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G-7 Ministers Issue Joint Statement on Maritime Disputesby webdesk@voanews.com (Nike Ching)
Foreign Ministers from the Group of Seven (G-7) expressed concern in a joint statement issued on Monday over tensions in the East and South China Sea, calling for “all states” to pursue a peaceful settlement of maritime disputes. “We express our strong opposition to any intimidating, coercive or provocative unilateral actions that could alter the status quo and increase tensions, and urge all states to refrain from such actions as land reclamation, including large scale ones, building outposts, as well as their use for military purposes,” said the G-7 Foreign Minister’s statement on maritime security. While the statement did not explicitly name China, who is not a G-7 member, it contained a message viewed as critical of Beijing’s massive efforts to assert its claims over a string of islands in the South China Sea through new constructions. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the G-7 meeting should not "hype" the South China Sea issue. He said doing so will not help solving the problem, and it will affect regional stability, according to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The statement by foreign ministers from seven industrialized countries also urged “all states” to manage disputes “through applicable internationally recognized legal dispute settlement mechanisms, including arbitration.” It came as the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague is expected to reach a decision soon on a case filed by Manila against Beijing. In January 2013, the Philippines filed a complaint with the tribunal that handles arbitration, questioning what it called China’s “excessive claim” to practically the entire South China Sea. China voiced strong opposition about the case being taken to the international tribunal. Foreign Ministers from the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan met in Hiroshima to discuss issues — including regional and global security — paving the way next month for Group of Seven leaders’ summit.
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John Kerry, the US secretary of state, speaks from the Hiroshima prefecture in Japan on Monday after touring the Hiroshima peace park, the site of the second world war nuclear bombing. Kerry says it is critical to apply the lessons of the past to the present day. He offers no formal apology over the 1945 event. The secretary also rebuts Donald Trump’s comments that Korea and Japan should acquire nuclear weapons, calling this ‘absurd’ and says Barack Obama wants to visit the city on his next visit to the country
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Obama to Ask Gulf Nations to Help Finance Iraq’s Rebuildingby webdesk@voanews.com (Carla Babb)
U.S. President Barack Obama will likely ask for contributions to rebuild damaged areas of war-torn Iraq when he speaks with Gulf allies in Riyadh next week, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told reporters Monday. Speaking aboard the USS Blue Ridge during a visit to India, Carter said repairing the destruction that has occurred in Iraq is necessary to making the eventual "defeat" of Islamic State “stick.” “That’s a global effort in which many countries can make a contribution,”...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies conducted 18 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Sunday, the coalition leading the operations said.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Four soldiers in Iran's regular army were killed in Syria, the Tasnim news agency reported on Monday, only a week after Tehran announced the deployment of army commandos to help President Bashar al-Assad in the civil war there.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has launched dozens of strikes in Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday, acknowledging for the first time such attacks against suspected arms transfers to Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas.
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New information from U.S. military officials after the death of Staff Sgt. Louis F. Cardin also raised questions about President Obama’s pledge to keep troops out of combat there.
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April 11, 2016, 8:39 PM (IDT)
France will provide the Egyptian navy with two Mistral helicopter carriers this summer, the country's ambassador to Cairo Andre Parant said at a press conference in the Egyptian capital on Monday. The ships were supposed to be sold to Russia in an arms deal but Paris cancelled the contract, paid Moscow a billion-dollar fine and sold them to the Egyptian navy instead. The carriers capable of amphibious operations can carry a total of 16 helicopters including attack helicopters and ones for anti-submarine warfare.
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The Turkish government implemented unprecedented security measures in Ankara on Monday as Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, accompanied by a delegation of 300 senior officials, arrived for a five-day visit. All of the windows of the Marriot hotel, where the king is staying, were replaced with bulletproff glass, and a concrete wall that can withstand bomb blasts was built in front of the entrance. Following a round of meetings in Ankara with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, King Salman will fly to Istanbul to take part in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit on Thursday and Friday.
