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02/03/2012
Early End to U.S. Combat Role in Afghanistan Draws Cheers, Jeers, Confusion
Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 - U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta's surprise announcement Wednesday that U.S. troops will phase out their combat role in Afghanistan by mid-2013 is drawing mixed reactions, as well as a fair bit of confusion, from both critics and supporters of the 11-year-old war here.(IPS)
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Russia Sticks to Its Guns Against Heavy Hitters Backing Syria
Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 2 - The political heavy hitters were all there at a key Security Council meeting early this week to decide on the future of beleaguered Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.(IPS)
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Once a Food Chain, Now a Corporate Supply Chain – Part 2
Kanya D'Almeida
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 - While Indian retailers are losing sleep over the possible entrance of multinationals like Walmart into the dense South Asian consumer market, very little thought has been given to the Indian small farmer, who stands to lose even more at the hands of the world's biggest commercial food retailer.(IPS)
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BANGLADESH
Coup Bid Reveals Extremism Within Army
Analysis by Naimul Haq
DHAKA, Feb 2 - Bangladesh’s army has won paludits as leading United Nations peacekeepers, but the January coup attempt against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government has exposed lurking religious extremism within its ranks. (IPS)
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Dempsey Told Israelis U.S. Won't Join Their War on Iran
Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON, Feb 1 - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey told Israeli leaders Jan. 20 that the United States would not participate in a war against Iran begun by Israel without prior agreement from Washington, according to accounts from well-placed senior military officers.(IPS)
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India Weighs Social Media Curbs
Sujoy Dhar
NEW DELHI, Feb 2 - After India's agriculture minister Sharad Pawar was slapped by a young Sikh man at a function in New Delhi, to record his protest against corruption in high places, social media sites went viral with musical spoofs and caricatured images of the incident.(IPS)
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WEST AFRICA
Water Shortage Threatens Wildlife
Brahima Ouédraogo
OUAGADOUGOU , Feb 2 - The story of a pair of buffalo aggressively prowling the edges of a village in eastern Burkina Faso is a warning sign of severe water stress in the region which threatens humans and wild animals alike. (IPS)
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02/02/2012
China Looks Both Ways on Iranian Oil
Analysis by Antoaneta Becker
LONDON, Feb 1 - China’s response to calls from the West to join an oil embargo penalising Iran for its nuclear programme so far has been to choose the middle course typical of its non-interfering foreign policy of the last 30 years – denouncing sanctions on one hand yet working to protect its national interests on many fronts.(IPS)
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2011 - A Year of Weather Extremes, with More to Come
Analysis by Janet Larsen and Sara Rasmussen*
WASHINGTON, Feb 1 - The global average temperature in 2011 was 14.52 degrees Celsius (58.14 degrees Fahrenheit). According to NASA scientists, this was the ninth warmest year in 132 years of recordkeeping, despite the cooling influence of the La Niña atmospheric and oceanic circulation pattern and relatively low solar irradiance.(IPS)
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U.S. Group Urges "More Credible" Military Threat Against Iran
Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Feb 1 - The administration of President Barack Obama should take steps to make threats of a possible U.S. or Israeli attack against Iran more credible, according to the fourth in a series of studies released here Wednesday by a 13-man "bipartisan" task force dominated by Iran hawks.(IPS)
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Pakistan Denies "Intimate" Taliban Links
Correspondents* - IPS/Al Jazeera
DOHA, Qatar, Feb 1 - Pakistan has rejected as "frivolous" a leaked NATO report which claims that the country's security services are helping the Taliban, and suggesting that the group believes it is poised to regain power.(IPS)
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CUBA
Party Aims for Efficient, Inclusive Socialism
Patricia Grogg
HAVANA, Feb 1 - Cuba's communist leaders have mapped out a strategy to modernise their country's one-party socialist model and make it more efficient, which implies making it more inclusive and representative of a society that is increasingly diverse.(IPS)
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SIERRA LEONE
Government Online Mining Database to Increase Transparency
Mustapha Dumbuya and Damon Van der Linde
FREETOWN, Jan 31 - The launch of Sierra Leone’s first online mining database in West Africa comes with a promise to increase transparency and accountability in the country’s rich natural resource sector.(IPS)
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OP-ED
After Durban, Latin America Looks Towards Rio+20
Ede Ijjasz-Vásquez* - Tierramérica
WASHINGTON, Jan 31 - After the climate change negotiations in Durban, South Africa in December, there is space to continue advancing in the short and medium term. Now the attention of Latin America and the rest of the world is turned towards the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development taking place this June in Rio de Janeiro.(IPS)
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02/01/2012
Rights Groups Denounce Duvalier Ruling, U.S. Urges Appeal
Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Jan 31 - International and local human rights groups Tuesday strongly denounced the ruling by an investigating judge in Haiti that former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier should not face charges for massive human rights abuses committed during his 15-year reign, from 1971 to 1986.(IPS)
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