By Laura Paz Cuban reporter Calixto Ramón Martínez Arias, freed in April after six months detention without trial, has spoken of his time in prison, and the poor conditions suffered by fellow-inmates. Martínez Arias, who reports for the independent news agency Hablemos Press, was arrested in September while investigating allegations that an imported shipment of [...]
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By Asel Kalybekova Seven years ago Aijan was walking home from her waitressing job in central Bishkek with two girlfriends. They did not notice the three men following them. As two men tackled the other women, one dragged Aijan, 21 at the time, into a waiting car. “I was screaming, cursing, and hitting them. […] [...]
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By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers As more people see that the government represents Wall Street and concentrated wealth, instead of them; that the government continues to give the banksters who crashed the economy a break while cutting access to basic necessities, that the government continues to put big energy profits ahead of protecting the planet – more people are [...]
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I used to read the news in the morning and often find myself saying “This can’t be happening!,” which is actually how this news site got its name. But if I were just getting set to create the site these days, I’d have to call our publication “WTF!?,” which is what I find myself saying [...]
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The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Palestine, Professor Richard Falk, came to Lebanon last week on an unofficial visit to survey opinion while fact finding the condition in Palestinian refugee’s camps. It was the Professors first visit to Lebanon since the fateful summer of 1982. Back then, en route by sea to Beirut, which was [...]
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In this week’s address, President Obama said seven years after the real estate bubble burst, our housing market is healing. The administration’s policies have helped responsible homeowners save money on their mortgages and stay in their homes, and the President’s consumer watchdog agency is working to protect consumers from being taken advantage of on their [...]
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(RFE/RL) — Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has declared victory for his center-right party hours after the vote count began in Pakistan’s parliamentary elections. Early unofficial results from the May 11 vote suggest his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e Insaf (PTI) received strong support. Khan is seen as potentially receiving a [...]
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North Cairo Criminal Court Head Judge Mahmoud Kamel postponed the retrial of ousted President Hosni Mubarak, his two sons and his Minister of Interior Habib El-Adly until 8 June. “The postponement gives civil rights lawyers the chance to coordinate on the case,” said Khalaf Bayoomi, a civil rights lawyer. The prosecution and defence had appealed [...]
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Smoke in the White House West Wing caused officials to evacuate reporters and photographers there early Saturday. U.S. President Barack Obama and his family do not live in the West Wing area of the White House, and officials say they were not affected by the evacuation. The smoke was traced to an overheated electrical transformer [...]
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Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif is declaring victory for his conservative Pakistani Muslim League party in Saturday’s parliamentary elections. Votes are still being counted. If official results bear him out, Sharif will likely return to the job he held twice in the 1990s. But no party is expected to win a majority of seats [...]
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Bibi Netanyahu is visiting China where he’s negotiated trade deals, lobbied unsuccessfully for a tougher Chinese diplomatic stance against Iran, and likely cooked up some secret arms deals with the Chinese military. But one of the oddest of his public appearances was at the Great Wall, where he extolled its supposed virtues and promised to [...]
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The Boston Globe reports: The secret transport of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body from Worcester to a small community near Richmond, Va., was set in motion by a woman who said she was upset to hear about protests to his burial and wanted to see an end to the weeklong burial saga. Martha [...]
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ADM opened Friday the doors of a new soybean processing factory in Villeta, Paraguay. The plant will have a capacity to process 3,500 metric tons and has opened over 160 new job position. Mr. Juan Luciano, ADM executive vice president, stated that “[they] are excited to be together with President Franco and the people of [...]
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Today (Saturday) Pakistan went to polls to elect the next National and Provincial Assemblies, those who will rule them over the next five years. Contrary to the initial fears, polling went reasonably well, except in a few constituencies or polling stations. One could see posts on Facebook about irregularities, but mostly pertaining to a few [...]
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Najib Razak entered his second term as Malaysia’s Prime Minister on 6 May 2013 after closely contested general elections. The 13th General Elections reflected a trend of polarisation in voters which has become starkly obvious. Najib’s ruling Barisan Nasional retained power in Sunday’s general election by winning 133 parliamentary seats, a simple majority in the [...]
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Mukesh Ambani being provided a ‘Z’ security cover drew a lot of flak despite having to ‘pay’ for it unlike the six new who join the sea of politicians availing ‘Z-plus’ security from the government and paid out of the exchequer’s funds. The ‘Z’ security cover provided to Reliance Industries Ltd., Chairman Mukesh Ambani recently [...]
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By William Gomes The deadly collapse of a building in Bangladesh late last month made news around the world and brought the country back into the Western media spotlight. On 24th April, Rana Plaza, a eight-story building housing several garment factories, and situated in Savar, 24 km outside the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, was reduced to rubble [...]
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International Relations and Cooperation Deputy Minister Marius Fransman has successfully concluded his two-day working visit to Azerbaijan, where he reviewed bilateral relations and discussed possible cooperation in the field of energy. Fransman, who held bilateral discussions with his counterpart Khalaf Khalafov Aly Oglu, exchanged views on regional and multilateral issues of common interest and looked [...]
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(RFE/RL) — Turkey’s government is blaming Syrian forces for two car bombs that killed 40 people and wounded more than 100 in a Turkish town near the border with Syria. Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said fighters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad’s regime were the “usual suspects” behind the May 11 attack at Reyhanli. [...]
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By Aron Lund for Syria Comment The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which has a great Syria resource site, just released my new paper on the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood. They’re also about to release a second report by Raphaël Lefèvre, a French scholar who recently published a well-received book on the Syrian Ikhwan, called Ashes [...]
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