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Kazakh Envoy Touts Nation’s Accomplishments, Dodges Questions on Human Rights

By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS     Kazakhstani Ambassador to Mexico Andrian Yelemessov has no great love for Human Right Watch (HRW), the New York-based NGO that has been defending refugees, migrants and political prisoners since 1978. “For me, that organization is bad,” Yelemessov told Pulse News Mexico during a press conference at his embassy on Wednesday, Feb. 20, to tout his government’s economic

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Finishing Strong: Seeking a Proper US Exit from Afghanistan

By DANIEL F. RUNDE and EARL ANTHONY WAYNE     (The following is an abbreviated version of a brief written for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. It is being republished in Pulse News Mexico with specific prior permission.) THE ISSUE A precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan would endanger many of the social, political, economic and health gains that

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An Overlooked Perspective of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

By JENNIFER SCHNEIDER     “If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.” This famous quote, by current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, sums up the Israeli-Arab conflict from the Jewish perspective, and it is seems to be true, as evidenced by recent

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