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US City Honors Indian Jesuit Activist

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A city in the United States has honoured an Indian Jesuit for promoting social justice and human rights. Mayor of City of Harvey in Illinois, Eric Kellogg, on Monday presented the “Outstanding Achievement Award” to Fr. Cedric Prakash, director of Prashant, a Jesuit center for human rights, justice and peace, based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Kellog [...]

UN Condemns Israel Exploiting, Depleting Natural Resouces On Arab Lands

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The United Nations General Assembly demanded Wednesday that Israel stop exploiting, damaging, depleting and endangering the natural resources in occupied Arab lands, by the terms of one of four draft resolutions approved by the Second Committee (Economic and Financial). The UN took that action by a recorded vote of 156 in favour to 5 against [...]

UN’s Ban Says Focus Now On Ensuring Israel – Gaza Ceasefire Holds

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Warmly welcoming the ceasefire declared between Israel and Hamas just hours before, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday afternoon told the Security Council via video link from Tel Aviv, Israel, that it was now critical to address underlying causes in order to keep the violence, and the great suffering it caused civilians, from flaring up again. “I [...]

Bombings In Pakistan Ahead Of Summit

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(RFE/RL) — A suicide bomber has killed at least 13 people at Shi’ite processions in the city where the Pakistani army is headquartered. The blast ripped a hole in the walls of a Shi’ite mosque in the city of Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing. Sunni [...]

Name That Foreign Policy Legacy – OpEd

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By John Feffer In re-electing President Barack Obama, voters decisively rejected the Republican version of economic reform. Obama is already angling to use his mandate to solve the nation’s fiscal woes by letting the Bush-era tax cuts expire for the rich. But the election delivered no foreign policy statement. Mitt Romney and Obama rarely disagreed [...]

Burma’s Suu Kyi Named New UN Ambassador

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By John Zaw The United Nations yesterday announced opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as an ambassador to its program on HIV/AIDS. Suu Kyi accepted the invitation to head the program during a meeting with UNAIDS executive director Michel Sidibé in the capital Naypyidaw, according to an agency statement. “It is a great honor to [...]

Iran Boasts Of Providing Missile Technology To Palestinian Terrorists‏ – OpEd

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Only a mere few hours after a fragile ceasefire took effect between Israel and the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Iran’s top military commander, Gen. Mohammad-Ali Jafari, announced on Wednesday that the Iranian government is going to provide the Palestinian “resistance” with the technology necessary to mass produce Fajr-5 missiles, according to an Israeli counterterrorist [...]

Thanksgiving: Honor Religious Freedom Across Globe – OpEd

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By Katrina Lantos Swett Thanksgiving Day and the first feast of the Pilgrims remind us of their brave journey across the Atlantic in search of the freedom to honor their religious convictions according to their conscience. Following that feast, others fleeing religious persecution made a similar journey. In Massachusetts, the Puritans came and then spread [...]

Egypt: Morsi Declares Expanded Powers

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The Egyptian president has issued a constitutional declaration protecting Egypt’s constitution-drafting assembly from dissolution, and replacing the prosecutor general. It also rules that none of the executive’s decisions can be overturned. Morsi gave the Constituent Assembly a two month deadline to finish drafting a new constitution, ruling that no authority may dissolve it until the [...]

Egyptian Fury Over Morsi ‘Coup’, Protests Called For Friday

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Opposition groups in Egypt have called for mass protests on Friday against President Mohammed Morsi’s decree that gives him sweeping powers. They have described his move as a “coup against legitimacy” and accused the president of appointing himself Egypt’s “new pharaoh”. The decree states that the president’s decisions cannot be revoked by any authority, including [...]

Gaza Truce Respected

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The cease-fire between Hamas and Israel was respected as of Thursday noon, but Israeli leaders did not close the door on the option to resume the strikes if rockets were being fired from the Gaza Strip. The terms of the truce include stopping all military operations and plans to open discussions between the two parties [...]

Weariness Foretold: The EU Budget Summit – OpEd

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There were always going to be disagreements about next year’s EU budget, which started in the evening instead of a sensible morning hour, and occupied officials into the early morning. Various MEPs pitched for an increase in spending for this year (some 7.3 billion pounds) and the next. The European Parliament has been considering restoring [...]

The International Responsibility For Justice In Occupied Palestine – OpEd

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The conflict in Gaza may have come to an inauspicious end last night following a ceasefire agreement, but there is little reason to rejoice for the Palestinian people. Although a ground assault of the Gaza Strip was narrowly avoided, still well over 1,500 air strikes by F-16 fighter jets, Apache helicopters and drones have further [...]

Morsi Criticized As “New Pharaoh”

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Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi decided Thursday to significantly strengthen his powers, in particular with regard to the judiciary system. He made these decisions in an announcement justified by the need to “defend the revolution.” The opposition has already called him “the new Pharaoh.” “The President may take any decision or measure to protect the revolution”, [...]

Rosneft Signs Definitive Agreements To Acquire 50% Stake In TNK-BP From BP

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Rosneft announced Thursday that it has entered into definitive agreements with BP for the purchase of BP’s 50% interest in TNK-BP in exchange for $17.1 billion in cash and 12.84% Rosneft shares currently held in treasury. The completion is subject to regulatory approvals, and is expected to occur in the first half of 2013. In [...]

Gaza: The Morning After – OpEd

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By Richard Lightbown Let there be no illusions about this article. It is being written from the comfort of a computer armchair more than a thousand miles away from the conflicts of the Middle East. And from where I sit the underdog has just got the better of the argument with the neighbourhood bully in [...]

US: Two Dead, Dozens Injured in 100-Vehicle Pileup In Texas

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At least two people were killed and about 120 injured when about a hundred of vehicles crashed in thick fog on a highway southwest of Beaumont, Texas late on Thursday, CNN reported on Friday. “Initial reports at the time of the crash indicated there was dense fog, which could be a contributing factor to those [...]

Serb Leader Advocates Croat Unit In Bosnia

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By Elvira M. Jukic The leader of the Serb-dominated entity in Bosnia marked the 17th anniversary of the Dayton Accords by urging Bosnia’s transformation into confederation of three units, including a new entity for Croats. Milorad Dodik, president of Republika Srpska, the mainly Serbian entity in Bosnia, said the Dayton Accords of November 21, 1995 [...]

Transforming Conflict In The Middle East Requires Out-Of-The-Box Thinking – OpEd

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To think out-of-the-box is what we owe to the Palestinians and the Israelis more than ever, and the only real contribution we can make from outside to start transforming this conflict. By Giuliana Tiripelli As an external, Western observer, and as a young researcher on “peace” in the Middle East, I find it difficult to speak of [...]

Ajmal Kasab’s Execution: Why There Is No Reason To Celebrate – Analysis

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By Swati Parashar When the tragedy of 26/11 unfolded in 2008, the trauma was felt far and wide. I was a PhD student in the UK and, far away from home, I shared the grief with millions of Indians as we wondered why Mumbai deserved the gory blood bath. The Chabad house hostages were tortured [...]
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