Half of All Crimes in Russia Not Being Solved at Present Timeby paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
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Staunton, April 11 – Not only high profile political crimes remain unresolved in Russia, experts say. At least half of all crimes are not solved, and the figure may be even worse because over the last several years, the Russian interior ministry and other agencies have stopped initiating criminal investigations or publishing data on real crimes.
“Staffers of law enforcement organs,” Elena Mishina of “Novaya versiya” writes, “don’t hide what is going on: they open criminal cases unwillingly lest the statistics make them look bad. And some of them joke darkly that ‘the ministry of internal affairs has been transformed into the ministry of positive statistics” (versia.ru/pochemu-kazhdoe-vtoroe-prestuplenie-v-rf-ostayotsya-neraskrytym).
The approach of Russian police and prosecutors to crimes is very different from that of their counterparts abroad, the journalist says. In other countries, police open a criminal case when there are reports of a crime. If those reports don’t prove to be true, the police then close the case.
But in Russia, the police don’t open a case until they have collected enormous amounts of information; and often this process is so extended that no charges are brought at all, Mishina suggests.
According to Russian law enforcement specialists, the situation has been deteriorating in Russia since the 2011 reforms of the militia. Many experienced investigators lost their jobs and the rate of solving crimes dropped in the course of that year alone by six percent. Since then, they say, the situation has only gotten worse.
Mishina notes that “a particular role in the degradation of the agency has been played by the rise of clans within the current system of the interior ministry,” a pattern that “was not true in the USSR or even in the 1990s.” Regional political leaders install their own people in the interior ministry agencies, and the latter know not to do anything to make their bosses look bad.
Many experts hope, she says, that the reconstitution of the interior ministry now being carried about will change things for the better, but both the FMS and the counter-narcotics police agency have been so unprofessional and even incompetent that more than bureaucratic changes will be needed to solve crimes in these areas.
And there is a very real fear that the latest reform will end with dismissals, unmaskings and reports of progress but lead nowhere. That is because “the police command again is beginning to demand positive statistics … at any price,” including falsifications and the refusal even to register crimes, let alone solve them.
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US Navy Officer Faces Spy and Prostitution Chargesby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
A U.S. Navy officer who is a naturalized citizen from Taiwan is facing espionage and other charges for allegedly passing state secrets, possibly to China and Taiwan. A U.S. official, speaking on anonymity, identified the officer as Lieutenant Commander Edward Lin. According to Navy article that profiled Lin in 2008, he left Taiwan at age 14, lived in other countries and eventually came to the U.S. A redacted Navy charge sheet said Lin was assigned to the Navy’s Patrol and Reconnaissance Group, which manages intelligence-gathering activities. The charge sheet accuses him of communicating secret information two times to a representative of a foreign government and attempting to do so on three other occasions with “reason to believe it would be used to the advantage of a foreign nation.” The document did not identify any countries, but the U.S. official said China and Taiwan were possible. Lin is also facing prostitution and adultery charges and has been held in pretrial confinement, the official added. Chinese and Taiwanese foreign ministry and defense officials have either said they do not have information about the case or declined to comment. The suspect’s identity and link to the charges were initially reported by USNI News.
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Britain's Daily Mail in Talks to Buy Yahooby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
The parent group that owns British tabloid Daily Mail confirms it is in talks with several other parties to launch a bid for Yahoo, which has been struggling in recent years. The Daily Mail and General Trust, Daily Mail’s parent company, which also owns the popular website Elite Daily, said Monday it is in the early stages of launching a potential bid for Yahoo, and is in contact with other potential bidders, but declined to provide names of the other firms. "We have been in discussions with a number of parties who are potential bidders," a spokeswoman for DailyMail.com said in an emailed statement. The Wall Street Journal, which originally reported the potential sale Sunday, said that “half a dozen” private equity firms may be involved in financing the DMGT bid. Yahoo set a deadline on April 18 for preliminary bids. According to the Wall Street Journal, there are two possibilities for the potential DMGT bid. In the first, Yahoo’s core web business would be acquired by a private equity firm, while its media and news offerings would be folded into the Daily Mail’s global online operations. The merged media operation would then form a new company to be run by the Daily Mail. In the second, the private equity firm would similarly acquire Yahoo’s entire core web business, but the Mail would just take over the news and media properties, without forming a new company and the DGMT would have a smaller equity stake. Earlier this month, Reuters reported that Time Inc. is also considering a partnership with a private equity firm to bid on Yahoo. U.S. telecommunications giant Verizon, which also owns AOL, has also expressed interest in making a bid. Yahoo, once an internet pioneer with great potential, is still one of the most well-known names on the internet with more than one billion users. But it has struggled to keep up with Google in internet searches and has seen steady losses in advertising revenue.
