The U.S. soldier charged with deliberately killing 16 civilians in Afghanistan last year has pleaded guilty in order to avoid the death penalty. At a hearing in a military courtroom in the northwestern U.S. state of Washington on Wednesday, Army Sergeant Robert Bales entered his plea to 16 counts of premeditated murder. A short while [...]
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The International News Agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) has awarded the 2013 Kate Webb Price for frontline journalism to Indonesian Investigative Reporter Stefanus Teguh Edi Pramano for his searing reportages on the bloody civil war in Syrial and his eye-opening investigation into the murky underworld of the Jakarta drug trade. Pramono, 31, wins the annual prize, [...]
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By Arshad M Khan If you read India Today, you are left with the impression that India is an English-speaking land of billionaire businessmen, larded squabbling politicians and scandal-prone movie stars all living in fabulous houses. If you visit the country, one whiff of the air outside your air-conditioned city hotel dispels the myth. August [...]
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The Brent-WTI spread, the difference between the spot prices of Brent and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oils, has narrowed considerably over the past several months. The spread, which was more than $23 per barrel in mid-February, fell to under $9 in April, and has ranged between $7 and $10 since then. The narrowing of [...]
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The US National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of unwitting individuals via a secret court order issued in April obtained by The Guardian newspaper, which has posted it online. Unlike warrants that have been issued to collect the information of suspects targetted by intelligence agencies, the newly disclosed top secret [...]
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Despite conclusive evidence, some people deny the ongoing climate catastrophe. Why do they do this? If you terrorise a child out of taking action to change its circumstances for the better (for example, to get out of a situation in which it is suffering the violence of a parent), then that same terror that stopped [...]
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On April 21, the BBC obtained disturbing video footage shot in Burma. It confirmed extreme reports of what has been taking place in that country, even as it is being touted by the US and European governments as a success story pertaining to political reforms and democracy. The BBC footage was difficult to watch even [...]
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“This new law resolves nothing. The military service was always and will always be for those with fewer resources”, said to MISNA Eduardo Geovanni Acate Coronel, executive director of Radio Oriente of the apostolic vicariate of Yurimaguas, in the Amazon. Under the new law, which entered in force yesterday in Peru where military service has [...]
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By Aleksandar Pavlevski Bulgarian political leaders and citizens have been sending messages of reconciliation and good neighbourly relations with Macedonia, raising hopes that the country will support Macedonia’s EU membership negotiations at the upcoming EU summit in Brussels. “We support the European perspective of all our neighbours, including our brothers from Macedonia,” Marin Raykov, former [...]
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The U.S. government is defending the practice of collecting massive amounts of information about telephone calls, following a newspaper report the National Security Agency is gathering the records of millions of Americans. Speaking on condition of not being named, a senior administration official says the practice is a “critical tool in protecting the nation from [...]
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The National Security Agency at the request of the FBI is keeping a record of everywhere you go and everyone you talk to at all times. Since, as The Guardian reports, the government is collecting this information from all Verizon customers, it’s reasonable to assume that it is also doing so with every other telecommunications [...]
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By Elvira M. Jukic Several thousands protesters say they are determined to block parliament’s exits until MPs stop prevaricating over a new law on the issue of personal numbers. Protesters against the failure of Bosnia’s parliament to solve an ongoing legal wrangle over personal numbers blocked the entrances and exits to the building in Sarajevo [...]
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London coroner Sir Robert Owen has lost his prime supporters. He’s been presiding over an inquest into the 2006 murder of reputed former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. Until recently, Owen has had the firm support of Litvinenko’s widow, Marina. For almost seven years now, she has been awaiting official word on what caused her husband’s [...]
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The Turkish Cypriot refusal to accept the EU’s presence at the negotiation table represents a profound challenge to the effectiveness of EU mediation in negotiations over Cyprus. By Dr. Ahmed Magdy Al-Soukkary While it seems that the Cyprus question will not see a breakthrough in the near future, the process of Turkey’s progress towards the EU has [...]
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Introduction The year 2013 is witnessing a flurry of diplomatic activities with heads of state, defence and foreign ministers and defence officials making visits to state capitals across Asia and the Pacific. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Japan and Thailand in late May was preceded by Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang’s visit to India [...]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife, Lyudmila, announced Thursday on nationwide television that their marriage is over, ending years of media speculation about the couple’s relationship. “Yes, you could say this is a civilized divorce,” Lyudmila said in response to a journalist’s question, following the Putins’ joint outing to a ballet performance – the [...]
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NASA aircraft will take to the skies over the southern United States this summer to investigate how air pollution and natural emissions, which are pushed high into the atmosphere by large storms, affect atmospheric composition and climate. NASA will conduct its most complex airborne science campaign of the year from Houston’s Ellington Field, which is [...]
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Paul L. Atwood, War and Empire. The American Way of Life, Pluto, London 2010, p. 268, L 14,99. Former US President Ronald Reagan called in a speech to the “National Association of Evangelicals” in Orlando, Florida in 1983 the former Soviet Union an “evil empire”. Having read “War and Empire” by Paul L. Atwood this [...]
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Anyone who was a fan of the old ABC TV series “The Untouchables” or of the later series, also on ABC, called “The FBI,” would know something is terribly fishy about the FBI slaying of Ibragim Todashev. According to the FBI, Todashev, 27, who was an acquaintance, or friend, of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the [...]
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By Phineas Rueckert In his annual counterterrorism speech on May 23, President Barack Obama again vowed to revamp efforts to close the detention center at the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba (GTMO). The GTMO detention center, Obama stated, casts the United States as a nation that “flouts the rule of law” and costs $350 [...]
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