The World Health Organization said yesterday it would help Saudi Arabia dig deeper into deadly outbreaks of a new SARS-like virus to draw up advice ahead of the annual Haj. The UN agency, which is not currently recommending any restrictions on travel to the Kingdom or screening of passengers at airports or entry points, will [...]
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By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed ARE we going to experience a new twist in our encounter with Iran? I’m afraid yes. We anticipate a political and militant escalation as we hear the news of a surveillance drone being shot down over the Bahraini airspace. A similar drone was shot down in Al-Qussayr in Syria, according to [...]
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American companies investing in Burma should not let new US government reporting requirements lull them into complacency on human rights concerns, said Human Rights Watch. The US “Reporting Requirements on Responsible Investment” in Burma went into effect on May 23, 2013. Doing business in Burma involves various human rights risks that the US rules do [...]
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A French soldier patrolling a business area of western Paris was stabbed in the neck on Saturday by a man who quickly fled the scene and was still being sought, a police source said. The soldier was patrolling in uniform with two other men as part of France’s Vigipirate anti-terrorist surveillance plan when he was [...]
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Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, the head of the Expediency Council, says the “extremists” in the Islamic Republic establishment have opposed him since the beginning of the 1979 Iranian Revolution because they find his views on “Islam’s focus on citizens’ rights” intolerable. Rafsanfani spoke on Saturday May 25 to a group of his supporters who had gathered [...]
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By Urs Geiser Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang says a free trade accord with Switzerland should serve as an example for closer relations with other European countries. He believes a deal with the Swiss finance industry will also boost the economy in Switzerland. The Chinese prime minister described talks with members of the Swiss government [...]
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By Manoj Joshi Chinese premier Li Keqiang’s visit to New Delhi has been as enigmatic as the incident on the Depsang Plain that preceded it. He has thrown little light on that event, and, was reportedly affable, smiling and exuding warmth all through. In an article written for a newspaper, Li declared that the goal [...]
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By Arvind Gupta and Ashok K. Behuria The Afghan President Hamid Karzai visited India from 20th to 22nd May 2013. While the visit was ostensibly for conferment of an honorary doctorate on him by the Jalandhar based Lovely University, he held four hour long discussions with the Indian counterparts on the next step in India-Afghanistan [...]
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Late on Friday evening, RT published an article I had been commissioned to write for them, entitled, “In Guantánamo, fine words are no substitute for freedom.” In it, I examined in detail the parts of President Obama’s national security speech on Thursday that dealt with the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where a prison-wide hunger [...]
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The chief of Lebanon’s Hezbollah says his group will not stand by while the neighboring government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is attacked. Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech Saturday Hezbollah was fighting in Syria to protect Lebanon from the threat of radical Islamists. It was the first time Nasrallah has publicly confirmed Hezbollah’s fighting [...]
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(Civil.Ge) — Human rights and watchdog groups have called on the Interior Ministry to remove ‘black box’ devices from telecommunication companies, which give security agencies direct access to communication networks allowing them to monitor text messages, phone calls and internet traffic simultaneously from thousands of mobile phone numbers without any oversight. On May 24 a [...]
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(Civil.Ge) — A week after Orthodox clergy-led crowd violently attacked an attempted anti-homophobia rally, several hundred people gathered in downtown Tbilisi park on May 24 under the slogan ‘No to Theocracy’ to protest against violence and to speak out against what they believe is the Georgian Orthodox Church’s attempts to claim supremacy over the state. [...]
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By Zin Linn A series of skirmishes have taken place in Kachin and northern Shan State despite government officials declaring that war has been stopped between government troops and the ethnic armies in those areas. Local sources reported that reinforcements of government troops and transportation of military supplies to frontline areas have continued in recent [...]
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The European Union, the United States and Canada agreed on Friday to join forces on Atlantic Ocean research. The agreement focuses on aligning the ocean observation efforts of the three partners. The goals are to better understand the Atlantic Ocean and to promote the sustainable management of its resources. The work will also study the [...]
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By Lucinda Creighton and Štefan Füle This year marks the tenth anniversary of the EU – Western Balkans Summit, which took place in Thessaloniki in June 2003. It was at this Summit that the EU Member States gave a commitment that “The future of the Balkans is within the European Union”. Ten years on Croatia [...]
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A group of settlers destroyed over 100 olive trees in a Nablus village on Saturday after spraying them with toxic chemicals, a Palestinian Authority official said. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an that settlers from the notoriously extreme Yizhar settlement sprayed toxic chemicals on some 100 trees, causing [...]
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President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both met with US Secretary of State John Kerry this week in the latter’s fourth visit to the region since he assumed office. After meeting with the two to ostensibly find ways to restart stalled negotiations between the two sides, Kerry urged on May 24 both [...]
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By Stéphane Dion I love and admire Spain, including, of course Catalunya and superb Barcelona. But as a foreign parlementarian, I have to abstain from taking any position on your domestic political debates. Spanish unity concerns Spaniards just as Canadian unity is the business of Canadians. Suffice it to say, regarding Spanish unity, that Canada [...]
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By Jean Edward Smith It is a pleasure to speak at the conference on “The Great Captains in American History,” and to talk about General Grant. Let me begin, however, by offering a word of caution. War is a terrible thing, and it should not be romanticized. One cannot talk about great military commanders out [...]
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A senior Buddhist monk with ties to a political party challenging Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s hold on power has been found beaten to death in what one opposition figure called a politically motivated killing. Keo Touch, 78, the chief monk of Thmang Pagoda in Svay Rieng province’s Bavet city, was found dead in his [...]
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