By Bibhu Prasad Routray Is it an economic nationalist movement, an awakening of sorts, a rabid anti-Muslim movement, or a hate revolution that would eventually consume its own children? Local Myanmarese accounts on the radical 969 Buddhist movement have diverged so much from one another that it is an arduous task to profile it. A [...]
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The hydrocarbon potential of the South China Sea (SCS) has become a source of tension between the littoral states of the region and, to a certain extent, a number of outside actors. However, the SCS’s significance to global oil and gas supplies is over-hyped. Instead, it is the region’s fisheries rather than fossil fuels that [...]
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Migrant workers are more likely to receive medical care from community health centers in partnership with faith-based organizations, a new study shows, because fear of deportation is lower than they might face at other medical facilities. The study was recently published online in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. Daniel López-Cevallos, associate director of [...]
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What is happening in Egypt? Is the overthrow of the country’s Islamist president a symbol of American failure? Will the military’s rise to power, followed by a new, perhaps secular government, help to normalize the situation? When Mubarak was toppled, the military made no move to intervene. And this was despite the fact that as [...]
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Driving a peace process forward requires staying patient and determined. What has been achieved seemed unthinkable a few years ago, so it is now also possible to overcome the challenges faced by Basque society to consolidate coexistence. By Lokarri More than eighteen months have gone by since ETA announced the end of its violent actions. [...]
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The problem with the US effort to push “democracy” is that it doesn’t seem to help anyone. When the US talks democracy, it means the kind it has – with checks and balances and all. Yet, democracy cannot simply be transferred or grafted onto another country, it rather must arise from within the historical experience [...]
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By Brenna Owen In March 2013, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) was dissolved and its responsibilities absorbed by the newly renamed Department of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Development (formerly DFAIT). The move signals a change in Canada’s approach to aid, adding commercial and foreign-policy objectives to a programme whose previous purpose was exclusively [...]
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The Second Summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), which was attended by the heads of state and government of the GECF member countries, representatives of observer countries and members of the international energy organizations, ended in Moscow on 2 July 2013. During the two-day meeting, the heads of delegations discussed a number of [...]
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Policy makers in the U.S. and around the world continue to express concerns that high debt-to-GDP ratios will lead to slower growth. A threshold debt-to-GDP ratio of 90 percent in particular has been used as a justification for curtailing actions to stimulate growth here in the U.S. and the Eurozone, both still reeling in the [...]
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Spain’s King Juan Carlos has resumed his trip to Morocco which had to be postponed due to a discal hernia operation. He was initially invited by King Mohammed VI to visit in April, but the latest in a series of major but non-life-threatening surgical interventions forced him to call it off. The Monarch will now [...]
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Burma (also known as Myanmar) remains one of the worst human rights violators in the world even after a quasi-democratic regime was installed in Naypyidaw for two years now, said a campaign group based in London. On the eve of Burmese President Thein Sein’s visit to the UK, the campaign group asserted that even after [...]
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Last month, both Israel and B’nai B’rith International blasted a totally politicized report by the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child that condemned Israel for its treatment of Palestinians. Now the disgraced Committee has attacked the Holy See: it is demanding that the Vatican turn over every document it has on priestly sexual [...]
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By Karen Parrish While North Korea’s historic, alternating cycle of provocative attacks and inconclusive negotiations is well known, its continued pursuit of nuclear weapons limits any chance of meaningful international dialogue, the commander of U.S. Pacific Command told reporters yesterday. Navy Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III, who was here this week as part of the [...]
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By Wilson John Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to the ISI HQ at Aabpara, Islamabad, on July 11 has raised eyebrows over its timing and content. Sharif and his ministerial colleagues stayed at the ISI HQ for five hours and were briefed by the Army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani and ISI chief, Lt. General Zaheerul [...]
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As NATO prepares to withdraw from Afghanistan, and the engagement in Iraq passes 10 years, government leaders must take on board the lessons learned from the past decade. By Ethan Harding As NATO prepares to exit Afghanistan, and the 10-year anniversary of the Iraq invasion is discussed, military and civilian leadership (and war-weary populations) will be [...]
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By Richard Johnson While commending France for its commitment to aid, its overall development strategy and its engagement at the global level to promote it, including innovative financing, an OECD review has urged the government “not to compromise its ability to help reduce poverty in poor and fragile countries.” It also calls upon France “to [...]
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By Baker Spring On June 19, 2013, the Obama White House released a fact sheet on its updated nuclear weapons policy. The Nuclear Posture Review Implementation Study (NPRIS)[1] has been a long time in coming. Not surprisingly, the NPRIS contends that the United States can safely reduce the number of strategic nuclear weapons by up [...]
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By: Mary Campbell and Sophie M In a speech given on June 22, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan drew parallels between the current protests and social movements in Turkey and Brazil: “The same game is being played in Brazil … There are the same symbols, the same posters. Twitter, Facebook is the same, so [...]
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“Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One teacher, one book, one pen, can change the world,” Ms. Yousafzai said, in an impassioned address to the UN Youth Assembly. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has dubbed today – Ms. Yousafzai’s 16th birthday – ‘Malala Day’ in honour of her [...]
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The exiled dissident Iranian group People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran claims it has evidence that proves a secret underground nuclear base is under construction near the city of Damavand, 70 km from Tehran. Reuters reports that the announcement issued by National Council of Resistance (NCRI), of which the People’s Mujahedin is a main member, also [...]
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