Category: #Geopolitiks
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Geneva II: Day 1 of Syria Peace Talks Ends on Fragile Ground
from cbsnews.com: Peace talks to carve a path out of Syria’s civil war got off to a rocky start Wednesday as a bitter clash over President Bashar Assad’s future threatened to collapse the negotiations even before they had begun. The dispute over Assad cast a pall over an international conference that aims to map out…
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State Of Emergency Begins As Thailand Copes With Protests
from therepublic.com: Protesters vying to overthrow Thailand’s government stayed on the streets Wednesday despite the start of a state of emergency in the capital that was imposed to cope with the nation’s increasingly violent political crisis. The emergency decree announced late Tuesday allows authorities to ban public gatherings, impose curfews and censor local news reports…
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US, Russia Forces Hunt Jihad Widow Feared Inside Olympic Zone
from foxnews.com: U.S. counterterrorism operatives are helping Russian security agents in the hunt for four female potential terrorists, including a “white widow” — the wife of a dead terrorist — who could already be inside the massive security zone set up for next month’s winter Olympics. Ruzanna Ibragimova, the 22-year-old widow of a jihadist killed…
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Today in History for January 20th: Iran Hostages, JFK’s Inauguration and Wannsee Conference
from youtube.com/ap: Highlights of Today in History: Iran releases American hostages; Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy innaugurated as President.
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28 Hurt as Explosions Rock Anti-Government Protest Site in Thailand
from worldnews.nbcnews.com: Two explosions shook an anti-government demonstration site in Thailand’s capital on Sunday, wounding at least 28 people in the latest violence to hit Bangkok as the nation’s increasingly bloody political crisis drags on. Police said the blasts near Victory Monument, in the north of the city, were caused by fragmentation grenades — the…
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Warnings of Boycott Rile Israel While Canada’s PM Makes Friends
Harper Making Good Friends As He Supports Isolated Israel* from dailystar.com.lb: Economy Minister Naftali Bennett dismissed Monday a growing chorus of alarm that Israeli business will face international isolation if peace talks with the Palestinians fail. Indicating rising friction within the government, Bennett urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ignore the warnings, saying an independent…
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Japan WWII Soldier Who Refused to Surrender, Dies at 91
from bbc.co.uk: A Japanese soldier who refused to surrender for 29 years after the end of World War Two has died. Hiroo Onoda, who was 91, remained on duty on Lubang Island near Luzon in the Philippines until 1974, because he did not believe that the war had ended. Still wearing his uniform, Lieutenant Hiroo…
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Kerry Offers Assurances as Syria Talks Draw Near
from nytimes.com: As the Syrian opposition neared a decision on whether to attend an international peace conference next week, Secretary of State John Kerry offered a public assurance on Thursday that the Obama administration had not pulled back from its goal of establishing a transitional government that would not include President Bashar al-Assad. In a…
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Mexico’s Anti-Drug Militias Return Seized Land to Villagers
from blacklistednews.com: Mexican vigilante militias battling drug-traffickers in the restive state of Michoacan said Thursday they had returned several hundred acres of land seized from villagers by the notorious Knights Templar cartel. The symbolic handover of some 654 acres (265 hectares) of land, which included many avocado and lemon orchards, took place in the village…
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Sex, politics and François Hollande: How France plays by its own rules
from theguardian.com: Sex will succeed where wars in Syria and the Central African Republic, questions of racial tension and the future of the European Union have all failed. It will persuade the world to do what it has so rarely done before – and tune into a press conference by the president of France. The…
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Talking Peace, Waging War
from indybay.org: Obama’s war on Syria rages. It’s taken a horrific toll nationwide. Tens of thousands died. Dozens more do daily. Millions were displaced. Numbers internally and abroad range up to one-third of Syria’s population. Humanitarian crisis conditions exist. Human suffering is extreme. Peace talks reflect more illusion than reality. On January 22, they’re scheduled…
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US Sends Troops to Korean Peninsula as Instability Grows
from usnews.com: The U.S. military is sending 800 more troops, as well as tanks and armored vehicles to South Korea in February, the Pentagon announced Tuesday, as the latest step in America’s attempts to quell perceived instability in the Pacific rim. The unit from the 1st U.S. Cavalry Division based out of Fort Hood, Texas,…
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Ariel Sharon and the Legacy of US-Backed War Crimes
from antiwar.com: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon died over the weekend. Much of the U.S. and Israeli media have whitewashed Sharon’s legacy, erasing from history the fact that he was a wretched war criminal who was devoted to a Greater Israel and to massacring any civilians he perceived as obstructing that goal.
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‘Nearly 500’ Killed in Syria Rebel Infighting
from aljazeera.com: Clashes between Syrian rebel and fighters from an al-Qaeda-linked group have killed nearly 500 people in northern Syria over the past week, according to a monitoring group. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that at least 482 people have been killed in the fighting that has pitted a loose alliance of…
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Indian envoy indicted, but prosecutor says State allowing her to leave US
from foxnews.com: The Indian envoy at the center of a diplomatic dispute was indicted Thursday on criminal counts, but it remained unclear whether she would ever face the charges as the State Department apparently began clearing the way for her exit. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara initially said Thursday that Devyani Khobragade had already left the…