A preliminary parliamentary committee report based in part on witness interviews and given to Human Rights Watch claims top Iraqi officials ordered a raid on a demonstrators’ camp on April 23, 2013, in Haweeja, During the operation, scores of protesters and some soldiers died. The report provides evidence that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the defense [...]
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By Aziz Amin Ahmadzai Despite the fact that our country is a landlocked but still the Geo-strategic, Geo-Economic and Geo-political locality plays a major role in magnetizing both regional and distant powers to have their foot prints inside Afghanistan. Afghanistan is full of natural resources and yet we did not have a stable government to [...]
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A group of descendants of Cape Verde’s small but influential Jewish community are traveling to the West African archipelago to honor the memory of their ancestors and their unique heritage. They will re-dedicate the long-neglected Jewish burial plot within the Varzea municipal cemetery in the islands’ capital Praia that has been restored with financial help [...]
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When foreign nations like Canada, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Netherlands, the EU and USA collaborate to donate 3 NGOs that are often quoted on international arena as the mouthpieces for “democracy”, “transparency” and “truth” our next question unanswered thus far is what have these organizations being doing with Rs.600million given to them? Rs.277million to the Center [...]
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Not long ago, Japan’s official development assistance (ODA) had catapulted Japan to the position of world’s biggest donor. Though the ODA was crucial for the economic development of the recipient countries in Asia, this did not prevent the continuance of poverty. The situation gets murkier as Japan slips from its former position of top donor, [...]
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U.S. President Barack Obama says Israel is justified in protecting itself from advanced weapons shipments to terrorist groups like Hezbollah. In an interview Saturday with the Spanish-language network Telemundo, Obama did not directly comment on reports of an Israeli airstrike against a Syrian missile shipment believed bound for Hezbollah. He said he would let Israel [...]
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By Sunjoy Joshi This month, the possible start of production at the Johan Sverdrup oilfield off the Norwegian shore was cheered in the international press. In 2010, the Swedish Lundin Petroleum had announced that year’s biggest discovery here. Significantly enough, Lundin found oil less than three metres from where the French explorer Elf Aquitaine, now [...]
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In Guajira, the Colombian President, on May 4, announced that Colombia is the country where inflation has remained and continues to be low, as of “[May] the last data shows that inflation is around 2 percent.” President Juan Manuel Santos noted that Latin America is emerging in the world stage as a region where special [...]
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The premature claims by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in its Annual Report for the year 2006-07 that the overall violence in the northeast “has been contained” notwithstanding, the region’s rendezvous with insurgency and instability continued much longer. Till the newly installed Awami League (AL) Government in Dhaka decided in 2009 to put a [...]
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A Singapore-based sports marketing company is at the center of a battle for the future of reform within world soccer days after the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), wracked by two years of scandal over ousted president Mohammed Bin Hammam’s management of the group, elected a new head to complete his term. The newly elected president, [...]
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On May 31, a dynamic group of Moroccan American business leaders are in the process (final phase) to organize a CEO Summit in Washington DC to identify American and Moroccans best companies and high-potential managers and leaders who are seeking joint ventures and business partnerships. Because those with the right talent and experience are more [...]
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Mexico’s human rights officials reported on Friday that 84 print and broadcast reporters and commentators have been murdered in Mexico since 2000, with 20 more Mexican journalists missing since 2005. Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission reports that there have been about 40 attacks on news offices or equipment since 2005. Sadly, only 12 cases saw [...]
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Thousands of Orthodox Christian braved hours of waiting to witness the Holy Fire ceremony in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre – an important annual rite for the Church’s eastern denominations. In what believers regard as a miracle, every year the day before Orthodox Easter, an unlit blue fire from a stone in the Church [...]
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai denies that CIA cash delivered to his office each month was used to buy the support of warlords who could tip the country into another civil war. Karzai insists the cash was used for above-board purposes. Karzai’s statement comes less than one week after US media alleged that Afghan top officials [...]
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By J Jeganaathan India and China recently held a bilateral meeting on Afghanistan, for the first time in Beijing, to chart out a joint plan to secure their multi-billion dollar investments in the war ravaged country whose future remains uncertain post US withdrawal in 2014. This cooperative mechanism raises three important questions: What are the [...]
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By Nayantara Shaunik The European Union (EU) unanimously lifted trade, economic, and individual sanctions imposed on Myanmar at a meeting in Luxembourg on 22 April 2013. The arms embargo, however, will remain in place to be reviewed next year. Following the announcement of temporarily suspended sanctions in 2012 (subject to probation of the progress made), [...]
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By Sohan Prasad Sha Ever since the Constituent Assembly (CA)-I was dissolved in May 2012 without drafting the constitution, holding fresh elections for the CA-II has been Nepal’s political discourse. The tussle amongst political parties has led to a lapse of more than nine months before a new government was formed in March 2013 under [...]
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By Nayantara Shaunik The US ‘pivot’ and its ‘rebalancing’ towards Asia has been perceived as a strategic attempt to re-engage with the region. As the nuances of the policy continue to roll out, the containment of China dynamic, and the consequent role of India as a regional power are inevitable in any analysis. Are the [...]
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By David Spenser Thrust to the center of the world’s attention because of its collaboration with the addition of South Sudan to the international community in 2011, the northern Republic of Sudan is one of the fastest growing and most dynamically expanding emerging economies in Africa and the world, with an impressive growth rate of 6.2% as [...]
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By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed Banias is a Syrian seaside small town. About 50,000 people of various ethnic backgrounds live in the town. There are Sunnis, Alawites and Christians. Banias grabbed headlines twice in the past. The first when there were talks about exporting the Iraqi oil at the time of economic sanctions during the 1990s. [...]
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