By Amaani Lyle Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin E. Dempsey said Friday the United States has an ethical responsibility to assure the health and well-being of detainees at the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where some have been on a hunger strike for several months. [...]
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The 17th Session of the India-Iran Joint Commission which was held on May 4 in Tehran was co-chaired by Ali Akbar Salehi, foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Salman Khurshid, external affairs minister of India. Besides bilateral and regional issues of mutual interest, the matter of “reviving” Indian participation in the Chabahar [...]
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If the latest development in Somalia gives you the feeling of being trapped in the Twilight Zone—somewhere between relative security and renewed bloodshed—you are not alone. Due to the array of competing internal and external interest groups and the federal government’s lack of clear grand strategy or capacity to assert its authority, the formation of [...]
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Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest won in the final of 2013 Eurovision, Europe’s most popular song contest, after performing her song “Only Teardrops” at the Malmo Arena in Sweden. The grand finale was held May 18 featuring 26 performers – 20 winners of the two semi-finals, as well as representatives of the host country Sweden and [...]
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By Alsir Sidahmed The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting later this month could represent a landmark in terms of how the group will prepare to handle difficulties ahead. The difficulty arises from the fact that for foreseeable future, or fo the next five years at least, OPEC will see that whatever demand prevails [...]
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By Aijaz Zaka Syed In the run-up to what is being viewed as Pakistan’s truly historic elections, an old Pakistani reader of mine from Saudi Arabia wrote in, twice, to ask: “Not a word on Pakistan’s elections so far! Why?” Missives like these, most humbling as they are, make up for all the dull hours [...]
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Saturday morning in the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel was received in audience by Pope Francis, the Vatican said in a statement. Following the meeting with the Pope, Merkel met with Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, secretary for Relations with States. According to the Vatican, the conversations centered on the long history [...]
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A tiny capuchin monkey belonging to Justin Bieber won lifetime residency in Germany on Saturday after the singer’s agents said Bieber would not try to recover his confiscated pet. Mally, aged five months, is destined for an unnamed German zoo to be integrated into a tribe of capuchins. Animal welfare officials refuse to say which [...]
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Mercedes-Benz presented its new S-Class at a special event this week at the Airbus A380 delivery center in Hamburg-Finkenwerder As “Germany’s most valuable package,” the star of the event had previously been flown from Stuttgart to Hamburg in an Airbus A300-600 freighter operated by DHL – just in time to celebrate the world premiere with [...]
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The 1998 QE2 asteroid has the physical mass to potentially deliver life on Earth a knockout punch, being 2.7km in length. It is to buzz our planet on May 31, awing the stargazing community. Officially known as Asteroid 1998 QE2, the ‘minor planet’, as astronomers refer to these space objects, is about nine times the [...]
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The eldest son of Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi has called on Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to direct Iranian security forces to desist from “unethical and immoral” actions and “the confiscation of the personal property of dissidents.” Saham News reports that in a letter of May 17, Hossein Karroubi writes to Ayatollah Khamenei: “Did [...]
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Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Araqchi says the United States’ opposition and lack of commitment to various international disarmament conventions are obstacles to advancing the issue of global disarmament. Pointing to the US’s 16-year opposition to bringing up the issue of disarmament in the UN Disarmament Conference, Araqchi said, “The US has, for all practical [...]
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Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf says a resolution may be not far off to end a long-running dispute with the United States over Swiss banks accused of helping wealthy Americans evade billions of dollars of taxes. “We are on the point of presenting a solution,” Widmer-Schlumpf told Swiss national radio on Saturday. Several points still [...]
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By Stephen Zunes The worsening violence and repression in Syria has left policymakers scrambling to think of ways the United States could help end the bloodshed and support those seeking to dislodge the Assad regime. The desperate desire to “do something” has led to increasing calls for the United States to provide military aid to [...]
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“What do you expect when you target the President?” This is what an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent allegedly said to the head of a conservative organization that was being audited after calling for the impeachment of then-President Clinton. Recent revelations that IRS agents gave “special scrutiny” to organizations opposed to the current administration’s policies [...]
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By Faisal Kutty A tipoff from a prominent Toronto imam more than a year ago appears to be at the heart of arrests at the end of April in the alleged VIA Rail terror plot in Canada. In fact, counterterrorism police began their press briefing by thanking Muslim leaders. Even in the Boston marathon tragedy, national and local Muslim organizations have condemned the bombings. [...]
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By Husain Abdulla More than two years after peaceful demonstrators took to the streets to demand reforms, Bahrain’s uprising has not abated. Activists and opposition groups continue to demand the basic human rights and political reforms promised to them by their government. Rather than meet the opposition’s calls for reform, the government of Bahrain has [...]
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By Jim Garamone The United States continues to call on North Korean leaders to exercise restraint and abide by their international obligations, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said today. North Korea fired five short-range missiles in the past three days, and reporters asked Little if this is a North Korean return to the provocative behavior [...]
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By Roberto Savio The European Union has asked its citizens to brace for further economic misery. In a report on European economic prospects released on May 3, the European Commission said that further deterioration is expected to last at least until 2015. But, as every such report says, things will then get better! Unemployment in [...]
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By Yulia Zamanskaya Despite giving lip service to the problems of global warming and climate change in its new National Strategy for the Arctic Region, the new document largely focuses on how the US can exploit the region’s vast untapped oil, gas and mineral resources while paying little to no attention to the values of [...]
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