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10:14 am | By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Decrying a rising death toll and an escalation of violence, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly called yet again for progress towards a political transition to defuse Syria’s civil war, now in its third year. Though the resolution strongly condemns the Syrian government of…
10:21 am | By Fariborz Saremi It has been assumed for quite some time that the next month’s presidential election in Iran will be an exceptionally contentious affair, but since Saturday May 11 2013, the last day on which presidential candidates could register their intention to run for election, it has finally become…
Russian exercise near Georgia redirected to Syria after Israeli strike
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Netherlands uncovers sleeper agents planted before USSR’s collapse
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The high cost of refusing to call an Islamic terrorist an Islamic terrorist
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Asia’s bloody border wars: Korea and Pakistan-India
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Tough talking Xi Jinping is going easy on rampant PLA corruption
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Kenneth Bae’s unforgiveable ‘crime’: Christianity
9:47 am | By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com The outlook for Kenneth Bae, the American preacher/tour guide who’s been sentenced to 15 years hard…
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