Introduction When North Korea proposed South Korea on June 6 to hold the first working level talks, South Korea promptly agreed and the same was held on 9 June at the Demilitarized Zone of Panmunjom. This meeting was supposed to prepare for their first high-level ministerial meeting in six years scheduled for June 12. But [...]
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The two-year prison sentence for a Tunisian rapper on June 13, 2013, for “insulting the police” in a song violates freedom of speech, Human Rights Watch said today. The criminal court sentence is another manifestation of the continuing intolerance for those who criticize government institutions in Tunisia.The First Instance Criminal Tribunal of Ben Arous, in [...]
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By Bojana Milovanovic If Serbia is awarded an European Union membership negotiation date by the end of the month, as expected, the country has a long list of reforms to complete to meet Union requirements. The country’s legal system will be the biggest challenge, according to Dejan Vuk Stankovic, analyst and member of the institute [...]
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By David Uebbing The low rumbling of hundreds of Harleys is overtaking the buzz of scooters and cars in the streets surrounding the Vatican, and on Sunday it will even be present in St. Peter’s Square. The first Vatican-related Harley-Davidson event was with Pope Francis himself on Wednesday afternoon, following his weekly general audience. Accompanied [...]
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By By Maria Syed Pakistan continues to surprise everybody. While the world was busy writing a requiem for Pakistan, lamenting it a hub of extremists and militants; Pakistanis proved the opposite. It is a nation that has stood up to the gravest challenges: rule of the military regimes and corrupt and incompetent elected governments; natural [...]
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Egypt has cut all ties with Syria, and will close the embassy in Cairo and withdraw the Egyptian envoy from Damascus, said Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. He also urged the international powers to impose a no-fly zone over Syria. “We have decided to close down the Syrian embassy in Cairo,” said Morsi during a conference [...]
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North Korea proposed high-level regional security talks with the United States on Sunday, following the recent failure to resume direct talks with rival South Korea, the Yonhap news agency reported. “(We) propose high-level talks between the North Korean and US governments to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula, and establish regional peace and security,” Yonhap [...]
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By Chris Rickleton Two collapsed coalitions, the odd bloody nose, and the delicate matter of a stolen bicycle: As Kyrgyzstan’s first truly multi-party parliament enters its third year, observers and participants agree that the legislature has a lot of growing up to do. When Kyrgyzstan adopted a new constitution in June 2010, the president lost [...]
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The International Monetary Fund is urging the United States to repeal large government spending cuts from earlier this year, saying they are a drag on economic growth. In its annual review of the world’s largest economy, the IMF said Friday that the reduction in the U.S. budget deficit in 2013 has been “excessively rapid and [...]
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The WTO risks losing its centricity in the world trading system due to its focus on 20th century trade issues and lack of progress in the Doha Round. This column introduces a new eBook that looks at how Asia meanwhile built a deep network of supply chains and is experimenting with new forms of regional [...]
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Iranian president-elect Hassan Rohani has told Iranians: “I will remain faithful to the promises I made to you.” ISNA reports that the winner of the presidential race announced to the public: “This is the victory of wisdom, the victory of moderation, the victory of growth and awareness, the victory of religious commitment over extremism and [...]
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Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, needs your help. Please write to the British Prime Minister David Cameron, via Twitter, or via the 10 Downing Street website, asking him to urgently raise Shaker’s case with President Obama when they meet at the G8 Summit in Northern Ireland next week. Despite being cleared for [...]
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By John Storey Despite visa free travel for Azeri citizens and dynamic trade, long mutual borders and some shared interests, Iran and Azerbaijan do not seem to be able to get along. Good Azeri-Israeli relations, political and criminal intrigue, Azerbaijan’s cooperation with the West, and the fact that Azerbaijan, due to its Soviet legacy is [...]
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In December 2012, I was introduced in Asuncion to the paintings and murals of Carla Ascarza, a distinguished female painter and visual artist — she is only one of few Paraguayan artists who has represented her country in Latin America and beyond. Carla was born in 1970 in Chaco, Argentina and has lived in Paraguay [...]
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LBJ had Vietnam, Clinton had Kosovo, and now Obama has Syria. Those good anti-war liberal Democrats and unremitting interventionist Republicans are at it again. These wars of obfuscation are predicated on lies. The Gulf of Tonkin, Kosovo genocide, and Syrian chemical weapons, are all fictitious ruses for partir en guerre. You want to know why [...]
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By Shebonti Ray Dadwal If the participation of 900 delegates – the largest to date – from around the world, representing governments, business, civil society and academia at the World Economic Forum on East Asia in Naypyidaw from June 5-7 was any indication, then Myanmar has successfully shown that the international community is ready to [...]
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Hassan Rohani has won Iran’s 11th presidential election following a vote that saw a massive popular turnout on June 14. Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar announced on Saturday that of a total of 36,704,156 valid ballots counted, Rohani won 50.70 percent of the ballots with 18,613,329 votes. Principlist candidate Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf came in behind Rohani [...]
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By P.K. Abduk Ghafour In an unprecedented move aimed at preventing congestion and stampedes and ensuring safety of the guests of God, Saudi authorities have urged domestic and foreign pilgrims to postpone their Haj plans for this year if possible due to ongoing expansion work at Makkah’s Grand Mosque. The call follows the government’s decision [...]
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By Abdulrahman Al-Zuhayyan For the past decades, Iran has succeeded in attracting the international limelight by keeping itself at the center of the Middle East’s politics. Although the objectives of Tehran’s charades are common knowledge to the world community, they get the international media’s attention as interesting developments. So, Tehran purposely stages its diverse activities [...]
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The last thing Sher Mohammed remembers before fleeing fighting in his village in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan was watching an eight-year-old girl being shot and killed by her father. “I saw him point the gun at his daughter and shoot her. He told everyone that it was better to kill her [...]
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