Iran: Security Groups Press Reformist Candidates To Quit Elections

May 8, 2013, 11:56 am

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Reformist candidates in the municipal elections are being threatened against running, an opposition website reports. The Kaleme website writes that reformist candidates are being summoned by security bodies to be dissuaded from running in the elections. “While numerous reformists, critics, and progressive former leaders of the country are participating in the city council elections and [...]

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Iran: Political Prisoners At Evin Begin Hunger Strike

May 8, 2013, 11:59 am

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Ten Iranian political prisoners in Evin Prison have begun a hunger strike, the opposition website Kaleme reports. In a report dated Tuesday May 7, Kaleme reported that Saeed Madani, Abdollah Momeni, Abolfazl Abedini Nasr, Siamak Ghaderi, AmirKhosro Delisani, Mohammd Hassan Yousefpour Seifi, Saeed Abedini, Kamran Ayazi, Mohammad Ebrahimi and Pourya Enrahimi are now refusing food, [...]

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Jerusalem Sees Clashes At Al Aqsa Mosque

May 8, 2013, 12:01 pm

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Young Palestinian men clashed Wednesday with Israeli officers and settlers around the al-Aqsa Mosque compound as Israeli forces and police officers denied worshipers entry to the holy site. A Ma’an reporter said hundreds of Israelis gathered at Damascus Gate singing nationalistic songs and filing through the area, most of which was shut off to pedestrians. [...]

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Saudi Arabia: Let All Girls Play Sports, Says HRW

May 8, 2013, 12:03 pm

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Saudi Arabia should allow all girls in the kingdom, including public school students, to play sports in school, according to Human Rights Watch. The government should formally clarify its position on sports for girls in government-funded schools and announce a national strategy to promote sports for girls at all levels of education. The official Saudi [...]

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Iran Intensifies Media Crackdown Ahead Of Elections

May 8, 2013, 12:06 pm

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Iranian authorities have intensified their crackdown on independent media ahead of the country’s presidential election in June, says the New-York based rights group the Committee to Protect Journalists. CPJ said that at least forty Iranian journalists were behind bars on 15 April 2013, making Iran the second leading jailer of journalists worldwide. The organisation’s Middle [...]

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Russia: Surkov Steps Down As Deputy Prime Minister

May 8, 2013, 12:12 pm

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Russia’s influential Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov stepped down on Wednesday, in what one analyst described as the power vertical political system that Surkov once helped to create “swallowing its own fathers.” “The president has accepted Surkov’s resignation,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. He added that Surkov, long known as a powerful Kremlin [...]

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Russia Bidding Farewell To Soviet Nukes – Analysis

May 8, 2013, 12:16 pm

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By J C Suresh Russia is in the midst of a comprehensive modernization of its nuclear forces that began more than a decade ago. The upgrade, which involves replacing all Soviet-era ballistic missiles with fewer improved missiles, is now approaching a point at which the number of modern weapons will shortly exceed the number of [...]

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Georgia: No Major Constitutional Reform Planned Before Elections

May 8, 2013, 12:22 pm

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(Civil.Ge) — There is not enough time to carry out major constitutional reform before the October, 2013 presidential elections, Parliamentary Chairman Davit Usupashvili said, which means that the new constitutional provisions, adopted in 2010, will go into force as scheduled after this year’s presidential election, significantly increasing PM’s authority at the expense of cutting presidential [...]

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Bosnian Serb Secession: Could It Ever Happen? – Analysis

May 8, 2013, 12:25 pm

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Bosnia and Herzegovina’s political geography creates a perpetual propensity for the country to spin apart, and at the current time nobody has a realistic plan for mitigating the damage caused when this eventually comes to pass. By Matthew Parish In one sense Republika Srpska, the Serb-dominated half of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is already independent. Bosnia’s [...]

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The Shadow Of Radicalism In Central Asia – Analysis

May 8, 2013, 1:49 pm

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Extremist movements have been constantly subject to threat scenarios since 1990s. The roots of this situation often presented as a fear factor by states of the region, Russia and the West date back to old times. By Gulay Mutlu The historical development of radicalism in Central Asia being disputable, the rise of Islamic movements after [...]

