Obama backs new Iraqi leader, seeks world’s support

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama

The statement, issued by his office, completely ignored Iraq’s outgoing leader, Nuri al-Maliki, who claims that he is still the prime minister.

Later, Mr Obama also called other world leaders, urging them to support the new political compensation in Iraq.

In a call to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the US president stressed “the need for Iraqi political leaders from all factions to put aside their differences and to form an inclusive government capable of pulling the country together,” the White House said.

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Mr Obama lauded Iraqi President Fouad Massoum for naming the new prime minister and said this would make it easier for him to mobilise international support to combat terrorism in the region.

“The United States stands ready to support a government that addresses the needs and grievances of all Iraqi people,” he said.

Mr Obama said Mr Abadi could reach out to Iraq’s Sunni and Kurd minorities in a way Mr Maliki had repeatedly failed to do.

“The only lasting solution is for Iraqis to come together and form an inclusive government,” he said.

, August 13th, 2014

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Since the 1980s, declines in amphibian populations, including population crashes and mass localized extinctions, have been noted from locations all over the world. These declines are perceived as one of the most critical threats to global biodiversity, and several causes are believed to be involved, including disease, habitat destruction and modification, exploitation, pollution, pesticide use, introduced species, and ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B). However, many of the causes of amphibian declines are still poorly understood, and the topic is currently a subject of much ongoing research. Calculations based on extinction rates suggest that the current extinction rate of amphibians could be 211 times greater than the background extinction rate and the estimate goes up to 25,000–45,000 times if endangered species are also included in the computation.

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The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is the ongoing struggle betweenIsraelis and Palestinians that began in the mid-20th century. The conflict is wide-ranging, and the term is sometimes also used in reference to the earlier sectarian conflict in Mandatory Palestine, between the Zionist yishuv and the Arab population under British rule. The Israeli–Palestinian conflict has formed the core part of the widerArab–Israeli conflict. It has widely been referred to as the world's "most intractable conflict".

Despite a long-term peace process and the general reconciliation of Israel with Egypt and Jordan, Israelis and Palestinians have failed to reach a final peace agreement. The remaining key issues are: mutual recognition, borders, security, water rights, control of Jerusalem, Israeli settlements,Palestinian freedom of movement, and resolving Palestinian claims of a right of return for their refugees. The violence of the conflict, in a region rich in sites of historic, cultural and religious interest worldwide, has been the object of numerous international conferences dealing with historic rights, security issues and human rights, and has been a factor hampering tourism in and general access to areas that are hotly contested.

Many attempts have been made to broker a two-state solution, involving the creation of an independent Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel (after Israel's establishment in 1948). In 2007, the majority of both Israelis and Palestinians, according to a number of polls, preferred the two-state solution over any other solution as a means of resolving the conflict. Moreover, the considerable majority of the Jewish public sees the Palestinians' demand for an independent state as just, and thinks Israel can agree to the establishment of such a state. The majority of Palestinians and Israelis in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have expressed a preference for a two-state solution .Mutual distrust and significant disagreements are deep over basic issues, as is the reciprocal scepticism about the other side's commitment to upholding obligations in an eventual agreement.

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The two parties engaged in direct negotiation are the Israeli government, currently led by Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), currently headed by Mahmoud Abbas. The official negotiations are mediated by an international contingent known as the Quartet on the Middle East (the Quartet) represented by a special envoy that consists of the United States, Russia, the European Union, and the United Nations. The Arab League is another important actor, which has proposed an alternative peace plan. Egypt, a founding member of the Arab League, has historically been a key participant.

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News agencies were created with a single aim to enrich the newspapers with a wide variety of news events happening around the world. Initially the agencies were meant to provide the news items only to the newspapers but with the passage of time, the rapidly developing modern mediums such as the radio, television and Internet too adapted the services of news agencies.Agence France-Presse (or AFP) is the oldest news agency of the world. Later on Reuters was founded in England and Deutsche Presse-Agentur (or DPA) was founded in Berlin. With the advent of communism in Russia, Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (or TASS) was founded. Xinhua was later founded as Red China News Services in the Chinese Soviet Republic. With the advent of freedom in the newly liberated regions of the third world, a new wave of information dissemination had taken over and a series of news agencies were born out of it. These agencies later on formed their own Non-Aligned News Agencies Pool(NANAMP). The NANAP served as a premiere information service among the countries of the third world.
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