By Estefania Aguirre At a conference of Muslim and Catholic leaders in Milan, Cardinal Angelo Scola encouraged greater support for persecuted Christians in the Middle East. “We need to help Christians more strongly,” Cardinal Scola said at the University of Milan, where the tenth annual meeting of the Oasis International Foundation was held this week. [...]
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After the meeting of June 19th, in Sucre, Bolivia, Members of the Working Group of Public Participation, Communication and Education (GTPPCyE, acronyms in Spanish), approved the Program Framework of the Plata Basin, which covers the territories of Bolivia, Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. According to Cesar Palacios, a keynote speaker and the representative of Paraguayan [...]
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Sweden’s Ganesha Temple in Farsta is holding a 14-day annual festival “Mahotsavam 2013”, which will conclude on June 25. All are welcome to participate and get blessings during the Festival, which began with Sathurthi on June 12 and will end with 12th Day Thiruvila (Vairavar Madai) on June 25. Besides 12 days of Thiruvila, it [...]
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Privacy is a sacred word to many Americans, as demonstrated by the recent uproar over the brazen invasion of it by the Patriot Act-enabled National Security Agency (NSA). The information about dragnet data-collecting of telephone and internet records leaked by Edward Snowden has opened the door to another pressing conversation—one about privatization, or corporatization of [...]
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By Besar Likmeta Allegations of vote buying hang over Albania’s forthcoming general election – whose result, whatever it is, is likely to be hotly disputed. Polling stations open on Sunday for what will undoubtedly be one of the most closely scrutinised elections in Albania’s recent history. Standing by to ensure a free and fair election [...]
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By Dmitry Sedov The government forces are gaining ground almost everywhere in Syria. Their advance has become an important international game changer. The anti-government camp has become vibrant applying efforts to rescue the giant international project, which has already consumed so much time and effort. President Obama has approved arming Syrian rebels. The supplies are [...]
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Rosneft said Friday it signed agreements aiming to substitute natural gas for petrol and diesel as motor fuels in the Krasnoyarsk, Murmansk, Sakhalin, Irkutsk, Ryazan and Yaroslavl regions during the St. Petersburg Economic Forum on 21 June. The documents were signed by Rosneft President and Chairman of the Management Board Igor Sechin and Murmansk Governor [...]
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Normally, stocks don’t fall off a cliff unless the economic data suddenly turns south or there are signs of an emerging crisis, like a run on the shadow banking system or threat to Middle East oil supplies. But neither of these played a part in this week’s equities massacre where the Dow Jones Industrial Average [...]
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Just for the sake of argument, let’s suspend our disbelief for a moment and pretend (I know it’s a stretch) that the Obama administration and the apologists for the nation’s spy apparatus in Congress, Democratic and Republican, are telling us the gods’ honest truth. They have, as the Wall Street Journal puts it, “amped up” [...]
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The existence of a compliant media plays a major role in allowing American presidents to create so much violence and chaos around the globe. Far from being a check on officialdom, the press are part and parcel of the machine which crushes so many lives in this country and abroad. Long gone are the days [...]
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By Selena Petrovic EU funds that will become available to Croatia upon its July 1st accession will bring the country 11.7 billion euros from 2014-2020 and a new know-how in EU funds utilisation. The public and private sectors are preparing to capitalise on this opportunity, while the government is taking the initial steps to make [...]
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IF THE life of Shimon Peres was a play, it would be difficult to classify. A tragedy? A comedy? A tragicomedy? For sixty years it looked as if he was under a curse of the Gods, much like the curse of Sisyphus, who was condemned to roll an immense boulder up a hill, and every [...]
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The Coalition for Justice in Liberia (CJL) – comprised of Liberian human rights advocates in collaboration with international human rights organizations - unanimously affirmed that in order for genuine peace, reconciliation and national healing to take place, it is extremely fundamental that the issue of justice for hundreds of thousands of Liberia’s war victims be addressed. On [...]
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By Donna Miles Two years ago, as commander of U.S. Forces-Iraq, Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III was marching against a strict Dec. 31, 2011 deadline to complete the largest logistical drawdown since World War II. It was a mammoth undertaking, involving troop redeployments and equipment retrogrades that had peaked at the height of coalition [...]
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By Essam Mohamed A massive bomb blast completely levelled a police station in Benghazi’s al-Hadaek neighbourhood on Wednesday (June 19th). Four days earlier and in the same the same al-Hadaek neighbourhood, Libya’s first independent TV station suffered a grenade attack. “As the channel was targeted in a terrorist attack that caused material and moral damages [...]
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By Nick Simeone A day after President Barack Obama proposed deeper cuts in U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told service members at U.S. Strategic Command that nuclear deterrence has kept the peace for nearly 70 years and that Stratcom will continue to play an important role in national security policy. “This [...]
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(RFE/RL) — Kazakhstan’s presidency says U.S. President Barack Obama has told his Kazakh counterpart, Nursultan Nazarbaev, that Washington would remain “deeply involved in developments in Afghanistan and Central Asia” after U.S. troops leave Afghanistan. The Kazakh presidency’s website on June 21 posted excerpts from a letter that it said had been sent by Obama to [...]
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Along US with missiles and fighter jets, about 700 US troops will remain in Jordan after training exercises which ended this week, US President Barack Obama said in his letter to the Congress. The troops and military equipment took part in the Eager Lion exercises in Jordan. “This detachment that participated in the exercise and [...]
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By Kent Klein President Barack Obama has nominated (Friday) a former deputy attorney general under Republican President George W. Bush as the new director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. James Comey would replace longtime FBI chief Robert Mueller. Obama is hoping that Comey’s Republican ties and deep experience in law enforcement will help persuade [...]
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Repsol has been chosen as the European company offering the best investor relations in its sector by the specialist publication IR Magazine. As well as being named top of the oil and gas sector, the company was also recognised for its crisis communications brought on by the confiscation of YPF in April 2012. Since then, [...]
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