By Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg Was it a coincidence that the Syrian regime, the Iraqi prime minister and Hezbollah’s chief all went on the offensive this week simultaneously? Were their actions choreographed by some master player, acting out some scripted roles in Iran? Or were the three acting independently based on local calculations? Were their synchronized [...]
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By Michael Bowman Some U.S. lawmakers say Israeli airstrikes in Syria demonstrate that the United States could take action to protect Syrian civilians from horrific carnage and hasten the fall of President Bashar al-Assad. The Obama administration has provided non-lethal aid to Syrian rebels and humanitarian assistance for those displaced by the country’s civil war. [...]
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UN human rights investigators have spoken to the victims of Syria’s civil war and gathered medical testimonies which point to the Syrian rebels having used sarin nerve gas, while any allegations of its use by the government remain unsubstantiated. The United Nations independent commission of inquiry on Syria has concluded that no evidence of the [...]
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(RFE/RL) — Eight NATO soldiers, including seven Americans and one German, have been killed in three separate incidents in one of the deadliest days for Western troops in Afghanistan for months. Officials from the Western military alliance said in the worst of the incidents, five U.S. troops were killed when they were hit by a [...]
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In 2009, media was abuzz with a revelation that China had replicated the whole of Aksai Chin and a large part of disputed Indo-China border in a large sized sand model over area equivalent to the size of six cricket fields thousands of kilometres away in Huanyangton village near Yinchuan in Ningxia autonomous region (Northern [...]
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A big challenge that Pakistan is confronting among several other problems is increasing religious militancy and terrorism. Militants are challenging the writ of the state and are spreading in the mainstream of the country. Terrorists are killing innocent people and targeting women, children and senior citizens of the state without any discrimination. Our society is [...]
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Israel’s military deployed a rocket defense system to the north of the country on Sunday following reported Israeli airstrikes in neighboring Syria, reports say. According to the Associated Press, the military said it moved two Iron Dome batteries – which protect against short-range rockets – as part of “ongoing situational assessments.” The move came just [...]
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Paraguayan Foreign Minister, Jose Felix Fernandez Estigarribia announced May 3, his government’s support for the Mexican candidate to become the next World Trade Organization (WTO) Director General. During his visit to Geneva, Switzerland, Estigarribia, noted the leadership and vast experience that Mexico’s candidate, Mr. Herminio Blanco offers for this important position with a focus in [...]
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The Texas State House of Representatives on Saturday passed a controversial bill that if signed into law will permit both resident and commuter university and college students to carry concealed firearms if they possess handgun licenses, according to Texas police officials. The proposed law will allow licensed gun owners to carry firearms in classrooms and [...]
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North Korea demanded Sunday that South Korea drop all “military provocations” if it wants to revive a jointly-run business estate which has suspended operations amid high military tensions on the peninsula. The Kaesong Industrial Complex, opened just north of the tense border in 2004 as a rare symbol of cooperation, has fallen victim to the [...]
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The West, Texas chemical and fertilizer plant where at least 15 were killed and more than 200 injured a few weeks ago hadn’t been fully inspected by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration since 1985. (A partial inspection in 2011 had resulted in $5,250 in fines.) OSHA and its state partners have a total of [...]
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Saudi Arabia released yesterday 166 former Al-Qaeda members and repentant militants after they underwent a long-term state-sponsored counseling program (Munasaha) aimed at reintegrating them into society, said Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, spokesman of the Ministry of Interior. The rehabilitation program and release are designed to encourage the individuals to adopt the moderate path of Islam. A [...]
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By Gwynne Dyer John Bellinger is the last person in Washington you’d expect to criticize President Barack Obama for making too many drone strikes. It was he who drafted the (rather unconvincing) legal justification for targeted drone killings when he was legal adviser to the Secretary of State in George W. Bush’s second administration, and [...]
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By Narayani Basu Using social media to build or express opinion is certainly the beginning of something new in most Southeast Asian countries. Some leaders have been quick to recognise the capacity of social networking to spread information and shape public opinion. The exact same benefit has not been lost on the citizens of Southeast [...]
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According to the Xinhua news agency, the Xinjiang authorities have arrested 11 more suspected terrorists in connection with the investigation of a violent incident on April 23,2013, in a town in Kashgar’s Bachu county, 1200 kms south-west of Urumqi, in which 21 persons allegedly belonging to different communities were killed. Since the clash, 19 arrests [...]
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By Chandan Kumar Duarah The recent tension over silk production in Sualkuchi, a small silk weaving town in the state of Assam in northeast India, was the result of a large gap in demand and supply. Hundreds of people who are dependent on the silk industry protested against imported silk products. Protesters also clashed with [...]
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By Rizwan Asghar Over the past few months, there has been an intense debate over the best way for the international community to resolve Iran’s nuclear crisis. With the passage of time, the United States and the European Union are tightening sanctions against the Iranian State. Although the issue is still under negotiation between the [...]
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The recent attacks in Boston offer operational and strategic lessons. Operationally, there is need for better national and international information sharing and understanding of early warning indicators of radicalization. Strategically, the focus of policy responses should be on stronger families, effective self-monitoring of diasporic communities from conflict zones, and the rise of Al Qaedaism. By [...]
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The Philippines and Indonesia, ASEAN’s fastest growing economies, face tough challenges to effectively meet the region’s economic community targets. Both countries appear far from being prepared to dismantle barriers to investments and significantly narrow income gap by 2015. By Julius Cesar I. Trajano Southeast Asia has been gearing up to pursue regional market integration through [...]
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By Nile Bowie If the lawlessness, poverty, and endemic corruption of Afghanistan are indicative of anything, it is that the multi-billion dollar efforts to restore stability in the region have been an abject failure. As the scheduled 2014 reduction of American-led NATO troops moves closer, the occupying forces leave behind a state where none of [...]
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