Once again the unforgettable sad memories of the 7th July incident come around, when the Tatmadaw (at that time implemented by butcher Sein Lwin and ordered by Ne Win supported by Colonel Aung Gyi) gun down hundreds of peaceful students demonstrating Rangoon University students on 7th July 1962, to be exact half a century plus [...]
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Gunmen in the Libyan capital Tripoli attacked the Interior Ministry late Tuesday, forcing its closure, AFP reported. Gunfire was reported around 22:00 (20:00 GMT) Tuesday evening and the building was later surrounded by armed men who blocked its entrance with sandbags. The men then left the area, according to a security official, quoted by AFP. [...]
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A military coup is underway in Egypt, according to President Mohamed Morsi’s national security adviser. Security forces have placed a travel ban on President Morsi and a number of top Muslim Brotherhood officials, according to AFP sources. The adviser stated that he expects army and police violence to remove pro-Mursi demonstrators from the streets of [...]
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By Gabe Joselow U.S. first lady Michelle Obama joined forces with her predecessor Laura Bush at a summit Tuesday in Tanzania to promote investment in women. The conversation soon turned to talk about the unique power and challenges that come with being the wife of the president. The two leading women came together at the [...]
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Dr. S. Chandrasekharan. The GMR Deal: On 17th of June and three years after the case was filed, the Anti Corruption Commission of Maldives concluded that no corruption was involved in the bid evaluation phase of the GMR deal of the international airport at Male. According to the report, GMR had offered the highest concession [...]
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By Somya Chhabra Hassan Rouhani’s election as the seventh president of Iran amongst a host of five other conservative candidates, many of them close to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, has made the 2013 Presidential elections a landmark. Not only has a moderate candidate defeated the hard-liners, the election process has been hailed as genuine [...]
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By Rana Divyank Chaudhary What significance do Edward Snowden’s actions have for China? How opposed in reality, are Beijing’s and Washington’s positions on the issues of whistle-blowing or information security? A Level Battlefield Edward Snowden, former contractor for the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) turned whistleblower, just did Beijing an unanticipated favour and tipped [...]
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The head of the Egyptian Army General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday announced that the constitution is to be temporarily suspended, whilst the head of the constitutional court, Adly Mansour, will take temporary control of the country until early elections are held. The announcement, made on Egyptian state television, was greeted with wild elation from [...]
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(RFE/RL) — The Egyptian armed forces have suspended the constitution and announced steps to move the country toward a new presidential election. The announcement ends the presidency of Muhammad Morsi after days of protests by millions of Egyptians against his Islamist-led government. Egyptian Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said that until a new president is [...]
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Twenty four people died when a Russian helicopter crash-landed in eastern Siberia, the Emergency Situations Ministry said Wednesday. “Rescuers have found 24 bodies at the site of the crash,” a ministry spokesman said. The pilot of the Mi-8 chopper, which came down on Tuesday morning, managed to contact rescuers overnight by satellite phone, allowing his [...]
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The Egyptian military on Wednesday deposed President Mohamed Morsi and suspended the country’s constitution, the country’s defense minister said. The constitution has been suspended and a panel has been formed that will review and amend it in accordance with the people’s demands, Egyptian Defense Minister Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said in a televised address to the [...]
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There is a showdown in Egypt. Unquestionably, the most serious showdown the Muslim world has seen. The Brotherhood is not a group like Al Qaeda standing against a government such as the case in Yemen or the Taliban in Afghanistan. This is a showdown between Islam and everything else. President Morsi as president will not [...]
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The news from Egypt on the day before Americans celebrate the Fourth of July is that the military has stepped in to remove its Prime Minister, Mohammed Morsi, and have replaced him with the Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court. The Egyptian constitution has been suspended as well. We can only hope this results in [...]
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Edward Snowden’s disclosures about the massive surveillance of communications data by the United States and the United Kingdom point to a serious infringement on the right of privacy. If true, these disclosures indicate that data is being collected about the communications, associations, and movements of millions of ordinary people who aren’t suspected of wrongdoing or [...]
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Asian and European markets tumbled Wednesday on fears of continued Egyptian political unrest and uncertainty over the fate of the Portuguese ruling coalition. Global oil prices hit a 14-month high, with the light sweet crude traded in New York topping $102 a barrel. Investors worried that the crisis in Egypt could affect Middle East oil [...]
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By Inés Benítez A 280-square-metre warehouse in Coín, a municipality in the southern Spanish province of Málaga, is home to a unique type of farm, where insects are raised for human consumption and the production of animal feed. But despite FAO’s endorsement of insects as food, there are numerous obstacles holding back the development of [...]
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Washington Dulles airport I noticed a large advertisement. I’d seen it before and not paid attention. (No doubt that’s why they saturate public space with the things.) It showed a woman’s face with the words: “A car crash in California almost took her leg. A bomb blast in Iraq helped save it.” It directed one [...]
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By Ana Lilia Esquivel Ayala The recovery of ancestral practices, knowledge, and wisdom of the indigenous peoples, focused on the common well-being and the reunion between human beings and nature, has been injected in the debate over development, and in the name of Good Living, or Living Well, they are established as alternatives. Emanating from [...]
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On March 12 when Sen Ron Wyden questioned Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who was testifying in the Senate under oath, the senator, like any good lawyer, knew exactly what he was asking and chose his words carefully. “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions [...]
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A Canadian citizen today pleaded guilty in a U.S. courtroom to being involved in a conspiracy to aid and abet an organization listed as a terrorist group by the United States Treasury and State Departments, according to prosecutors. The defendant Suresh Sriskandarajah pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn, N. Y., “to conspiring to provide [...]
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