By Claudette Roulo Air Force Gen. Philip M. Breedlove took command of U.S. European Command here today during a ceremony at the command’s headquarters with Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter presiding. Breedlove succeeds Navy Adm. James G. Stavridis, the first sailor to hold the command. Stavridis is retiring following a 37-year career and has been [...]
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The United States government is investing tens of millions of dollars each year on offensive hacking operations in order to exploit vulnerabilities in the computers of its adversaries, Reuters reports. According to an in-depth article published Friday by journalist Joseph Menn, the US and its Department of Defense contractors are increasingly pursuing efforts to hack [...]
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Two major terrorists’ attacks took place almost simultaneously: in Boston, two Chechen terrorists set off bombs during the annual Boston Marathon killing three people and injuring 170; in Venezuela, terrorist-supporters of defeated presidential candidate, Henrique Capriles, assassinated 8 and injured 70 supporters of victorious Socialist Party candidate Nicolas Maduro, in the course of firebombing 8 [...]
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By Dr Kumar David I will deal with the long overdue provincial council elections in the Northern Province, a political storm that has broken out as a consequence of an electricity price hike imposed with effect from 20 April, and two minor issues. There is a vigorous campaign in the media, no doubt the government [...]
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By Jonathan Cook Washington’s reputation as an “honest broker” in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is in tatters after four years of indulging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s intransigence. The Obama administration desperately needs to resurrect a credible peace process. Faced with a diplomatic impasse between Israel and the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas, John Kerry, the [...]
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By Jamk Kanj US Secretary of State John Kerry has succeeded in tailoring yet another peace initiative to appease Israel. But it took Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu no time to effectively reject the offer, telling Kerry and company it was not occupation – it was all “about a Jewish state”. American diplomacy in the [...]
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There is a need to restrain euphoric expectations from the positive statements on relations with India coming out of some mainstream Pakistani political leaders such as Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister and leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML—N). Nawaz Sharif, in particular, has gone out of his way in befriending some of the Indian [...]
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By P. K. Upadhyay Elections and their rigging are nothing new in third-world democratic practices. Purchasing voters and their votes, luring them with interesting promises, playing up the caste and biradari sentiments, booth capturing and stuffing the ballot boxes with illegally cast ballot papers and even polling day violence are all part of the game [...]
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By P. V. Ramana Naxalites of the Communist Party of India (Maoist) [CPI (Maoist)], or Maoists in short, have been using rockets in their assaults on the security forces since the past, at least, eight years. Confirming this, Minister of State for Home Affairs RSN Singh informed the Lok Sabha, in reply to a question, [...]
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Following the unanimous adoption of a UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution setting up an integrated mission in Somalia, the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) will be set up for an initial one-year period beginning on 3 June; it will be based in the capital Mogadishu. The UN defines an integrated mission as one in [...]
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By Luke Coffey and James Phillips The European Union (EU) has repeatedly failed to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. This failure makes Europeans and the Euro-Atlantic region less safe. It also shows the EU’s shortcomings when it comes to agreeing on common positions and demonstrates why individual European countries need to develop their own [...]
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Egyptian security forces thwarted an al Qaeda-linked group’s plan to carry out a suicide attack on a foreign embassy and captured several militants, the interior minister said on Saturday, May 11, according to Reuters. Mohamed Ibrahim, speaking in a televised news conference, declined to say which embassy had been targeted. He named three suspected members [...]
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27 workers have been killed in an explosion at a coal mine in southwestern China, state media reports, in the second deadly incident to hit the country’s troubled industry in as many days. A total of 81 miners were rescued after the blast on Saturday at the Taozigou mine in Luzhou city, Sichuan Province, with [...]
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Seeing American entertainer Britney Spears’ keen interest in yoga for staying in shape, Hindus have urged her to explore the rich philosophical thought of Hinduism, which introduced and nourished yoga. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that in addition to yoga and meditation, Hinduism was a superabundant storehouse of [...]
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ASEAN governments are having difficulty implementing the remaining 20 percent of the AEC Blueprint because of domestic constraints. However, the protectionist forces can be lessened to advance AEC by a strategy of niche production. By Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit ASEAN GOVERNMENTS have made 80% progress towards achieving the AEC Blueprint but are having difficulty implementing the remaining [...]
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Introduction Insurgency may be termed as armed rebellion against regular troops of particular government in order to achieve one’s aim through any mean. It is waged through irregular guerilla troops against regular force; especially the tactic used in it is “hit and run”. Insurgent moment prevail all over the globe from the very start, some [...]
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By Ihsan Bal May Day 1977 has gone down in history as a day of tragedy, a day which is still with us. Each May Day in Istanbul’s Taksim Square, that previous anniversary is commemorated with clashes, life and death fights, provocations, and similar expressions. But over the last few years the celebrations taking place [...]
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By Öznur Akçalı German PM Angela Merkel made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan with Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere. Merkel arrived at Mazar-i Sharif in Northern Afghanistan on May 10, Friday to boost the motivation of German troops after the death of the first German soldier in an insurgent attack last Saturday. A military spokesman [...]
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By David Swanson It’s not enough to point out that our political system is completely corrupted by money, including money from coal and oil and nukes and gas. Of course it is. And if we had direct democracy, polls suggest we would be investing in green energy. But saying the right thing to a pollster [...]
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By Emre Karakışlak Following the first unofficial results from the Sunday, May 12th parliamentary elections in Bulgaria, the four main parties exceeding the 4 percent vote threshold are expected to be in the parliament. They are the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) with 30.7 percent, the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) with 27 percent, [...]
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