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Foreign Students Will Face New Checks When Entering United States - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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students US policy checks

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  • The Department of Homeland Security has ordered new security checks for all foreign students entering the United States,
  • The new check was added after the authorities discovered that a foreign friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, had left the United States and returned in January using a student visa that should have been canceled
  • arriving students now will also be checked through a database known as the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System,
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  • A lapse occurred because Customs and Border Protection inspectors did not have the latest information on Mr. Tazhayakov, officials said. The new entry checks, which were first reported by The Associated Press, would give airport customs officers the most recent
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Israel Bombs Syria as the U.S. Weighs Its Own Options - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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israel syria US

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  • It was the second time in four months that Israel had carried out an attack in foreign territory intended to disrupt the pipeline of weapons from Iran to Hezbollah,
  • “The Israelis are saying, ‘O.K., whichever way the civil war is going, we are going to keep our red lines, which are different from Obama’s,’ ”
  • A Pentagon official said in 2010 that Hezbollah was believed to already have a small supply of Fateh-110s. Additional missiles could increase Iran’s ability to threaten Israel through its Lebanese proxy if Israel ever mounted airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear installations.
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  • Israeli officials have declined to publicly discuss the operation. But Israel has repeatedly said it is prepared to take military action
  • In carrying out the raid, Israeli warplanes did not fly over the Damascus airport. Instead, they fired air-to-ground weapons, apparently using the airspace of neighboring Lebanon.
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Plans to Harness China's Nu River Threaten a Region - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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china river region crisis culture

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  • . The Chinese government stunned environmentalists this year by reviving plans to build a series of hydropower dams on the upper reaches of the Nu,
  • Critics say the project will force the relocation of tens of thousands of ethnic minorities in the highlands of Yunnan and destroy the spawning grounds for a score of endangered fish species. Geologists warn that constructing the dams in a seismically active region could threaten those living downstream.
  • Among the biggest losers could be the millions of farmers and fishermen across the border in Myanmar and Thailand who depend on the Salween,
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  • According to its latest energy plan, the government aims to begin construction on about three dozen hydroelectric projects across the country, which together will have more than twice the hydropower capacity of the United States.
  • “The project will be good for the local government, but it will be a disaster for the local residents,”
  • They will lose their culture, their traditions and their livelihood, and we will be left with a placid, lifeless reservoir.”
  • “Why can’t China have just one river that isn’t destroyed by humans?” asked Wang Yongchen,
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Islamist Rebels' Gains in Syria Create Dilemma for U.S. - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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syria gains dilemma US culture crisis

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  • In Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, rebels aligned with Al Qaeda control the power plant, run the bakeries and head a court that applies Islamic law. Elsewhere, they have seized government oil fields, put employees back to work and now profit from the crude they produce.
  • Syrian officials recognize that the United States is worried that it has few natural allies in the armed opposition and have tried to exploit that with a public campaign to convince, or frighten, Washington into staying out of the fight
  • The religious agenda of the combatants sets them apart from many civilian activists,
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North Korea Expected to Indict American - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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korea north south culture

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  • The announcement about the tour operator, Kenneth Bae, an American born in South Korea, could complicate Washington’s diplomatic balancing act
  • South Korean human rights advocates have described Mr. Bae as a devout Christian who not only ran tours to North Korea, but was also interested in helping orphans in the Communist country.
  • In 2009, North Korea arrested two American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who it said had entered illegally and committed “hostile acts.” They were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor
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  • In 2010, another American, Aijalon Mahli Gomes, was arrested and sentenced to eight years of hard labor for illegal entry and “hostile acts.”
  • “It is only a matter of time” before the industrial complex, the last symbol of attempted reconciliation between the two Koreas, is shut down for good, a North Korean government spokesman told the news agency.
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Iran Says It Offers New Plan for Nuclear Program - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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iran nuclear weapons politics

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  • I do feel as if Iran has inevitably been drawing lessons from how the world is dealing with North Korea
  • Iran does not want to be viewed as an “irrational cult state” like North Korea,
  • They’re well aware of what North Korea has gotten away with. They see that North Korea elicits fear and significant geopolitical ballast because it has nuclear weapons.”
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  • “the confidence-building measure has to come from Iran.”
  • Iranians have asserted that their uranium enrichment activities are for civilian purposes and that AyatollahAli Khamenei, the supreme leader, issued a religious decree banning nuclear weapons in the country. Iran has also repeatedly argued that because it signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, its activities are by definition peaceful and legal.
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South Koreans at North's Edge Cope With Threat of War - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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south north culture crisis war threat

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  • Even in peaceful times, low-flying military aircraft are a common sight
  • It’s not such a big deal.”
  • Despite the steady drumbeat of war talk, life seems to go on as usual in most of South Korea
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  • They just tune out the dangers and focus on enjoying their daily lives.
  • “Korea is the most dangerous place in the world, but we are numb to it,
  • residents would be led to one of nine underground bomb shelters that the city built
  • “The world thinks we are on the brink of war, but we are fine,
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Detecting Shift, U.S. Makes Case to China on North Korea - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shift china north korea US crisis policy

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  • shift in decades of Chinese support for North Korea, is pressuring China’s new president, Xi Jinping, to crack down on the regime in Pyongyang
  • China, the North’s only strong ally, has long feared the United States would capitalize on the fall of the North Korean leadership by expanding American military influence on the Korean Peninsula.
  • Even if China does cooperate, it is unclear how far North Korea might bend; North Korea ignored China’s entreaties not to conduct the nuclear test in February
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North Korea Threatens U.S. Bases in the Pacific - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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north korea US south

