Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2012
7th October, 2012
The Strong Egypt Party, founded by former Presidential candidate Abdel-Moneim Abu El-Fotouh, has issued an official statement on Sunday slamming President Morsi’s comments, in his Saturday evening speech at Cairo stadium on the occasion of October 1973 war, detailing the progress his administration achieved in his first 100-days-plan since taking office back in July.
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Posted by seumasach on October 7, 2012
It is highly unlikely that Muslim Brotherhood rule will outlast President Morsi’s four-year term; the real question is the manner of their exit from power
Hani Shukrallah
27th September, 2012
The ruling (in a manner of speaking) Muslim Brotherhood faces a strategic, even fateful decision: granting that they’ll be removed from power within 4 years at the outside, they need to make up their minds whether they’d rather bow out gracefully or be thrown out, exit via the ballot box, or revolution.
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Posted by seumasach on October 7, 2012
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Posted by seumasach on October 6, 2012
5th October, 2012
The following Security Council statement was issued today by Council President Gert Rosenthal ( Guatemala):
The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks in Aleppo, Syria, on 3 October, causing dozens of deaths and over 100 civilians injured, responsibility for which was claimed by the Jebhat al-Nusra group affiliated with Al-Qaida. They expressed their deep sympathy and sincere condolences to the families of the victims of these heinous acts and to the people of Syria.
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Posted by seumasach on October 6, 2012
This could prove a key struggle. What is at stake is whether Europe continues on the path to destruction Anglo-Saxon style through ever greater financialization or starts to rebuild the real economy and channel investment into basic industries
6th October, 2012
In a valley lashed by wind and rain in the industrial heartland of north-east France, steelworkers blockading the local foundry see their action as a last stand to save their jobs, their factory, their region’s economy – even the entire French steel industry.
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Posted by seumasach on October 6, 2012
5th October, 2012
Dozens of US and British anti-war protesters have marched in Islamabad a day ahead of a massive peace march organized by the famous cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan against the US assassination drone strikes in the Pakistani tribal regions.
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Posted by seumasach on October 4, 2012
4th October, 2012
TEHRAN (FNA)- Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi said that relevant authorities in Syria are investigating the source of the Wednesday mortar fire on a border town in Turkey.
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Posted by seumasach on October 4, 2012
4th October, 2012
Political parties, unions, professional chambers and nongovernmental organizations came together in Taksim Square Oct. 4 to demonstrate against a possible war with Syria.
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Posted by seumasach on October 4, 2012
4th October, 2012
Constrained from a substantial military incursion into Syria by US President Barack Obama’s veto and Saudi and Qatari refusals to help pay for it, Turkey’s government and military decided to make do with carving out a buffer strip 10 kilometers deep into Syria by continuous artillery barrages.
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Posted by seumasach on October 4, 2012
4th October, 2012
Turkey’s parliament has authorized cross-border military operations into Syria ‘when necessary.’ The move follows a cross-border mortar-shelling into Turkey which Damascus has apologized for.
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Posted by seumasach on October 4, 2012
Eddie Gilbert: The True Story of an Aboriginal Cricketing Legend By Mike Colman and Ken Edwards ABC Books, 2002 280 pages, $29.95 (pb)
6th November, 2002
Only one bowler has ever knocked the bat out of the hands of Don Bradman, cricket’s greatest batter: Eddie Gilbert. Only 15 bowlers have ever dismissed Bradman without a run to his name. Eddie Gilbert was one of them. Yet, whilst Bradman played test cricket for Australia for two decades, Gilbert was never selected to play at the sport’s highest level.
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