The European External Action Service has made contact with the US authorities to seek clarification regarding allegations that the NSA has been spying on EU officials. Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission, confirmed in a statement that, “The European Union [...]
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South Africa President Jacob Zuma says US President Barack Obama’s visit to the country will go down in history as a turning point in relations between the United States and South Africa. “You are no stranger to Africa Mr President. You are a son of the African continent. Your African tour is actually a homecoming,” [...]
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By Mohamed Mansour Kadah Syria bleeds and its agony is expected to drag on. It started in March 2011, when the regime of Bashar al-Assad met a popular uprising with repressive force. After more than two years, there is no ceasefire and fierce confrontations have escalated into an all-out civil war, dividing the country into [...]
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Both the Indo-Lanka Peace Accord signed in 1987 and the subsequent amendment to Sri Lanka’s Constitution needs to be looked comparing the background in which it emerged and the relevance to the current context of the political scene for both India and Sri Lanka. At the time Tamil militants were trained in India, India was [...]
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t’s either because the mainstream media don’t really care whether Muslims have beheaded yet another Catholic priest, or they just expect the followers of Islam to act that way. Those are the only two plausible explanations that account for the media blackout of what happened to Syrian priest François Murad on June 23. The beheading [...]
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By O. Igho Natufe Introduction When the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991, statesmen and most political analysts around the world immediately declared the event as the “end of the cold war.” This led Zbigniew Brzezinski to declare “America’s victory in the Cold War.”1 We caution against any haste to retire the cold war permanently [...]
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By Kate Woodsome It’s official. U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents in a same-sex marriage to a foreign national can now sponsor their spouse for a family-based immigrant visa, according to a directive issued by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Monday. The move follows last week’s Supreme Court decision ruling that Section 3 [...]
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It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry as the US goes all out to get its hands on National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. We’ve got the US leaning on Russia to push him out of his sanctuary in their Moscow airport. We’ve got Obama and the State Department warning countries around the [...]
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The Norwegian foreign ministry has confirmed that the former CIA employee Edward Snowden has requested political asylum in the country. “I can prove that. Our embassy received a fax message containing a request for political asylum yesterday night. It must have come from him and was signed by him, though we can’t run a check [...]
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NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden released a statement Monday night from Moscow saying he is “impressed at the efforts taken by so many” to help him, with WikiLeaks hours later releasing a list of countries to be sent applications for asylum. Sarah Harrison, WikiLeaks’ legal advisor to Edward Snowden, has made requests for asylum from a [...]
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A committee set up by the Nigerian government to develop an amnesty framework for members of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram should exclude serious crimes that violate international human rights law, Human Rights Watch said in a letter to the committee made public today. Instead, the Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security [...]
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By Belen Fernandez Last week, on June 23, Israeli President Shimon Peres and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel attended a ceremony in Jerusalem in honor of a new joint initiative between Israel’s Ben-Gurion University and the University of Chicago. Hailing the Peres-Emanuel presence as an instance of “rare political star power”, the Chicago Tribune explains: “The [...]
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n order to fully understand what the five Republican appointees on the Supreme Court have been up to when they make decisions that affect our democracy, as they did last week on voting rights, you need to understand what the Republican Party has been up to. The modern GOP is based on an unlikely coalition [...]
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While President Barack Obama and his family are touring southern Africa, on Monday Somalia’s government issued an ultimatum that demands Kenyan security forces posted in the port city of Kismayo, as part of an African Union force, be removed. The Kenyan counterterrorism units, who invaded Somalia in 2011, had ousted al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab terrorists from Kismayo [...]
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Russia’s Proton-M rocket carrying three additional satellites for its Glonass global positioning and navigation network exploded shortly after launch early on Tuesday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. The launch was broadcast live by the Rossyia 24 television. “There was an accident during the Proton-M launch. The rocket fell and exploded on the territory [...]
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On Nov. 3, 1969, Richard Nixon, his presidency about to be broken by massive antiwar demonstrations, called on “the great silent majority” to stand by him for peace with honor in Vietnam. They did. Within days Nixon’s approval surged to 68 percent. The ferocious Republican partisan of the 1950s had won over millions of Democrats. [...]
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(RFE/RL) — Egypt’s embattled President Muhammad Morsi says he will stick to his own plan for reconciliation. The statement from his office early on July 2 follows an ultimatum a day earlier by the military demanding Morsi’s government and the opposition find a compromise within 48 hours. If not, the military said it would offer [...]
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Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Araqchi has dismissed as baseless allegations of the Islamic Republic’s involvement in the ongoing Syrian crisis. Araqchi was reacting to Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohamed Al Khalifa’s accusation of Iran sending militants into Syria. The Iranian official described the remarks as “irrational and baseless”, saying they [...]
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By Barana Waidyatilake The Global Peace Index (GPI) 2013 identifies South Asia as the least peaceful region in the world. Though the region had, as a whole, displayed a slight increase in peacefulness since 2010 when peacefulness was at its lowest, the current level of peacefulness was still lower than what it had been in [...]
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By Michael Lelyveld Russia’s Gazprom has missed a target date for finalizing terms of a major China gas supply contract while its competitors have been charging ahead with new China deals. On June 19 in St. Petersburg, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller voiced hope that the Russian monopoly would nail down terms for exporting large volumes [...]
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