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Study Shows Link Between Zika, Brain Disorderby webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Scientists in Brazil found the Zika virus may be linked to another brain disorder, an autoimmune syndrome called acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, or ADEM, which attacks the brain and spinal cords on patients after they contracted the virus. The new findings show Zika can cause an immune attack on the central nervous system. Brazilian news site G1 reported that Maria Lucia Brito Ferreira, a neurologist at Restoration Hospital in Recife, Brazil, said the study involved 151 patients who visited the hospital between December 2014 and June 2015. Infected patients Ferreira observed the patients who had been infected with arboviruses, which include Zika, dengue and chikungunya. Out of these patients, six were diagnosed with Zika. Five patients reported motor dysfunction, vision problems, and one had cognitive decline. Zika has already been linked with the autoimmune disorder Guillain-Barre, which causes swelling in the brain and spinal cord that damages the myelin, a white protective coating that surrounds nerve fibers resulting in loss of balance and vision, as well as numbness and weakness. “Encephalomyelitis is a serious condition, regardless of etiology. It is more serious than the Guillain-Barre,” Ferreira told G1 Ferreira is scheduled to present her findings at this week's American Academy of Neurology in Vancouver, Canada. The study was released Sunday, however. Zika is also linked to microcephaly, which causes a spectrum of birth defects, miscarriages and deaths in infants, as well as paralysis in adults. Health emergency In January, the World Health Organization called the virus an international public health emergency because of its link to microcephaly. Brazilian officials confirmed more than 940 Zika cases in mothers. The country is investigating another 4,300 suspected cases of microcephaly. U.S. President Barack Obama asked Congress in early February for $1.9 billion in emergency funding to fight the Zika virus. Reuters reported that at least 13 countries have reported cases of Guillain-Barre linked with outbreaks of Zika. WHO believes Zika is likely the cause. Scientists have known about Zika since it was discovered in Uganda in 1947.
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France seized $700 million in payments to Russian space companies Roscosmos and Russian Satellite Communications in connection with the case of former shareholders of defunct oil company Yukos.
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Eastern Religions Now Seen Threatening Orthodox Russia Even More than Protestants Doby paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
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Staunton, April 11 – The explosive growth of Protestant congregations in post-Soviet Russia has worried many Russian Orthodox and Russian nationalist observers, but now some of them say that the rise of Protestantism there has slowed eclipsed by the growth of the activities of Eastern religions.
In a commentary today on the Kavkazoved.info portal, Vladislav Gulyevich who writes frequently on religious issues says that the Krishna movement has become especially active not only in the European part of Russia but also in the Caucasus and Siberia” (kavkazoved.info/news/2016/04/11/krishnaizm-protiv-pravoslavija-i-ego-tradiciy.html).
Because the leaders of this movement say that they “are not against Christ” and offer not an alternative religion but “a science about God,” they have attracted many Russian followers. But they have explicitly attacked Russian Orthodoxy and the other traditional Russian religions (Islam and Buddhism) as being out of date.
In fact, Gulyevich says, the Krishna movement’s ideas are unacceptable for those who are part of the Russian cultural tradition. According to him, “a Krishna tradition does not exist in Russia,” although there are cases where parents have passed on Krishna ideas to their children and thus separated them from the Russian nation.
