By Sandip Kumar Mishra In her recent visit to China, South Korean President Park Geun-hyu emphasised the pivotal role of China in determining the security and economic architecture of Northeast Asia and her visit was an apparently successful attempt to connect with China in a varied field of activities. Apart from other factors, there are [...]
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By Jessie Durrett Chile’s education system has generated fiery controversy and political discourse since student protests first appeared in 2006 during former President Michelle Bachelet’s tenure (2006-2010). [1] After minimal and half-hearted improvements, frustration with the political system has intensified and protests persist. However, Bachelet has decided to compete for a second presidential term after [...]
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(Civil.Ge) — Less than three hours after president’s spokesperson announced that Mikheil Saakashvili set October 27 as the date for presidential election, chief of president’s administration convened a press conference, apologized for a “technical mistake” and said that the election has in fact been set for October 31. “We want to clarify that upon decision [...]
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By Ramesh Jaura President Barack Obama’s commitment four years ago “to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons” reverberated across the globe generating hope that humankind will not be annihilated by a sheer flash of light. On June 19 in Berlin he sought to build on the iconic Prague speech. But [...]
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It is necessary for Belgrade to deal directly with Pristina without the interference of Brussels, Berlin, London, Washington or Moscow to discuss the major issues, not technical questions. The Kosovo issue will be resolved only by negotiating sovereignty and the disposition of political community and with a strong affirmation of and cooperation with the Serbs [...]
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By Ted Hewitt Much of the global media has focused on the protests occurring throughout Brazil during this past week. Almost all have drawn their own conclusions as to the cause of the tumult, and almost all in splendid contradiction. Similarly, there has been an enduring preoccupation in most news reports with the violence and [...]
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While the northern Kosovo Serbs have not openly defied Belgrade, the agreement cannot be fully implemented if they don’t fully engage in the process. Passive resistance and continued rejection of Pristina’s involvement in the north would make it difficult for Belgrade to simply cut the northerners off and would erode everyone else’s expectations that anything [...]
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By Vivek Chadha On 24 June 2013, at approximately 1620 hours, a Rashtriya Rifles convoy was attacked on the main road passing through the area of Hyderpora, a township, almost midway between Badgam and Srinagar. The ambush site lies on National Highway (NH) 1A, which is considered the lifeline both for the maintenance of Kashmir [...]
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By Ali Harfouch Reactionary v. Revolutionary Positions To be reactionary, means quite simply, to react to an existing [constructed] reality. Being a revolutionary however means one changes the existing reality. Reactionary positions and revolutionary positions are often at odds, as the former merely works within the existing framework of the status-quo. It is precisely these [...]
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Oil hovered near $98 a barrel Tuesday, July 2, underpinned by political unrest in Egypt that raised fears of disruption to global crude supplies, The Associated Press reports. Benchmark crude for August delivery was down 3 cents to $97.96 a barrel at early afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. [...]
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The Vatican has confirmed the brutal beheading of a Catholic priest by Syrian rebels, Belfast Telegraph reported. A disturbingly graphic video showing the priest being decapitated by jihadists was posted online. It has now been confirmed that Fr Francois Murad (49) was butchered and his killers apparently used a kitchen knife for the beheading. According [...]
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There is something monstrously out of whack about going to war for a large nation state. I can understand why a man might take up arms in defense of himself, his family, his friends, perhaps even his neighborhood or his town. But once we get past the lived-in milieu, a man’s risking his life, limbs, [...]
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The climate crisis is real, it’s here, and it’s time for absolute power for Obama! President Obama is set to expand his rule via Executive Order, last week outlining a series of climate proposals he plans to push through via executive action rather than working through Congress. His rationale for this further step to rule [...]
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By Dan Robinson U.S. President Barack Obama ended his Africa trip Tuesday, voicing confidence in Africa’s future with help from a new U.S. model for development assistance. In Tanzania, Obama and former U.S. president George W. Bush marked the 1998 al-Qaida terrorist bombing. Coordinated truck bomb attacks on the U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, [...]
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By Anindita Sarker (Das) “The eyes of the world are on Bangladesh” – Heather Cruden Introduction The last general elections in December 2008, that brought the Awami league to power is considered in the International arena as the most free and fair elections in Bangladesh due to its reliable and transparent voting process. The elections [...]
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By Sinisa Jakov Marusic A state commission’s decision to classify one of Macedonia’s best-known writers, the late Slavko Janevski, as a secret police informer, has sparked an outcry from authors and academics. Macedonian cultural institutions and literary organisations have expressed outrage after the government’s lustration commission declared at the weekend that Janevski had been a [...]
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By Igor Jovanovic and Linda Karadaku EU leaders gave clear incentives to Serbia and Kosovo for their European integration path by approving the start of Serbia’s negotiations for Union membership no later than January 2014. They also authorised opening negotiations on the stabilisation and association agreement with Kosovo. Serbia Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said [...]
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Several reporters have written lately about the rightist Israeli government’s misapprehension of the Arab Spring. They note that instead of calling it “Arab Spring,” ideologues like current defense minister, Bogie Yaalon, called it the “Islamic Winter.” Further, they espoused to a certainty the conviction that these uprisings would bring radical Islamists to power throughout the [...]
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By Greg Flakus At a hearing in a Fort Hood, Texas courtroom, the judge in the trial of U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan cleared the way for the trial to begin on Tuesday, July 9, with jury selection. Hasan is charged with murdering 13 people and attempting to kill 32 others in a shooting spree [...]
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“I am sorry that it has come to this.” Thus began the searing suicide note by 30-year-old Iraq War veteran, Daniel Somers on June 10, 2013 to his wife and family. On the other side of the violent divide are video messages from the suicide bombers – the oft-described “weapon of the weak” against U.S. [...]
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