By Brian Drumm and Nicole Wasson On June 24, a Colombian court sentenced Rodgrio Londoño “Timochenko” Echeverri and Luciano Marín Arango, leaders of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia; FARC), to up to 40 years in prison each. The court found each of them guilty of arranging a bombing in [...]
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By Rebecca Lullo and Phineas Rueckert On May 30, the State Department submitted its annual report on terrorism (“Country Reports on Terrorism 2012”) to Congress, notably maintaining Cuba on the list of state sponsors of terrorism along with Iran, Sudan, and Syria. Cuba was designated as a state sponsor of terrorism on March 1, 1982. [...]
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Laos is gripped by a deadly surge in dengue fever cases, with at least 50 people dead so far this year in an outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease expected to be one of the country’s worst. Some 14,000 dengue cases have been reported so far, at least a 10-fold jump over the same period last [...]
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A recent peace initiative in Myanmar’s eastern Shan State could play a key role in poppy eradication in a country which is the world’s second largest opium producer, experts say. “It’s a very important milestone,” Jason Eligh, country manager for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Myanmar, told IRIN explaining a new [...]
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US President Barack Obama took time out of his busy schedule to visit the family of ailing former President Nelson Mandela. Obama made a stop at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, where he met members of the Mandela family. He also had a telephone conversation with Mandela’s wife, Graca Machel, who is with the [...]
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(RFE/RL) — Thousands of Egyptians are expected to demonstrate across the nation to demand the resignation of Islamist-backed President Mohamed Morsi and new elections. Egypt’s powerful military has warned it is ready to intervene to control any major unrest. June 30 marks the one-year anniversary of Morsi taking office as Egypt’s first democratically elected president. [...]
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(RFE/RL) — Turkmen leader Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov is marking his 56th birthday with a lavish celebration that includes a ride on a 350-seat catamaran and a performance by U.S. pop star Jennifer Lopez. Lopez, or J.Lo, is believed to be the first major Western star to visit the isolated, energy-rich Central Asian republic. She will perform [...]
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Iran’s President-elect Hassan Rouhani gave his first speech in that capacity and it was, like his own election, a stunner. Stunningly moderate. Compared to the past eight years it was like standing in a blazing desert as a monsoon rain washed overhead. The new leader hit all the right notes and offered Iranians an upbeat [...]
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In the latest revelations of the NSA leaks scandal, new slides have emerged thoroughly explaining the targeting process of the US government top-secret PRISM program deployed to spy on communication data of targets operating abroad. The screenshots published by the Washington Post, detail how PRISM tasks are issued by analysts and describes the approval process [...]
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New details of the electronic spying program carried out by the US National Security Agency (NSA) have been published in the US. On Saturday night The Washington Post posted four slides concerning the program codenamed PRISM on its website. This program is reported to warrant acquisition of a wide range of information from nine companies [...]
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By Cindy Saine The U.S. Senate has passed a landmark immigration reform bill, which is now likely to face fierce opposition in the House of Representatives. Experts say if some form of substantial reform is enacted into law, the immigration population is likely to remain diverse, with a continuing trend of more arrivals from Latin [...]
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Welcoming Croatia as 28th member of the European Union, Hindus have urged Croatia to end the maltreatment of its Roma population, who reportedly live in apartheid like conditions. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada today, said that Croatia should make an all out effort to do something “concrete and real” for Roma [...]
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In its July 1 issue, the Time magazine has covered the recent genocidal activities against the Muslims of Myanmar. In this, reporter Hannah Beech has done an excellent job analyzing the role played by Wirathu, a Buddhist monk, who has become the face of Buddhist terrorism. Her report has stirred up a hornet’s nest among [...]
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Snowden has become a big embarrassment for America. It is not so much his information leaks about America’s post 9/11 spying mechanisms that have been awkward, but the US’s increasingly humiliating global chase to capture this one man. There was a time when the world and almost every country within it shook with trepidation or [...]
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By Yoshifumi Harada and Murray Hunter 1. Introduction As we go about our lives, we are unconsciously immersed within the cultural fabric of the society we live in. To a certain degree what we think and do is greatly influenced by the values, beliefs, and meanings adopted by that society. Embedded within our belief systems [...]
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Back in early June when the Washington Post published four slides from the NSA’s PowerPoint presentation on PRISM, reporter Barton Gellman wrote: “If you saw all the slides you wouldn’t publish them” — even though Edward Snowden had pressed the Post to publish all 41 slides. Now, in spite of Gellman’s insinuation that publication of [...]
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The president of the European parliament has demanded an explanation from US authorities over the latest revelation that EU diplomatic missions in Washington, New York and Brussels were under electronic surveillance from the NSA. “I am deeply worried and shocked about the allegations of US authorities spying on EU offices,” said the President of the [...]
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Around 500 people gathered near the Muslim Brotherhood’s headquarters in Cairo’s Moqattam district, hurling Molotov cocktails and stones at the building, state news agency MENA reported Sunday evening, quoting eyewitness as saying they had heard shots during the melee. Thousands have swarmed the streets in Cairo demanding the ouster of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who [...]
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Increasing numbers of smuggling tunnels connecting Egypt and Gaza have become inactive as mass political rallies take place to mark the first anniversary of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi’s inauguration, traders told Ma’an. Abu Mohamed, who operates a smuggling tunnel from Gaza to Egypt, says that Egyptian security forces have intensified their presence along the Egyptian [...]
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(RFE/RL) — Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has sent his regards to fugitive former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, telling him to “keep his spirits high.” Correa, whose country has frequently been mentioned as a likely destination for Snowden, said the U.S whistle-blower’s fate is currently in the hands of Russia. Snowden was last [...]
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