Total E&P Tajikistan B.V., a subsidiary of Total announced Tuesday the finalization of the acquisition of an interest in the Bokhtar PSC in Tajikistan, from Kulob Petroleum Limited, a subsidiary of Tethys Petroleum Limited, and jointly with CNPC Central Asia B.V., a subsidiary of CNPC. Total E&P Tajikistan B.V. and CNPC Central Asia B.V. will [...]
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By Cornelis van Zweeden With EU accession only weeks away, experts are divided as to whether Croatia is winning the war on corruption. Petar Doric, an expert at Freedom House, an independent watchdog organisation, is not even sure the country has declared a war on corruption. “Yes, Croatia has made progress on the fight against [...]
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By Besar Likmeta The timing of a decision to award former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld a ‘National Flag’ for his support of Albania’s NATO membership has raised questions. “You are closely linked with the support that the United States has given for… Albania’s membership of NATO,” Albanian President Bujar Nishani, said during the award [...]
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(RFE/RL) — A court in Kazakhstan’s western city of Atyrau imposed a seven-year prison term on a young woman for preparing her 12-year-old stepson to become a suicide bomber. After a trial that was held behind closed doors, the 18-year-old woman was found guilty on June 18 of propagating terrorism and the torture of an [...]
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Iran’s national football team defeated South Korea today, June 18, securing its place at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Reza Ghouchan-Nejad scored the game’s only goal at the 59-minute mark, taking the team to victory in Ulsan, South Korea. As a result, Iran reached the top of its group with a total of [...]
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Hassan Rohani’s appearance at a press conference on Monday June 17 to answer a wide range of questions was cut short when an audience member shouted a reminder that the president-elect should try to release the opposition leader MirHosein Mousavi from house arrest. Rohani answered questions on various topics: the national political situation, journalism, economic [...]
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Researchers conclude in a new report that a global push for small hydropower projects, supported by various nations and also the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, may cause unanticipated and potentially significant losses of habitat and biodiversity. An underlying assumption that small hydropower systems pose fewer ecological concerns than large dams is not [...]
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It is hard to avoid the conclusion that President Obama has ceded too much to the pressures and assurances from “aides and critics.” Perhaps as a trained lawyer, he is used to looking to “clients” to make the substantive decisions, but it’s him the American people elected. He needs to be Commander in Chief and [...]
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Pakistan Oilfields (POL), a leading exploration and production company from Pakistan is all set to slingshot into FY14 with an earnings growth of 43% YoY to PKR72.2/share. The robust growth in earnings will be marked by notable volumetric additions, stable oil prices and continued support from steady dividend income. The stock offers an upside potential [...]
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Praising the Afghan people for their determination and noting the sacrifices that led to achievement of the milestone, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel today praised the formal transfer of security lead throughout Afghanistan to Afghan national security forces. “This critical milestone is a tribute to the determination of the people of Afghanistan to take responsibility for [...]
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As of last year, the Gulf of Guinea has become even more dangerous than the waters off the Somali coast and the Horn of Africa insofar as piracy is concerned, according to the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) in its latest report. In 2012, pirates launched 966 attacks in West Africa as compared to the 851 [...]
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A open letter to President Xi Jinping by Liu Xia, the wife of jailed Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, was posted by her lawyer on Twitter on June 14, five days after her brother, Liu Hui, was sentenced to 11 years in jail in the latest evidence of the government’s harassment of the families of [...]
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By Cesar Palacios The Bolivian government hosted June 17 a regional meeting on Public Communication and Citizen Participation in Renewable Energy Projects, Applied Technology and Education. This event brought together for two days in the city of Sucre, many regional environment technicians who are doing research on the hydroelectric resources and management within the framework [...]
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Colombia’s passage of a law to reform the military justice system is a major setback for human rights, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. The law creates a serious risk that unlawful killings by the military, known as “false positives,” will be transferred from civilian prosecutors to the military justice system. The law also authorizes public [...]
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The head of the National Security Agency said Tuesday that more than 50 potential terrorist plots across the globe were thwarted thanks to the controversial surveillance programs recently exposed by former contractor Edward Snowden. NSA chief Gen. Keith Alexander took center stage Tuesday when he answered questions on Capitol Hill alongside high-ranking members of the [...]
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Over 30 people sought medical help, 11 were hospitalized and more than 6,000 local residents were evacuated on Tuesday from a village near an ammunition depot in central Russia where a fire caused massive explosions of stored artillery shells, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said. The fire at the Volga Federal Ammunition Testing Site in the [...]
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Representatives from the United States and the Taliban will meet in the coming days for their first formal talks to try to find a peaceful settlement to the war in Afghanistan, senior US government officials said Tuesday. Speaking on the condition of anonymity during a background briefing, the senior officials from US President Barack Obama’s [...]
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By D Suba Chandran In the last few years, there have been efforts to reorient India’s Lookeast Policy, at the foreign policy level, primarily by the PMO and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in New Delhi. Simultaneously, there have also been multiple efforts by the PMO and Ministry of Home Affairs to improve the situation [...]
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By Jaya Ramachandran Forty-nine of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable courtiers spanning across Asia-Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean are no longer threatened by a modern-day Damocles’ sword – not until July 1, 2021 at least. The group known as the least-developed countries (LDCs) can in fact request further extension of the waiver on [...]
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Urging “maximum restraint” amid widespread anti-Government protests in Turkey, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Navi Pillay, the world body’s human rights chief, called today for constructive dialogue to defuse tensions in the country. “The atmosphere is still clearly highly combustible,” said Ms. Pillay, who is the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. “It is [...]
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