Burma: Released Canadian Speaks Ordeal
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 02:01 AM PDT
By Naw Noreen A Canadian national released after nearly three weeks in custody in Burma has said he was unaware he had illegally strayed across the Thai border but was “very happy” to have been freed. Ron Zakreski, 62, was picked up by Burmese police on 23 March in the Wawlay district of eastern Karen [...]
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India: Christians On The Campaign Trail
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 01:58 AM PDT
By Vincent D’ Souza The first of a series looking at the Church’s role in this week’s elections in India Tamil Nadu state, along with neighboring Kerala and Pondichery, goes to the polls tomorrow to elect a new state assembly of legislators. Local campaigning is revving up in the town of Colachel which hugs the [...]
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Saudi Arabia: Mixed Reaction To France’s Ban Of Niqab
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 01:54 AM PDT
By Mariam Nihal There was mixed reaction among women in the Kingdom to a ban on niqab that went into effect in France on Monday. Paris police arrested two veiled women and several other people protesting in front of Notre Dame cathedral against the new law. On Saturday, 59 people were arrested, including 19 veiled [...]
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Energy Security In The Age Of Middle Eastern Revolutions – Analysis
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 01:50 AM PDT
By Robin Mills An absolute monarch of the world’s most gas-rich country has given the West the best advice in the era of Middle East revolutions. The Emir of Qatar warned Europe not to stand with ‘hydrocarbon dictatorships’ for their economic interests. The sound of gunfire in the Middle East continues. We still don’t know [...]
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Saudi Arabia And China To Sign Nuclear Cooperation Pact
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 01:45 AM PDT
Saudi Arabia on Monday announced its plan to sign a nuclear cooperation agreement with China. The Cabinet said it has authorized Hashim Yamani, president of the King Abdullah City for Nuclear and Renewable Energy, to hold talks with Chinese officials to reach a deal for peaceful use of atomic energy. The new move comes after [...]
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Russia Must Restore State By De-privatizing It, Moscow Analyst Says – Analysis
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 01:41 AM PDT
The privatization of the state into the hands of the elite and the failure of both to meet even minimal social demands has become unsustainable as a result of the economic crisis, sparking not only anger but demands that the state be de-privatized and restored to something like its ostensible purpose, according to a Moscow [...]
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Japan Raises Fukushima Nuclear Crisis To Highest Level 7
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 01:39 AM PDT
Japan’s nuclear safety agency on Tuesday raised the crisis level at the nation’s disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to the worst on the global scale of atomic accidents, the same level as the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe. The government’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said it has upgraded the severity level of the accident at [...]
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Posted: 12 Apr 2011 01:36 AM PDT
Last Monday, when Attorney General Eric Holder conceded that his dream of prosecuting, in federal court, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and four other men accused of involvement in the 9/11 attacks, was officially over, derailed by Congressional opposition to the very notion of moving a single prisoner from Guantánamo to the US mainland to face a [...]
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Israel: Teen Girl Among 71 Held In Itamar Case Roundup
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 01:33 AM PDT
Concern is mounting for the residents of Awarta, as 71 villagers including a teenage girl and two elderly women remain held in Israeli custody without charge, and official visits to ensure their well being were prevented by Israeli forces. Detentions of Awarta residents spread even outside of the village on Tuesday morning, with three residents [...]
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Afghanistan: ISAF Forces Continue To Seek ‘Facilitators’
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 01:31 AM PDT
A combined Afghan and coalition force killed an armed individual while targeting a Taliban facilitator during a security operation in Chak-e Wardak district, Wardak province, yesterday. The facilitator is responsible for distributing weapons and ammunition to Taliban members for attacks against Afghan and coalition forces. He maintains coordination with other senior Taliban leaders. While preparing [...]
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Egypt: Blogger’s 3-Year Sentence Blow To Free Speech
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 01:28 AM PDT
The military court’s sentencing of the blogger Maikel Nabil to three years in prison is a serious setback to freedom of expression in post-Mubarak Egypt, Human Rights Watch said today. The ruling comes at a time when the Egyptian military is drawing very restrictive red lines around permissible speech. “Maikel Nabil’s three-year sentence may be [...]
