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As United States air and naval forces gather near Iran to protect US oil interests and menace Tehran's nuclear program, security gaps are opening in hotspots ranging from East ...
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Pakistan has rejected an American bid for the release of Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the Central Intelligence Agency establish Osama bin Laden's whereabouts in the ...
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United States President Barack Obama used a prime-time slot before the Super Bowl to show a more serious commitment to engagement in diplomacy with Iran. While that makes good ...
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The failure of the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution calling for regime change in Syria has increased calls in Washington for independent action on the ...
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A new era of military planning is being launched to preserve an American planet - fewer troops, fewer full-frontal missions, no full-scale invasions, no more ...
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The growing US government bubble, pumped up by cheap money, will eventually end with a burst of inflation, falsified statistics, and the Federal Reserve attempting to depress ...
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President Barack Obama rightly welcomed the decline in US unemployment with caution. Adults are struggling to find work, new jobs require few skills. Still, slow growth and ...
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Backers of the Nabucco project, with a decision imminent by Azerbaijan on which pipeline to match with the Shah Deniz gas field, are belatedly seeking to take a gas-producing ...
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A surge in the number of Chinese visitors to Egypt - tourists and expat workers - has given a new lease of life to Egypt's illegal ivory business, with US$50,000 trades on ...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit to China highlights a significant warming of relations as the countries find common ground on issues ranging from the eurozone crisis ...
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Fresh from kidnappings in Sudan and Egypt and an unprecedented evacuation from Libya last year, China is increasing confronted by problems over how to protect a growing band ...
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China wants to resurrect the stalled Myitsone dam, with a propaganda offensive asserting that environmental concerns in the Myanmar government's suspension of the US$3.6 ...
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United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the double veto on Syria by Russia and China a "travesty", while US ambassador to the UN Susan Rice says it was ...
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Russia and China's double veto of the Arab League resolution on Syria in the United Nations Security Council could come to mark the end of the "post-Soviet era" in world ...
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The torture of a Bangladesh man by Indian border guards, captured on video, has exposed the reluctance of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to push the government in New Delhi to ...
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United States Defense Secretary Leon Panetta exposed the contradiction between Washington's efforts not to be dragged into war and the desire to use the Israel threat to ...
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Economists, commentators and financial advisers are talking nonsense when they insist on referring to gold as an inflation hedge. Clear-headed comparison of the gold price and ...
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Bangladesh is to build a US$1.5 billion coal-fired power plant, with the help of Indian power company NTPC, that may threaten the famed Sundarbans mangrove forest, a world ...
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Successful development of oil projects in the Uzbek region of the Aral Sea may make the sector more attractive than Kazakhstan's Caspian oil and gas fields. But modest ...
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A Bangladeshi author's book launch in West Bengal has been cancelled due to extremist threats, just weeks after writer Salman Rushdie was prevented from attending the Jaipur ...
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The US economic recovery and a pledge to keep interest rates low provide great incentive for believers and non-believers to jump into the market. Policymakers' efforts to ...
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The Lily: Evolution, Play, and the Power of a Free Society by Daniel Cloud Princeton University political philosopher Daniel Cloud's gift to North Korea's new leader Kim ...
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Even as several tracks of peace talks with the Taliban open up, Asia Times Online has learned that senior members of the Western-trained and financed Afghan National Army and ...
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The surprise decision to phrase out a combat role for US troops in Afghanistan by mid-2013 has drawn mixed reaction in Washington, with critics of the 11-year international ...
