(EurActiv) –An Italian Supreme Court ruling that bans Silvio Berlusconi from running for election for the next six years could set off a struggle for the leadership of his party, although odds are good that another Berlusconi will succeed the ex-prime minister. Italian commentators are speculating that Marina Berlusconi will be her father’s heir to […]
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By Sayed Rahmatullah Alizada Locally-raised paramilitaries in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province say they will stop fighting the Taleban unless the government provides them with weapons and payment. As in many other Pashtun-majority areas in the southern half of Afghanistan, the Taleban began regaining influence in Ghazni in the years after 2001, to the point where they […]
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By Carla Babb U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel are meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in a two-plus-two meeting Friday at the State Department. The meeting will come just two days after President Barack Obama canceled a summit with Russian President Vladimir […]
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More information about groups vulnerable to HIV infection during emergencies – including those labelled “most at-risk populations” (MARPs) – is needed to improve humanitarian HIV programming, experts say. “In tense situations where everyone is watching everyone else to see what other people get their hands on, social stigma and stratification are intensified and MARPs may […]
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By Lt. Gen. Arvinder S Lamba The recent killing of five soldiers in Poonch has reverberated the calculated and tested strategy of the Pakistan Army once again. Pakistan’s dubious track record of such events since the killing of Captain Saurabh Kalia and five other soldiers in May 15 1999 to the killing five of our […]
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By Jagannath P. Panda The China-ASEAN strategic partnership celebrated its 10th anniversary on August 2, 2013 in Bangkok. The host Thailand coordinated this landmark partnership meeting and one of the talking points at this event was “China’s rise”. Sihasak Phuangketkeow, the permanent secretary of Thailand’s Foreign Affairs Ministry stated, “… China is rising and we […]
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The State Department has evacuated most of its diplomats from Lahore, Pakistan in response to a terrorist threat against the US consulate, senior State Department and other senior US officials said. “We have picked up what we regard as a threat worthy of taking this action,” one senior US official told CNN. The State Department […]
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(RFE/RL) — Two college students from Kazakhstan have been indicted on obstruction of justice charges for allegedly trying to hide evidence related to the Boston Marathon bombing. The April 15 bombing left three people dead and scores injured. Dias Kadyrbaev and Azamat Tazhayakov, both 19, were college friends of surviving bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. They […]
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Please click on the “GTMO Clock” image to visit the website and see how many days it has been since President Obama promised to resume releasing prisoners from Guantánamo, and how many men have been freed. Today, the “Close Guantánamo” campaign, Witness Against Torture and the Center for Constitutional Rights are launching the “GTMO Clock,” […]
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For air travelers tired of the ever-worsening burden of airport security, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is widening to all U.S. citizens the eligibility of its prescreening process, called PreCheck. Americans, who recently have had their phone records vacuumed up by the National Security Agency spies, can now give the TSA their fingerprints, undergo government […]
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More than 200 people have died in violence since army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi deposed Egypt’s first freely elected president, Mohamed Morsi. Predictably, there is hand wringing in Washington. Secretary of State John Kerry called the violence “a pivotal moment for Egypt” and urged its leaders “to help their country take a step back […]
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Did Obama mean ‘fortunately’ and misspeak when he said ‘unfortunately’? No. If he was really wanting to underline the fact that car accidents pose a vastly greater threat to Americans than does terrorism, then he would be acknowledging that this administration and its predecessor have got their priorities wrong — that is, if they truly […]
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By Michael Lombardi, MBA Gold bullion prices started their run-up way back in 2000, when the commodity was trading around $300.00 an ounce. From there, it took the precious metal 12 years to break above $1,900 an ounce—an unprecedented move. When an investment, such as gold bullion, rises 500%, a pullback in the “advance” is quite normal. […]
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Hindus are critical of international pop icon Lady Gaga for what they see as trivialization of revered system of yoga in her new video in which she appears striking yoga postures completely naked. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada today, said that yoga was a revered age old tradition and deserved more […]
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Google has added 79 patents to the list of patents for which it pledges not to sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software, unless first attacked, PCWorld reports. The new patents cover software used to operate data centers, including middleware, distributed storage and database management, and alarm monitoring, wrote Duane Valz, the company’s […]
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Three U.S. drone strikes killed a total of 12 suspected al-Qaeda militants Thursday, Aug 8, a Yemeni military official said, raising to eight the number of attacks in less than two weeks as the Arab nation is on high alert against terrorism, the Guardian reported. The uptick in drone strikes signals that the Obama administration […]
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By Walid Ramzi i Tunisian Foreign Minister Othman Jarandi wrapped up his two-day visit to Algeria on Wednesday (August 7th) with agreements to enhance security co-ordination. The move came after a spate of attacks in Tunisia’s Jebel Chaambi region tied to al-Qaeda-linked militants, just across the border from Algeria. Algeria and Tunisia stressed the need […]
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The European Commission Thursday announced deductions from 2013 fishing quotas for those Member States that declared having exceeded their quotas in 2012. This yearly deduction exercise allows the Commission to immediately address the damage done to the stocks overfished in the previous year and ensure a sustainable use by Member States of common fishery resources. […]
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By Bilal Maneka Agricultural policy is a highly controversial topic in the United States, for while Washington pushes economic openness for other nations, it actively employs protectionist policies when it comes to its own closely held economy. This is especially true with sugar. The U.S. government heavily subsidizes its sugar sector, imposes quotas on sugar […]
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By Sadhavi Chauhan President Truong Tan Sang’s visit to Washington on 24 July was the first visit by the Vietnamese head of state to the US, and only the second such visit since the former adversaries restored normal diplomatic relations in 1995. In the last 17 years, cooperation between the two countries has steadily matured […]
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