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EU Police Patrolling Social Media

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(CORDIS) — From the city’s mean streets to Facebook, the police are responding to ever-changing developments and have expanded their beat from the streets outside our door to the virtual pathways of social media, and in so doing, making sure that people are kept safe and criminals apprehended. A new report discusses in detail how [...]

Italy: Prime Minister Monti To Resign

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Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Monti announced on Saturday his plans to resign after former premier Silvio Berlusconi’s center-right People of Freedom (PdL) party withdrew its support for the government, media reported. Monti, leading a non-elected technocrat cabinet, said he would step down after passing a budget and a financial stability law, British broadcaster BBC reported. [...]

Venezuela: Chavez Says Cancer Back, Names Successor Ahead Of Surgery

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on national television late on Saturday he was flying to Cuba for a new cancer surgery and named Vice-President and Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro as his possible successor. “If something were to happen that would incapacitate me in some way, in that situation, Nicolas Maduro should not just complete, as [...]

Egypt: Morsi Scraps Controversial Decree

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Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has cancelled the controversial decree he issued last month that gave him extensive new powers and sparked violent protests across the country, officials say. However, despite demands from the opposition, a news conference in Cairo was told on Saturday night that this month’s referendum on a new constitution would go ahead [...]

US Deficit Reduction Deal Remains Elusive

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By Michael Bowman President Barack Obama met with the U.S. Congress’ top Republican, House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner on Sunday in search of a deficit-reduction package that would prevent substantial spending cuts and tax increases from going into effect on January 1. Sunday’s meeting at the White House marked the first face-to-face debt discussions [...]

Spaniards March To Defend Medical Treatment Rights

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Spaniards are refusing to jeopardize their healthcare for the sake of the budget, with thousands of medical workers marching through Madrid protesting cuts to health care and plans to sell off public hospitals. ­The protesters, dressed in white and blue scrubs, chanted “Health is not for sale” and “Health 100 per cent public, no to [...]

US Plays The Boss Again – OpEd

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By Natalya Kovalenko A recent statement by US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton confirmed it again that powerful political and economic alliances between former Soviet states are against the US interests. In her article in The Financial Times, Ms. Clinton said that the US is going to hamper such alliances. Namely, it is the initiative [...]

MS-13 Member Pleads Guilty To Racketeering, Murders And Violence‏

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A MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha) member pled guilty Friday to taking part in a federal racketeering conspiracy that involved numerous crimes, including two murders, in the Washington, D.C., region. Dennis L. Gil-Bernardez, a/k/a “Pando,” pled guilty in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Judge Rosemary M. Collyer sentenced him to 76 years in [...]

Israel-Gaza Conflict 2012: Prospects For Broader Resolution – Analysis

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The recent hostilities between Israel and Hamas raise two important questions: Why did fighting recur? How can recurrence be prevented? By Damien D. Cheong THE EXCHANGE of rocket fire and aerial bombardments that claimed the lives of over a hundred people, inflicted numerous casualties and caused massive damage to infrastructure, finally came to a halt [...]

“Radical Peace. People Refusing War”– Review

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William T. Hathaway, Radical Peace. People Refusing War, Trine Day LLC, Waterville, OR 2012, 170 pp., $14.95. US President Barack Hussein Obama promised his fellow Americans peace. His humanitarian rhetoric impressed everybody around the globe. That is why he received the Nobel Peace Prize for nothing after one year in office. But the disappointment came [...]

Security Forces Attack Azeri Fans In Tehran Stadium – Analysis

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Iranian security forces attacked supporters of Traktor Sazi FC, the foremost soccer club in Tabriz, the capital of Iran’s Turkic East Azerbaijan province, highlighting mounting ethnic tension in the Islamic republic fuelled by economic hardship resulting from harsh international sanctions and controversial economic policies. Witnesses and press reports said the attack took place during Traktor [...]

Official Visits To Moldova Embolden Reforms

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By Paul Ciocoiu A visit late last week by Jose Manuel Barroso, the head of the European Commission, followed by Poland President Bronislaw Komorowski on Monday (December 4th), showed clear support for Moldova’s European aspirations and encouraged the former Soviet republic’s drive for reforms, analysts and officials in Chisinau said. “First of all, Barroso’s visit [...]

Sri Lanka’s Economic Migrants And Their “Asylum Seeking” Preference For Western Destinations

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By Shenali Waduge Just as wars have become profits for a handful while the majority end up suffering the issue of immigrants, asylum seekers, refugees and economic migrants is also a source for profit for a handful and explains why the situation is never solved though series of efforts have taken place by organizations and [...]

Egypt: Opposition Group Says Morsi’s Backtrack On Decree ‘Meaningless’

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A major Egyptian opposition party has said that, despite the decision to scrap the controversial decree giving President Morsi extensive new powers, “confrontation” will continue, the state-run MENA news agency reported on Sunday. Following hours of talks with political and public figures at Morsi’s presidential palace on Saturday, it was announced that the Egyptian president [...]

Climate Change: Snapshot Of Wins And Losses At Doha Talks – Analysis

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Like last year’s UN climate change talks, this year’s conference in Doha culminated in an all-night session to hammer out a deal on preventing further global warming and protecting people from the effects of climate change. While some promising compromises were made, the absence of a strong commitment to slash greenhouse gas emissions and help [...]

Responding Personally And Powerfully To The Climate Catastrophe – OpEd

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By Robert J. Burrowes Amid the ongoing sequence of horrendous news articles reporting one environmental disaster after another, with dire consequences for the planet and all its species (see, for example, ‘Global Extinction within one Human Lifetime as a Result of a Spreading Atmospheric Arctic Methane Heat Wave and Surface Firestorm‘) I can now read [...]

Tunisia: Leaders To Discuss Cabinet Reshuffle

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By Monia Ghanmi and Mona Yahia Tunisia’s governing troika is set to discuss President Moncef Marzouki’s proposal to reshuffle the cabinet, President’s Chief of Staff Imed Daimi said this week. “The declarations about a possible withdrawal of confidence from Marzouki represent an impulsive and thoughtless reaction at political and media levels,” TAP quoted Daimi as [...]

Iraq: Halt Execution Of Yemeni Juvenile, Says HRW

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Iraqi authorities should immediately stay the execution of a Yemeni national who was 16 at the time of his alleged offense. The execution of Saleh Moussa Ahmed al-Baidany would be Iraq’s first documented execution since 1987 of someone who was a child at the time of their alleged offense, Human Rights Watch said. Al-Baidany was [...]

The Magnistky Act And The Impact On US-Russia Relations – OpEd

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For those among us who have played any role in advocating for human rights in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, we’ve have had very little to celebrate in the past decade.  However this week’s passage by the U.S. Senate of the PNTR / Magnitsky Act is being hailed as a historical precedent while at the same time [...]

Cuba Dictatorship An Embarrassment, Spanish Politician Says

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The president of the People’s Party in Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, called on Spaniards to commit to the democratization of Cuba and “take on” the dictatorship of the Castro brothers. “I want to say very loudly and clearly that for the citizens of the western countries, for all the citizens of the democratic countries that share [...]
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