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Hungary Wants to Keep Russian Investments Under Control, Foreign Minister Says
Peter Balaz, Hungarian minister for foreign affairs, said his country wants to maintain good relations with Russia, but at the same time keep Russian "investments" in Hungary "under control." At a June 10 Newsmaekr, he said one such investment is Moscow's interest in the planned Nabucco gas pipeline project, which would transport natural gas from Turkey to Austria, via Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary. This would be a diversion from the present method of importing the gas only from Russia, which makes other countries dependent on Moscow. Balazs also said Hungary wants to improve the "…
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Port Officials Discuss Economics, Environment, Security
Officials of America's second largest port in Long Beach, Calif., told a June 8 Newsmaker U.S. ports must remain competitive to succeed in the global market, should be environmentally aware and maintain constant security vigilance. James Hankla, president of the Board of Commissioners of the Port of Long Beach, said that while the port is working to increase its economic efficiency, it also is living up to its self-applied nickname of "The Green Port" by continually taking numerous measures to reduce its carbon footprint. One of the ways it does this, he said, is to send shipments from the…
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41 Million Refugees Uprooted by Conflict, Persecution, UN Report Says
The number of people forcibly uprooted by conflict and persecution worldwide was 42 million at the end of 2008, the UN high commissioner for refugees, said at a June 16 Newsmaker. The commissioner, former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres, said the figure includes 16 million refugees and asylum seekers and 26 million "internally displaced" people uprooted in their countries, according to the report. His report also said a sharp slowdown in repatriation and more prolonged conflicts resulted in "protracted displacement." Guterres said that in 2009, "we have already seen substantial…
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World Affairs Council Honors NPC Member Clift
Club member Eleanor Clift received the international communicator award from the World Affairs Council of Washington on Thursday. Clift, contributing editor of Newsweek and a regular panelist on the syndicated talk show, “The McLaughlin Group,” was honored for her lifetime work in journalism and her volunteer work, including with the NPC.
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Top Student with Global Outlook Wins NPC Scholarship
The National Press Club Board of Governors congratulates Viviana Benjumea of Elmhurst, New York, the 2009 winner of the Club's Ellen Masin Persina Scholarship for Diversity in Journalism. "We are so pleased to award the National Press Club's diversity scholarship to a young woman who has already shown great talent and drive as an aspiring journalist," Club President Donna Leinwand said. "We see tremendous potential for great contributions to journalism." Benjumea, who hopes to become a foreign correspondent for a major newspaper or TV network, is awarded $5,000 a year for four years toward…
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MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Scarborough Bashes Rs and Ds at Book Event
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Scarborough, joined by show co-host Mika Bzezinski, told a packed ballroom at the National Press Club that conservatives need to "rebrand" the conservative movement. More than 300 NPC members and guests attended last night’s Book and Author event featuring Scarborough's new book, The Last Best Hope, Restoring Conservatism and America’s Promise. In its first week of publication, the book has risen to #7 on The New York Times Best Seller List. Scarborough criticized Republican leaders in Washington for getting the federal goverment into record deficits and for a "…
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Iranian-born Oscar Nominee Pushes Envelope for Women in Iran
Oscar-nominated actress Shohreh Aghdashloo says protests in Iran are unprecedented in the country's post-revolutionary history and are linked to the decades-long repression of women’s rights by a fundamentalist Islamic regime. “I want to cry, and at the same time I am happy -- happy that the Iranian people have at last after 10 years decided to take their destiny in their own hands and now are pouring on the streets -- happy because 40 percent of them are Iranian women -- happy because they are calling this movement a ‘women's movement’ in Iran," Aghdashloo said Wednesday at a National Press…
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Consumer Electronics Chief Suggests Innovations
Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, announced a campaign to ensure innovative technology has priority in future government policies. He discussed global free trade, national debt and how tech can lead the U.S. out of recession at Newsmaker June 16. Shapiro also declared the HDTV transition this week an unmitigated success "by any measure." He has been working on High Definition TV as a US standard for almost 20 years, leading electronics industry efforts to convert American households. The Innovation Movement has 14,000 high tech "members" advocating…
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Lugar Rates Obama's Foreign Policy Approach an "A," Says Tone Isn't Panacea
President Obama merits an “A” so far in his approach to American foreign policy, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., told the International Correspondents Committee Monday. But he cautioned that tone alone doesn’t solve deep and complex world problems. Lugar, the senior Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, briefed the committee for an hour. In response to a question about how he’d rate Obama’s performance in the international arena, Lugar said he’d give the new president a top grade. He said the Obama administration’s policies are not much different from the Bush administration’s, but his…
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Iran's Pahlavi Predicts Ballot Box Will Defeat Supreme Leader
Reza Pahlavi, son of the former shan of Iran, told a June 22 Newsmaker that the continuing anti-government demonstrations in his home country mark the "birth of a movement" that is not Islamic or anti-Islamic, capitalistic or socialistic, or part of any ideology. Rather, he said, they are is about "the sanctity, even more, the sovereignty of the ballot box." The former crown prince of Iran also said journalists should not underestimate the role they can play in the outcome of the situation. "International media are already the information artery connecting different parts of the freedom…
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