By Vanit Sharma Today, India’s rise as a global actor in world affairs, has positioned it to experience steady economic growth for the past decade. Within the past 24 months, India remained the largest recipient of bilateral aid from the United Kingdom, after being overtaken by the East African nation of Ethiopia. The nation received [...]
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Paraguay’s exports cannot continue to use the Argentinean route to reach the Pacific Ocean. President Kirchner has historically been unreliable and has obstructed Paraguay’s international commerce initiatives. For a landlocked nation such as Paraguay, Bolivia has emerged as the best and more efficient option for Paraguayan exports in order to reach the ever expanding markets [...]
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In the aftermath of 9/11 and the run-up to the Iraq war, the Bush administration raised the specter of terrorists using weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Indeed, then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice made the case for toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime by ominously stating, “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” And [...]
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By Dr. D Gnanagurunathan The debate about the ‘emergence’ or ‘re-emergence’ of India as an important player at the world stage goes on the one hand. On the other, the Indian state is confronted with a major challenge, as regions (provinces) are asserting their rights and able to influence the foreign policy discourse. In addition, [...]
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In the aftermath of 9/11, there were many political leaders and commentators who said that the attacks should serve as a warning that terrorists had the potential to cause even greater harm — in the most alarmist scenarios through the use of nuclear weapons. All the evidence over the last decade suggests however that as [...]
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By Christopher Boian A week ago, most Americans had never heard of the North Caucasus. But the region in southern Russia has abruptly filled TV screens in US homes after it became part of the Boston Marathon bombing story, and experts warn such speed reporting on a complex subject can distort as much as it [...]
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The Italian marines, who are facing trial for the killing of two Indian fishermen, seem to be having a good time in India. Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone Saturday attended a birthday party at the Vatican Embassy in New Delhi. The occasion was the 50th birthday party of Monseigneur Gian Franco, Counsellor at the Embassy. [...]
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By Aisha Habli Lebanon’s second largest city Tripoli has a violent reputation due to ongoing conflict in the neighborhoods of Bab al Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen. Previously one neighbourhood, these two communities were divided along political lines during Lebanon’s 15-year civil war (1975-1990). And due to Lebanon’s complicated political history with Syria, tensions have been [...]
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By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed A lot has been said and written about the Boston bombings, analyzing all aspects of the incident. Racism and political hostility have also been discussed. But this time, none of these are valid reasons that triggered the attack. Is it a matter of age and the recklessness of the suspected young [...]
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By Dr. Abdullah al-Ahsan Bangladesh has recently captured headlines in international media outlets thanks to its International War Crime Tribunal (ICT) which has started delivering verdicts on what it calls crimes committed in 1971 when Bangladesh was born out of a bloody war. These verdicts have ranged from death sentence to life imprisonment. The Tribunal [...]
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By Keith Bolender Of all the components to the United States hostile strategy against Cuba, nothing raises the ire of the Castro government more than its inclusion on the State Department’s list of states that sponsor terrorism. The designation is seen by Havana as an impediment towards improving relations and as a cruel hypocrisy that [...]
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By Joharah Baker The Israeli government and settler mentality of “What is mine is mine and what is yours is mine, too” has always been a problem. Their conquest of most of Palestine in 1948 was because they were “regaining their biblical homeland”; consequently, this included the West Bank and Gaza, which it only managed [...]
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Russian law enforcement officials denied on Tuesday the existence of an alleged “secret” video showing what happened during a fatal accident on the Russian Navy’s Nerpa nuclear attack submarine in November 2008, in which 20 people died. The Akula II-class submarine was undergoing sea trials when its freon gas-based fire suppression system was accidently triggered, [...]
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By Cheryl Pellerin On his inaugural trip to the Middle East since taking office, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel met here today with Saudi Crown Prince and Defense Minister Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said in a statement. During their talks, Hagel and his Saudi counterpart reiterated the longstanding, steadfast relationship [...]
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U.S. federal prosecutors have dropped charges against a Mississippi man suspected of sending poisoned letters to President Barack Obama and to a U.S. senator. A lawyer for Paul Kevin Curtis say investigators have turned their attention to another suspect whose house they already have searched. The attorney said investigators could find no evidence that Curtis [...]
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The report of two explosions at the White House on Tuesday was not real, but the stock market free fall that briefly followed, was. “Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured,” read the tweet sent out on the Associated Press (AP) Twitter account at 1:07 p.m. EDT (1707 GMT). Within [...]
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A future terrorist is as real as a unicorn, yet I guarantee if Homeland Security went to a Congressional appropriations committee and asked for additional funding to improve their ability to find future terrorists, legislators would approve the request and double the amount. To imagine that there could be such a person as a future [...]
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Spanish police on Tuesday arrested two “suspected terrorists” believed to be linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Spain’s interior ministry said. One man, an Algerian, was arrested in the eastern provinceof Zaragoza and the other, a Morrocan, in the southern province of Murcia, after a joint operation between Spain, France andMorocco, a ministry statement [...]
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By Cheryl Pellerin Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel met here today with Jordan’s Lt. Gen. Prince Faisal bin Al Hussein and Gen. Mashal al-Zaben, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Jordanian armed forces, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said in a statement. The United States and Jordan — which Hagel said is one [...]
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The Indonesian government should urgently amend its laws so that military personnel accused of human rights abuses are tried in civilian courts, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. Problems with military prosecutions have been evident in the handling of the case against members of the elite special forces for the execution-style murder of four detainees at [...]
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