The U.S. is ready to hold talks with North Korea if it takes steps to renounce nuclear weapons, Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters in Tokyo. Before arriving in Tokyo, the Secretary of State visited Seoul and Beijing where the key topic of the discussions was the situation on the Korean Peninsula. Kerry emphasized [...]
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Iikura Guest House, Tokyo, Japan MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to start the U.S.-Japan joint press conference. First we’d like to call upon Minister Kishida, followed by Secretary Kerry please. Minister Kishida, please. FOREIGN MINISTER KISHIDA: (Via interpreter) Allow me to begin. I’d like to welcome His Excellency Secretary Kerry to Japan. [...]
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A growing number of young people in Kashmir are suffering from emotional despair, low self-esteem, a lack of cultural connectivity and a loss of values. They are angry at their situation and susceptible to political overtures and groups that hope to profit from their situation. If the current negative attitudes that permeate through Kashmiri society [...]
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By Prof. Rodney Shakespeare Evil creeps up unobserved. Its plans are conceived in secret; the first furtive moves are made, and then it is ready to attack. Unless we turn to spot it approaching we can be quickly overwhelmed. The latest approach of evil might not seem much – apparently, just some boring trade agreement. [...]
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By The Executive Committee, International Movement for a Just World (JUST) The International Movement for a Just World (JUST) expresses its disappointment with the stipulations of the Arms Trade Treaty recently passed by the General Assembly of the United Nations. Twenty-three countries abstained from the vote (representing half the world’s population), including Russia, China and [...]
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Medical and security sources quoted by international news agencies said that the death toll from today’s bombing attacks in Iraq has risen to 37, while over 270 people were wounded. There were 21 killed and 73 wounded in Baghdad alone and the capital also suffered two blasts at a checkpoint at the entrance of the [...]
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By Kimberly Hackbarth Approximately three United States Army platoons from Company C “Chaos,” 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, Combined Task Force 4-2, and three platoons from 1st Company, 6th Kandak, 205th Afghan National Army Corps participated in a two-day clearing mission of the Komandek Ghar area in the Panjwa’i district of Afghanistan, April 10-11, according [...]
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The attack on the Mogadishu court building in Somalia by Islamist al Shabab insurgents that killed at least 30 people should be considered a war crime, says an important human rights group. The attack on the Mogadishu court consisted of a suicide bombing followed by additional explosions, and several assailants who stormed the court complex [...]
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The Macedonian Human Rights Movement International (MHRMI) and the Australian Macedonian Human Rights Committee (AMHRC) are calling on the current UN mediator, Matthew Nimetz, to resign his post and “denounce the nonsensical name negotiations.” Following the breakup of Yugoslavia the dispute over the use of the name Macedonia has arisen between Greece and the newly [...]
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U.S. federal investigators searched an apartment in the suburban Boston town of Revere in the effort to find whoever was behind Monday’s twin bombings at the Boston Marathon. At least three people were killed and more than 140 others injured. Investigators removed items from the apartment. No arrests have been made, and authorities are not [...]
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Iran has been struck with a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, which sent tremors throughout the Persian Gulf states and India. At least 13 people have been killed and 50 injured in neighboring Pakistan. Initial reports stated that 40 people were killed in Iran, although a local governor says there have been no deaths. “Fortunately, the earthquake [...]
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Water is vital for life and to attach its great significance, many civilizations have water gods and goddesses to represent lakes, rivers, other sources of water, and seas. It is central to ensure economic growth and enhance development. Access to safe water, its adequate availability for all, and its effective management is the most important [...]
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THE FACTS: As reported by the BBC and the CNN: Three persons, including an 8-year-old child, were killed in two explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on the afternoon of April 15,2013. Hospitals reported at least 144 people are being treated for injuries, with at least 17 of them in critical condition [...]
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By Dr. Subhash Kapila Introductory Observations Reviewing the US-India Strategic Partnership after more than a decade of it being in existence the regrettable conclusion reached is that expectations which India and its strategic community had invested in it have not materialised. The United States, other than rhetoric, has not contributed in any way to reinforcing [...]
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By Jim Garamone The thoughts and prayers of all members of the Defense Department are with the people of Boston and the victims of the marathon bombing yesterday, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said today. Hagel and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appearing before the defense subcommittee of [...]
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Why is the Boston Marathon Bombing being treated by President Barak Obama as a terrorist incident before the authorities have any evidence, suspects, or leads as to who or what group carried out the attack? Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis: “There were no known threats.” The attack was not yet intended to intimidate or coerce [...]
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On Tuesday, the Paraguayan Senate, elected Senator Alfredo Jaeggli as its new President, who will serve in this new capacity for less than three months. The outgoing Senate President, Sen. Jorge Oviedo Matto, the nephew of deceased General Lino Oviedo, has requested permission to relieve the post after the recent scandal of illegal land acquisitions [...]
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By Konstantin Penzev The world is becoming more multipolar. But the United States is only one of its poles. It has a huge navy, and it is striving desperately to gain control over all of the world’s oceans and, therefore, the major cargo routes. The United States is also the world’s financial center. The US [...]
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More than 1.3 million Syrians have fled the war-torn country of Syria, according to the latest figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Syria is over 2 million. People that are staying in their embattled cities are in need of assistance, and Open Doors said [...]
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North Korea’s continuous war of rhetoric in the wake of recent United Nations condemnations may appear absurd to most people at first glance. Yet it actually has its own logic, and it is not a totally crazy logic. In fact, the third nuclear test, the launch of a satellite in last December and the ensuing [...]
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