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Russia Claims Syria Rebels Used Sarin In Aleppo Attack

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Samples taken at the site where the chemical weapons were allegedly used indicate that it was rebels – not the Syrian army – behind the attack, Russia’s UN envoy Vitaly Churkin has said. Russia has handed over the analyzed samples to the UN, he added. “I have just passed the analysis of samples taken at [...]

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Rogozin Questions Survivability of Russia’s Nuclear Deterrent As Defense Industry Crisis Deepens (Part One)

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A number of factors recently coalesced in Moscow’s statements concerning defense and security, military modernization, threat assessment and defense planning that may serve to stimulate further efforts to make more realistic existing plans to modernize the military. However, the persistence of pseudo-paranoia at the heart of the regime permeating the military culture, coupled with innate [...]

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Last Chance For Litvinenko Coroner – opEd

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Will a ruling on the cause of death ever come forth? A showdown is coming Friday, July 12, in the Alexander Litvinenko death case. It will occur at a hearing chaired by coroner Sir Robert Owen. This disgraced coroner will have perhaps his last chance to mitigate the damage he’s already done to his own [...]

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Pakistan Needs To Get Terror Monkey Off Its Back – Analysis

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Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited China early this month – his first foreign trip since returning to power. After a meeting between Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Nawaz Sharif in Beijing on July 5, eight pacts were signed between the two countries including a broad agreement on the construction of an “economic corridor”. The [...]

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Nepal: Judicial Independence, Judges And Political Interference – OpEd

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An independent and impartial judiciary is an absolute essential for any democracy. Individual judges and the judiciary as a whole must be impartial and independent of all external pressures so that both those who appear before them and the wider public can have confidence that cases will be decided fairly and in accordance with the [...]

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Saudi Arabia Says Won’t Tolerate Extremism

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Saudi Arabia yesterday urged the international community to play a decisive role to end the bloodbath in Syria, giving ethics priority over politics. “If it fails to do so, then the history will record that it had participated in the killing of innocent people,” said Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and Crown [...]

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Let’s Cut Out The Double Standards In Post-Morsi Egypt – OpEd

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By Nadine El Sayed The celebratory atmosphere following the ousting of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on 3 July devolved as arrests of leading politicians were made (some of whom were later released), four religious television stations were forcibly shut down and violent clashes led to the death of many pro and anti-Morsi demonstrators. The [...]

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Preparing For Ramadan, The American Way – OpEd

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By Naazish YarKhan Tuesday, 9 July marks the beginning of the Holy Month of Ramadan for Muslims in the United States, a time when Muslims around the world abstain from food and drink from the first light of dawn until sunset. To truly take advantage of the blessings of the month, my family and I [...]

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Will The Egyptian Army Take Over Completely? – OpEd

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By Alsir Sidahmed A combination of violence, polarization and political vacuum is threatening to bring the Egyptian revolution closer to the kind of civil war in Algeria rather than moving toward a renewed democratic process. The ingredients are there for everyone to see, and Monday’s heavy casualty of supporters of ousted Egyptian President Muhammad Mursi [...]

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China’s Stock Market Falls Back Through History

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China’s stock market, once beloved of an army of dedicated and often elderly retail investors wielding stock tips and cell phones, has taken a series of tumbles in recent weeks, which some analysts see as a psychological warning of deeper fears for the overall economy. On the back of economic reforms aimed at boosting high-end [...]

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Obama Reviews Options For US Presence In Afghanistan

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By Jim Garamone President Barack Obama is reviewing options from his national security team on what the possible U.S. footprint in Afghanistan will look like after 2014, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said today. The president has the “time and space” to make the decision, Little told reporters at the Pentagon. “Any potential U.S. military [...]

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Journalist Killed In Russia

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Russian authorities should conduct a sufficiently thorough investigation to identify the killers of a prominent Dagestani journalist and hold them to account, according to Human Rights Watch. Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev, who died of multiple gunshot wounds on July 9, 2013, was deputy chief editor of a leading independent weekly in Dagestan, Novoe Delo (New Action). He [...]

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New Prisoner X: Mossad Hides Its Dirty Secrets In Ayalon Prison – OpEd

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Hollywood loves sequels, even ones that bomb.  Apparently, so do Israel’s intelligence agencies.  The original version, the one starring Ben Zygier, did so “well” at the box office that the they also imprisoned another Prisoner X in the same prison.  This individual was, like Zygier, a covert agent who also had betrayed state secrets in [...]

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US, China To Open Talks In Washington

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By Scott Stearns U.S. and Chinese diplomats meet in Washington Wednesday for a security and economic dialogue expected to include rival territorial claims to the South China Sea. China is modernizing its navy and increasing patrols in the disputed waters of the South China Sea – where Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, and Taiwan are [...]

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Apple To Appeal Ruling On E-Book Price Conspiracy

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Apple on Wednesday rejected a judge’s ruling that it conspired with publishers to raise the price of e-books, and said it would appeal the decision. “Apple did not conspire to fix e-book pricing and we will continue to fight against these false accusations,” an Apple spokesman said after Judge Denise Cote’s ruling. “We’ve done nothing [...]

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Balkan People Pessimistic On Corruption, Survey Shows

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By Besar Likmeta People in the Balkans believe their public institutions are increasingly prone to bribery, Transparency International’s 2013 Global Corruption Barometer reveals. According to the survey published by the Berlin-based watchdog, the perception level of corruption has worsened in most Balkan countries, with only Serbia registering progress and Croatia and Bulgaria staying at the [...]

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China And Russia: The Joint Sea 2013 Exercise – Analysis

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By Vijay Sakhuja The ongoing China-Russia naval exercises code-named Joint Sea 2013, dubbed by the PLA Navy as the ‘single biggest deployment of military force in any joint foreign exercise’, merits attention. The Chinese flotilla comprising of seven ships, three helicopters and a special warfare unit sailed through the Tsushima Strait into the Sea of [...]

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Antony’s China Visit And India-China Security Deficit – Analysis

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By Dr. B. R Deepak In order to strengthen the fragile defense ties and improve the security environment between India and China, the Indian Defense Minister Mr. A. K Antony headed a defense delegation to China between July 4th and 6th. He held talks with his counterpart Chang Wanquan, Special Representative on the boundary question [...]

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Myanmar: FDI, Local Economy And The Rohingya Conflict – Analysis

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By Asma Masood On June 27, Myanmar announced that the government awarded a telecommunications contract to Qatari company Ooredo. It sparked a social media backlash in Myanmar. Citizens threatened boycott of its services. The Buddhist community was surprised by the win, especially as public pressure on the government in 2012 blocked the Organization of Islamic [...]

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Ouster Of President Morsi And Its Implications – Analysis

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By R. S. Kalha The ouster of the first democratically elected President of Egypt by the armed forces was an event that was long seen as coming. Not unexpectedly, the US and the European powers have not uttered the dreaded word coup d’état; although it had all the hallmarks of one. Even the hapless UN [...]

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