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Tipping Point or Turning Point? A Watershed Speech at the Opera

Mr. Assad, in what historians and Middle East analysts may well dub an historic speech, offered a new plan to immediately end the crisis...

(DAMASCUS, Syria) - Easy walking distance from this observer’s hotel near the city center is the Damascus Opera House, the site of yesterday’s Presidential address.

It was inaugurated in May of 2004 by the President and his wife, completing a project of his late father, Hafez, who actually planned the opera house in detail, but which had been put on hold since the late 1970’s.

Farrukh Harry Saif Nominated as Chief Pakistan Christian Congress (PCC) in Pakistan

Farrukh welcomed the appointment and said that he would work to the entire satisfaction of his superior to organize the Pakistani Christians...

(ISLAMABAD) - According to Pakistan Christian Post- PCP, the Central Executive Council of Pakistan Christian Congress PCC in its special meeting approved nomination of Mr. Farrukh Harry Saif as Chief Organizer of PCC.

The Pakistan Christian Congress PCC is a Christian political party and lobby group founded in 1985 and registered in Pakistan Election Commission.

Sri Lanka`s War Likened to Wiping out British PM Cameron`s Constituency

Interestingly, Hague had asserted that the reconciliation process would have a greater chance of success if investigations were led by the GoSL rather than externally imposed.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka ) - MP McDonagh has alleged that thousands of her constituents had been indirectly affected by the atrocities committed by the Sri Lankan military.

She represents Mitcham and Morden. In a hard hitting letter to Prime Minister Cameron, MP McDonagh has said that his government cannot ignore the Tamil community in the UK numbered more than a quarter of a million persons.

The Face of Suffering

The Tamil diaspora, which played a significant part in the war, now confronts a recently displaced population that is likely to seek revenge.

(NEW DELHI) - From 2000 to 2004, at a time when the peace process in Sri Lanka was arguably working, Frances Harrison was the chief BBC correspondent in Colombo.

She made several trips to Vanni, a predominantly Tamil region and the heart of LTTE resistance in the north.

2012: A Breakthrough Year for the 911 Truth Movement

So what really happened? Few 9/11 researchers have any doubt that the use of subpoena powers on certain individuals in the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon and air traffic control would get the answer pretty fast.

(LONDON) - 2012 was the year that doubts over the official story of the 9/11 attacks finally became firmly established in the corporate media in the US. Skeptics in the Muslim world gained a new voice at governmental level with the call by President Morsi of Egypt for a new independent 9/11 investigation.

In Italy Supreme Court President Francesco Imposimato said he would be petitioning the International Criminal Court to pursue an investigation into the possible involvement of rogue elements in Washington in the attacks.

Veterans are Bound to Fail in Political Activities Which Civilians Can Also Do

Indian Veterans joined civilian political parties, and are still there in both houses of Parliament, but did nothing worthwhile for the martial interests of India.

(BANGALURO, India) - The entire world is in the grip of a number of crises.

The civilian leadership of powerful democracies of the world are unable to solve for the simple reason that martial elements in these democracies have not been able to define their role in this changed democratic world.

An Immodest Proposal

According to media reports, the only actual spending cuts contemplated were those that would affect luxuries for the average person.

(PORTLAND, OR) - We are saved —so our politicians tell us —from a plunge off the fiscal cliff.

In all reports, however, it is mentioned that President Obama settled for a slice of what he claimed to be after, which was to raise taxes on those whose income is more than a $quarter million annually.

Gasoline Price Hike in Mexican New Year

"Costs are going to increase more rapidly than last year," - Javier Altamirano, president of the National Association of Private Transport

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - The last scenes of Guadalupe Reyes are playing out in Mexico. A popular nickname for the holiday celebrations that commence on December 12, Virign of Guadalupe Day, and culminate on January 6, Three King's Day.

Why don`t they just get a job?

The job situation in Canada is light years away from the situation south of the border, but it's still no slam dunk.

(Waterloo, Ontario) - I really dislike that question. I've heard it in many ways, from many different people; some well-meaning, others, not so much.

Oldest American Living Died On Wednesday at 114-Years-Old

At the time of her death, she lived in the family homestead with a son and a daughter.

(CHARLESTON) - Mamie Rearden is described as a loving, God-fearing, southern belle from South Carolina who never spoke ill of anyone.

Contrary to her golden spirit, she had the heart of a lion. She was married to her husband for 59 years until his death in 1979, and she raised 11 children.