Chinese authorities in Inner Mongolia are investigating fresh clashes between ethnic minority Mongolian herders and Han Chinese settlers over land, as Beijing continues to expand farming and mining in the area, an official source said on Monday. A dozen Mongolian herders in were “severely beaten” while defending their grazing lands after “more than a hundred” [...]
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The US State Department released Monday its 2012 International Religious Freedom Report, which notes that religious freedom is declining in many parts of the world. Speaking at its presentation, Secretary of State John Kerry said the report, “shines light on the challenges that people face as they seek nothing more than the basic religious freedom, [...]
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Burmese President Thein Sein is visiting the White House, becoming the first leader of his nation to do so in nearly half a century. It marks the latest U.S. effort to reward him for introducing reforms after decades of military rule. The White House meeting with President Barack Obama also represents a rapid diplomatic boost [...]
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By Greg Flakus A tornado with 320 kilometer per hour winds has killed at least 51 people and caused massive destruction in the central U.S. state of Oklahoma, destroying two schools and entire neighborhoods. The Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s Office said the death toll was expected to rise as rescue workers move deeper into the hardest-hit [...]
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The president of the Associated Press has lashed out at the United States government in his first interview since it was revealed that the AP was being investigated by the US Department of Justice. More than one week after the AP announced that the Justice Department subpoenaed two months of phone records in an apparent [...]
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Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist who was a founding member of The Doors, died at the age of 74 in a hospital in the German city of Rosenheim late on Monday, his publicist said in a statement on Tuesday. Heidi Robinson Fitzgerald said in a statement Manzarek lost his battle with bile duct cancer. The information [...]
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The inquest into the 2006 death of Alexander Litvinenko has gone beyond farce. The London coroner is now breaking all the rules in pursuit of a personal who-done-it crusade. By William Dunkerley London coroner Robert Owen is fiercely pursuing a mission of his own. He wants to know who murdered Alexander Litvinenko. There’s just one [...]
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Paraguayan President Federico Franco received May 20 an honorary doctorate from Taipei Medical University, to acknowledge his efforts in improving public health and social services in his country. On this occasion President Franco expressed his gratitude to University officials, and reflected on the excellent bilateral ties between Taiwan and Paraguay established since 1958. Dr. Franco [...]
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By Stuart Littlewood The Church of Scotland’s revised report ‘The Inheritance of Abraham?’ has now been released ahead of their Assembly. The Church felt obliged to change some of it after Jewish leaders sought to interfere, one complaining that it was “an outrage to everything that interfaith dialogue stands for… and closes the door on [...]
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By Kasturi Moitra “Deception is an integral element of Chinese strategic culture”, noted Shyam Saran at the second K. Subrahmanyam lecture series held in August 2012 at New Delhi.1 At the same event, the former foreign secretary also underscored the importance of being more conversant with the Chinese thought process for improving Indo–China relations. His [...]
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By Ajey Lele The Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Transparency and Confidence-Building Measures (TCBMs) in Outer Space Activities is an important United Nations (UN) platform for space security. The UN had established the present GGE in 2011 and during July 2013 this group is expected to furnish their final findings.1 Till date two meetings [...]
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By Daniel Rubin NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen recently noted that positive engagement from Pakistan was essential to “ensure long-term peace and stability in Afghanistan.” On 24 April in Brussels, US Secretary of State John Kerry hosted a meeting between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan Army Chief Ashfaq Kayani to discuss border tensions, [...]
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By Karlos Zurutuza Luis Shabi nostalgically recalls his nine years of novitiate in Rome and a “fantastic road trip through Europe” before returning to Iraq in 1969. “Those were the good times,” sighs the Chaldean Archbishop of Baghdad from a bunker in the heart of the Iraqi capital. His office, in the basement of the [...]
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Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Araqchi has condemned terrorist attacks across Iraq that have killed over 80 people including a number of Iranian pilgrims. Araqchi extended condolences to the bereaved families of victims and said such terrorist attacks were in contravention of humane and ethical principles. He said the terrorist attacks were part of the [...]
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By Shuaib Bahman Since the ongoing crisis in Syria began, positions taken by the Turkish government on the Syria crisis have raised many questions and, of course, ambiguities among the analysts. The reason is that Ankara’s positions have been in contradiction to the trend which had started in Turkey’s relations with Syria, at least, 10 [...]
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By Jaspreet Kindra A month after the Indian Ocean tsunami struck in December 2004, affecting millions, 168 countries signed on to a 10-year plan to make the world safer from natural hazards. Yet the plan, the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) 2005-2015, focused primarily on “what to do to prevent disasters, but not enough on [...]
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By Nicolai Due-Gundersen Libya is a country located in Northern Africa that borders the Mediterranean Sea. Until the 1950s, it was regarded as another poor African state, but the discovery of oil greatly increased its wealth, turning it into one of the richest African countries and also increasing its significance in the eyes of Western [...]
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Myanmar’s President Thein Sein on Monday became the first leader of his country to visit the White House in nearly half a century, in a warm welcome by the U.S. for the head of the once-pariah state and a strong show of support for his reform program. In a scene that would have been unthinkable [...]
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Seven days after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, President George W. Bush signed the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), a joint resolution passed by Congress that empowered the president to use force against those responsible for the attacks. More than 11 years later that law is still in effect. [...]
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By Heather Murdock Nearly a week after Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan announced the deployment of thousands of troops to the country’s war-torn north, officials say they now hold more than 200 suspected Boko Haram militants. Nigerian military forces said Monday they have captured 120 Boko Haram militants during the past 24 hours alone, and now [...]
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