Talk of Greece exiting the euro will end after critical votes in parliament this week on new austerity measures, labor reforms and the 2013 budget, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said on Sunday, Nov 4. The three-party government will submit the package of measures to parliament on Monday and must approve both it and the [...]
Greece: Critical Votes Will End Talks Of Euro Exit, PM Samaras Says
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Egypt: Bishop Tawadros Named New Coptic Pope
The Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt has a new patriarch. A young and blindfolded boy picked Bishop Tawadros’ name during a religious ceremony in the Cathedral of St. Mark in Cairo. Born in the region of Mansoura, in the Nile Delta, the new patriarch, aged 60, studied pharmacy in Alexandria before joining the church. He [...]
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Iran: Ahmadinejad Summons Brews Tension In Parliament
Tension brewed in Iranian Parliament when the head of Parliament, Ali Larijani, announced that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been summoned to appear before MPs within a month to explain his economic policies to counter the current crisis. The Mehr news agency reports that when a number of MPs contested the announcement, saying it’s in direct opposition [...]
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Burundi’s Bumpy Road To The 2015 Polls – Analysis
The US$2 billion pledged by donors on 30 October to support Burundi’s development sounds like a ringing endorsement of the central African country’s progress from civil war to peace and democracy. But memories are still fresh of the 1993-2005 conflict that killed more than 200,000 people, and analysts, human rights experts, and civil society and [...]
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Burma: New Immigration Bill To Highlight Role Of Investors
By Aye Nai The Burmese government is in the process of drafting a bill that would provide foreigners with permanent residency, according to the Immigration Department’s director-general. According to an article in the state’s mouthpiece the New Light of Myanmar yesterday, the legislation aims to boost investment in the country by reaching out to foreign [...]
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Barroso Visits Thailand To Strengthen Business, Political Ties
President of the European Commission, Mr. José Manuel Barroso, on Sunday made an official visit to the Kingdom of Thailand as Guest of the Royal Thai Government. The was the first official visit ever by a President of the European Commission to Thailand, and reflects a “resolve to build a stronger and deeper partnership,” according [...]
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Assessing The Cost Of The Affordable Care Act And Expanding Medicaid
Extending Medicaid coverage to currently uninsured adults is likely to increase the cost of the program, according to health policy researchers, because those patients are prone to have more expensive health problems than nondisabled adults currently enrolled in Medicaid. The Affordable Care Act gives individual states the option to expand their Medicaid programs to cover [...]
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Superstorm Sandy Leaves Up To 40,000 Homeless In New York As Cold Hits
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday that Superstorm Sandy has left between 30,000 to 40,000 New Yorkers without homes, although that number could drop to around 20,000 in the coming weeks as electricity is restored. Around 140,000 New York residences remain without power, a situation that is expected to be compounded as temperatures [...]
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US National Archives Blocks Searches Containing ‘WikiLeaks’
The public search engine for the US National Archives appears to be blocked for the term “WikiLeaks”. The whistleblower website has already lashed out at the move, saying the Archives has turned into “Orwell’s Ministry of Truth.” An error message pops up every time a search is performed with the word “WikiLeaks”. It’s not entirely [...]
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US Biologist Suggests Sending DNA Sequencing Machine To Mars
By Boris Pavlishchev and Vitaly Radnayev Prominent US biologist Craig Venter, decoder of the human genome, has suggested sending a DNA sequencing machine to Mars to search for ancient microorganisms. If the machine finds anything there it will decode the genome and send its DNA sequence back to Earth where bioengineers would reconstruct a synthetic [...]
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Burma: An Appeal To The Ethnic Leaders – OpEd
Burma was the first country outside the Communist bloc to recognise the People’s Republic of China in its creation on 1st Oct, 1949 and since then the Burmese Generals have very much admired Chairman Mao, especially his theory that power comes out of the barrel of a gun and they have practiced this theory for [...]
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Syrian Rebels Accused Of Committing War Crimes, Say U.N. Officials – OpEd
Before embracing the Syrian rebellion, American leaders would be wise to investigate allegations of war crimes committed by some of the rebels fighting the Assad regime. A graphic video examined by officials from the United Nations on Saturday appears to show Syrian rebels beating and murdering soldiers or pro-Assad militiamen, and is possibly evidence of [...]
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Iran Viewpoint: Crisis In Kuwait: The Faceoff Between Ruling Family And Radical Opposition – OpEd
By Hassan Ahmadian The Persian Gulf Sheikdom, Kuwait, has been the scene of unprecedented political tensions in October 2012. Protesters numbering between 30,000-100,000 according to independent and opposition sources accepted the opposition’s call by taking to the streets on October 21. They also clashed with Kuwaiti riot police. The clashes left about 100 protesters wounded [...]
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The EU Needs A New Values-Based Realism For Its Central Asia Strategy – Analysis
By Neil Melvin Last summer, on the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the EU Strategy for Central Asia, the European Council approved continuation of the Strategy’s implementation in its current form. The Council Conclusions on Central Asia highlight that the Strategy has ‘proven itself and remains valid’. In terms of achievements, the ministers point [...]
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A Region In Turmoil: Threats To Gulf Energy And Shipping – Analysis
Rather than offering a comprehensive, encyclopedic threat analysis, this Insight aims to pinpoint the most immediate threats to the security of Gulf energy and international shipping and the likelihood that they could become a reality. It constitutes a first attempt at looking at the likely scenarios that so far have been given inadequate attention. In [...]
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India’s Maritime Vision And Its Desire For Great Power Status – OpEd
By Siraj Nizamani The Indian Navy seeks to enter the new millennium as a professional focused and committed force, extremely conscious of its roles and responsibilities. In times of peace and tension, it is considered a powerful instrument of the nation’s foreign policy, while in times of conflict; it is the foremost expression of the [...]
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On Eve Of CPC Congress, China Examines Its Digital Image – Analysis
What the people think of their leadership and government will be increasingly reflected not in the traditional print and TV media, but in the digital media and in the blogs and micro-blogs of the digital world. The digital image of China in the international net community will increasingly influence governmental and non-governmental perceptions of China. [...]
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China: Not The Time For Political Experimentation – OpEd
The 18th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is all set to meet at Beijing from November 8, 2012. Hu Jintao will be handing over as the General Secretary of the Party to Xi Jinping at the Congress and a new Standing Committee of the Politbureau, a new Politbureau and a new Central [...]
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Historical Facts About The “Moroccaness” Of The Sahara – OpEd
In the ongoing dispute between Morocco and the Polisario over the future of the so-called “Western Sahara,” many progressive intellectuals and leaders—both Western and African—treat the Polisario as an underdog maltreated by land-grabbing Morocco. They cite international law and depict Morocco as an illegitimate invader supported by its all-powerful allies, the U.S. and France. For [...]
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UN Headquarters Renovation Still On Track Despite Hurricane Sandy
United Nations Secretariat officials said Monday that the multimillion dollar renovation of the United Nations historic Headquarters complex was still on track despite the blow wielded by Hurricane Sandy that shuttered the doors of the New York City compound for three days last week. Yet many delegates believed the Secretariat had not kept the Member [...]
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