South Africa President Jacob Zuma visited former President Nelson Mandela at a Pretoria hospital. Madiba was admitted yesterday for medical attention. He found him comfortable and in good care. “We continue to appeal to the media and the public to respect the privacy of Madiba and his family,” said the Presidency in a statement. Zuma [...]
South Africa: President Zuma Visits Mandela In Hospital
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New Popemobile from Mercedes-Benz for Pope Benedict XVI
By delivering a new Popemobile to Pope Benedict XVI, Mercedes-Benz continues a tradition, which lasts for 80 years now. Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars, personally handed over the Mercedes-Benz M-Class, specifically produced for the Pope with special-purpose body, at the Vatican. “It is [...]
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Georgia: Is Rule-Of-Law A Requisite Component Of Democratization?
By Molly Corso Can there be democratization without the rule-of-law? Georgia is an interesting case in this regard. The country reached significant democratization milestones in 2012. Most recently, the watchdog group Transparency International praised Georgia for being the only country in the Caucasus and Central Asia regions to make significant progress in tackling corruption. And [...]
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Cuban Journalist Pressured To End Hunger Strike
By Roberto de Jesús Guerra Pérez Independent journalist Calixto Ramón Martínez Arias, a reporter for the Hablemos Press Information Centre, has been on hunger strike for close to a month now. Martínez Arias was detained on September 16 near Cuba’s international airport in Havana while investigating allegations of a damaged shipment of medicines sent by [...]
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Indian Papal Envoy To Ivory Coast Dies In Road Accident
Archbishop Ambrose Madtha, the Indian papal envoy to the Ivory Coast, was killed in a road accident. “Unfortunately the apostolic nuncio died on the spot,” said Mathieu Tehan, spokesman for the western diocese of Man. The prelate was travelling back from the northwestern town of Odienne to an ordination ceremony in the country’s west on [...]
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Cyber Attack On Aramco A ‘Global Plot’, Says Saudi Arabia
By Siraj Wahab The attack that disabled 30,000 workstations at Saudi Aramco in August was not an inside job, and the Kingdom has initiated the process of setting up a national security center to combat cyber crime. Disclosing the details of a joint investigation at the oil giant’s headquarters in Dhahran yesterday, Interior Ministry spokesperson [...]
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Maldives: Loss Of Traditional Goodwill – Analysis
The unfortunate cancellation by the Government of Mohammad Waheed of the Maldives of the contract given to a consortium led by the GMR, an Indian company, for the running of the Ibrahim Nassir International Airport highlights our loss of tradional goodwill with a section of the Maldivian political class due to perceptions that India was [...]
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Egypt In Crisis: Learning The Hard Lessons Of Democracy – Analysis
By Rajeev Agarwal Only a fortnight ago Egypt was being hailed as a resurgent power in the Arab world when it successfully negotiated a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel on November 21. Time magazine even included President Morsi as a candidate for the “Person of the Year” contest among 40 short listed prominent personalities in [...]
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Trespassers To Be Prosecuted: China’s Latest Billboard In South China Sea – Analysis
By Sarabjeet Singh Parmar The new maritime regulations passed by the Hainan Peoples Congress to board, inspect, seize, deport or force ships to alter course out of areas within China’s claimed territorial waters as a part of the “Coastal Ship Frontier Defence of Law and Order Management Ordinance” signals a stepping up of the Chinese [...]
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Climate Change: It’s Not Just An Environmental Issue; It’s A Human Rights Issue Too – OpEd
By Steve Trent, Executive Director of the Environmental Justice Foundation As an international community, our collective failures on climate change are having critical consequences. Today climate change has become one of the major challenges to the basic human rights to life, food, health, water, housing and self-determination. Philosopher Simone Weil said that, “to be rooted [...]
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Deja Vu On The Korean Peninsula – OpEd
By Geoffrey Fattig “It’s déjà vu all over again.” The classic quote from the great American philosopher Yogi Berra, originally in reference to the home run chase between baseball greats Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle in 1961, could just as well describe the hand-wringing currently taking place from Beijing to Washington over North Korea’s planned [...]
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Syria: Assad Already Using Chemical Weapons On Civilians – Activists
Global concerns over Syria’s chemical weapons stockpiles grew after U.S. officials this week privately said the regime had begun mixing chemicals that could be used for the lethal nerve agent sarin. On Saturday, Syrian told the United Nations that it would never use chemical weapons against its peoples and warned that opposition fighters are the [...]
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EU Membership May Improve Croatia-Serbia Relations
By Igor Jovanovic and Drazen Remikovic While politicians leading Serbia and Croatia may be at odds after the Hague tribunal’s acquittal of Croatian General Ante Gotovina last month, citizens such as 51-year-old Zrinka Kutlesic in Zagreb are taking a more moderate view. “I am glad that our generals are released but I do not give [...]
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Tech Companies Call For Ban On Patenting Abstract Ideas
A group of tech companies including Google, Facebook, Red Hat and Dell have stepped into a U.S. patent case to call for a ban on patenting abstract ideas, according to TG Daily. The companies, which also include Rackspace, Zynga and Intuit, have filed a third-party amicus brief in the case of CLS Bank International vs [...]
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Rosneft President Igor Sechin Holds Talks With Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan
Igor Sechin, President and Chairman of the Management Board at Rosneft, held talks on December 4 with Wang Qishan, Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China and a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China. The two discussed a broad range of issues relating to Rosneft’s cooperation with its [...]
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Israel And The Syrian Civil War – Analysis
By Marinko Bobić Israeli Strategy towards the Syrian Crisis The current situation in Syria only confirms Israel’s belief that the Middle East is inherently unstable. Many Israeli settlers on the Golan Heights hope that eventually a new regime will come to Syria which will be ready to cede the Golan Heights to Israel. Perhaps this [...]
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Iran: Activists Call For Minister’s Resignation As Second Student Dies
Eighty Kurdish political and civil activists in Iran have called for the resignation of the Minister of Education after a fire accident in an elementary school injured scores of students and, according to reports, has so far claimed two lives. The Kaleme website reports that the activists have released a statement saying that Hamidreza Hajibabayi [...]
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Egypt: Still Half A Revolution – OpEd
By Ali Hussein Bakeer It is impossible to achieve things in the country without pitting every political faction large and small into an argument against each other and against the political structure. Although some observers argue that this is an overstated problem, a small stick is enough to break the clockwork. Yet as the stick [...]
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No Matter Who You Are, Or Where You Live, Your Voice Counts – OpEd
Monday, 10th December is 64th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR sets out a broad range of fundamental human rights and freedoms to which all men and women, everywhere in the world, are entitled, without any distinction. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted on [...]
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Germany: Security Personnel Strike Hits Airports Nationwide
Thousands of passengers were affected by a short-notice strike at ten airports across Germany, as 1,000 security staff demand better working conditions. The action started on Monday morning and lasted for several hours. The strike, organized by the trade union ver.di, which represents about 15,000 security personnel at German airports, brought disruption to daily operations. [...]
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