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  • North Korea on Thursday threatened to attack American military bases in Japan and on the Pacific island of Guam in retaliation for training missions by American
  • Now that the U.S. started open nuclear blackmail and threat, the DPRK, too, will move to take corresponding military actions.”
  • DPRK stands for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,
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  • Japan and American Pacific bases are within range of North Korea’s medium-range missiles, according to South Korean defense officials.
  • The hacking attack on Wednesday brought down the servers of the South Korean broadcasters
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Many Iraqis Prefer to Ignore 10th Anniversary of War - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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anniversary war US

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  • The war that arrived a decade ago is still too painful and too controversial to be taught to schoolchildren
  • They are desperate and want to see real change, so they’ve stopped looking at the news or remembering past events.”
  • But the Americans didn’t give us that chance. They did all the things possible to ensure that Iraq is going to be ruined.”
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  • “The Sunnis are being neglected here,
  • In other words, he has more pressing concerns than remembering a day he would rather forget.
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Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. Citizen, in America's Cross Hairs - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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citizen US crisis Obama

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  • For what was apparently the first time since the Civil War, the United States government had carried out the deliberate killing of an American citizen as a wartime enemy and without a trial.
  • It highlights the perils of a war conducted behind a classified veil,
  • The missile strike on Sept. 30, 2011, that killed Mr. Awlaki — a terrorist leader whose death lawyers in the Obama administration believed to be justifiable
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China Says It Will Not Abandon North Korea - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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china north korea US

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  • Beijing would not abandon North Korea
  • value of supporting North Korea even as it continues to develop nuclear weapons and unleashes new threats to attack the United States and South Korea.
  • It is doubtful that China will reinforce the United Nations sanctions by imposing penalties of its own
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  • “Would China not be obliged to help North Korea based on our ‘alliance
  • American troops stationed in South Korea could move north and help unite the Korean Peninsula under an American umbrella, the last thing China would want,
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North Korea Threatens to Attack U.S. with 'Lighter and Smaller Nukes' - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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north korea nukes policy US

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  • cut off a hot line with the United States military in South Korea, calling the truce that stopped the Korean War in 1953
  • North Korea’s latest threats came as the United Nations Security Council was about to consider a new sanctions resolution
  • experts largely as propagandistic bluster.
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  • The United States, which fought on South Korea’s side during the war, still keeps 28,500 troops in South Korea.
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North Korea Threatens U.S. Over Joint Military Drill - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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north korea US military drill

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  • North Korea on Saturday warned the top American military commander in South Korea that if the United States pressed ahead with joint military exercises with South Korea scheduled to begin next month, it could set off a war
  • North Korea warns of war and threatens to deliver a devastating blow to American and South Korean troops.
  • The United States military uses the Panmunjom channel to inform North Korea of its planned annual military drills with South Korea, which it says are for defensive purposes.
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  • Anti-American messages, already daily fare in the North, increase at those times as the leadership uses a sense of crisis to strengthen popular support.
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In a Slight Shift, North Korea Widens Internet Access, but Just for Visitors - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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north korea internet culture

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  • only foreigners will get this privilege.
  • to give foreigners access to 3G mobile
  • to give foreigners access to 3G mobil
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  • Only the most elite North Koreans have been allowed access to the Internet, and even they are watched
  • d becomes increasingly connected, their decision to be virtually isolated is very much going to affect their physical world, their economic growth and so forth
  • “As the world becomes inc
  • “As the worl
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China Looms Over Response to Blast Test by North Korea - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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china response north korea crisis US

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  • The problem has always been what China will bear in terms of restricting its protégé and neighbor,
  • “Moving forward, China really holds the key to what extent the actions will be different this time,”
  • China will almost certainly join the United States in supporting tougher sanctions over Tuesday’s test,
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  • elations between the two countries are conducted largely between the two parties
  • North Korea’s nuclear test will make the new Xi Jinping administration angry, and give China a headach
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Syrian Opposition Leader Confers With U.S. and Russia - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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russia US obama crisis

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  • And while Mr. Biden implicitly criticized Russia for supporting the Assad government, he gave the Syrian opposition little hope that Washington would change its mind about allowing more sophisticated arms to flow to the rebels.
  • “As the Syrian people have their chance to forge their own future, they will continue to find a partner in the United States of America,”
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Congressman Jim Langevin's Personal Quest on Guns - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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congressman US policy guns

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  • That way, he said, when the nation’s highest officeholders look up from the floor of the House to those watching from the gallery, they will not be able to avoid seeing the human toll that guns can exact.
  • But like no one else in Congress, Mr. Langevin serves as what he calls “a visible symbol” of the danger of weapons.
  • “at least it gets them to pause and think. It makes it real, the damage that guns can do.”
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Marxist Group Claims Attack on Embassy in Turkey - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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marxist attack turkey embassy us crisis

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  • Marxist group, with a history of political violence in Turkey, claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing
  • terrorist who had twice attacked government facilities in Istanbul but was released from prison under an amnesty program.
  • bomber appears to have ties to a relatively minor Marxist group
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  • , which was responsible for political violence in the 1970
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Syria's Confirmation of Airstrike May Undercut Israel's Strategy of Silence - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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syria israel strategy crisis

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  • “Once this red line has been crossed, it’s definitely going to be crossed time and again from now on,
  • Mr. Ganor said the United States and Europe should be as concerned as Israel, because Syria’s chemical weapons could end up in the hands not just of Hezbollah but of jihadist organizations like Al Qaeda or its proxies.
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