Newly elected members of Pakistan’s National Assembly have been sworn in, officially marking the first transition of power between democratically elected civilian governments in the 66-year history of the coup-prone country, Belfast Telegraph said. Among the steep challenges the legislators will face: massive energy shortages that leave some Pakistanis without power for up to 20 [...]
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wo drone strikes killed seven suspected al Qaeda militants in southern Yemen on Saturday, June 1 morning, a local official said, nine days after U.S. President Barack Obama said he would only use such strikes when a threat was “continuing and imminent”, Reuters said. Washington views al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) as the [...]
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By Michael Lelyveld China’s oil demand will cool over the coming years, but its investment in foreign resources is unlikely to slow, experts say. The growth rate of China’s appetite for crude oil will be cut nearly in half by 2018, the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a recent report. Although China accounted [...]
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It has become something of a tradition that, on June 1 every year, I add another year to the counter and write an article explaining how many years it has been since the Battle of the Beanfield, and why it is important for people of all ages to recall — or to find out about [...]
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After six months of peace talks in Havana, Cuba, the negotiators of the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) reached on May 26 a first agreement on the land issue. Rural reform is the toughest of six points on the agenda of the peace talks that aim to end over 50 [...]
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The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) informed that the region received a total of US$61.3 billion in remittances in 2012, a slight increase of $300 million, or 0.6 percent, over the previous year. The report “Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean in 2012: Differing Behavior among Sub-regions,” published at the end of April by the [...]
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By Riad al Khouri INDIRECT ECONOMIC IMPACT OF THE ARAB SPRING: THE CASE OF LEBANON Two and a half years after the start of uprisings that became known as the Arab Spring, parts of the region are now witnessing increasing violence. In particular, the Syrian rebellion is shaping up as a major crisis, which among [...]
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If terrorism can be defined as the wanton killing of innocent people, then there are many terrorists around the globe. Most of those terrorists are not members of al-Qaeda, al-Shabab or other organizations whose names the corporate media repeat ad nauseam. Neither are they the often decried “homegrown,” “lone wolves” or “free lancers.” Instead they [...]
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Economic forecasters exist to make astrologers look good. But the recent jubilance is enough to make even weather forecasters blush. “Just look at the bull market! Look at home prices! Look at consumer confidence!” Please. I can understand the jubilation in the narrow sense that we’ve been down so long everything looks up. Plus, professional [...]
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By Matthew Barber for Syria Comment In a previous article I revealed that Sheikh Muhammad al-Ya’qoubi was elected as the first non-Ikhwaan-linked religious figure of the Syrian National Coalition. This event did take place, even though his followers were disappointed to discover that his tenure would not see the light of day, as his appointment [...]
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YA’IR LAPID, the freshman parliamentarian and Treasury Minister, has declared that from now on he will deliver all his important speeches outside the Knesset, confining his Knesset appearances to the legal minimum. The reason: members from the opposition interrupt him. He cannot marshal his thoughts when interrupted. Since he is used to making his speeches [...]
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By Daniel Moore The growing humanitarian crisis in Syria has prompted a new chorus of pleas for the United States to begin supplying Syrian rebel forces with weapons. Various US foreign policy experts, including Senator John McCain, Senator Lindsey Graham, and architect of the 2003 Iraq War Paul Wolfowitz, are vocally advocating weapon shipments to [...]
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With 43 years’ experience in politics, President Rajapakse does not need to be told what politics is all about – he’s been there, seen it and gone through all the ups and downs. It is probably using that cunning that he envelops under his purview all the men and women who in our eyes are [...]
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By Casey Hynes There’s a new gang in Chiang Mai, Thailand’s major northern city, and they’re causing quite a ruckus about town. The Rock Mode Gang created a stir in the past week with their nude videos and stunts, but what appears to be a group of friends’ light-hearted fun could land them in seriously [...]
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Syrian government forces and militia fighters are obligated to provide civilians safe passage out of al-Qusayr and surrounding towns. Thousands of civilians have left al-Qusayr since a government offensive began in April 2013. Local opposition activists told Human Rights Watch that recent government attacks on fleeing civilians, including a reported attack on May 31, have [...]
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Russia is planning to deploy nuclear ballistic missile submarines to the southern seas for the first time since a 20-year break that followed the collapse of the USSR, sources told Russian media. Starting from 2014, Russia is going to expand its strategic submarine patrol area of the World Ocean, a source in the Russian General [...]
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The Church of the Dormition, outside the Old City in an area more commonly known as Mount Zion, was vandalized with Hebrew-language graffiti. According to the Palestinian Maan news agency, two parked cars outside the church were also filled with graffiti and tires punctured. The Israeli police opened an investigation, however it suspects Jewish religious [...]
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By R. Nastranis All that glitters is not gold would appear to be the core of critique the Social Watch, a network of civil society organizations in over 80 countries, has launched against the United Nations High Level Panel’s suggestions of new development goals to replace the MDGs. In a document titled ‘A New Global [...]
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By R. S. Kalha It is said that the new Chinese PM Li Keqiang is a very personable, polite and a charming interlocutor; almost the shades of his illustrious predecessor Zhou Enlai. He smiles a lot and this was very evident in his public engagements in India. Whether he did so in his official and [...]
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By Abanti Bhattacharya Li Keqiang’s visit to India raises a pertinent question whether his visit suggests a change in China’s strategy towards India or it is a mere continuation of the old one. Clearly in Beijing’s perspective, the core irritant in India-China relations is the Dalai Lama and the Tibet issue. This remains the central [...]
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