In a Turnabout, Syria Rebels Get Libyan Weapons
By C. J. CHIVERS, ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTI
Published: June 21, 2013
During his more than four decades in power, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya was North Africa’s outrageously self-styled arms benefactor, a donor of weapons to guerrillas and terrorists around the world fighting governments he did not like.
Even after his death, the colonel’s gunrunning vision lives on, although in ways he probably would have loathed.
Many of the same people who chased the colonel to his grave are busy shuttling his former arms stockpiles to rebels in Syria. The flow is an important source of weapons for the uprising and a case of bloody turnabout, as the inheritors of one strongman’s arsenal use them in the fight against another.
FBI treated Carlos Fuentes as communist subversive
Acclaimed Mexican author and thinker had visas denied and was tracked when he did visit US, newly public files reveal
The FBI and US state department closely monitored the Mexican authorCarlos Fuentes for more than two decades because he was considered a communist and a sympathiser of Cuba's Fidel Castro, recently released documents show.
The documents posted on the FBI's website show the US denied Fuentes an entry visa at least twice in the 1960s. In one of the memoranda Fuentes is described as "a leading Mexican communist writer" and a "well-known Mexican novelist with long history of subversive connections".
Fuentes died in 2012 at age 83 after suffering an internal haemorrhage.Is this the Samba revolution? Brazil’s leadership in crisis as one million take to streets
President meets Cabinet as violent demonstrations in 100 cities jeopardise World Cup and 2016 Olympics
Brazil’s President Dilma Rouseff called an emergency cabinet meeting yesterday after nationwide protests that saw more than a million people take to the streets in at least 100 cities.
The meeting in Brasilia followed a night of deep unrest when it seemed the government was close to losing control, with vandalism, looting and arson hitting several major cities, killing two and injuring at least 77.
In Rio de Janeiro, at least 300,000 people demonstrated in the city centre, with a minority of youths in balaclavas fighting pitched battles with police in the surrounding streets for hours afterwards.
ITALY
Racial slurs against Minister Kyenge highlight Italy's immigration strains
Since becoming Italy's Minister of Integration, Congolese-born Cecile Kyenge has suffered racist and sexist abuse. In a country where immigration is relatively new, her appointment has stirred a heated debate.
Since 49-year-old Cecile Kyenge, who was raised in the Democratic Republic of Congo, became Italy's first black cabinet minister this April, she has endured racist and sexist slurs such as "Congolese monkey," or "member of a bonga bonga government." Both comments came from members of the country's anti-immigration Lega Nord (Northern League) party.
Last week, a posting on the Facebook page of Lega Nord's town councillor Dolores Valandro went even further, asking, "why doesn't someone rape Kyenge so she can understand what victims of atrocious crimes feel?" Valandro posted the comment to imply that immigrants were responsible for most violent assaults on women in Italy.
In Ghana's gold country, Chinese miners flee crackdown
When he saw the trucks full of police and soldiers rumbling across the muddy field where he mines gold, Emmanuel Quainn ran. But they weren't coming for him.
They came for his Chinese counterparts, who had turned up about a year ago to dig into the earth around the central Ghana town of Dunkwa-on-Offin in search of gold.
The business was lucrative. It was also illegal.
"Most of the Chinese people went very far from here, because when they get them they're going to be under arrest," said Quainn, who quit his job installing satellite dishes for the more reliable pay of small-scale gold mining.
Korea
Koreas roiled by great power shifts
By Sukjoon Yoon
By Sukjoon Yoon
His rather jaundiced view of the prospects for a new era in US-China relations derives from an overtly Westernized perspective on security issues in the Asia-Pacific region, in which China is regarded as nakedly ambitious towards reestablishing its Middle Kingdom hegemony. Let me offer an Asian view on what this new
pattern of great-power relations between Washington and Beijing might look like.
From the Asian point of view, it is time for international relations to reflect a new understanding of what constitutes great power.
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