By Zin Linn It is too early to start campaigning for Burma’s next general elections in 2015, but major parties like the Union Solidarity Development Party (USDP) and National League for Democracy (NLD) are already making preparations. Ahead of the next polls one of the major issues is the question of constitutional review. Leaders from [...]
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A new study of glaciers worldwide has helped resolve differences in estimates of how fast glaciers are disappearing and contributing to sea level rise. The new research, which uses observations from two NASA satellites, found that glaciers outside of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, repositories of 1 percent of all land ice, lost an [...]
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By Dr. Ronn Pineo In Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela there is no free press—just state controlled anti-American propaganda.” Republican Congressman Connie Mack, Florida “Under Chávez life for Venezuela’s poor only got worse … Public health is deplorable.” Republican former governor Bob Ehrlich, Maryland President Barack Obama behaves as if he does not understand Latin America and [...]
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By Lisa Curtis Pakistanis deserve credit for braving this weekend’s polls in the face of a ruthless campaign of bombings and shootings against candidates, election workers, public rallies and polling booths. With a fairly robust voter turnout of around 60 percent and marking the country’s first successful democratic transition, the elections represent a boost for [...]
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Iran’s Guardian Council has given itself five extra days to determine the eligibility of presidential hopefuls, saying it will announce the eligible candidates on May 21. ISNA reports that the five-day extension has been reported to the Interior Ministry as required by regulations. The Guardian Council is looking at more than 600 applications from candidates [...]
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“There is a feeling of déjà-vu, as if we were living something we have already seen,” said Barrister Zannah Mustapha, head of an NGO that assist orphans of Maiduguri to MISNA. In this city that borders the Sahel, historic stronghold of the Boko Haram, the state of emergency is no novelty. In Maiduguri and Yola, [...]
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By Heather Maher (RFE/RL) — Only six months have passed since U.S. President Barack Obama was reelected to a second term with a mandate from Americans to advance his agenda. Now, three political scandals in quick succession have put him on the defensive and unleashed a torrent of criticism, not just from opposition Republicans but [...]
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By Jim Garamone While he retains the full range of options against the Assad regime in Syria, President Barack Obama said today, he still believes international efforts are the best way to move forward. In a Rose Garden news conference, Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Syria was a big part of [...]
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By Gaziza Baituova Despite harsh words from the United States and European Union about Kazakstan’s worsening human rights record, the country’s leaders are unlikely to modify their behaviour, local analysts say. It is a simple equation – placed in the balance against economic and security cooperation with the oil-rich state, human rights count for little. [...]
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Six months into a second term and the Obama White House is on the defensive and floundering: Benghazi, the IRS’s investigations of right-wing groups, the Justice Department’s snooping into journalists’ phone records, Obamacare behind schedule, the Administration’s push for gun control ending in failure. Should the blame fall mainly on congressional Republicans and their allies [...]
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Law enforcement sources say the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect scrawled a note on the boat where he was hiding, calling the blasts revenge for U.S. attacks on Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan. Police found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding in the boat in a backyard in suburban Boston, four days after the April 15 bombings killed [...]
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The Seventh summit of the Pacific Alliance will commence in May 23rd, in Cali, Colombia. The Pacific alliance has four member states, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Mexico, all ocean born nations. The alliance’s principal objective is to strengthen trade and commerce partnership with countries on the other side of Pacific and attract strategic investments from [...]
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Introduction Today, the Ummah (Muslim community) represents over 20% of the world’s population. However most of the Ummah exists within the bottom of the economic pyramid, lacking any real integration with the world economy, and devoid of entrepreneurial opportunity. They are left to languish within a generational cycle of poverty. Even within some of the [...]
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A Boise, Idaho man was arrested Thursday afternoon in Boise, Idaho, as part of a federal terrorism investigation. Federal terrorism charges were filed against Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, in Boise and Salt Lake City, Utah. Kurbanov, who is an Uzbekistan national, is legally present in the United States and was living in Boise at the time [...]
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Israel is considering more air strikes on Syria to prevent the transfer of arms to “Islamist militants” in the region according to the New York Times. The report, citing an unnamed Israeli official, also warned “if Syrian President Bashar Al Assad reacts by attacking Israel, he will risk forfeiting his regime, for Israel will retaliate”. [...]
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Why are big, global U.S. corporations so unpatriotic? After all, they were created in the U.S.A., rose to immense profit because of the toil of American workers, are bailed out by American taxpayers whenever they’re in trouble, and are safeguarded abroad by the U.S. military. Yet these corporate goliaths work their tax lawyers overtime to [...]
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By Jim Garamone The crime of sexual assault undermines the trust needed for the U.S. military to do its missions, President Barack Obama said after meeting with his military leaders today. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and the service secretaries, and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey and the rest of the Joint Chiefs of Staff met [...]
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US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel discussed the defense relationship between the United States and Turkey with Turkish officials in a Pentagon meeting today, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said. In a statement summarizing the meeting, Little said Hagel met with Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz, Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and Hakan Fidan, undersecretary of Turkey’s [...]
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By Lucia Pivetta Cyclone Mahasen began crossing Bangladesh’s southern coast on Thursday morning, its path projected to collide into upper Burma (Myanmar) in the next 24 hours. The storm has already brought onto the table issues related to environmental security and how to best cope with environmental risks. Climate change has been a widely explored [...]
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One in 10 people under 25 are Muslim, while Christianity is in decline, the 2011 UK census reveals. An explosion in the Muslim population and an aging Christian demographic could mean Islam will be the dominant religion in the UK in 10 years. A new analysis of the 2011 census by the Office for National [...]
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