After nearly five years of violence that has displaced some 12 million people, some real talks are to be held to end the war in Syria, thanks to the military intervention of Russia. Russia is doing it its way, scaring the daylights out of the pseudo jihadists or pet terrorists of the West and the oil sheikhs while the space …
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Addressing the United Nations General Assembly sessions last month, many world leaders, including President Mahinda Rajapaksa, expressed hope there would be a Palestinian state by this time next year. The United States President Barack Obama, who is spearheading the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, was more guarded. Though he was optimistic, his optimism was couched in words that would not cause alarm …
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"We need to make clear to people that the cancer is in Pakistan," US President Barack Obama declared at an Oval Office meeting in November last year. This presidential remark was mentioned in award-winning journalist Bob Woodward's latest book 'Obama's Wars'. The remark comes as no surprise. After all, Obama during his campaign for the White House had said that …
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Future wars will be fought from a desk in a closed-up room. No missiles will be fired, no drone attacks will be launched on civilians and no soldiers will die. Nuclear weapons will be of no use. Yet nations will be brought to their knees by the press of a button. Yes, it is all but official that the era …
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What will be the repercussions when two giants clash? China, the world's number two economic power, and Japan, which had until recently held the number two position, are on a collision course and the intricacies of the disputes and their ramifications make one wonder whether a new bipolar world, similar to the one that had existed for some five …
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