Posted by seumasach on June 19, 2013
19th June, 2013
Après notre démonstration d’hier, qui mettait en cause le journal Le Monde, pris la main dans le pot de confiture de la désinformation, ses journalistes ont été obligés de rectifier leur titre tendancieux et dépourvu d’un once de déontologie. Une belle victoire.
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Posted by seumasach on June 19, 2013
And so it was that 12 years of bloody war have culminated in talks with the Taliban, talks which could have averted the war in the first place.
Jim Lobe
19th June, 2013
WASHINGTON – Nearly 12 years after the United States ousted the Taliban from power, the White House announced on Tuesday that the US will begin formal talks with the militant Islamist group in Qatar later this week as part of Afghanistan’s national reconciliation process. The announcement, which coincided with ceremonies marking the formal transfer of primary security responsibility from US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces to their Afghan counterparts, preceded a statement issued shortly afterwards by the Taliban itself in which it implicitly disassociated itself from Al-Qaeda.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2013
Sonia Mansour Robaey
18th June, 2013
We don’t know what will come out of Geneva II, the US and Russian backed conference for a political solution to the Syrian crisis. But it is forcing rhetorical and diplomatic conversions upon those taking the road to Damascus.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2013
7th June, 2013
New Delhi, June 7: In order to improve the prospects for peace in Syria, Russian foreign policy experts have called for India to take part in the Geneva II peace conference.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2013
18th June, 2013
French President Francois Hollande said Tuesday that Iranian president-elect Hassan Rowhani would be welcome at Syria peace talks “if he can be useful”.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2013
18th June, 2013
The final communiqué released Tuesday by the two-day G8 summit in Northern Ireland bowed to President Vladimir Putin’s demand to drop any reference to ending Bashar Assad’s rule.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2013
18th June, 2013
LOUGH ERNE, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – The heads of government of the world’s biggest economic powers on Tuesday urged the conflicting sides in the Syrian civil war to destroy or expel all al-Qaida affiliates fighting in the country.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2013
18th June, 2013
LOUGH ERNE, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia and the United States will bear primary responsibility for developing a peace plan for Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday at a press conference following a summit of the Group of Eight major industrial nations in Northern Ireland.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2013
This is good news for peace in Syria. Cameron has dropped his “Assad must go” clause. There is no reference to the Syrian government using chemical weapons and he has agreed to work against extremism and terrorism in Syria. Amongst the “key institutions of the state” which he has pledged to maintain there is, of course, the Syrian national army.
Cameron outlines seven key agreements on Syria crisis
18th June, 2013
David Cameron has outlined seven agreements that have been made among G8 leaders in respect to the Syria crisis.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2013
Stephen Smith
4th April, 2013
Tiwanaku, or Tiahuanaco in Spanish, is a ruined citadel occupying almost 10 square kilometers in the Bolivian Andes at an altitude greater than 3800 meters. Carbon-14 dating methods suggest that the site is no more than 3700 years old. However, as previous Picture of the Day articles discuss, radiometric dating is, at best, an unreliable system for establishing age.
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Posted by seumasach on June 18, 2013
Steffen Seibert, spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel of the conservative Christian Democrats, said Germany would stick with its position of not providing weapons to a country engaged in a civil war for “legal reasons”. The opposition had made the same demand. Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the German Foreign Ministry said it had no information of its own about the use of deadly poison gas by the regime in Damascus.
14th June, 2013
Washington has said it may soon move to supply weapons to Syrian rebels, a move that has been met with reserve by the international community. Western diplomats also told the news agency Reuters that the US government is considering a no-fly zone in Syria.
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