Israeli submarines carried out the attack on an arms depot in the Syrian port city of Latakia on July 5, according to a report published in the British Sunday Times. US media previously claimed the offensive was carried out by the Israel Air Force. The Times cited Middle East intelligence sources as stating that the [...]
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Speaking on American television on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu evaded a direct response when asked whether his country was involved in a recent airstrike in Syria that reportedly targeted Russian missiles sold to the Syrian government, an ally of longtime Israeli enemy Hezbollah. However, Netanyahu said, Israel’s policy “is to prevent the transfer [...]
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Egypt’s interim president Adly Mansour should ensure impartial investigations of military officers and police for killings outside the Republican Guard headquarters on July 8, 2013, Human Rights Watch said today. The investigations need to be conducted by the civilian judiciary, independent both institutionally and practically from the military chain of command. Witnesses described a sequence [...]
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At least 21 people were killed when two bombs exploded on Saturday evening near Sunni mosques in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the BBC reported. The attacks took place as worshippers were congregating to pray, having broken their fast for Ramadan. 16 people were killed when a bomb went off near a mosque in the southern [...]
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By Abdulrahman Al-Zuhayyan While standing in a queue at the checkout of a major supermarket, there was a neatly dressed Saudi man standing next to me with a black dyed goatee beard and mustache. He appeared to be a middle-level retired government employee. With eyes that lacked luster, the man looked at me and remarked: [...]
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Microsoft is thought to be preparing a series of bigger additions to its Windows Phone 8 operating system. As Digital Spy said citing The Verge, the computing giant may introduce a notification centre, improved multitasking and upgrades to built-in apps in an update for 2014. The speculation comes after Microsoft announced it would be making [...]
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Turkey’s parliament has amended the code governing the armed forces, curtailing their political influence, BBC News reported. The original rules gave the military responsibility of preserving the Republic of Turkey, a clause previously used as a justification for coups. It now says the army’s main duty is to protect the nation from foreign threat. The [...]
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News outlets, think tanks, and politicians worldwide are discussing the huge dilemma now faced by Washington on the shape and structure of US-Egyptian relations after the Egyptian Army toppled the democratically elected government of President Mohamed Morsi on July 3rd. U.S. President Barack Obama and his administration must decide between supporting democracy or supporting the [...]
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By Manohar Thyagaraj In an episode of the iconic US sitcom, Seinfeld, the characters take to using the phrase ‘Yada, Yada’ to gloss over the details of any story. “Are you close with your parents”, asks a girlfriend of the neurotic George Costanza. He replies: “Well, they gave birth to me, and Yada, Yada, Yada.” [...]
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By Kasturi Moitra India and China recently held the 16th round of their Special Representatives’ talks on the boundary question on 28-29th June. The talks, which began in 2003, were envisaged as a conduit through which India and China could address their long-pending boundary issue and prevent flare-ups along the unresolved Line of Actual Control [...]
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Thousands of demonstrators rallied in several U.S. cities to protest a Florida jury’s acquittal of neighborhood-watch volunteer George Zimmerman in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Treyvon Martin. Peaceful demonstrations late Sunday in cities including New York, San Francisco, Boston, Detroit and Chicago called for justice in the face of what protesters saw as [...]
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Gun rights activist Adam Kokesh has posted bond and will be released from behind bars nearly one week after a SWAT raid of his suburban Washington, DC home left him facing two felony charges. A Fairfax County, Virginia judge granted bond for Kokesh at $5,000 Friday evening, and local network WJLA reports that the jailed [...]
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By Elvira M. Jukic Bosnia’s parliament is expected to adopt changes to the law on conflict of interests on Monday, despite international expressions of concern. Bosnian parliamentarians are due on Monday to change the law on conflict of interests, amid complaints that the planned changes could worsen the level of corruption. The key change will [...]
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By Linda Karadaku Since it was recognised by NATO as having reached full operational capacity, the Kosovo Security Force can now focus on Euro-Atlantic integration and regional security, analysts said. The North Atlantic Council said that the force “signifies that a level of self-sustainability has been attained in recruiting, vetting, equipping and training.” Its mission [...]
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By Dr. S.Chandrasekharan. In the second national elections, Bhutan sprang a surprise by electing the PDP which had just two seats in the last elections with 32 seats out of a total of 47 this time. The former ruling party DPT could manage only 15 out of 45 they had earlier. This trend could not [...]
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By Yves-Marie Rault “I want to be president and I’m quite frank about it”, Aung San Suu Kyi said on 6 June, during the World Economic Forum on East Asia. The rumours about her presidential ambitions thus turned out to be true, which can explain the recent government-friendly behaviour of Myanmar’s global icon. In order [...]
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South Africans from all walks of life are this week gearing up to celebrate International Mandela Day on which President Jacob Zuma will mark the day by handing over houses to the community of Danville in Pretoria. The Mandela Day campaign, which followed a UN declaration of Mandela’s birthday on 18 July as the International [...]
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By Jamel Arfaoui and Monia Ghanmi Several thousand people protested in central Tunis on Saturday (July 13th) against the Egyptian army’s overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, AFP reported. The demonstration was held by the ruling Islamist Ennahda party and came in the wake of calls by Tunisian opposition groups to organise their own push [...]
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Leaders of Egypt’s second-largest Islamist party and the Tamarod movement refused on Monday to meet the first senior U.S. official to visit Egypt since the army toppled President Mohamed Mursi. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns was in Cairo Monday to press for “an end to all violence and a transition leading to an [...]
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By Andrea Gagliarducci Although the Vatican froze funds belonging to Monsignor Nunzio Scarano after the Italian police arrested him, the hold on his account at the Vatican’s Institute for Religious Works and his suspension from work are related to a separate case of alleged money laundering. Msgr. Scarano, a suspended accountant for the Administration for [...]
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