By Karen Parrish Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in Singapore Friday for the first Shangri-La Dialogue he will attend as head of the Pentagon, but he helped to build the first such event as a U.S. senator more than a decade ago, he told reporters traveling with him to the annual conference. “It has developed [...]
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By Andrey Fedyashin The reports claiming that Russia has already supplied S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems to Syria are greatly exaggerated. Either they were caused by a mistake in translation of the interview the Syrian president Bashar Assad gave to Lebanese TV channel Al Manar, or by the willingness of Assad’s opponents to present the supplies [...]
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The 2013 Social Security and Medicare Trustees’ reports were little changed from 2012. The Social Security Trustees report showed a slightly larger shortfall over its 75-year planning horizon, with the projected shortfall rising from 2.67 percent of payroll in the 2012 report to 2.73 percent of payroll in the newest report. The reason for this [...]
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The U.S. program that pays medical costs for people over age 65 is on course to run short of money in 2026, which is two years later than previous estimates. Friday’s report by top U.S. financial officials says the program benefited from a slower increase in medical costs. Data also show that the old age [...]
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By Dmitry Minin What does the legalization of single-sex «marriages» in France, which even such desperate acts as Dominique Venner’s suicide in the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris have been unable to stop, have in common with the civil war in Syria? The common factor is that in both cases we can see signs [...]
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On May 31st, Paraguayan police authorities announced the brutal assassination of a renowned farmer Luis Lindstron (63), killed by the exponents of the self-nominated Paraguayan People’s Army (Ejercito del Pueblo Paraguayo – EPP) in the Department of San Pedro. According to Police Chief Ovidio Benegas, “the attack took place in a dense forest area and [...]
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After all of these years the US still has not learned that China does not move in a linear, predictable, pattern. As the US and its allies gain geopolitical ground in the Pacific and power balancing shapes a semi-circle in China’s East, China projects its influence out West. Critics may call it reverse imperialism. This [...]
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By Roberta Bonazzi EFD commends the work of Argentinian General Prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who this week presented a 500-page dossier, providing evidence of the Iranian regime’s efforts at ‘infiltrating’ several South American countries ‘… by building local clandestine intelligence stations designed to sponsor, foster and execute terrorist attacks’. New evidence also shows the involvement of [...]
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It took a Florida jury just two hours to acquit a retired US Army lieutenant colonel who invoked a controversial self-defense law to explain his decision to kill his wife’s lover. Jurors decided, after two days of testimony, that Ralph Wald, 70, was justified in killing Walter Conley when Wald arrived home one night to [...]
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Japan and South Korea have partially suspended US wheat imports after genetically modified crops that have never been approved for growing were discovered in Oregon, officials and wheat industry representatives said Friday. Both Asian countries temporarily suspended imports of soft white US wheat, which is used mainly to make baked goods and noodles, but did [...]
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Detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility have published a chilling plea in hopes of having the military appoint a new team of physicians to oversee their care during a hunger strike that currently involves eight out of every ten prisoners. A letter signed by the names of nine Gitmo detainees and the attorneys [...]
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Hundreds of protesters gathered outside a U.S. army base Saturday to voice support for Private First Class Bradley Manning, whose court-martial begins there Monday for the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history. Manning is accused of passing more than 700,000 government and military files to the website WikiLeaks. The material, which was widely [...]
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By Igor Jovanovic Serbian police are being more consistent in prosecuting cocaine cartels, which officials and analysts said will be most effective in the fight against the criminals. “The fight against the drug mafia must be constant,” Zoran Dragisic, a Belgrade Faculty of Security professor, told SETimes. The Balkan route, which sees cocaine and heroin [...]
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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government should end police violence and excessive use of force against protests across Turkey. Officials should uphold the right to peaceful protest and free speech, said Human Rights Watch. Police violently dispersed peaceful protests against government plans to transform Istanbul’s Taksim Gezi park into a shopping mall, triggering wider public [...]
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By Yasmine Najjar Tunisia on Friday (May 31st) said it would appeal the light sentences imposed on 20 radicals convicted of attacking the US embassy in Tunis last September, AFP reported. “The public prosecutor’s office has lodged an appeal,” justice Minister Nadhir Ben Ammou said. “We understand the reaction of the United States given that [...]
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Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman has criticized Canada for imposing a total trade ban on Iranian goods, saying the decision is part of a blame game played by Ottawa. “These statements are continuation of the Canadian government’s projections against Iran because we did not have considerable economic relation with this country to be cut off,” Abbas [...]
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Prices posted on the website of Iran Khodro (Automotive Company) indicate that car prices have gone up by 20 to 30 million rials. ILNA reports that the price hike is contrary to the settlement reached with the National Competition Bureau in early May. The market has already felt the effect of this price hike and [...]
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A newly sanctioned African Union (AU) force for quick deployment in conflicts such as in Mali is being promoted as a stop-gap measure ahead of the planned formation of the “rapid deployment capability” (RDC) African Standby Force (ASF). Unlike the ASF, which will also have policing and civilian duties, the African Immediate Crisis Response Capacity [...]
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By Hubertus Hoffmann The unsettled and explosive situation throughout the entire Middle East; the dominance of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and its increased influence after the Arabellion, maybe soon as well, in Syria, radical forces in the Gaza Strip and in Lebanon; the increase in power and prestige of Iran – maybe soon armed [...]
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Construction officially began this week on the UAE’s second new nuclear power reactor, at the Barakah site in Abu Dhabi. A Kepco-led consortium was selected at the end of 2009 and construction began on Barakah 1 in July 2012. Unit 2′s construction began today and that for units 3 and 4 is expected in subsequent [...]
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