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Yet when Saudi officials tried to warn the international community about Iran’s activities in Yemen, it was met with denial.
Enacted in July 2012, the law requires all non-commercial organizations (NCOs) engaged in (undefined) “political activities” to register with the Ministry of Justice as “carrying functions of a foreign agent.”
Indeed, Russia’s law effectively prevents NCOs not under state control from carrying out any activities in the country.
Just as importantly, there cannot be any conflict of interest (or even the perception of such a conflict) with other personal or political activities, past or present.
America’s opposition to China’s activities in the South China Sea goes beyond words.
But something must be done to draw China’s attention to the simple fact that, through its destabilizing activities in the South China Sea, it is hurting itself most of all.
Many observers are relieved that Russia no longer needs external aid to support groups and activities that previously relied on it.
The catch-up process also takes place within countries, as labor moves from low-productivity rural activities to higher-productivity urban activities, and as low-productivity firms in all sectors emulate their more advanced domestic counterparts.
And without economic security, some young people will resort to illegal activities, or fall prey to extremist groups exploiting their desperation.
Nearly all the activities collected under the banner of “science” have developed institutional tendencies that are similar to their economic counterparts.
But in the absence of robust local journalism, we often don’t hear about these activities, other than from the few reporters and researchers who have been willing to traverse the country to document what is happening.
Until now, Bitcoin’s only real use has been to facilitate illegal activities such as drug transactions, tax evasion, avoidance of capital controls, or money laundering.
The cycle goes something like this: American or international pressure mounts on Israel to stop settlement activities in the occupied territories.
Unless and until Israel pays a heavy price for its illegal activities in the occupied territories, it is hard to imagine a successful peace process taking shape.
This would involve greater extradition of terrorists and clamping down on the charitable contributions, drug trafficking, counterfeit goods, commodity trading, and illicit activities that allow them to carry out their activities.
From China’s activities in the South China Sea to the Islamic State’s continued advance in the Middle East, competition and conflict are threatening long-standing regional orders.
LONDON – The international community’s attention in the Middle East nowadays is inevitably focused on the Islamic State’s military advances in Syria and Iraq, the failed states of Yemen and Libya, the activities of Islamic extremists everywhere, and the continuing efforts to complete a deal to contain Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
But in order to be consciously fearful you have to have a sufficiently complex kind of brain, one aware of its own activities.
It does not seem to be an accident, though, that the capture came quickly after the Security Council passed a very specific set of sanctions against Iran that targeted not just IRGC-affiliated companies and financial institutions like the Ammunition and Metallurgy Industries Group and the Bank Sepah, organizations dealing with nuclear or ballistic missile activities, but also a series of senior IRGC commanders, including Morteza Rezaei, the Guards’ deputy commander, Vice Admiral Ali Ahmadian, chief of the Joint Staff, and Brigadier General Mohammad Hejazi, commander of the Basij.
For some activities for which a mental age limit may be relevant, the number of people engaging in the activity is very large: voting, obtaining a driving license, and having sex, for example.
But it would be very costly to scrutinize whether every person interested in those activities has the capacity to understand what is involved in voting, driving responsibly, or giving informed consent to sex.
Eventually, however, labor-intensive activities will move to countries at earlier stages of development, while China moves up the value chain, both in the export sector and, with rising incomes, in production for domestic consumption.
Early high-growth economies – Japan, South Korea, Taiwan – initially exported labor-intensive products, then graduated to more capital-intensive goods like motor vehicles, and then to human-capital-intensive activities like design and technology development.
As wages rose, Japan’s old labor-intensive activities migrated to later arrivals in the global economy.
Moreover, aggressive counter-terrorism activities and the separation barrier have decisively reduced cross-border attacks, containing mounting pressure in Palestine as the conflict remains on the back burner.
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, spearheaded by the WHO, Rotary International, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and UNICEF, urgently requires US$275 million to fill a funding gap for immunization activities.
Without these funds, polio immunization activities will have to be postponed, cancelled or seriously cut back in several countries.
Public debate instead highlights the need for restricting government activities and reducing social transfers.
The great European experiment will succeed only if Europe's citizens limit the scope of the state's claims on society and its resources, thus redefining those areas of self-government and autonomy where responsible community life and cultural activities flourish.
These activities both damage the PBOC’s balance sheet and constrain monetary policy.
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