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US to follow new strategy for establishing peace in Middle East

Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State stated that the United States is formulating new strategy to promote Arab-Israeli peace and also to resolve conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Clinton revealed that President Barack Obama is to lay out new U.S. policy to tackle with the Middle East issues as well as North Africa in order to establish peace in these regions. The US president initiated a direct dialogue over Israel-Palestine peace however America is pressurized now with the possibilities that Palestinians might seek help from the United Nations to form a Palestinian state.

Mrs. Clinton further stated that the president would talk over US policy toward Middle East and North Africa coming week. She explained that the US interests are same toward human values and commitments to establish harmony and peace in the world as they have been and it pledges to resolve conflicts and remove terrorism from the entire world. She reiterates US aim to resolve Middle East issues and says that the nation is eager to reinitiate the peace process.

The US secretary of state discussed the problems of mass revolutions in Middle East and other parts of the world that are fighting against authoritarian rulers. She attributed the unrests in Arab World as impacts of the same in Tunisia and Egypt, inspiring Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Syria to follow the same path.

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Libyan President settles down for agreement with AU

Libyan President settles down for agreement with AU

Finally Moammar Gadhafi, the besieged president of Libya has come to agreement with the International community–African Union [AU] over ending the prolonged conflict with opponents, revealed the South African president Jacob Juma. However the terms and conditions of the agreement that was negotiated between the African Union delegation and Gaddafi have not been revealed yet.

Gaddafi attended the meeting in Tripoli. It was the Libyan leader’s second meet with the delegates.

The African Union took initiative on behalf of the entire global community to stop the violence suppression of rebellions by the pro-Gaddafi security forces in Libya. The delegates are expected to meet the rebellions and Gaddafi’s opposition members after this meet to negotiate further for establishing peace and stability in Libya.

The opposition leader and their supporters are centered presently at their stronghold in in Benghazi.

The Democratic Republic of Congo, Mauritania, , Uganda, South Africa and Mali represent special committee of African Union for Libya.

Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, the president of Mauritania talked to media over ways to resolve the Libyan crisis. He added that the main aim of the AU was to halt the military operations there in Libya and seek for a peaceful solution to the crisis.

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Ex-Egyptian president Mubarak refutes corruption charges

Hosni Mubarak, Former Egyptian president denied all allegations of corruption against him and his family while addressing people on Sunday. It was his first public appearance after being ousted from the post of President two months back.

Hosni Mubarak, was compelled to step down from his post onFeb. 11 following fierce anti-government protests all over Egypt. He stated that he did not loot Egypt and had no illicit cash hidden in neither foreign banks nor he acquired any other assets. Mubarak assured Egyptians of cooperating with all investigations regarding the alleagation. He clarified that he had only one bank account in Egypt and none of his family members had benefitted from the position he held in the country.

Suzanne, Mubarak’s wife and two sons—Alaa and Gamal are suspected to have taken advantage of his power for personal gains.

Mubarak’s statements indicated that he had stepped down as to show his patriotism for the nation.

He defended himself saying that he had always worked for the intereste of Egyptians and now walked out of his political life wishing for their prosperity.

The statement came from a televised speech and Mubarak sounded as reading some paper. His toned showed that he was proud of ruling Egypt for almost three decades and had no regrets over his ouster

The former president also stressed on taking legal action to defend himself against the corruption charges against him.

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US President seeks for cooperation over budget talks

US President seeks for cooperation over budget talks

Barack Obama appeals to diplomats to cooperate over deductions in the $38 billion budget citing them painful.

He president asked opposition leaders to to cooperate with the ruling Democrats. He showed readiness to compromise more to save the country in economic and social crisis.

Obama sated this during a radion address appreciating all leaders for their cooperative attitude to reach the 11th hour budgetary agreement and speedy cuts in it in order to keep government open for remaining financial year. He acknowledged that this was largets ever deduction in the government spending in the United States. Obama further explained that the speedy cuts would hamper the infrastructure projects and many public welfare programs and he would never do such compromises had there been other alternatives.

