By Daniel Schearf President Barack Obama’s speech at Burma’s Rangoon University has been mostly welcomed as inspirational and supportive of political reforms, though some criticized his comments on the country’s western Rakhine state as inaccurate. In a speech praised by many of Burma’s influential figures for supporting the country’s fledgling but dramatic democratic reforms, President [...]
Obama’s Historic Burma Speech Mostly Well Received
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Nigeria: Total Announces Sale Of Stake In Offshore OML 138
Total announced Monday that it has finalized an agreement to sell its 20% contractor interest in OML 138 block to a wholly owned subsidiary of China Petrochemical Corporation (Sinopec), for approximately US$2.5 billion in cash (subject to post-closing adjustments). The agreement is subject to approval by the Nigerian authorities. The OML 138 block contains the [...]
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Gotovina Calls Croatian Serbs To Return
By Boris Pavelic In a short interview given to the Serbian newspapers Kurir, Ante Gotovina called on all Croatian Serbs who fled Operation Storm [Oluja] in 1995 to return to their pre war homes. “They are citizens of Croatia, this is their homeland in the same way it is mine… This is their home and [...]
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Israeli Missiles Hit Gaza Media Center Again, Top Militant Killed
The Al-Sharouk compound, which houses many media offices in Gaza, has been targeted once again in an Israeli airstrike. Islamic Jihad says one of its top leaders was killed in the attack. A pillar of smoke was seen billowing from the 10-story building as fire engines and ambulances rushed to the scene. Islamic Jihad says [...]
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Hamas Chief: Israel Asks For Truce
The exiled head of Hamas political bureau, Khaled Meshaal, said Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had asked for a truce in Gaza. He said that if the Jewish state wanted a truce, it should be the first to stop the fire. “Who started the war must stop,” he said at a press conference [...]
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Britain ‘Sleepwalking To EU Exit’, Warns Labour
(EurActiv) — Opposition Labour leader Ed Miliband vowed on Monday (19 November) he would not let Britain sleepwalk towards exit from the European Union as Prime Minister David Cameron prepared for tough talks in Brussels this week on a renewal of the bloc’s budget. Speaking to a conference of business leaders, the pro-EU Miliband said [...]
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Ex-Children’s Minister Sarah Teather Condemns Government’s Benefit Cap As Cruel And Immoral – OpEd
Hurrah for Sarah Teather, the Liberal Democrat MP for Brent Central, and the minister for children and families in the Tory-led coalition government until September, when she was sacked. I was sorry to see Sarah under the yoke of this hideous government, because she clearly had more humanity than all the other ministers, and, although [...]
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Gaza And Israel: Time For Wisdom – OpEd
What we are seeing in Israel and Gaza is not just a war. It is not just a ruthless exchange of fire. It is not just missiles, air strikes and naval barrages.People are dying on both sides. It is a struggle for survival. One is dying in order to assert one’s right to live. One [...]
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China’s Super Leaders Unveiled: Tough Road Ahead – Analysis
By Bhaskar Roy On the morning of November 15, seven Chinese leaders led by Xi Jinping strode on to the red carpeted podium in the Great Hall of the People. These members of the newly elected members of the Standing Committee of the Politburo (PBSC) of the 18th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) [...]
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Myanmar: Suu Kyi’s Visit To India – Analysis
By C. S. Kuppuswamy Daw Aung San Suu Kyi visited India from 13-18 November 2012. During the visit, in New Delhi, she met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Vice president Hamid Ansari, Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Minister for External Affairs Salman Kurshid, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai and speaker of Lok Sabha Meira Kumar. She paid homage [...]
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IEA Welcomes Australia’s Efforts To Transition To Low-Carbon Economy
In an in-depth review of Australia’s energy policies released Monday, the International Energy Agency (IEA) lauds the country’s ambitious goals for developing a low-carbon economy but warns that they will require significant investment. “Australia has taken many positive steps since the last in-depth review in 2006,” IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven said at [...]
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Is Repeat Of Mexican Gulf Catastrophe Possible?
By Vladimir Gladkov US activists of nature protection are again protesting against plans to build a pipeline which would connect oil deposits in Canada with oil-refining plants in Texas. It is planned that this pipeline will be a prolongation of the Keystone pipeline network and will be named Keystone XL. It will be 2,735,000-km long, [...]
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India: Maoist Disarray In Odisha – Analysis
By Fakir Mohan Pradhan Inflicting a crippling blow on the expelled Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) leader Sabyasachi Panda, who had floated his own outfit – the Odisha Maovadi Party (OMP), Security Forces (SFs) on November 14, 2012, gunned down five of his cadres in an encounter in the Bhaliagada Forest in the Gobindapur panchayat [...]
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Afghanistan: Insurrections Against The Insurgency – Analysis
By S. Binod Kumar Singh Continuing violence and the Taliban’s increasing brutality in Afghanistan have sparked violent ‘uprisings’ across the country, as Taliban extremists are attacked and overwhelmed by Afghan villagers, at least on occasion with nothing more than farming tools, sticks, stones, or even their bare hands. While such acts of resistance are intermittent [...]
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Obama Calls For National Reconciliation During Burma Visit
By David Stout President Obama pledged to support Burma’s nascent reform period but called on the country’s citizens to push for national reconciliation after decades of civil war and military rule. After Air Force One touched down in Rangoon on Monday, the American leader and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were greeted by thousands of [...]
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Obama Presses Cambodia PM On Human Rights
U.S. President Barack Obama has voiced concerns about Cambodia’s human rights record in what U.S. officials described as a “tense” meeting with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. Obama, who arrived in the capital, Phnom Penh, Monday, raised the issue of free and fair elections and the detention of political prisoners. U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser [...]
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Over 100 Palestinians Killed Since Wesnesday
Israeli bombing on Gaza Strip continued Monday as well as rocket attacks on Israel , but with less intensity, on the eve of the visit of the UN chief to Jerusalem and an Arab delegation in the Palestinian territory. Israeli air strikes have killed some 30 people Monday, bringing to over 100 the number killed [...]
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Russia Disappointed UN Statement On Gaza Still Not Adopted
Russia is disappointed the draft UN Security Council statement on the situation in Gaza has still not been adopted. A corresponding statement was made for journalists by Russia’s envoy at the UN Vitaly Churkin. According to him, work on the wording continues, and SC members shall get back to it in a few hours. Churkin [...]
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Albanian Leader in Macedonia Calls For Parties To Unify
By Miki Trajkovski Democratic Union for Integration leader Ali Ahmeti is calling for all Albanian parties to unify in the continuing effort to resolve issues facing the Albanian minority in Macedonia. Ahmeti, a former paramilitary leader who is now the head of Macedonia’s largest Albanian party, told a meeting of Albanian diaspora in Germany that [...]
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Iran Stresses Peaceful Resolution To Syrian Crisis
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has reiterated Tehran’s stance in support of a peaceful resolution to the Syrian crisis through the participation of all parties involved. “The Islamic Republic of Iran has repeatedly stressed, and today we once again emphasize, that we seek a peaceful Syria-Syria resolution to Syria’s issue without any foreign interference,” [...]
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