Nepal: New Proposal Of Nepal Army On PLA Integration Should Strike While Iron Is Hot – Analysis
Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:46 AM PDT
By Dr. S. Chandrasekharan On 29th of March, the Nepal Army made out a fresh proposal for integration/rehabilitation of PLA combatants that appears to have had a positive response not only from the Maoist leadership but also from the Nepali Congress. Given the immediate need to see through the ‘peace process’ before other initiatives are [...]
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Libyan Intervention Fraught With Risks – OpEd
Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:42 AM PDT
There are many practical reasons why the U.S. military attack on Libya is a bad idea—including that Libya has nothing to do with American vital interests, that helping an unknown opposition is fraught with risks of getting something worse than Moammar Gadhafi, and that the United States was overstretched militarily (already conducting two other wars) [...]
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Clinton Dismisses Gadhafi Letter
Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:39 AM PDT
By David Gollust U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Wednesday brushed aside a personal appeal from Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi for an end to the NATO air campaign in support of Libyan rebels. Clinton, who discussed the Libyan crisis with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Fratini, said Mr. Gadhafi must yield power and leave the country. [...]
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Poll Shows Georgians Increasingly Concerned Over Economy
Posted: 07 Apr 2011 02:02 AM PDT
(Civil.Ge) — There has been a significant drop over past eight months among people who think that Georgia is going in right direction, according to the recent public opinion survey released on April 6. 35% of respondents either said Georgia is “definitely going in the right direction” or “is going mainly in the right direction”, [...]
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EU Urges National Dialogue In Bahrain, Syria And Yemen
Posted: 07 Apr 2011 01:59 AM PDT
The EU considers the brutal retaliation against the mass demonstrations in Syria is unacceptable, and it will continue to exercise pressure on Syria in the interest of social reforms, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Zsolt Németh, declared on 6 April 2011, in Strasbourg, in the European Parliament’s plenary debate about the situation in Syria, [...]
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Balkan Countries Mull Libya War’s Cost To Trade
Posted: 07 Apr 2011 01:55 AM PDT
By Besar Likmeta As fighting in Libya continues between rebels based in the eastern city of Benghazi and forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi, thousands of workers from Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia have returned home. But although Libya is a significant market for services and weapons from ex-Yugoslav countries, the conflict will have little impact on [...]
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Kyrgyzstan’s April Uprising: Path To Change Or Death In Vain?
Posted: 07 Apr 2011 01:53 AM PDT
By Natasha Yefimov and David Trilling One year ago, thousands of people crowded the streets of Kyrgyzstan’s capital and ousted the country’s then-president, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, seen as the leader of a thuggish, kleptocratic regime. Nearly 90 people were killed in the standoff between protesters and security forces. Immediately afterward, a motley crew of Bakiyev’s political [...]
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Portugal Fights For Credibility With Bail-Out, US Plans Indefinite Debt
Posted: 07 Apr 2011 01:49 AM PDT
An option of last resort – that’s how Portugal’s Prime Minister has described the country’s request for a financial bail-out from the EU. Analysts say the worst-case scenario for the country, long been predicted, may be looming. It’s estimated that the rescue plan will top $US 100 billion, with anger set to spread around Europe [...]
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Libya Says NATO Air Strike Hits Major Oil Field
Posted: 07 Apr 2011 01:46 AM PDT
(RFE/RL) — Libya says British warplanes have hit a major oil field, damaging a pipeline connecting the field to a Mediterranean port. Libyan Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim said three guards were killed in the reported strike on the Sarir oil field. British officials had no immediate comment on Kaim’s claims. Britain is part of [...]
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Turkey’s New Role In Geostrategic Landscape Of Euro-Muslim Relations – Analysis
Posted: 07 Apr 2011 01:45 AM PDT
While Turkey increases its economic weight and prominence in energy affairs and solidifies its geostrategic interdependence with Europe, the latter approaches Ankara with a dangerous mistrust, expressed through a new security architecture that seeks to marginalize Turkey’s influence. By Andrea Bonzanni and Dorukhan I Aras for ISN Insights Europe’s collective imagination about Muslim peoples, rooted [...]
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Mystery Of Goldstone’s April Fool’s Message – OpEd
Posted: 07 Apr 2011 01:35 AM PDT
It was definitely coincidental – but harboring many unclear scenarios – that Richard Goldstone’s infamous volte face came on April Fool’s day as when it appeared on the Web site of The Washington Post. In his wishy-washy column, published in that paper two days later, the esteemed South African judge backtracked on some of his [...]
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Juliano Mer-Khamis: The Death Of Hope – OpEd
Posted: 07 Apr 2011 01:33 AM PDT
Juliano Mer-Khamis, the noted Israeli actor-director, was assassinated in Jenin on Monday. The PA has arrested Mujahed Qaniri, a Palestinian suspected of the crime. The shooter has alleged connections to Hamas. Mer-Khamis was a living, breathing representative of what an Israeli, and Israel itself, could be in the vision of a “state of all its citizens.” [...]
