Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, observed on 29 November: It has been 65 years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 181, proposing the partition of the mandate territory into two States. Achieving the two-State solution, to which both Israel and the [...]
Ban Ki-Moon’s Message On International Day Of Solidarity With Palestinian People – Transcript
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US Accelerates Intervention In Syrian War
The US government is contemplating significant intervention in the Syria conflict and has discussed employing Patriot Air and Missile Defense Systems in Turkey and directly providing arms to opposition fighters. In an attempt to defeat Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, government officials told the New York Times that the US might bring its military resources to [...]
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Obama And The Global Nuclear Disarmament: Will There Be A Revival? – Analysis
By Shubhra Chaturvedi The American Presidential debate is a projection of the different policies that the United States as a state would follow when different candidates come to power. The 2012 debates, in this regard, were definitely a clear indication of the issues that were considered crucial. However, it is surprising that nuclear disarmament did [...]
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Alice In Wonderland Science – OpEd
Our energy and environment deserve better – in South Africa and Qatar By Kelvin Kemm A few weeks ago, perhaps as a prologue to the “global warming disaster” convention in Doha, Qatar, South Africa’s Department of Environment Affairs took out a full-page advertisement in our country’s newspapers, promoting National Marine Week. The ad showed a [...]
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Rallies For UN Bid In West Bank, Gaza
Palestinians rallied Thursday across the occupied West Bank to support President Mahmoud Abbas’ bid to upgrade Palestine’s status at the United Nations. Tens of thousands took part in a march in Hebron where Palestinians waved flags from Fatah as well as Hamas to support the bid and national unity. In Nablus, representatives of Palestinian factions [...]
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Iranian Embassy Attacked In Berlin
After a number of individuals attacked the Iranian embassy in Berlin, Iran has called for a judicial confrontation with the perpetrators, and the German Foreign Minister has apologized to the Islamic Republic. Reports indicate that a group of Iranian asylum-seekers together with a group of German political activists entered the Iranian embassy in Berlin around [...]
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Canadian Fugitive Surrenders At Border In US Largest Eco-Terrorism Case
Rebecca Jeanette Rubin, age 39, a Canadian citizen, surrendered herself Thursday into FBI custody at the international border in Blaine, Washington, to face federal arson, destructive device, and conspiracy charges in Oregon, Colorado, and California. Rubin’s arrest marks the end of her decade-long period as an international fugitive in the largest eco-terrorism case in United [...]
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Macedonia Islamic Leader Calls For Common Language To Reduce Tensions
By Aleksandar Pavlevski Informal initiatives and a common language is needed to bring Muslim groups in Macedonia together after the construction of a mosque by Roma Muslims in Prelip threatened tensions, one Islamic leader said. “Muslims must find a common language and reach an agreement about building mosques, regardless of ethnicity. The Albanians, even though [...]
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Ban Says Israelis, Palestinians Must Break Out Of ‘Zero-Sum Mentality’
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday that Israelis and Palestinians must change their way of thinking if there is to be peace in the region. “What is needed now is political will and courage,” Ban said, adding that “Leaders must show a sense of historic responsibility and vision. Israelis and Palestinians must break out of [...]
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Spain: Inbound Tourists Spend 49.87 Billion Euros In Year To Date Up 6.4%
In the first ten months of the year, spending by inbound tourists in Spain amounted to 49.87 billion euros, a year-on-year increase of 6.4%. Increases were also recorded in average spending per tourist, of 3.2%, and in average daily spending, of 6.8%, according to the Tourist Expenditure Survey (EGATUR), drafted by the Institute for Tourism [...]
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OECD Says Spain’s Immediate Economic Recovery ‘Remains Remote’
The prospect of an immediate recovery for the Spanish economy remains remote, said Thursday the OECD in its Economic Survey of Spain 2012 report. The OECD noted that Spain is immersed in a prolonged recession, in which “The depressing impact on activity of private sector deleveraging and the need for sizeable fiscal consolidation following the [...]
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Ice Sheet Loss At Both Poles Increasing
An international team of experts supported by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) has combined data from multiple satellites and aircraft to produce the most comprehensive and accurate assessment to date of ice sheet losses in Greenland and Antarctica and their contributions to sea level rise. In a landmark study published Thursday in the [...]
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Sony Resumes Xperia Tablet S Sales
Sony has resumed sales of its Xperia Tablet S one month after pulling it from the market, Digital Spy said. The company withdrew the slate in early October after discovering a build defect that allowed moisture to seep in between its screen and casing. Sony previously confirmed on its Japanese website that the product would [...]
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1001 Reasons For Muslim Pride – OpEd
By Lucy Chumbley In his best-selling novel, The Museum of Innocence, Turkish author and 2006 Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk speaks eloquently of the importance of museums to society. “With my museum I want to teach not just the Turkish people but all the people of the world to take pride in the lives they [...]
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Rising Voice Stems Police Prejudice In India – OpEd
By Nilofar Suhrawardy Would it be fair to assume that a silent revolution has finally begun in India openly questioning the prejudiced approach exercised by certain sections against minorities, particularly the Muslims? Yes, this refers to a notable communal bias prevalent in Indian police services. It would be certainly unfair to assume that all Indian [...]
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Lindsay Lohan Arrested, Yet Again
American actress Lindsay Lohan was arrested early Thursday after a fight with another woman at a nightclub in New York City, police said. The 26-year-old movie star reportedly struck the woman in the face with her hand and spat on her at Club Avenue, a Manhattan hot spot she was temporarily banned from several years [...]
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Palestine Wins ‘Non-Member State’ UN Status
The UN General Assembly has voted to upgrade the Palestine’s diplomatic status to a “non-member observer state.” This comes despite opposition from the US and Israel and may now allow the Palestinians to access UN agencies. The Palestinian bid to join the global body as a full member state failed in 2011 due to lack [...]
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Syria Plunged Into Internet Blackout
Syria’s internet has been completely shutdown according to reports from web-monitoring services. Internet intelligence authority, Renesys, reported on Thursday that sweeping outages in Syria had shut down 92 per cent of the country’s routed networks. The report was confirmed later on Thursday by a second web-monitoring service, Akamai, who reported that 100 per cent of [...]
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Morocco’s Unfailing Support For The Palestinians – OpEd
King Mohammed VI called for the mobilization of international support for initiatives undertaken by the Palestinian Authority to become a non-member State at the UN, renewing Morocco’s constant and unconditional support to the Palestinian legitimate rights. In a message addressed to the President of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the [...]
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UN Grants Palestine Non-Member Observer State Status
The U.N. General Assembly voted Thursday to grant Palestine non-member observer State status at the United Nations, while expressing the urgent need for the resumption of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians leading to a permanent two-State solution. The resolution on the status of Palestine in the UN was adopted by a vote of 138 [...]
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