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Iran Viewpoint: Ten Reasons Iran Doesn’t Want The Bomb – OpEd

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By Ambassador Seyed Hossein Mousavian Since the beginning of Iran’s nuclear crisis, the West has been convinced that one approach offers the best hope of altering Tehran’s nuclear policy and halting its enrichment activities: comprehensive international sanctions and a credible threat of military strike. During the same period, I have repeatedly warned my friends in [...]

UK Claims To Have Evidence Syria’s Assad May Use Chemical Weapons

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The UK has joined the US in claiming Syria’s government may soon use chemical weapons on its own people. The Syrian government has warned of the potential danger of these weapons falling into the hands of “terrorist groups.” Following the UK’s claims, Damascus declared it would never use chemical weapons against Syrians. British Foreign Secretary [...]

Equatorial Guinea: Cease Politically Motivated Arrests, Says HRW

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The most recent arbitrary detention of a leading opposition politician in Equatorial Guinea on December 4, 2012,raises concerns about human rights conditions in the lead-up to legislative elections in the first half of 2013. Since November 2011, the government has detained at least four high-profile members of the country’s beleaguered political opposition. At 9:00 a.m. [...]

Lieberman’s Cold Revenge – OpEd

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‘Revenge is a dish that is best eaten cold,’ is a saying attributed to Stalin. I don’t know if he really said that. All the possible witnesses were executed long ago. Anyhow, a taste for delayed revenge is not an Israeli trait. Israelis are more impulsive. More immediate. They don’t plan. They improvise. In this [...]

Military Voyeurism Or Invasion Of Syria? – OpEd

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By Ismail Salami As part of the sinister plan for Syria at work, French military agents have recently held face-to-face meetings with the foreign-backed militants inside the country in a bid to “assess the situation on the ground.” A report carried by French paper Le Figaro on Friday indicates that “Their main task was to [...]

Egypt: Morsi Annuls Constitutional Declaration

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Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has decided to annul his constitutional declaration expanding his powers, a participant of a meeting between Morsi and the country’s political leaders said on Sunday. “The decision has been made to issue a new constitutional declaration,” the official said after the meeting. Prime Minister Hisham Qandil told journalists on Saturday that [...]

European Commission Increases Relief Aid In Mali

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The European Commission will be increasing its humanitarian response to the crisis in Mali by €20 million. Once approved by European Union’s budgetary authorities, the additional funding will bring the EU’s humanitarian support to Mali to €101 million in 2012. With the new funding the Commission aims to boost the relief effort in all parts [...]

Doha Climate Conference Takes Modest Step Towards Global Climate Deal In 2015

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The European Union said Saturday it welcomed the outcome of the Doha climate conference, which lays the basis for more ambitious international action against climate change in the short term, paves the way for a new global climate agreement to be finalized in 2015 and enables a second period of the Kyoto Protocol to start [...]

Still A Way To Go For Nuclear Transparency In Europe, Says The EESC

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European countries have yet to make public all essential information about nuclear safety and to involve the public in decision-making about nuclear energy, said the European Economic and Social Committee. The conclusion came at the end of a two-day conference convened to assess the implementation of the Aarhus Convention in the field of nuclear safety. [...]

European Union To Receive Nobel Peace Prize On Dec. 10

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The Nobel Peace Prize for 2012 will be presented in Oslo on 10 December recognising EU’s role in advancing stability and reconciliation in Europe. EU Council president Herman Van Rompuy, Commission president José Manuel Barroso and European Parliament president Martin Schulz will be receiving the prize on behalf of Europe’s 500 million citizens. They will [...]

Indigenous Leaders Demand To Be Heard

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By Louisa Reynolds The fight to save the environment from predatory multinationals is currently one of the greatest causes of social unrest in Latin America. As large scale oil, mining and infrastructure projects progress and anger swells across the region’s indigenous communities, it is hardly surprising that the right to prior consultation was the main [...]

Benghazi: Libyan Terrorists Got Arms From Obama Administration‏ – OpEd

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In spite of the threat of American weapons ending up in the hands of terrorist groups, President Barack Obama secretly approved an arms transfer to Libyan rebels through Qatar at the height of the rebellion against Moamar Khadhafi, a knowledgeable source noted on Friday. However, American counterterrorists are discovering that some of those U.S. weapons [...]

Pakistan’s Endgame In Afghanistan? – OpEd

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By Aparna Pande As preparations for the American draw down from Afghanistan get underway, there appears to be another game in town: played by Pakistan’s leaders, strategists and for lack of a better word, sympathizers. The argument put forth is this: all problems would be solved if only India would stop playing a role in [...]

North Korean Missile Launch Challenges U.S. Foreign Policy – OpEd

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By Bruce Klingner North Korea announced on December 1 that, between December 10 and 22, it would again attempt to launch a “civilian satellite.” The Unha-3 launch vehicle is the same as the Taepo Dong-2 (TD-2) intercontinental ballistic missile that North Korea previously test launched in 2006, 2009, and 2012. North Korea bragged in October [...]

Lebanese Politicians Continue Playing The Palestinians – OpEd

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The Gaza resistance to last month’s Israeli aggression, and the 138 to 9 UN General Assembly vote, most people of good will might agree, are important “victories” for the nearly 11 million Palestinians ethnically cleaned from their country Palestine as a consequence of the Zionist colonial enterprise, an unsustainable remnant from the 19th century. Sincere [...]

Two Young Tibetans Burn

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Two Tibetan men self-immolated Saturday in separate protests against Chinese rule in Tibet, one of whom was a monk who called for the return of exiled spiritual leaders to the region, Tibetan sources said. Kunchok Phelgyal, 24, a monk from Ngaba (in Chinese, Aba) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in China’s Sichuan province, and Pema Dorjee, a [...]

UN Climate Conference Extends Kyoto Protocol To 2020

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(RFE/RL) — Delegates from almost 200 countries have extended until 2020 the Kyoto Protocol for fighting climate change. The document, adopted in 1997, was due to expire by the end of the year. The extension was agreed at a United Nations climate conference in Doha, Qatar that concluded on December 8. The meeting, scheduled to [...]

Austerity Measures Dominate 2013 Balkan State Budgets

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By Drazen Remikovic In an effort to meet the demands of growing foreign debt and to further stay afloat during the ongoing global economic crisis, several Balkan states are drafting their 2013 budgets with heavy austerity measures. More than 7,000 teachers and policemen in Banja Luka protested last month against a 10 percent pay cut [...]

Hamas Leaders Praise Resistance, Unity At Gaza Rally

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Hamas’ top officials on Saturday addressed teaming crowds gathered in Gaza City to celebrate the party’s founding, insisting on the right to resist Israel while emphasizing the importance of reconciliation with their Fatah rivals. Party chief Khaled Mashaal, on his first visit to Gaza, told the crowds: “Resistance is the means not the end … [...]

Massive Crevasses And Bendable Ice Affect Stability Of Antarctic Ice Shelf

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Gaping crevasses that penetrate upward from the bottom of the largest remaining ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula make it more susceptible to collapse, according to University of Colorado Boulder researchers who spent the last four Southern Hemisphere summers studying the massive floating sheet of ice that covers an area twice the size of Massachusetts. [...]
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