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Rohani Leading In Iran Elections – Interior Minister

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Iran’s presidential elections have yielded preliminary results, with moderate cleric Hassan Rohani running ahead of Tehran’s Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf by nearly 300,000 votes, and nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, who is just behind Qalibaf. The Saturday morning news was reported by the country’s Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar on state television. Out of a total [...]

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Culture, Faith And Politics In Paraguay – OpEd

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By Raquel Elizabeth Iglesias In Paraguay, religious culture consisting of rites and customs of the past, such as the notion of “ñande mboriahu” (we the poor), imposes a fatalistic mentality of mystic thinking, which employs the power of saints, fortune and progress, and ignores the self-esteem and intellectual potential of every individual as well as [...]

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Albania, A Genuine Example Of Religious Tolerance – OpEd

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There are some valid questions to answer in today’s Albanian society to further understand what’s happening in a region with a variety of religious faiths such as the Balkans. Albania, one of the smallest countries of Europe, has always been considered a unique example of co-existence in terms of religion and culture. Past records show [...]

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Ecuador: Call To End Assault On Free Speech

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The Communications Law that the Ecuadorian National Assembly approved on June 14, 2013, seriously undermines free speech, Human Rights Watch said today. The law includes overly broad language that will limit the free expression of journalists and media outlets. The government had proposed a Communications Law in 2009 but it faced opposition in the National [...]

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Norway: Parliament Allows Women To Be Conscripted Into Armed Forces

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Norway’s parliament voted overwhelmingly on Friday, June 14 to conscript women into its armed forces, becoming the first European and first NATO country to make military service compulsory for both genders, Reuters reported. “Rights and duties should be the same for all,” said Labor lawmaker Laila Gustavsen, a supporter of the bill. “The armed forces [...]

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Turkey’s Protests Indicate Growing Independence Of Civil Society – Analysis

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International observers and representatives of the expert community continue to discuss the political situation in Turkey engulfed by a series of protests which started with a rally in Gezi Park to oppose its demolition as part of a redevelopment plan. This peaceful environmental action turned into a wave of anti-government protests, which, according to some [...]

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Why Sri Lanka’s Government Should Not Give Land And Police Powers To PCs – OpEd

Russia’s Eurasian Union Could Endanger The Neighborhood And US Interests – Analysis


Georgia: Verdict Delivered In Prison Abuse Scandal Case

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(Civil.Ge) — The Tbilisi City Court delivered verdict on June 14 into the case of prison abuse scandal, which broke out just ahead of last year’s parliamentary elections after shocking videos of inmates’ torture were shown on television stations in September, 2012. Seventeen former prison officials, many of them arrested shortly after the videos emerged, [...]

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Obama: Celebrating Father’s Day Weekend – Transcript

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In this week’s address, President Obama reflected on Father’s Day and said that nothing substitutes for the love and support of the presence of a parent in a child’s life. The President knows that for many people like him, being a good parent is a critically important job, and that personal successes matter less than [...]

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US Experts Call For Debate On National Security, Civil Liberties

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By Vivian Chakarian News organizations and civil rights groups are among those angry over recent reports that the Obama administration has searched the phone records of journalists. That revelation was followed by reports of an extensive government program collecting the phone and Internet records of millions of Americans. Media and privacy experts say there’s a [...]

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Rohani Elected President Of Iran

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Moderate cleric Hassan Rouhani has won Iran’s presidential election with just over 50 percent of votes, state TV reported. 72 percent of the 50 million Iranians turned out to vote, said Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar. The Saturday news was reported by the country’s Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar on state television. “Mr Hassan Rouhani … [...]

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The Deeper Meaning Of Mass Spying In America – OpEd

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The exposure of the Obama regime’s use of the National Security Agency to secretly spy on the communications of hundreds of millions of US and overseas citizens has provoked world-wide denunciations. In the United States, despite widespread mass media coverage and the opposition of civil liberties organizations, there has not been any mass protest. Congressional [...]

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The Painted Frog Of Palestine – OpEd

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By Jeremy Salt The good news from Palestine is that the ‘painted frog’ of the Huleh valley is not extinct after all. Recently it turned up again after not having been seen for the past half century. Behind the disappearance of the painted frog stands a much bigger story, the fate of the Huleh valley [...]

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Can The State Avoid Monitoring Internet? – Analysis

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By Manoj Joshi The report that the US National Security Agency is mining a huge amount of information from the Internet is not surprising. Since 9/11 and the burgeoning growth of the Internet and the social media in the 2000s, the need to access this data has been a major compulsion for the intelligence agencies. [...]

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Microsoft Had More Than 6,000 US Data Requests In 2012 Second Half

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Microsoft Corp said on Friday that for the last six months of 2012 it received between 6,000 and 7,000 criminal and national security warrants, subpoenas and orders affecting between 31,000 and 32,000 consumer accounts from local, state and federal U.S. governmental entities. The software company disclosed the data after reaching a deal about disclosures with [...]

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Pakistan: Foreign Policy Dilemma – OpEd

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It is often said that Pakistan enjoys a geopolitically important position, but this factor has become its worst enemy. Pakistan’s location has made it a highly vulnerable country, be it global politics or ongoing war on terror. Since there are too many state and non-state operators in the region it is often difficult to distinguish [...]

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Turkey: Police Quash Istanbul Park Protest

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Turkish riot police has used tear gas and water cannons to empty the Gezi Park in Istanbul of anti-government protesters, CNN reported. The police sweep at the park, which has become the center of protests against Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian policies, took about 30 minutes late on Saturday, followed by the [...]

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President Obama: Stay Where You Are – OpEd

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Mr. President, after I heard Edward Snowden’s exposure of your colossal spy program against all peoples of the world, Pink Floyd’s song “Another Brick in the Wall” popped up in my mind. Definitely, the American people don’t need your “thought control” or the “dark sarcasm” of the political class in Washington, D. C. Mr. President, [...]

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Mystery Over Lao Civil Society Leader’s Disappearance Deepens

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The mystery behind the disappearance of respected civil society leader Sombath Somphone in Laos has deepened amid claims by rights group Amnesty International that a gunshot was fired as he was taken away from a police post in a pickup truck by unidentified men six months ago. Amnesty described it as a “concerning” development which [...]

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