When India won the tri-series recently, everyone went into a frenzy praising Mr Captain Cool for his magnificent innings and for being Team India’s saviour once again. He fought through the innings despite a painful hamstring injury and all for Team India putting on the line, his very career in the bargain. And predictably, he [...]
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By Aparupa Bhattacherjee The US State Department’s Report, “Trafficking in Person 2013” elaborates the form of human trafficking in different countries around the world. According to the Report, trafficking involves both men and women, who are either forced into sexual exploitation or bonded labour. Although the Report did not specify this, it also includes the [...]
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A number of media reports, arguing that South Ossetians are offered free quality medical care in exchange for taking Georgian citizenship, caused a public outcry and strong reaction from Leonid Tibilov, the head of unrecognized republic. In particular, the president of South Ossetia declared unfounded the referrals to medical institutions of Georgia as this often [...]
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In light of emerging trends in the regional strategic environment, Australia and Indonesia should expand their defence cooperation in the maritime domain. By Ristian Atriandi Supriyanto SHARING A long maritime boundary, Australia and Indonesia should mate their futures together at sea. The maritime security challenges that both nations face mainly revolve around non-traditional security issues, [...]
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As the fog of weariness over the war in Afghanistan is growing thicker, some political analysts have come up with the idea that the partition of Afghanistan might be the only alternative to the present counter-insurgency war. In theory, it may seem a panacea but in practice, it could be a frivolous adventure. This idea [...]
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By Shujaat Bukhari Two important developments are taking place in the month of August vis-a-vis the otherwise “dead” peace process aimed at bringing the stakeholders from both the sides of Line of Control (LoC) at the table and to revive the linkages aimed at finding a middle ground to move towards the resolution of Kashmir [...]
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By Linda Karadaku and Biljana Lajmanovska Kosovo and Macedonia officials believe a recent agreement to create a joint tourist package will make both countries more competitive in the regional tourism market. Kosovo officials say the agreement encourages development of cross-border relations in the tourism industry by supporting tourist agencies, structures and organisations. Arta Istrefi, political [...]
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Some people have been surprised or disappointed by certain decisions of President Barack Obama. His war-making, his use of illegal drone strikes, his failure to close Guantanamo, his failure to genuinely help those ordinary Americans who voted him into office, and even his pursuit of whistleblowers like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden have all raised [...]
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Several weeks have passed since the world received Edward Snowden’s revelations of the massive scope of the U.S. government’s invasion of privacy by means of collecting and storing millions of persons’ emails and website visits, as well as information about their telephone calls. The public appears fairly equally divided about whether these revelations constitute a [...]
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By Rebecca Lullo and Phineas Rueckert On Tuesday evening, the Cuban Foreign Ministry released a statement taking responsibility for the undeclared missiles discovered aboard the Chong Chon Gang by Panamanian authorities that morning. Havana claims that the purpose of the weapons shipment was to rehabilitate and modernize the missiles and have them returned to Cuba, [...]
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Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin appealed to a conference in Moscow on June 27 to close the military technology gap with the United States, in response to Washington allegedly developing the capability to destroy most of Russia’s nuclear forces within a few hours. The pseudo-paranoia, coupled with the high aspirations for the domestic defense industry [...]
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By John C.K. Daly So much for the lessons of Fukushima. Never mind oil spills, the Russian Federation is preparing an energy initiative that, if it has problems, will inject nuclear material into the maritime environment. Speaking to reporters at the 6th International Naval Show in St. Petersburg, Baltiskii Zavod shipyard general director Aleksandr Voznesenskii [...]
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By Daniel J. Graeber Canadian oil production is expected to be in a boom cycle for the next 20 years or so, fed largely by oil sands production in Alberta. Smaller players in the vast oil sands region are already making a splash with new operations while majors like TransCanada and Enbridge are quickly getting [...]
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Both Spanish and Moroccan media unanimously assert that the current visit of King Juan Carlos to Morocco will boster both economic and political relations between the two kingdoms. In fact, Spanish investors do not make a mistake to confirm that the Moroccan economy, attractive and competitive, has a large room for growth in the future [...]
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By Osama Al Sharif IF there is one group, aside from Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, that has suffered great losses from the recent overthrow of President Muhammad Mursi, it has to be Hamas, the Islamist movement ruling over the besieged Gaza Strip since 2007. In fact, the movement, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, is now [...]
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(RFE/RL) — A senior Pakistani Taliban militant has urged teenage education campaigner Malala Yousafzai to return from Britain and join a female madrasah in her hometown of Mingora in the Swat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. In a 2,000-word letter published on July 17, Adnan Rashid insisted the Taliban was not against girls’ education. Rashid [...]
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By Joao Peixe Shunichi Tanaka, the head of the Nuclear Regulation Authority in Japan, and the country’s chief nuclear regulator announced on Wednesday, that the nuclear power plant at Fukushima, has been leaking contaminated water into the ocean for the two years since the accident that saw three of the plants six reactors suffer a [...]
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By Hasnet Lais Football is a gentleman’s game played by thugs. Or at least that’s the reputation lived up to by some of the game’s most coveted stars. Over the years, Premiership footballers have run up a catalog of misdemeanors, from training ground bust ups and ill-tempered dressing room spats to lurid off-the-pitch antics bringing [...]
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Suddenly the world’s spotlight has turned onto a player in the Middle East political drama who, until quite recently, has been assigned only a modest role. Out of the blue, commentators have taken to describing Saudi Arabia as “the region’s most powerful influence-peddler” and “a mid-east powerhouse”. The Arab kingdom that straddles most of the [...]
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By Ashok Bhan The Ishrat Jahan case has once again brought into focus inadequacies in handling of terror related cases in the country. Without going into the merits of this particular case, it can safely be stated that “Fake Encounters” lead to alienation and are always a setback to conflict resolution. A professional police official [...]
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