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The Arab Movements: From The Spring To Polarisation – OpEd

May 8, 2013, 1:53 pm

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By Ihsan Bal USAK (the International Strategic Research Foundation) and the leading American thinktank, the RAND Corporation, held a very important joint workshop in Istanbul on 24 April on Democracies Being Born out of the Ashes of Authoritarian Regimes: The Path The Arab Countries Will follow during their Transition. The analysis contained in the presentations [...]

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The Tears Of Benghazi – OpEd

May 8, 2013, 2:21 pm

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The Hollywood version of heroes is that of large, muscular men who show no fear and little emotion after a confrontation with the enemy. The images that come to mind are Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwartzenegger, and Bruce Willis who, while not a muscleman, has the swagger we associate with movie heroes. On Wednesday, on Capitol [...]

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Europe Day: Any Reasons To Celebrate? – OpEd

May 8, 2013, 2:25 pm

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By Nikita Sorokin This year’s Europe Day, the holiday of peace and unity across the EU, will be somewhat dimmed as Brussels-declared European unity is not that obvious anymore. Ideas behind the European Union were put forward in 1950 by the French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman whose Declaration of May 9, proposed to pool French [...]

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LG To Roll Out New Optimus G Hardware In May

May 8, 2013, 2:27 pm

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LG will unveil a new Optimus handset this month, widely believed to be the flagship Optimus G2, Digital Spy said. The South Korean firm has distributed media invites to an event scheduled for May 30, where the new smartphone will be formally announced. The press invitation is adorned with a side-on image of a slimline [...]

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Ferrari To Limit Sales Of High-Performance Street Cars

May 8, 2013, 2:29 pm

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Ferrari says it will limit sales of its high-performance street cars this year to below 7,000 units to protect the brand’s aura of exclusivity, The Associated Press reported. Chairman Luca Montezemolo says that means sales will decline overall by “more than 1 or 2 percent” from last year’s sales of 7,318 cars. Sales in the [...]

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Europe Day Takes Ironic Turn As EU Staff Strike

May 8, 2013, 2:32 pm

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(EurActiv) — A day before Europe Day (9 May), held yearly to celebrate the peace and unity in Europe, 3,500 staff of the European institutions held a strike against budgets cuts that may see their salaries cut by 60% over the next 15 years. Europe Day marks the anniversary the speech given in Paris in [...]

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Burma’s Human Rights Commission Urged To Probe Rights Abuses In Ethnic Areas

May 8, 2013, 2:37 pm

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By Zin Linn The Palaung Women’s Organization (PWO) has urged Myanmar [Burma] National Human Rights Commission to investigate human rights violations, including sexual violence, by Burma army troops. Burma’s ethnic minorities have been suffering human rights abuses through brutal military operations in the name of national unity since the 1950s. Attacks on these resource rich [...]

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US Diplomat: Military Help Sought During Benghazi Attack

May 8, 2013, 9:42 pm

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By Michael Bowman A senior State Department official has criticized America’s security response during last year’s deadly attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, and has expressed dismay over the Obama administration’s initial characterization of the assault as a popular protest rather than a terrorist act. Three officials testified before the House of Representatives’ Oversight [...]

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India And China: Defining Undefined Relations In A Defined Century – Analysis

May 8, 2013, 10:53 pm

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Officially, both Indian and Chinese authorities have admitted on last Monday that they have agreed to pull their forces back to the earlier positions held before the standoff. In a statement India’s foreign ministry spokesperson, Syed Akbaruddin said, “The governments of India and China have agreed to restore status quo ante along the Line of [...]

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Ohio Suspect Ariel Castro Charged With 4 Counts Kidnapping, 3 Counts Rape

May 8, 2013, 10:57 pm

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Cleveland authorities have announced that charges will be focused against Ariel Castro, but not his brothers Pedro and Onil, in the kidnapping and forced captivity case of Amanda Berry, Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus. Cleveland authorities have announced that charges will be focused against Ariel Castro, but not his brothers Pedro and Onil, in the [...]

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