
Media reports in Japan revealed that F15 fighters were dispatched by Japan after they detected a marine surveillance plane from China in contested airspace close to disputed East China Sea islands. Due to this incident, China has indicated that it is already on alert. Hua Chunying, spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, revealed that Beijing […]
Wednesday December 26 2012, 4:58 AM EDT | Posted in
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Egyptians voted in large numbers in favor of the controversial Constitution drafted by Egypt President Mohamed Mursi. Results seen this Tuesday have shown that the Islamist power in Egypt is basically unstoppable. The final figures of the referendum have shown that the constitution passed with a 63.8 percent total. This marks the third consecutive electoral […]
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With winter approaching, life in the Syrian refugee camps in southern Turkey turns from bad to worse. As temperatures drop and a rainy, muddy couple of month’s approach spirits are pretty low with the people living in the camps. The civil war in Syria is nowhere near its conclusion so Syrian refugees will have to […]
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It appears that the former prime minister of the UK, Margaret Thatcher, is already recovering from a surgery that removed growth in her bladder. The first woman who was elected as the leader of the country earlier complained of pain in the area of near the bladder. She was taken to a hospital where a […]
Sunday December 23 2012, 5:05 AM EDT | Posted in
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With December 21st coming and going, doomsday prophecies of a great cataclysm or an alien invasion or even a huge meteorite colliding with the earth fell short. As a matter of fact, the most impressive part of the whole event was the social media jokes and comic interpretations of the presumed end of the world. […]
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Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, revealed that the website is set to release over one million documents in the coming year. Although no details were offered, he indicated that the contents will affect all countries around the word. Assange made the statement from a balcony at the Embassy of Ecuador in London, which has served […]
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Deficiencies in the leadership and management in two State Department bureaus coupled with systematic failures resulted to the deaths during the Benghazi attack last September 11, according to an independent panel report. The report went into the specifics on the Benghazi attack that resulted to the death of Ambassador Chris Stevens along with three other […]
Thursday December 20 2012, 1:45 AM EDT | Posted in
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Five women who were working for a UN backed polio vaccination campaign in two towns in Pakistan were shot dead this Tuesday. With Pakistan being one of only three countries were polio is endemic, serious efforts are necessary to help the situation improve. One of the biggest problems in Pakistan is that radical Muslims and […]
Thursday December 20 2012, 1:42 AM EDT | Posted in
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NBC Chef Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel was kidnapped along with several other colleagues by a group of armed men and held captive for five days. About 12 armed gunmen, presumably part of a Shiite militia loyal to present Syrian Government managed to kidnap NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent and a bunch of other press writers blindfolded […]
Wednesday December 19 2012, 5:06 AM EDT | Posted in
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Although sanctions against the Taliban regime were renewed by the UN Security Council, it appears that blacklisted Taliban members will not find it difficult to obtain an exemption when they travel out of Afghanistan for reconciliatory and peace talks. The Taliban government in Afghanistan was ousted by Afghan forces supported by the US in 2001 […]
Tuesday December 18 2012, 3:13 AM EDT | Posted in
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