The legislation is expected to go through legal procedure in the coming week following the overnight bridging by both houses of the Congress. The current fiscal year would end by Sept 30.

However, the speedy cuts too do not seem to be a permanent solution as there are more complicated issues like raising debt ceiling are lying ahead the next budget.

The president expressed hopes over collective efforts of Republicans and Democrats to grow American economy and create new jobs as well as reduce the huge long-term deficits.

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Ouattara’s supporters surround president Gbagbo’s home in Ivory Coast

Anti-government protesters who support Alassane Ouattara surrounded Gbagbo’s house following violent clashes between opposite sides. Ouattara’s supporters attacked over Gbagbo’s bunker, pro-Gbagbo troops forced them to surrender.

French airplanes rushed to save Japan’s envoy to Ivory Coast, who was trapped there due to ongoing clashes in the country.

Alain Juppe, French Foreign Minister stated that Israel called on France to help in evacuate its nationals from Ivory Coast. On Wednesday, Gbagbo ‘s refusal to accept his defeat in the elections and step down from his post agitated Ouattara’s supporters and they surrounded Gbagbo’s house to capture him alive.

The current political crisis in Ivory Coast is a reflux of what has been happening in many countries of the Middle East region. It started in December when President Gbagbo rejected the election results and did not leave the post of President. Most of the Ivoirians today support Ouattara, Gbagbo’s political opponent leader and winner of the recent elections.

There have been tremendous efforts from the global community to convince and pressurize Gbagbo to resign and hand over power to Ouattara but in vain.  Anti-government protesters in Ivory Coast turned into rebellions seizing cities and pushing pro-president security forces back to Abidjan.

There have been numerous deaths due to continuous violent conflicts between the pro-Gbagbo forces and the protesters. Around 1 million Ivorians have been forced to flee away from their homes and out of them 100,000 have taken shelter in Liberia.

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Japanese nuclear disaster to bring tsunami in world

Japan has made the whole world sleepless by revealing that it would take months to control the radioactive leakage in the nuclear plant. So far this has been first time that the authorities of a nation have confessed possibilities of dangers of mismanaging nuclear energy. The leakage of radioactive radiations from the Daiichi plant in Japan has put the entire global community in shock.

Tokyo Electric Power Coo that is handling the temperature controlling systems at nuclear plants in Japan stated that, the disaster may overburden its budget and also cause many civil damages.
The Japanese government predicted so far the material damage after tsunami and earthquake around $300 billion; however Japan’s total lost is increasing day by day as it is losing commercial activities with many foreign firms pulling back due to radiation fiasco.

The compensation asked by the Tokyo Electric Power Co are to be considered in the wake of Japan’s 1961 Act on Compensation for Nuclear Damage According to US financial experts it the company may ask for around $130 billion or more.

Tokyo Electric (TEPCO) and the Japanese government both will bear the expences incurred as the operator may get exempted citing the incident as natural disaster of exceptional nature. However the companies will remain liable to around 40% of the costs incurred due to damges and further loss.

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US to withdraw military intervention in Libya

i America is to support Libya and  return back from its decision for military intervention in the country. The United States is to follow the strategy of removing warplanes from Libyan front, revealed a NATO official on Monday.

The plan has been envisaged in the wake of high criticism of US actions on Libyan issue in the Congress. Turkey and Italy took initiative recently to secure a ceasefire in Libya and offered aid to rebels. The changeover in US strict strategy toward Libya seems to be an immediate response to these initiatives.

The international community took initiative to intervene in Libya following the continuous mass-level demonstration in the country to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi’s government.  The White House changed its policy from Monday regarding its role in the Libyan crisis. Now the other nations France, the United Kingdom and NATO are left to participate more actively in the Libyan fiasco in terms of making aerial strikes against Gaddafi supporting security forces.

