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15Apr

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China

China Calls it a Western Plot

NOVANEWS Iran, Syria, and Belarus join China in condemning West for meddling. Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer Bangkok, Thailand April 13, 2011 – Destabilizing China and attempting to overthrow a government of 1.3 billion people most certainly is a grievous act of war. Add to that operations unfolding across Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and South America and you have a recipe for World War III. While initially passed off as spontaneous, wholly organic uprisings, the smirking corporate-financier oligarchs are now conceding that indeed they have meticulously planned, trained, funded, and supported uprisings from Tunisia to Egypt, from Tehran and Belarus to Burma and Beijing. With Western forces storming Libya and the Ivory Coast from above, they are...

13Apr

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Pakistan & Kashmir

The Siege of Pakistan Continues

NOVANEWS By Sajjad Shaukat In the past, conventional forces used to besiege an enemy country in order to defeat it or to fulfill their strategic aims. But in the modern era of globalization and technology, a rival country can be besieged through some different tactics which include various subversive acts conducted in that country by a single country or a number of countries which want to obtain their joint selfish goals. In these terms, although our country has been facing multiple crises of grave nature, yet the same have been intensified by the foreign enemies recently as part of the siege of Pakistan. At present, Pakistan and its security forces are facing suicide attacks, bomb blasts, sectarian violence, drone attacks and targeted-killings coupled with intermittent b...

13Apr

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Iran, Syria

Iran: Protests in Syria are Western plot to undermine the government

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross Unlike uprisings in other parts of the Arab world which Tehran has applauded as an ‘Islamic awakening’,the protests in Syria have received little media attention or official comment in Iran; Syria is Iran’s closest Arab ally. By Reuters Anti-government demonstrations in Syria are part of a plot by the West to undermine a government that supports “resistance” in the Middle East, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. Unlike uprisings in other parts of the Arab world which Tehran has applauded as an “Islamic awakening” of peoples against Western-backed oppressors, the protests in Syria have received little media attention or official comment in Iran. Syrian anti-government protesters march in the northeastern town of Qamishli...

11Apr

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Iraq

63 percent of people killed in Iraq war were civilians: report

NOVANEWS Posted By: Sammi Ibrahem Chair of West Midland PSC Source–English.news.cn BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) — U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been causing huge civilian casualties with 63 percent of some 109,000 people killed in the Iraq war being civilians, according to a report on the U.S. human rights record released on Sunday. The figures were quoted from a WikiLeaks trove by the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010, which was released by the Information Office of China’s State Council in response to the country reports on Human Rights Practices for 2010 issued by the U.S. Department of State. Figures from the WikiLeaks website also revealed up to 285,000 war casualties in Iraq from March 2003 through the end of 2009, according to the report. “Th...

11Apr

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Pakistan & Kashmir

Pakistani Christians rap Qur’an burning

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem Chair of West Midland PSC Pakistani Christians protesting against the burning of the Holy Qur’an by a US pastor, in Lahore, Pakistan on September 9, 2010 The Christian community across Pakistan has staged a protest to denounce the burning of Islam’s holy book, the Qur’an, by a US extremist pastor. Christians throughout the country gathered in the Pakistani city of Lahore to show solidarity with the world’s Muslims, a Press TV correspondent reported Monday. The Christian demonstrators said that US Pastor Wayne Sapp’s burning of the Holy Qur’an was an attempt to flame clashes between Muslims and Christians. The protesters urged the Pakistani government to take action over the incident and called on the United States to prevent i...

11Apr

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Russia, World

Russians stage ‘Day of Rage’ protests

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem Chair of West Midland PSC In Russia, the opposition has held “Day of Rage” anti-government protests to demand political reform, fair elections and an end to corruption. Hundreds participated in the rallies held in Moscow on Sunday. Protesters say corruption threatens the Russian society and needs to be stopped before it would destroy the country, a Press TV correspondent reported. “We want the authorities to see that citizens are angry at lack of self government and lack of control over the action of officials. The situation leads to enormous corruption and social injustice,” Left Front movement coordinator Sergei Udaltsov told Press TV. After the rally, some attempted to march with their demands towards the Presidential Admi...

10Apr

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Pakistan & Kashmir

Three Short Takes on Afghanistan

NOVANEWS by David Swanson Afghan Women Behind the Wheel KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — I’ve been fortunate to meet some very talented photographers and film-makers here in Afghanistan. We’re planning an Afghan Film Festival for the United States this fall. One film director Sahraa Karimi has produced an engaging and illuminating documentary called “Afghan Women Behind the Wheel.” When she told me the title with a bit of an accent, I thought the last word was “Veil.” It could almost as well have been. The film is about the limited rights and options of women in a country that is not just poor and war-ravaged, but in which many men passionately believe women to be inferior. The movie has great footage for anyone wondering what life in Kabul looks like, and it tells the stori...

10Apr

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Pakistan & Kashmir

Audio Message from Afghanistan to ‘Stanford Says No to War

NOVANEWS by David Swanson Audio Message from Afghanistan to ‘Stanford Says No to War’ . .

9Apr

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Pakistan & Kashmir

1,500 killed in Pakistan blasts in 2010

NOVANEWS A recent photo showing the scene of a bomb blast in northwest Pakistan Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik says at least 1,500 people were killed in more than 1,330 bomb attacks across the Asian country in 2010. Malik also told Pakistani lawmakers on Friday that 4,968 people were injured in the 1,331 bomb explosions last year, a Press TV correspondent reported. Taliban militants have recently waged a campaign of bomb blasts in northwestern Pakistan, where government troops are fighting militants in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan. In the last several years, Taliban also destroyed hundreds of schools, especially in the areas of Swat Valley and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, previously known as the North-West Frontier Province, as part of their acti...

8Apr

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Pakistan & Kashmir

Afghan President Hamid Karzai

NOVANEWS by Zabi Rashidi Orders Probe Robe Into Deadly UN Protest Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered his government to investigate deadly Koran-burning protests that killed up to two dozen people, including seven foreign UN staff, his spokesman said Monday. Angry protests over the burning of a Koran by a Florida pastor, Terry Jones began in the relatively peaceful northern town of Mazar-i-Sharif. Seven members of the UN mission to the war-torn nation were killed when the protesters attacked the world body’s office. A Norwegian, a Swede, a Romanian and four Nepalese guards were among the dead. Five Afghan protesters were also killed in clashes with police. A dozen other people were killed in two days of violent protests in the southern city of Kandahar. UN Office Attacke...