovereign credit rating of Cyprus, previously affirmed at ‘CCC’ and ‘C’ respectively, from negative to stable, on expectations the government will agree to the terms of financial support from international lenders, stated the agency. Cyprus will be receiving the first tranche of aid before [...]
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The Louvre was closed Wednesday, April 10 after its workers walked off their jobs to protest what is said to be a rising problem of pickpockets haunting the famed Paris museum’s vast galleries, The Associated Press reports. Louvre spokeswoman Sophie Grange was unable to say when the museum, which normally attracts up to 30,000 visitors [...]
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By Dan Robinson President Barack Obama has formally unveiled his budget for the 2014 fiscal year beginning in October, calling it a fiscally responsible blueprint for middle class jobs and economic growth. But, Republicans have already dismissed the document. The $3.77 trillion budget is Obama’s attempt to move closer to a so-called “grand bargain” he [...]
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By Maria Young US President Barack Obama has barely scratched the surface of his second term in office, a scant 79 days, and already, the finicky American public is practically salivating over speculation that former first lady, US senator, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, will try to succeed him in 2016. “Do I [...]
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By Muzaffer Kutlay In early February 2013, thousands of Bulgarian people staged rallies across Bulgaria accusing electricity companies of corruption and abnormally high electricity bills that exceed the people’s incomes. But later mass demonstrations turned into a non-partisan movement against corrupted state system in the country and subsequently spread to more than 30 cities. Protesters [...]
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By Marta Jiménez Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi says that contrary to a report in the Spanish daily El Mundo, the Bishop-emeritus of Rome, Benedict XVI, is not suffering from any illness. The report in El Mundo by Rocio Galvan quotes statements made by Spanish Vaticanista Paloma Gomez-Borrero in Madrid during the presentation of her [...]
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A former advisor to the governor of Iran’s Fars Province has been arrested, sources told the Green Voice of Freedom today. Jamileh Karimi, a former advisor to the governor of Fars Province during the presidency of Mohammad Khatami, was arrested at her home on Wednesday morning and taken to a prison run by the Intelligence [...]
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By Kate Woodsome Thousands of people rallied outside the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, pushing Congress to help legalize the millions of undocumented foreigners living in the country, while lawmakers inside reportedly neared a consensus on an immigration reform bill. Concerned U.S. citizens, undocumented immigrants and their children spent hours traveling across the country on hundreds of [...]
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A North Korean missile launcher has moved into the firing position with rockets facing skyward, Kyodo reports, citing a Japan defense official. The Japanese government is on high alert, citing indications that Pyongyang might soon launch ballistic missiles at its island neighbor. Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Thursday morning that so far Tokyo was responding [...]
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At least one ballistic missile on the east coast of North Korea is in launching position on its mobile launcher. This was announced today in Tokyo by a Japanese defense official, referring to space imagery intel. As North Korea loaded two of the country’s mobile missile launchers and positioned them to fire off the east [...]
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In ‘Revolution,’ an episode from Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain, his assessment of Margaret Thatcher becomes most unpalatable when he veers towards gushing admiration, yet more importantly he highlights the worst feature of Thatcher’s reign: the extent of her influence. Dancing on the streets in celebration of her death is a bit like celebrating [...]
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“Clean Development Mechanism” schemes drive out African villagers for “carbon offset” profits By Ron Arnold On Sunday, February 28, 2010, armed troops evicted villagers in Uganda’s Mubende district, to make way for a tree plantation. The troops were acting on behalf of a British forestry company that claims it fights global warming. The trees will [...]
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By Jaya Ramachandran Some 600 scientists, government officials and representatives of civil society organizations are gathered in Bonn to carry out the first ever comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of desertification, land degradation and drought. During the meetings, concluding April 19, governments will for the first time also provide concrete data on the status of poverty and [...]
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Indian-Israeli defence cooperation is mainly based on Israeli arms sales to India, which are increasingly critical, in military and economic terms, to both countries. However much Israel might like to expand this cooperation into a larger strategic partnership, India appears content with keeping this relationship limited and tactical. By Richard A. Bitzinger DEFENCE COOPERATION has [...]
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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. The ongoing hunger strike at [...]
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Scenarios implying that Syria will lose its political unity, even its territorial integrity, will render the whole southern neighborhood of Turkey destabilized and open to threats in the short and medium terms. As a matter of fact, some Western strategists’ handling of such scenarios as if they are somehow desirable arouses suspicion. By Suat Kınıklıoğlu [...]
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By D Suba Chandran Few weeks earlier, in this column, there was a discussion on why the youth is angry; titled Angry Young Men (Rising Kashmir, 14 March 2013), the commentary attempted to explore the reasons behind the anger amongst the youth. As a part of this exploration, it is also imperative to analyse why [...]
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The arrival of over 70,000 Indian Peace Keeping Force troops to Sri Lanka followed the signing of the Indo-Lanka Peace Accord on 29 July 1987. Their task was significant for ironically the IPKF was to disarm the very militants that India had provided covert training & arms to. In other words, Indian soldiers were being [...]
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By Rita Bolotskaya Russia has discovered a new Kevin Costner, not only as a famous American actor, director and producer, but also a singer. On April 10, Costner staged a concert together with his Modern West band in Moscow, and the next day, in St. Petersburg. The long awaited spring sun appeared in Moscow on [...]
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The Syrian Air Force has repeatedly carried out indiscriminate, and in some cases deliberate, air strikes against civilians. These attacks are serious violations of international humanitarian law (the laws of war), and people who commit such violations with criminal intent are responsible for war crimes. The 80-page report, “Death from the Skies: Deliberate and Indiscriminate [...]
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