The Krishna tradition in no way connected present-day Russians with their ancestors and the history of their country,” Gulyevich says. And thus, it is objectively working against the spiritual unity of Russia and must be opposed to the extent that it is an organized movement and not simply the choice of particular individuals.
Participants in the Krishna movement have attracted some support, he continues, because they insist that they are peace-loving and have “never attacked anyone … ‘in contrast to your Orthodox Russia.’” But in fact, “Indian battalions participated in the intervention in Soviet Russia in 1919 as part of the British expeditionary corps and in the Anglo-Afghan wars.”
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Norway's Lutheran Church Votes in Favor of Same-sex Marriageby webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
Norway's Lutheran Church voted on Monday in favor of allowing same-sex marriage, becoming the latest of a small but growing number of churches worldwide to do so. Last year the French Protestant Church allowed gay marriage blessings, while the U.S. Presbyterian Church approved a change in the wording of its constitution to include same-sex marriage. In a vote at the annual conference of the Norwegian Lutheran Church on Monday 88 delegates out of 115 in total backed same-sex marriage. "Finally we can celebrate love independently of whom one falls in love with," said Gard Sandaker-Nilsen, leader of the Open Public Church, a religious movement within the church that had campaigned to change the rules. Under the new rules, priests who do not want to marry a same-sex couple will still have the right to object. The vote by Norway's Lutheran Church reflects increasingly liberal attitudes in wider Norwegian society to issues such as homosexuality. Norway became the second country in the world after Denmark to allow same-sex registered partnerships in 1993. The Nordic country of 5.2 million people has allowed civil same-sex marriage since 2009. Some 74 percent of Norwegians were members of the Lutheran Church last year, according to the national statistics agency, but that number has been declining.
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Ukraine Looks Toward New Government Following PM's Resignation by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News)
Ukraine is looking to create a new coalition government, following Sunday's resignation of embattled Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Yatsenyuk announced his resignation saying he hoped it would give Ukraine a chance to adopt new electoral, constitutional and judicial reforms, as well as join the European Union and NATO. Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko expressed confidence a new coalition would be formed and a new prime minister will be selected on Tuesday. "I expect it will be [Volodymyr] Groysman and I do not want to hide this," said Poroshenko. Groysman is the current parliament speaker. Yatsenyuk's Cabinet survived a no confidence vote in February, but two parties left the governing coalition for failure to oust him. He has been criticized for Ukraine's worsening economy and the slow pace of reforms. Early elections could be called if Ukraine lawmakers fail to unite behind a new prime minister, but President Petro Poroshenko has sought to avoid new voting for fear of further destabilizing the country. Kyiv's forces have been battling pro-Russian separatists for control of two regions in eastern Ukraine for the past two years. To date, the conflict has killed more than 9,000 people. At the same time, Moscow continues to control Ukraine's Crimean peninsula which it annexed in March of 2014. Some material for this report came from AFP and Reuters.
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France seized $700 million in payments to Russian space companies Roscosmos and Russian Satellite Communications in connection with the case of former shareholders of defunct oil company Yukos, The American Lawyer magazine reported Monday.
In total, France has seized Russian assets worth $1 billion following the Kremlin's refusal to pay damages to former Yukos shareholders.
In July 2014, The Hague international arbitration court ruled that Russia must pay $50 billion for expropriating the assets of Yukos.
The seized assets include $400 million owed by French-based satellite provider Eutelsat to the Russian Satellite Communications company and $300 million owned by French space launch provider Arianespace to Russia's Roscosmos space agency, the magazine reported, citing the Shearman & Sterling legal firm which represents the Yukos shareholders.
A representative of GML — which owns the Hulley Enterprises and Yukos Universal companies that won the lawsuit against Russia — confirmed to the RBC newspaper that the seized assets are related to Roscosmos and Satellite Communications.
However, he didn't confirm the figures cited by The American Lawyer.
According to GML's representative, Russia has appealed the seizure of money owed to Roscosmos and Satellite Communications in French courts. Rulings are expected this month.
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