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Portugal Seeks Bailout Amid Political Crisis
Posted: 07 Apr 2011 01:25 AM PDT
Portugal’s caretaker government said yesterday (6 April) it had decided to seek financing from the European Union, in an abrupt turnaround after resisting a bailout for months despite sharply deteriorating financial conditions. The nation of 10.5 million became the third member of the euro zone to seek a rescue after Greece and Ireland after months [...]
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Cambodia: Calls To Withdraw Flawed Draft NGO And Association Law
Posted: 07 Apr 2011 01:21 AM PDT
Cambodia’s draft law regulating associations and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) should be abandoned because it will undermine rather than promote civil society in the country, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Forum-Asia, Global Witness, Southeast Asia Press Alliance, Frontline Defenders, and FIDH and OMCT within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders [...]
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Posted: 07 Apr 2011 01:18 AM PDT
(EIA) — While global oil demand growth, physical disruption in Libyan crude production, and unrest in North Africa and the Middle East all have caused crude oil and petroleum product prices to rise in recent months, few product markets have shown as much strength as jet fuel. Not only are jet fuel prices in the [...]
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Egypt FM Hails GCC Intervention In Bahrain
Posted: 07 Apr 2011 01:13 AM PDT
Egypt stressed on Wednesday Gulf states’ Arab identity is a “red line” after they accused Tehran of trying to destabilize Bahrain. Cairo also hailed a Saudi-led force which entered Bahrain amid Shiite protests against the regime. The Egyptian comments come as Cairo expressed its readiness to warm relations with Tehran. Egypt has had no formal [...]
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Vedanta Gets SEBI Clearance To Begin Open Offer For Up To 20% Of Cairn India
Posted: 07 Apr 2011 01:10 AM PDT
Vedanta announced Thursday receipt of SEBI clearance to commence the Open Offer for up to 20 percent of the shares of Cairn India. The Open Offer will be made by Vedanta’s subsidiary, Sesa Goa Ltd, and will open for acceptances on Monday April 11, 2011. To meet Indian takeover regulations, the Open Offer must be [...]
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Hamas, Iran Deny Any Connection To Israeli Raid In Sudan
Posted: 07 Apr 2011 01:02 AM PDT
Ismail al-Askar, a deputy in the Palestinian Legislative Council from Hamas has dismissed news reports about the injury and the targeting of his nephew, Abdul Latif Al-Ashkar in a car bombing which took place two days in Sudan by an Israeli aircraft. Al-Ashkar said that Abdul Latif was in a good condition and was not [...]
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India: Anti-Corruption Needs To Be Taken Seriously – Analysis
Posted: 07 Apr 2011 01:00 AM PDT
The anti-corruption movement launched from New Delhi by a hotch-potch of elements and groups under the leadership of Anna Hazare, a social activist of unquestioned integrity and unimpeacheable credentials, has to be taken seriously by the Government of Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh. Any attempt to have it discredited or to underestimate the genuine anger of [...]
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California: US Fighter Jet Crashes, Kills Two Crew Members
Posted: 07 Apr 2011 12:56 AM PDT
US Navy officials confirmed late Wednesday that a fighter jet crashed in a field near Lemoore air base, in California killing two crew members. Officials from the Naval Air Station in Lemoore say the F/A-18 aircraft crashed while on a training mission, officials said. “The names are being withheld until next of kin are notified,” [...]
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Israeli Air Strikes Hit Gaza Targets
Posted: 07 Apr 2011 12:55 AM PDT
Israeli warplanes struck four targets in Gaza Strip and the border town of Rafah on Thursday inflicting some damage but no injuries. The air strikes targeted two smuggling tunnels in Rafah and another in Zeitoon neighborhood in Gaza City, injuring one person, according to Gaza radio. The warplanes also hit a tunnel in Salah al-Din, [...]
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Posted: 07 Apr 2011 12:53 AM PDT
The answer is yes. If. If means that just about anything that doesn’t violate the laws of physics is possible. Whether it can be done or not depends on how hard and how well people are willing to work for it. There’s a debate going on right now about the precedents for defeating an incumbent. [...]
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Russia: Police Find Bomb In Central Moscow
Posted: 07 Apr 2011 12:51 AM PDT
Police on Thursday discovered an explosive device with the power of 400 grams of TNT in a car in central Moscow, a law enforcement source said. Officers found the improvised explosive device in the boot of a Mercedes Benz after stopping the vehicle on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, a road used daily by Kremlin officials. The bomb [...]
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Urban Search And Rescue: Boosting Intra-ASEAN Self Help – Analysis
Posted: 07 Apr 2011 12:49 AM PDT
Natural disasters such as the earthquakes and tsunamis in the Indian Ocean off Sumatra in 2004 and in Japan most recently highlight the importance of qualified Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams. ASEAN’s lack of such vital rescue expertise needs to be addressed. By Nah Liang Tuang THE 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, the 2011 Christchurch [...]
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