By Bhaskar Roy The April 15 Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) camp in Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) in the Ladakh sector on the India-China undemarcated border is definitely worrying. It is not the regular intrusion of patrols who come in, drop some markers, and return. It is a camp which can turn into a permanent [...]
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By Mandip Singh The 4057 km long Line of Actual Control (LAC) is the largest undemarcated and disputed land border in the world. It has the unique distinction of being the most ‘peaceful’ border with not a shot being fired over the last 46 years, save a standoff at Nathu La in 1967, when a [...]
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By Namrata Hasija After being the epicentre of SARS (2003) which killed hundreds of people worldwide, China has been hit yet again by a deadly bird flu virus; H7N9. So far the virus has mainly affected eastern China, with 20 dead and 98 infections. The virus has further spread to the northern and central part [...]
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By Zainab Akhter In Pakistan, the participation of women in politics is increasing in general but the presence of women in the political parties as well as in the political structure at the local, provincial, and national levels remains insignificant due to cultural and structural barriers. This election (11 May 2013) will be a bit [...]
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By Jayadeva Ranade The 19-kilometres deep intrusion by an armed patrol of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) into the strategically sensitive area around Daulet Beg Oldi in the Aksai Chin region, and detected on 16 April 2013, has been unprovoked. It is necessary at the outset to dispel any notions that the ongoing over two [...]
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By Teshu Singh The Eighteenth Party Congress Work Report has, for the first time, defined China as a “maritime power” that will “firmly uphold its maritime rights and interests.” The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is embarking on a massive modernization program and transition to a blue-water naval power. Its objective is to become a [...]
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Entekhab website reported today April 30 that former President Mohammad Khatami will not be running in the June presidential elections. After weeks of speculations on whether the senior reformist figure would run in the elections and repeated endorsements by various progressive organizations, Entekhab website reports that Mohammad Khatami announced today that in view of the [...]
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The Constitutional Court has made its decision and President Evo Morales will be able to run for the 2015-2020 presidential mandate in the elections scheduled for December 2014. The decision was taken unanimously by the High Court meeting in ‘plenum’ as announced by its leader, Ruddy Flores. According to the judges, the 2009 Constitution does [...]
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The al-Ansar Brigades says it fired five rockets at Israeli targets on Tuesday in response to an airstrike that killed a 25-year-old Palestinian. An Israeli military spokeswoman was not immediately familiar with any rockets landing in Israel. The brigades, affiliated to the al-Ahrar movement, said the rockets were a response to the killing of Haitham [...]
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By Alsir Sidahmed Something is happening in nearby Africa that the Middle East region, currently at a crossroads, needs to take note of it. A combination of improved political and economic conditions is painting a new image and sowing the seeds of hope for a better future in the African continent. Indeed, the Economist magazine [...]
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By Stephen Collinson The Buck Stops here,” said the famous sign on Harry S Truman’s desk, encapsulating the lonely dilemmas power presents to US presidents, one of which now confronts Barack Obama over Syria. Obama is trapped in a conundrum, partly of his own making, after Syria apparently called his bluff by using chemical weapons [...]
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Besides the hundreds of deaths each year attributed to the war against terrorist group Al Shabaab, far-reaching famine and starvation killed upwards of a quarter-million people in Somalia in 2011, according to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) report completed on Monday. About half of those deaths in 2011 were children five-years-old and [...]
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Federal investigators have reportedly collected evidence with genetic samples from the home of the in-laws of one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers. FBI agents spent Monday visiting the Rhode Island home of the parents of Katherine Russell, the widow of 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Investigators have allegedly found female genetic information, DNA, on a fragment [...]
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Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said Tuesday President Bashar Assad’s government could not be toppled military and his allies would prevent such an outcome from ever happening. The head of Lebanon’s resistance group said the two-year conflict had ruled out the possibility of defeating the Damascus government by military means. Nasrallah, Assad’s closest ally in [...]
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By Konstantin Parshin Russian politicians and state-controlled media outlets have been taking lots of potshots at Tajikistan lately. Some observers believe the barrage of verbal darts may be a precursor to retaliatory measures by the Kremlin for Dushanbe’s delay in ratifying a military basing agreement. Two of Russia’s leading nationalist gadflies — vice premier Dmitry [...]
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By Jay Janson While staring at the New York Times front page photo of the bat-winged nuclear-capable B-2 Stealth Bombers up in the blue sky on their first non-stop long-range mission from the US on their way to a practice sortie to end in a mock bombing drop of inert munitions on a range off [...]
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Vitamin D is crucial to the growth of healthy bones. It is especially important that babies get enough of it during the first twelve months of their lives when their bones are growing rapidly. This is why health care providers frequently recommend that parents give their babies a daily vitamin D supplement. But how much [...]
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It has been a strange month for the citizens of Tupelo in Mississippi. This is Elvis town, and, to be polite about it, frothing with striking eccentricity. Tupelo Police have been kept busy as have papers and the gossip circuit. Did somebody slip rohypnol into the drinks? What Kevin Curtis and Everett Dutschke were up [...]
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By Michael Young It is a fact that the notion of a clash of civilisations, first popularised by the American academic Samuel Huntington, is more relevant than ever in the minds of many people. Especially when it concerns Muslim-Western relations, there is a view that Muslim and Western values are incompatible. And yet Huntington’s argument [...]
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By Sophie Anmuth and Marwa Nasser Clashes in Egypt between Muslims and Copts earlier this month have sparked fears of further sectarian violence for the Egyptian Copt minority, which makes up approximately 10 per cent of Egypt’s population of 90 million. As a foreigner and a native Egyptian living in Cairo, we have both heard [...]
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