The US may soon name the Syrian rebel al-Nusra Front, one of the strongest among the opposition, a foreign terrorist group. The designation is likely to complicate the opposition’s fight against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The US Department of State has been collecting evidence against the group for several months to classify the Islamic radicals [...]
US To Declare Leading Syrian Opposition Group Foreign Terrorist Organization
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134 Nobel Laureates Urge Incoming Chinese President Xi Jinping To Release Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo And Wife
134 Nobel Laureates across all six Nobel disciplines wrote to incoming Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, urging him to immediately and unconditionally release Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia. Liu Xia has been under house arrest since shortly after the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced her husband’s selection as the Peace Prize Laureate for [...]
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China: Photojournalist ‘Sent On Holiday’ After Covering Death Of Five Children
Reporters Without Borders said Thursday it is dismayed to learned that independent photojournalist Li Yuanlong was forced to leave the southwestern province of Guizhou, where he lives, after he posted photos and information online about five homeless children who were found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning in a trash container. “Sending journalists who cover sensitive [...]
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Qatar’s Re-Revolution – Analysis
By Isida Tushe The dilemma the Arab world faces is one of combining plurality, unity, culture and religion while modernizing as a nation. But unlike the rest of the Arab nations, Qatar has managed to create a region with a richness of diversity where the freedoms that once used to be limited now have become [...]
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Nuclear Weapons: World Has Weapons That Are Bigger Than Wars Itself – Analysis
In his meeting with the journalist after the meeting with Board of Governors of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iranian Ambassador to the IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh told in Vienna on November 30 that Iran would rebuild any enrichment centrifuges, if its facilities are destroyed in a possible attack. Boasting of Iranian mastery over its [...]
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UN To Syria’s Assad: WMD Use An Outrageous Crime With Dire Consequences
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- Moon sent a letter to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to describe his concerns with Syria’s possible use of chemical weapons, according to a UN spokesman in New York City on Wednesday. Sarin originally was developed in 1938 in Germany as a pesticide. It is a clear, colorless, and tasteless liquid that [...]
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Israel’s Operation In Gaza And Anti-Iranian Campaign – Analysis
By Vitaly Bilan A strange war Debates are still raging in both the Israeli and the regional media as to why it was necessary to expend so much energy and resources on operation Pillar of Cloud and mobilize 75,000 reservists (7.5 times more than during Operation Cast Lead, the Israel Defense Forces’s last operation in [...]
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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: ASEAN And The South China Sea – Analysis
Facetious suggestions that ASEAN should be reduced to a ‘League of South China Sea Nations’ in the wake of the recent brouhaha over maritime territorial disputes ignore Southeast Asia’s unique brand of multilateralism. By Alan Chong and Emrys Chew FOR ASEAN sceptics, the recently concluded ASEAN-led Summits in Cambodia seemed to have signalled the twilight [...]
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As Peretz Abandons Labor Party, Israeli Political Center Implodes – OpEd
Nothing illustrates the political bankruptcy of the Israeli political center better than this image of Tzipi Livni, founder of the Ha-Tenuah Party holding hands with her freshest catch, Amir Peretz, former Labor defense minister and second highest vote-getter in the recent Labor primary. The image of a former Mossad agent and ideological descendant of the [...]
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Pope’s Twitter Account Scares Foes – OpEd
Most of the world’s reaction to Pope Benedict XVI’s use of Twitter has been extraordinarily positive, but his enemies are having a field day. Two quick examples. The Kansas City Star and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have long been among the most anti-Catholic newspapers in the nation. So it is not surprising that their love for [...]
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Latinos Lead The Way – OpEd
How does any constituency group get a president to do what they want? This question is not a mysterious riddle and the answer is rather simple. The group in question must first assert its right to make a demand, and then make that demand in a consistent and public way and in so doing force [...]
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Afghanistan Leader Sharply Criticizes U.S., NATO For Insecurity
(RFE/RL) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai has criticized NATO and the United States for growing insecurity in his country. In an exclusive interview with NBC Television on December 6, Karzai said that along with Taliban attacks “part of the insecurity is coming to us from the structures that NATO and America created in Afghanistan.” He [...]
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President Putin Protects Russian Interests: West Displeased – OpEd
By John Robles After 19 years being denied entry into the WTO the West thought Russia would be a pushover once allowed in the “club.” Unfortunately for the West while they have been slipping further and further into an economic abyss of their own making, Russia has been growing economically, independent of the WTO. The [...]
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Security Obsession Drives 100 Scientists From NASA – OpEd
Up on the planet Mars, there is a complex new rover names Curiosity that is driving around looking for evidence of possible life. Its every little finding is readily broadcast around the world, as was done today at a televised conference in California, to be analyzed by scientists in the US, in Europe, in China, [...]
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Saving The Planet, Or Protecting Power Grabs And Cash Cows? – OpEd
Doha sets stage for another environmental power grab to “prevent dangerous global warming” By David Rothbard and Craig Rucker Waning interest and credibility forced organizers to replace climate change with sustainable development as “the world’s most urgent problem” during the UN’s June 2012 Rio+20 Conference. However, climate alarmism is again taking center stage this week [...]
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Former US Navy Sailor Accused Of Attempted Espionage
A man who served 20-years in the Navy was arrested Thursday on charges of trying to pass classified information to Russia on how to track U.S. submarines. Robert Patrick Hoffman, II, 39, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, was indicted by a federal grand jury for attempting to provide classified information to individuals who he believed to [...]
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Kosovo: Limaj Detention, Retrial Sparks EULEX Criticism
By Muhamet Brajshori Kosovo’s supreme court panel, presided over by a EULEX judge, ordered a new trial against former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander Fatmir Limaj and three others in connection with a war crimes case from 1999. The defendants are charged with war crimes against civilians and prisoners of war in the Klecka detention [...]
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AQIM Uses Hostages For Leverage In Mali
By Jemal Oumar and Bakari Gueye Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and the Movement for Tawhid and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) are attempting to use kidnapped Algerian and Europeans to forestall intervention in northern Mali. “We will oppose the international threat against us by engaging in combat and jihad,” Ahmed Ould Amer, emir [...]
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UN Urges Aid to Turn A New Chapter In Somalia – Analysis
By Jerome Mwanda The United Nations has launched a $1.3 billion humanitarian appeal in Mogadishu to address the immediate needs of the Somali people over the next year and enhance resilience in the country, which has for decades been mired by conflict, drought, floods and food insecurity. The appeal issued on December 4 is part [...]
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Hungary: Abide By Ruling On Homelessness, Says HRW
The Hungarian government should carry out, without delay, the November 12, 2012 Constitutional Court decision that the law criminalizing homelessness is unconstitutional. Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Parliament on December 3 that the government plans to hold consultations in Hungary’s main cities on the issue, saying that the Constitutional Court decision is “at odds with [...]
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