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EU Seasick With African Boat People
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 01:25 AM PDT
Italy quarrelled with other European Union governments yesterday (11 April) over how to handle thousands of migrants fleeing violence in North Africa, while the EU executive urged the bloc to do more for the refugees. Divisions have deepened among the EU’s 27 governments on how to tackle the refugee crisis in the region, with some [...]
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China’s Crackdown And US Response: Supporting Liberty In Distant Places – Analysis
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 01:22 AM PDT
By Dean Cheng As the “Jasmine Revolution” continues to unravel traditional power structures in the Middle East, Chinese authorities have been cracking down on dissidents and activists on a scale not seen in over a decade. On the eve of the next round of Strategic and Economic Dialogue talks, and with much less experienced Asia [...]
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Japan Raises Level Of Nuclear Crisis To Maximum 7
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 01:18 AM PDT
(RFE/RL) — Japan’s nuclear safety agency has formally raised the severity level of the crisis at the earthquake and tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to the highest level of 7 — equal to the severity of the 1986 disaster at Chornobyl in the former Soviet Union. The Japanese disaster has until now been rated [...]
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Secret Arrests In Awarta Connected To Itamar Murders – OpEd
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 01:16 AM PDT
According to an Israeli source, the IDF and Shabak made a major arrest yesterday in the Palestinian village of Awarta of three residents suspected of involvement in the Itamar murders of five members of the Fogel family. This is connected to, but in addition to the arrest of well over 100 residents of the village, [...]
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India: PM Manmohan Singh Prepares For BRICS Summit – Analysis
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 01:13 AM PDT
By Bhaskar Roy The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit starting April 14 in China will provide the two leaders of India and China another opportunity to discuss and exchange views on both multilateral and bilateral issues. Chinese President will hold separate meetings with all the heads of states attending the summit [...]
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Fukushima Nuclear Fallout Spreads To Swiss Politics
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 01:10 AM PDT
By Urs Geiser One month on from Japan’s nuclear disaster, the “Fukushima effect” on Switzerland’s political parties has been limited. But political scientist Georg Lutz at Lausanne University says the accident in the wake of a powerful earthquake in mid-March will change the campaign ahead of October’s elections to the federal parliament. Results from four [...]
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Japan: Nuclear Crisis Highest Rating, But Says Radiation 10% Of Chernobyl
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 01:07 AM PDT
The Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) issued Tuesday a new provisional rating for the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the IAEA International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES). The nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi is now rated as a level 7 “Major Accident” on INES. Level 7 is the [...]
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Posted: 12 Apr 2011 12:59 AM PDT
By Samah Sabawi The media coverage of Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Gaza that left many dead and many more injured echoes Israel’s claim that it was part of an escalation that began on Thursday when Hamas militants fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli school bus, critically wounding a teenager and lightly injuring the driver. [...]
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India, US In East Asia: Emerging Strategic Partnership – Analysis
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 12:57 AM PDT
India and the United States are gradually emerging as strategic partners in Asia. What are the prospects of this strategic partnership for the region? By Manjeet S Pardesi AS INDIA tries to position itself as a major power in Asia in tandem with its rapid economic growth, New Delhi has found encouragement for its geostrategic [...]
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Brazil: BG Well Test Confirms High Productivity On Guará Norte
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 12:52 AM PDT
BG Group announced Tuesday the conclusion of a drill stem test (DST) on the Guará Norte well (3-SPS-69) in Block BM-S-9 in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. The DST confirmed high productivity of some 6 000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) of light oil (approx 30° API) with flow rates constrained by test facility [...]
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Japan: Fukushima Nuclear Accident On Par With Chernobyl; Could Get Worse
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 12:49 AM PDT
The consequences of the accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant may ultimately exceed the level of Chernobyl, a spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the Fukushima Daiichi operator, said on Tuesday. Officials from the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) announced that the crisis level had been raised on the international nuclear and [...]
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US Citizen Sentenced For Plotting Attacks On Washington D.C. Subway Stations
Posted: 12 Apr 2011 12:46 AM PDT
A US citizen, identified as Farooque Ahmed, 35, from Virginia, was sentenced to 23 years in prison followed by 50 years of supervised release after pleading guilty to charges stemming from his attempts “to assist others whom he believed to be members of Al-Qaeda” in planning bombings at Metrorail stations in the Washington, D.C., area. [...]
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