Though formal declaration regarding America’s stepping back from military intervention is yet not been made, it is expected to implement the same in two-three days.  However, the United States has clearly stated that it would continue to help the global community with Awacs surveillance and planes for supervising the situation.

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Pro-Gaddafi forces refuse to follow ceasefire in Libya

Pro-Gaddafi forces refuse to follow ceasefire in Libya

Libyan crisis does not seem to reach any end so far. The call for ceasefire by the outrageous rebellions who have been continuously fighting with the pro-government security forces has been rejected. The forces did not leave the cities despite demonstraters’ demand for the same.

Gaddafi government’s spokesperson Mussa Ibrahim called it a madness of the rebellions to ask pro-government forces to withdraw from their own cities in Libya.

The rebellions called for a ceasefire after the pro-government security forces suppressed them violently amidst the air strikes by NATO forces in support. However, despite the pressure of international community and direct intervention by the NATO-led forces, Gaddafi’s stand against the rebellions has not changed a bit.

Mustafa Abdel Jalil, a representative of the anti-Gaddafi rebellions in Libya stated that pro-government forces should step back fromwestern cities as per their demand for ceasefire, however there was no response to this call from Gaddafi’s side and the security forces continued their oppression against the protesters.

The rebellions proposed for ceasefire following an statement by Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the NATO-led international security forces would not accompany the US jets.

So far the United States has sent 90 aircrafts to support Libyan rebellions. Following their withdrawal from Libya, only NATO-led coalition would remain at Libyan front. This includes Qatar, UAE, Sweden, France and UK with 193 aircrafts altogether.

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US court to interrogate Ex-Somali PM Samantar

A US court has justified questioning former Somali premier over charges of abuses and war crimes.

A judge in the US state of Virginia has decreed that an ex-Somali prime minister can be interviewed under oath over allegements of abuses and war crimes. Mahamed Ali Samantar, who was Somalia’s DoD government minister and prime minister in the 1980s, has denied wrongful conduct.

He is impeached of controlling his forceds to confine, torment, and kill fellow members of Somalia’s Isaaq clan. The judicature opinion means that the Somalis who appealed and filed the case will for the first time be able to interview him.

Mr Samantar’s legal representative appealed to the court on Friday to dismiss the cases against him. US District Judge Leonie Brinkema stated that he had not asked to dissolve the issue.

The original case was filed in 2004 by some Somalis who lived in the United States. The lawsuit was filed under 1991’s Torture Victim Protection Act.

A federal court decreed that Mr Samantar should be given diplomatic immunity, however, the US Supreme Court restored the case.

The US Department of State ordered that Mr Samantar should not be given immunity against the case.

Somalia did not have a proper functional government as warlords forced President Siad Barre in 1991.

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Unemployment reduces in US by 8.8 per cent

The people of the United States may consider it a reason to smile seeing the statistical figures for unemployment lowering down by 8.8 percent. The rate of unemployment has reduced from its level two years back when companies started hiring after the recessing recession.

The US economy has an increase of 216000 jobs as per the reports of the Labor department. The new jobs has been created mainly in health care sectors,

retail sector, education, Factories,  and and professional as well as in financial sectors.

AThe United States showed a sign of recovering economy in last few months with increasing number of jobs created every month. However the unemployment rates did not decrease at the same rate as more people joined the race of job search after recession ended.

The main force behind pulling US economy back in shape is the private sector employers and they have received highest gains indeed in return. More than 200, 000 jobs have been added continuously for the second month in the United States demarcating a complete end to recession for the US economy.

Experts term the change as a progress in the US labor market. With increase in number of jobs, the rate of unemployment has reduced to 8.8 percent now which was 8.9 percent two months back. There has been a constant remarkable decrease in unemployment rates for last four months continuously. This is also the sharpest decline in unemployment for the United States since 1983.

Experts predict similar trend for rest of 2011 hoping that 2.5 million new jobs will be added by this year. However, there is still much more to be recovered in the job market as the total job loss during recession was 7.5 million in the United States.