Obama will meet with Chinese Vice President at the White House
February 14, 2012
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping meets Tuesday with President Barack Obama and other officials at the White House, where they will hold talks about the crucial relationship between the two countries.
Xi Jinping will have a chance to talk with President Obama about his leadership transition. He is expected to become the head of the ruling Communist Party later this year.
According to the newspapers, one objective of Xi’s visit will be to build trust between the sides, a task made more difficult by disputes over trade,Taiwan, human rights and other international issues.
In spite of their close economic concerns, China and the US remain major rivals in the world, withWashington’s traditiona...
Mitt Romney wins 2012 Florida primary
February 2, 2012
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney won the Florida Republican Party presidential primary election on Tuesday with over 46 percent of the vote. Former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich came in second with 32 percent. As a winner-takes-all state, Florida awarded all fifty of its delegates to Romney, pushing him ahead as the front-runner for the Republican Party nomination.
The win follows what The Wall Street Journal described as “one of the most acrimonious weeks in recent presidential campaign history.” Gingrich briefly led the polls in Florida after his victory in the South Carolina primary on January 21, and attributed his fall to negative advertisements fro...
Canada’s Harper Government Plays Down Oil Sands Document
January 27, 2012
Canada’s federal government disassociated itself on Thursday from an embarrassing official policy paper that said the country’s independent energy regulator, now studying a controversial oil pipeline, is in fact a government ally.
Critics have long charged the right-of-center Conservative government is trying to pressure the regulator – the National Energy Board (NEB) – to approve Enbridge Inc.’s plan to build a pipeline from the Alberta oil sands to the Pacific Coast.
The NEB this month started hearings into the $5.5-billion Northern Gateway pipeline, which the government says is needed to send more oil to Asian markets.
Opponents of the pipeline include green groups and some...
U.S. presidential candidate Newt Gingrich wins South Carolina primary
January 24, 2012
Former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich of Georgia won the Republican Party South Carolina presidential primary yesterday with 243,153 votes (40.4%). FormerMassachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who won the New Hampshire primary last week, came in second with 167,279 (27.8%). The result reflects a shift in polling just days before the election, following two Grand Old Party (GOP) debates and a highly publicized interview with Gingrich’s ex-wife.
In his victory speech, Gingrich criticized President Barack Obama and the “media elites”, and alluded to the well-funded Romney when arguing, “We don’t have the kind of m...
President Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline
January 19, 2012
The Obama administration today formally rejected a bid by Canadian energy company TransCanada to build a $7 billion oil pipeline linking the tar sands of Alberta to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.
The Keystone XL project, which was estimated to create thousands of U.S. jobs, became an election-year lightning rod, embroiling President
Obama, congressional Republicans, labor unions and interest groups in a heated debate over jobs and the environment.
The State Department, which holds the authority to approve or reject pipelines that cross an international boundary, said in November that it would delay a decision on Keystone to allow for further study of the environmental impact along its 1,700-mile route.
Iran Accuses U.S. And Britain In Killing Of Nuclear Scientist
January 16, 2012
Iran has accused the U.S. and Britain of being behind the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist this week in Tehran.
Iran’s foreign ministry has sent a diplomatic letter to the U.S. saying that it has “evidence and reliable information” that the CIA provided “guidance, support and planning” to assassins “directly involved” in Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan’s killing, the IRNA state news agency reported on Saturday.
Ahmadi-Roshan, a 32-year-old chemist, was killed in Wednesday morning traffic by motorcycle-borne assassins. It was the fifth time in two years that a scientist from the state nuclear program had been targete...
Russian warships leave Syria’s territorial waters
January 10, 2012
A Russian naval task force, led by the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, has left the Syrian port of Tartus after a three-day visit, Russia’s Northern Fleet said in a statement on Tuesday, January 10.
The task force called on the Syrian port on Sunday amid ongoing protests in Syria against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad. Some media reports said the visit of the Russian warships was a signal of Russia’s support for Assad’s regime but the Russian military denied any connections of the visit with the political situation in the country.
“The naval task force has completed its visit to the Syrian port of Tartus with the aim of replenishing [food and water] provisions. The wa...
Two Syrian journalists killed around New Year’s Day
January 5, 2012
The last two journalists reported killed at the turn of the year were Syrians; just at a time when protests and violence in the country are escalating, and the Arab League begins its initial assessment of the situation.
Shot on December 30, and the first journalist to die in 2012, was veteran journalist Shukri Ratib Abu Burghol. The senior journalist was shot in the face after arriving home from work at a radio station in Darayya, on the southern outskirts of the capital city Damascus. According to Reporters Without Borders, he died three days after the shooting at Al Mouwsat Hospital.
Burghol, 56, was a journalist for about 21 years, working for the newspaper Al-Thawra (The Revolution) whilst also ...
Over 1 Million Have Made Visits to New York’s 9/11 Memorial
December 30, 2011
In the 16 weeks since it opened to the public, the September 11 Memorial in New York has seen more than 1 million visitors, officials announced Thursday.
The memorial plaza was opened to family members of victims on the 10th anniversary of the attacks, and to the general pubic the following day.
A museum on site is still under construction, and it is expected to open September 11, 2012.
Designed by architect Michael Arad, the memorial features two huge, square fountains that mark the footprints of the World Trade Center towers.
The fountains’ water flows into granite reflecting pools at the center of the 8-acre, tree-li...
Romney & Gingrich: The Draft Dodgers That Want to Send Your Kids to War
December 28, 2011
When it came time for Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich to serve in the armed forces during the Vietnam War in the 1960s, both Presidential candidates weaseled out of their duty to “serve their country”. Now they espouse hawkish rhetoric, vehemently back the occupation of Afghanistan, think it was a mistake to pull combat troops out of Iraq (a result of a Bush-era agreement with Iraq), and more recently have touted the need to invade Iran. Just as it’s easy to spend money that isn’t yours, it’s just as easy to send kids to war that aren’t your own. That’s the crux of what Mitt Romney and Gingrich have advocated and what they intend to do if either of them...
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