Nineteen international NGOs have sent a joint letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to express concern over the peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and future military operations by a new UN Intervention Brigade. The letter, dated 23 May and made public this week, asks the secretary-general to call on the 11 [...]
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Three Somali men face a possible death penalty when they go on trial this week for a pirate attack that led to the death of four Americans. Jury selection begins Tuesday in the city of Norfolk, Virginia, for Ahmed Muse Salad, Abukar Osman Beyle and Shani Nurani Sheikh Abrar. The three were among 15 Somalis [...]
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US Secretary of State John Kerry is set to return to Amman in the upcoming days, Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh said in a press conference in Ramallah on Sunday. “John Kerry will be in Amman within days,” Judeh announced at a press conference in Palestine, according to AFP. Judeh was in Ramallah meeting with [...]
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By Sinisa Jakov Marusic Macedonia’s main opposition party, the Social Democrats, voted to elect its deputy leader Zoran Zaev as its new chief at a party congress on Sunday. Zaev, the party’s vice president and the mayor of Strumica, was backed by 395 delegates at the congress, winning a convincing majority in the race to [...]
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By Bhaskar Roy On May 21, the Chief of Maldivian Defence Force, Maj.Gen. Ahmed Shiyam said there were threats of terrorism in the country, adding they had confirmed reports that some Maldivian youths had joined foreign terrorist groups and several of them were untraceable. Maj.Gen. Shiyam, who was addressing a seminar on terrorism in Kurumba, [...]
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According to the results of recently held elections all the political parties enjoy the status of ruling junta. If members of some of these parties will be sitting on opposition benches in the national assembly, they will form the government at provincial levels. Interestingly, MQM — that has remained part of ruling junta — has [...]
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By Dr. Subhash Kapila Introductory Observations The Shangri-La Dialogue is an annual event held at Singapore for the last twelve years or so now. It has virtually evolved as an Asia Pacific Summit where key- note addresses are delivered by Presidents and Prime Ministers from the region and Defence Ministers and high ranking officials from [...]
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By Ajai Sahni The Maoists are currently in a phase of tactical retreat, focusing on a reconsolidation of strengths, the enhancement of recruitment to the PLGA, the construction of alternative communication channels to prevent leakage of information, the intensification of propaganda through mass contacts, and escalating overground activities and protests… The state must not mistake [...]
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By Sanchita Bhattacharya Intolerance and hate are crippling the education system in Pakistan as schools are increasingly targeted by terrorist violence, and corruption and political inconsistency deprive the educational infrastructure of much-needed resources, leaving a new generation with diminishing options to secure their own future. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), on April 6, 2012, [...]
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The newly elected Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem Archbishop Nourhan Manougian will be enthroned on July 4 in the patriarchal residence. In April, Abdullah II Ben Hussein, The Hashemite King of Jordan met Archbishop Manougian to congratulate him and grant him the Royal Decree issued earlier to approve his election as the 97th Armenian Patriarch of [...]
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All five legally recognised nuclear states as defined by the non-proliferation treaty – China, France, Russia, the UK and US – are either deploying new nuclear weapons and delivery systems or plan to do so, according to a leading international research organization, The Guardian reported. The countries “appear determined to retain their nuclear arsenals indefinitely”, [...]
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May was Iraq’s deadliest month in nearly five years, with more than 1,000 dead – both civilians and security personnel — in a rash of bombings, shootings and other violence. As we read each day of new horrors in Iraq, it becomes more obvious that the US invasion delivered none of the promised peace or [...]
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Prior to the 2012 election, President Obama told aides that he wanted to institutionalize the ad hoc war on terror, thus shaping it for years to come whether he was re-elected or a successor took over, according to the New York Times. This desire led to the recent presidential speech at the National Defense University [...]
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President Karzai’s three-day visit from 20 May to 22 May 2013 to New Delhi was his twelfth visit to India in official capacity. While his earlier visits had generated a lot of media attention, this time around the ‘wish list’2 Karzai carried with him evoked maximum interest. The list apparently contained requests for supply of [...]
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The annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) will be held under the theme Finding Resolve to Build the New Global Economy on 20–22 June 2013. It is expected that the event will bring together about 5 thousand attendees including leading economists, businessmen and politicians, and will provide the participants with the opportunity to discuss [...]
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By Ajai Sahni Another Conference of Chief Ministers on Internal Security will be convened on June 5, 2013, this time in the shadow of the slaughter of political leaders and cadres at Darbha (Chhattisgarh) by the Maoists. A voluminous report on internal security has been ritually compiled by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA), [...]
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By N Manoharan The Maoists’ ruthless attack on a convoy of Congress leaders and workers in Chhattisgarh in May 2013 has once again highlighted the nature and intensity of the problem. The convoy was an ideal target for the Indian Maoists, who have been looking for chances to attack. It was a perfect target because [...]
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Fortum said Monday it will assess the future alternatives for its Inkoo coal-fired power plant located on the south coast of Finland. The alternatives assessed include the partial closure of the power plant or even discontinuing the entire production operations, among others. Consequently, Fortum said it will start employee negotiations affecting all Inkoo power plant [...]
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By Karen Parrish Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in Brussels Monday to join NATO and partner defense ministers for discussions on topics including Afghanistan, cybersecurity, a possible Libya training mission and collective defense. Hagel flew to Brussels after participating in the Shangri-La Dialogue security conference in Singapore. Senior defense officials traveling with the secretary noted [...]
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Several apparent bystanders were shot as police used force to suppress violent protests in Tunis on May 19, 2013, Human Rights Watch said Monday. One person was killed and at least three were severely injured. Several of the injured victims and witnesses told Human Rights Watch that they saw only police using firearms at the [...]
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