As of last night 1,401,435 Syrians had registered as refugees in the region or were pending registration. This corresponds to 30 percent more than the total envisaged under the current Regional Refugee Response Plan by end June 2013 – for which around 55 per cent of funding has so far been received. An updated plan [...]
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By Nicolai Due-Gundersen The Kingdom of Bahrain is a small island-nation in the Middle East, located in between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Bahrain. Bahrain’s closest neighbors include the dominant Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the smaller nation of Qatar. Bahrain’s main investment sectors are characterized by booming financial and banking services. Hence, [...]
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In this week’s address, President Obama said that because Republicans in Congress allowed a series of harmful, automatic budget cuts—called the sequester—to take effect, important programs like Head Start are now forced to reduce their services. After travelers were stuck for hours in airports and on planes this past week, members of Congress passed a [...]
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Authorities have arrested a man living in the southern U.S. state of Mississippi in connection with poisoned letters sent to President Barack Obama and others. The FBI says 41-year-old Everett Dutschke was arrested at his home in Tupelo “without incident” early Saturday. Federal agents had searched his home and business earlier in the week as [...]
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Two engineers and two factory owners of the badly constructed building that collapsed in Bangladesh have been arrested. The worst tragedy to ever hit the country’s garment industry killed 352 people; up to 900 workers may still be missing. “They can be rescued by today. We will be able to bring them out after we [...]
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Short Biography of Mr. Genci Muçaj The Honorable Genci Muçaj is a diplomat, academic and a distinguished entrepreneur, with a long and successful leadership experience in all these professional endeavors. Ambassador Muçaj was born in February 3rd, 1969, in Tirana, Albania, married with two children, with ages of ten and fifteen. In December 2012, was [...]
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I have just received a brief message from a credible source inside Guantánamo, about the situation in the prison today, which I wanted to make available because it exposes how four prisoners are close to death, as a result of the prison-wide hunger strike that is on its 80th day, and yet the guard force [...]
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(RFE/RL) — Investigations are continuing into the Boston Marathon bombings. FBI agents are combing through a garbage dump near the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where the sole surviving suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was a student. Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen who immigrated to the United States as a child, is charged with plotting the April 13 [...]
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The White House has said more evidence was needed to confirm the Syrian government used chemical weapons against its people. President Barack Obama addressed the issue in the Oval Office, where he met with Jordan’s King Abdullah II, though he didn’t commit to any action in Syria. He said that he has been very clear [...]
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In the regional dispute related to the topic of the Sahara, Morocco maintains the course set by the Security Council with the primary goal of achieving a mutually acceptable political solution, and all this through negotiation. In this respect, Morocco has not wavered in his efforts, acting in good faith and with all available means [...]
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To expect accountability from the Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar is to expect the man to act on principle. If that came from the head of a force that’s being collectively flayed for insensitivity, it would have quelled public anger to a huge extent. But then, for that, the man in question would have to [...]
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In April 26th, El Salvadoran Deputy Minister for Development Cooperation, Jaime Miranda, attended the V Summit of the Association of Caribbean States (Asociación de Estados del Caribe -AEC), held among the Heads of States and Governments in Haiti. Under the guidelines of ACS, some of the topics raised in the meeting were the importance of [...]
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The death toll in a prison riot on Saturday in the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosi has risen to 17, with 65 wounded. According to police, a conflict had erupted between the inmates Saturday, the causes of which are being investigated. State police were able to re-establish control by morning. According to one [...]
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Amid the generic expression of despair that Delhi has turned into a crime capital of the country, it is important to bust a myth in the beginning of this piece. In terms of number of crimes registered per 100,000 residents, the national capital is not the worst city in the country. Smaller cities like Kochi [...]
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New Syrian government air and missile strikes are causing high civilian casualties in opposition-controlled areas of Aleppo in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said today. A Human Rights Watch team in northern Aleppo province has investigated recent attacks that killed scores of civilians and destroyed dozens of civilian homes without damaging [...]
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Russian authorities have detained 140 people suspected of ties to Islamic extremism at a mosque in Moscow. Russian state media quoted a Russian Federal Security Service statement as saying those detained Friday included more than 30 citizens of other countries. But the statement did not specify which nations. The detentions reportedly involve people suspected of [...]
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British Prime Minister David Cameron should challenge the deteriorating human rights record of the United Arab Emirates during a state visit by the country’s president to Britain next week, a coalition of seven international human rights organizations said today. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan will begin a rare state visit to the United Kingdom [...]
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Everyone, it seems, has a hollow space in his makeup. Perhaps he has no faith, no hope, no charity; no sense that he is basically a lord or a priest or a peasant; no comfort in knowing his personal latitude and longitude in the great scheme of things; no ethical compass to give him his [...]
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The best way to understand the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) is to realize that it confers large benefits on some people and imposes large costs on others. If you are one of the ones who will qualify for expanded Medicaid, you will get something for nothing. Although there are quality issues and access problems, including [...]
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Claims from Chinese officials that the majority of buildings built after the devastating 2008 earthquake didn’t collapse in Saturday’s magnitude-7 temblor in Sichuan faced criticism from rights groups and quake survivors as the province was rocked by a smaller tremor on Friday. Friday’s 4.8 magnitude earthquake jolted Sichuan’s Yibin city, injuring 61 people, just six [...]
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