The Afghanistan Independent Electoral Commission confirmed Thursday that Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani have to go to a runoff after failing to receive at least 50% of the votes in the first ballot for president. The date for the new call has been scheduled for June 14. Who eventually becomes favorite to replace Hamid Karzai […]
May 17 2014 | Posted in
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When Japan lost the Second World War, the United States imposed a pacifist constitution (1947), according to which Tokyo forever renounced war and the role of its armed forces was restricted to self-defense. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, believes that the international context has changed dramatically since then and that the country should change this to […]
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Final Conference of the NBA are served. Oklahoma won the sixth game against the Clippers (98-104) and will face San Antonio. Indiana, also in the sixth game, won Washington (80-93), and like last year, repeated the Eastern Conference finals against Miami. The outcome of the conference semifinals followed the script of the forecasts and the […]
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The Wednesday visit of Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the town of Soma, where Tuesday ‘s explosion at a coal mine killed at least 300 people, left some images showing the impetuous character of the Turkish leader and any reviewers. On Thursday some photographs where Erdogan advisorYusuf Yerke is seen kicking a protester, […]
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“It is time the Government of Modi ” the covers of many media in India said. After the close of the latest polls from a marathon election victory of the Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi in the world’s largest democracy was clear from the early hours of Friday morning. Although the results are not yet definitive, […]
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Syria is the forgotten war of the United States (U.S.) President, Barack Obama. Nine months after the motions of military intervention and back at the last minute, Obama seems resigned to a victory for the regime of Bashar Assad. U.S. paralysis before the massacres in the Arab country marks the end of an era: the […]
May 16 2014 | Posted in
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Hopes for peace than the cemeteries dissipate in Syria between the chlorine gas and the international impotence. While the United Nations mediator for conflict, Lakhdar Brahimi, announced on Tuesday afternoon that he will resign on May 31, the French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius launched new accusations against the regime of Bashar al-Assad: “Did you use […]
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Miami and San Antonio, the two teams that dirimieron the title last season, were the first to qualify for the conference finals after certifying their potential and eliminate 4-1 Brooklyn and Portland respectively. Miami got into the Eastern Conference finals for the fourth consecutive year after back eight points against Brooklyn when there were less […]
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The Chinese government knows that every step to support its territorial claims with facts causes a cascade of criticism and protest from affected countries and their partners. But the critical time just diluting and Beijing movements usually do not have reverse. This fait accompli is taking its toll on China’s relations with its neighbors, particularly […]
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Concern about the spread of coronavirus first detected in the Arabian peninsula in 2012, which in recent days has made the jump to the United States with two imported by travelers, “has increased significantly “. This has been acknowledged Wednesday by the committee of experts selected by the World Health Organization (WHO) emergency meeting to […]
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Tension mounts in Turkey around the mine tragedy in Soma (Aanatolia) when it has been more than 40 hours since the explosion in a coal mine that caused the death of 282 workers at the country’s largest mining tragedy. Miners neighbors and volunteers try this morning rescue workers asphyxiation by carbon monoxide, which continues to […]
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened a preliminary investigation into alleged war crimes committed by British troops against Iraqi soldiers between 2003 and 2008, during the Iraq war. It is the first time that the ICC prosecutor thus analyzes the UK, although the case was already in his hands in 2006. Then chief prosecutor, […]
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