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Morsi Assumes Absolute Power – OpEd

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While I’m not an expert on Egyptian politics, I can’t help speculate on what Pres. Morsi’s assumption of absolute powers may mean for his country’s relations with Israel and the U.S.   Especially in light of the critical role he played in negotiating and jawboning Hamas for the ceasefire that ultimately ended the war, and the [...]

Tibet: Self-Immolation Toll Hits 80

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The number of Tibetan self-immolation protests against Chinese rule has hit the 80 mark with another burning reported in Gansu province, according to sources Friday. Former monk Tamdin Kyap, 23, burned himself to death in Luchu (in Chinese, Luqu) county in the Kanlho (Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture late Thursday, the sources said. “He set himself [...]

NATO Pushing Europe Into New Nuclear Arms Race – Analysis

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By Julio Godoy Between late 2009 and mid-2010, the German government, represented by its foreign minister Guido Westerwelle, made a case for dismantling B61 atomic bombs on German soil. The actual number of such weapons of mass destruction is a top military secret, but some 20 of these are reported to be stationed in Germany. [...]

Netanyahu Agreed To Ceasefire After Obama Promised US Troops In Sinai Next Week?

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Israel and Palestine are momentarily at a ceasefire, but the potential reasoning behind the recess could have some real international implications. Israel’s Debka reports that the pause in fighting comes after the US promised to send troops to Sinai. According to Debka, US troops will soon be en route to the Sinai peninsula, Egyptian territory [...]

NATO Interested In Deploying Patriot Missiles On Turkey-Syria Border

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Plans for the deployment of the Patriot Missile Air-Defence Systems on the Turkish-Syrian border are defensive in character, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in a telephone talk with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Earlier Moscow voiced its concern over the militarization of that region. The above-mentioned telephone talk was held on the initiative [...]

Rosneft And Statoil Sign Declaration On Russian Arctic Shelf Environmental Protection

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Rosneft President and Chairman of the Management Board Igor Sechin and President and CEO of Statoil Helge Lund today signed a Declaration on Protection of the Environment and Biodiversity for Oil and Gas Exploration and Development on the Russian Arctic Continental Shelf. Acknowledging that the Arctic environment consists of ecosystems with unique features and resources, [...]

Finland Aims To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 80% By 2050

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(CORDIS) — The European Commission’s ‘Roadmap for moving to a competitive low-carbon economy in 2050′ has prompted specialists in Finland to assess their country’s chances of achieving the 80 % greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. In their report, ‘Low Carbon Finland 2050 – VTT clean energy technology strategies for society’, VTT Technical Research Centre of [...]

Pussy Riot Member Moved To Solitary Cell

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(RFE/RL) — Jailed Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina has been moved to a solitary cell in a step that prison authorities claim was taken at the prisoner’s own request. Alyokhina, 24, is serving a two-year sentence for a protest performance against President Vladimir Putin’s rule at Moscow’s main Russian Orthodox Cathedral. Prison authorities at the [...]

What The CCP Can Do For You! – OpEd

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Imagine a poster with headlines that read: “What the CCP can do for you!” It would capture all of the utopian Chinese communist promises from the early years of the civil war propaganda, through the first series of the five year plans and redistribution of property. Add that to the Great Leap Forward; skip past [...]

Are Private Military Companies (PMCs) Exempted From Geneva Conventions? – Analysis

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The privatization of a growing number of tasks and responsibilities which once seemed to be reserved as the sole responsibility of the state has now seemingly become part of a wider trend. The practice of warfare has not been spared by this trend, especially in Western countries. An ever-increasing number of states, international organizations, non-governmental [...]

Hamas Is The Winner: Gaza Ceasefire – OpEd

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THE MANTRA of this round was Once And For All. “We must put an end to this (the rockets, Hamas, the Palestinians, the Arabs?) Once and For All!” – this cry from the heart was heard dozens of times daily on TV from the harassed inhabitants of Israel’s battered towns and villages in the South. [...]

Egyptians Stage Anti-Morsi ‘Rally Of Anger And Warning’ In Cairo

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Just two days after Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi worked with the Obama administration to help bring about a ceasefire between Israel defense forces and Palestinian terrorists in Gaza, thousands of protestors flooded Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday to voice their opposition to the new constitutional declaration issued by Morsi on Thursday. In a political demonstration [...]

Egypt Erupts In Anger Over Mursi ‘Power Grab’

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Egyptian President Muhammad Mursi’s decision to assume sweeping powers caused fury among his opponents and prompted violent clashes in central Cairo and other cities yesterday. Police fired tear gas near Tahrir Square where thousands demanded Mursi quit and accused him of launching a “coup” and “power grab.” There were violent protests in Alexandria, Port Said [...]

Anonymous Hacker Behind Stratfor Attack Faces Life In Prison

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A pretrial hearing in the case against accused LulzSec hacker Jeremy Hammond this week ended with the 27-year-old Chicago man being told he could be sentenced to life in prison for compromising the computers of Stratfor. Judge Loretta Preska told Hammond in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday that he could be sentenced to serve anywhere [...]

Hamas Deploys At Gaza Border After Israel Kills Palestinian

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The Hamas government in Gaza has deployed security forces near the border with Israel after two shooting incidents in the aftermath of Wednesday’s ceasefire. A Reuters photographer and other witnesses said Hamas officials, coming closer to the Israeli border fence than ever before, escorted Palestinians away from the site. A security source confirmed the move: [...]

Iran: Authorities Agree To Hospitalise Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi

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Authorities in Iran have agreed to allow imprisoned opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi to be examined by a trusted doctor and to be hospitalised following a deterioration in his health, a site close to the Karroubi family reported on Friday. According to Saham news, on Thursday security officials told the family that Karroubi would be allowed [...]

Morsi Fails To Prevent Renewed Street Battles Between Egyptian Police And Ultras – Analysis

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A pledge by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to re-open all cases against those responsible for attacks on anti-Mubarak and anti-military protesters in the last 21 months did little to prevent militant soccer fans clamoring for justice for hundreds of dead protesters, including 74 of their own, from joining the outpour of anger against the president’s [...]

Georgia’s Saakashvili Says ‘Sense Of Instability Re-Emerges’

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(Civil.Ge) — Georgia’s President Saakashvili said that “a sense serious instability has re-emerged” in Georgia and called against focusing “on the past and personal confrontation”. In a video message on November 23, dedicated to the ninth anniversary of the Rose Revolution, Saakashvili said that despite of many challenges, Georgia had achieved “unimaginable success” in the [...]

Tahrir Square Rises Again As Morsi Appoints Himself “Pharaoh” – OpEd

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By Harriet Fildes Calls for mass protests to re-claim the streets of Egypt abound since President Mohamed Morsi assigned himself vast new powers and “appointed himself Egypt’s new pharaoh” according to ElBaradei, one of Morsi’s main opponents. This refers to a decree stating that the President’s decisions cannot be overturned by any authority which, according [...]

EU Leaders Fail To Clinch Budget Deal – OpEd

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By Kirill Bezverkhy A summit of EU leaders – the highlight of the outgoing week – has suffered a fiasco. The EU leadership has failed to approve a new budget. A congress of the so-called Eurogroup ended in failure too as the EU finance ministers couldn’t come to agreement on the next loan tranche for [...]
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