The World Bank should urge the Turkmen government to make a commitment to governance reforms before it moves to normalize relations with Turkmenistan, Human Rights Watch and Crude Accountability said today. The bank’s board of directors is scheduled to consider a reengagement strategy for Turkmenistan on July 25, 2013. Turkmenistan is one of the most [...]
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At a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Pope Francis said his namesake St. Francis of Assisi put his conversion into action when he embraced a man with leprosy, saying this is a model for the life of a Christian. “This brother, suffering and an outcast, was the ‘mediator of light … for Saint Francis of [...]
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I have been trying to remember a president that someone did not want to impeach. An effort was made to impeach Andrew Johnson but failed by one vote. Nixon resigned when he was informed that he would face impeachment for the Watergate scandal. Bill Clinton faced impeachment, but even Republicans did not want to vote [...]
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By Cindy Saine The U.S. House of Representatives has narrowly defeated an amendment that would have ended a National Security Agency surveillance program that collects hundreds of millions of Americans’ phone records. The vote turned into a clash between President Barack Obama and Democratic and Republican national security leaders in Congress on one side, who [...]
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By D Suba Chandran Obama has floated another Zero Option (remember the earlier Prague speech on global nuclear disarmament that won him the Nobel?), this time on the number of American troops to stay in Afghanistan after 2014. This statement, whether bluff or threat, follows Karzai’s angry remarks and Afghanistan’s official protest against the dialogue [...]
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By Teshu Singh The fifth annual China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) was held in Washington D.C on 10-11 July 2013. Notably, the groundwork for the meeting was already done during the Xi-Obama meeting and further cemented by an article written by Yang Jiechi (Chinese State Councillor) in Washington Post titled, “US China can forge [...]
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By Emily Boulter Over a two-month period Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika vanished from the country’s political scene. He was reported to have suffered a mild stroke and travelled to France in order to receive medical care. His absence sparked rumors that the 76-year-old president had either passed way or was in a coma. There were [...]
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By Aijaz Zaka Syed The United States says it’s concerned over the growing Islamophobia around the world. In its annual report on the state of political and religious freedom around the world, the State Department has denounced a sharp spike in anti-Muslim sentiment and violence: “Government restrictions, which often coincided with societal animosity, resulted in [...]
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In the fight against terrorism, Singapore has cooperated and collaborated with its regional and international counterparts to deter and disrupt terrorist networks. Since September 11, 2001, Singapore’s military, law enforcement, and security and intelligence services have provided steadfast assistance and advice to their counterparts in the region and beyond. By Rohan Gunaratna Singapore has been [...]
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Last Monday was the 50th anniversary of Sarawak independence from Britain. Although it isn’t a gazetted public holiday, local newspapers over the preceding week highlighted the upcoming reenactment of the independence ceremony, in which the last British Governor, Sir Alexander Waddell, formally handed sovereignty over to Tuan Haji Openg, the first Yang di-Pertua (Governor of [...]
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A Montenegrin Orthodox priest has consecrated part of the town of Budva where the country’s first Gay Pride march took place in order to prevent “the disease spreading”. Orthodox priest Boris Radovic consecrated the area in front of the Old Town in Budva on Montenegro’s coast a few hours after the first gay-rights march was [...]
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Tunisian opposition politician Mohamed Brahmi was shot dead outside his home in Tunis on Thursday in the second such assassination this year, setting off mass protests against the Islamist-led government in the capital and elsewhere. “He was shot in front of his house when he was with his disabled daughter,” Mohamed Nabki, a member of [...]
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Unless it is averted by transcendental intervention or by the collective effort of those who possess the political or economic capacity to influence the Egyptian Army, the stage in Egypt is set for bloody massacres, or worse, a civil war. The excerpts below would underline a thinly-veiled pretext. On July 24, 2013, General Abdel-Fattah El [...]
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The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership envisions a giant free trade area encompassing the major Asian economies. India stands to benefit, but must move forward positively in both its domestic organisation and external negotiations to optimise its gains. By Rahul Mishra ASEAN HAS been encouraged by the progress of its bilateral FTAs with the ‘Plus Six’ [...]
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By Namrata Hasija Bo Xilai has been formally charged with bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power today according to Jinan City People’s Procuratorate in east China’s Shandong province. The indictment paper delivered to the Jinan City Intermediate People’s Court today has again brought what has been named ‘China’s Trial of the Century’ into the limelight. [...]
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U.S. President Barack Obama says he had a “very candid” conversation with his Vietnamese counterpart about human rights when he hosted Troung Tan Sang at the White House. Thursday’s meeting earned Sang the honor of being only the second Vietnamese leader to hold talks with a United States president in Washington since the former wartime [...]
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Leaflets calling for Tibet’s independence from China have been found scattered on a mountain pass in Tibetan-populated Kardze prefecture in Sichuan, prompting a security crackdown and searches of Tibetan vehicles and dwellings in the area, according to local sources. The discovery five days ago came just two weeks after Chinese security forces fired on unarmed [...]
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Its appellation bears close resemblance to a pre-existing evangelical video. On July 23, Al Qaeda’s media arm, As-Sahab, released the English translation of a video statement it had posted in June 2013 calling upon the Indian Muslims to join the jihad in Syria. Titled, “Why is There No Storm in Your Ocean?”, the video features [...]
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Portions of an airport in Miami, Florida were evacuated after depleted uranium was discovered early Thursday. Firefighters cleared a 150-foot area of the Opa-locka Executive Airport in south Florida after a 55 gallon drum located either on or near part of a dismantled aircraft was discovered to be containing exposed, depleted uranium, NBC 6 South [...]
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What would a hypothetical person know after diligently reading the newspaper, watching television news and reading online news sources for the past week? That person would know that someone named Trayvon Martin had been murdered and that he looked like or could have been or would look like the son of the president. This anonymous [...]
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