From next year, Mercedes-Benz will be offering a new generation of the 4MATIC permanent all-wheel drive system with fully variable torque distribution. This totally new development is based on the front-wheel drive architecture with transversely mounted engines. Like the other 4MATIC versions, it boasts high tractive power reserves and outstanding agility accompanied by optimum driving [...]
Mercedes-Benz Offers New Generation Of 4MATIC
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The Kremlin’s Criminal Treatment Of Russian Orphans – OpEd
While you and your loved ones were celebrating Christmas this holiday season, or getting ready for to ring in the New Year, Vladimir Putin has been busy at work continuing to surprise even the cynics with some very sad legislation banning the adoption of Russian orphans by U.S. parents. When the Duma bill first appeared [...]
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Fatah Cancels Anniversary Events In Gaza
Fatah decided Thursday to cancel its anniversary celebrations in the Gaza Strip after the Hamas government rejected proposed locations for the event, a party official said. Yahya Rabah, the deputy commissioner-general of the party, said Fatah made great efforts in the last 20 days to hold the celebration, but Hamas refused both al-Kateibeh and al-Saraya [...]
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Iran: Ahmadinejad Dismisses Health Minister
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has removed his minister of health, Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi, after the minister criticized the government’s failure to provide adequate funding for the provision of medical drugs. On Thursday, Iranian media reported that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has issued an order appointing Mohammad Hossein Tarighat Monfared to take the helm of the Health Ministry while removing [...]
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How Unfair Is Medicaid Funding? – OpEd
On the average, the federal government pays about two-thirds of the costs of Medicaid, and it makes funds available to the states on a matching basis. In theory, the federal funding formula is designed to redistribute money from wealthier states to poorer states by giving poorer states a higher match for every dollar they spend. [...]
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Two Alleged Operatives Of Tamil Tigers Terrorist Organization Extradited To Brooklyn
Piratheepan Nadarajah and Suresh Sriskandarajah, two alleged operatives of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a designated foreign terrorist organization popularly referred to as the Tamil Tigers, will be arraigned today before United States Magistrate Judge Lois Bloom at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn following their extradition from Canada. Nadarajah is charged with conspiring [...]
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Gulf War Commander Schwarzkopf Dies At 78
Retired Army General Norman Schwarzkopf, who commanded the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait in 1991, has died. He was 78. Schwarzkopf died Thursday in the southern city of Tampa, Florida, where he lived in retirement. There is no word yet on a cause of death. A much-decorated combat soldier in [...]
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New Japanese Government To Reconsider Zero-Nuclear Policy
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe’s cabinet is set to unveil the new energy policy early next month by dismantling plans to eliminate nuclear power in the country by 2040. The pro-business Liberal Democratic Party-led government also plans to restart reactors. Thus Japan’s new leaders intend to change plans of the previous cabinet regarding a post-Fukushima policy. [...]
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Venezuela: Repsol Begins Accelerated Hydrocarbon Production In Orinoco Belt
Antonio Brufau, Repsol CEO and Chairman, attended Thursday the first oil production ceremony for the Carabobo well, situated in the Orinoco Oil Belt. The well is operated by Petrocarabobo, a joint-venture company set up in Venezuela in June 2010 in which PDVSA has a 60% stake and Repsol owns 11%, with other companies also owning [...]
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Iran Develops New Missile Launcher
Iran’s Navy has developed a missile launching system which aims to increase the precision and range of anti-ship missiles. Commander of Iran Navy Rear-Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said that the missile system could be installed on all vessels and announced that it would become operational in the near future. Given that all naval units are equipped [...]
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Tunisia, Algeria Sign Security Pact
By Monia Ghanmi Tunisia and Algeria want to strengthen security co-operation along their common land border to counter potential attacks from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). The deal was struck during Algerian Interior Minister Dahou Ould Kablia’s visit to Tunis on December 24th, where he met with Interim Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali and Interior [...]
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Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi And Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan Coalesce Power – OpEd
Want to qualify Egyptian President Morsi’s bold moves and predict his future actions? Just examine Turkish PM Erdogan’s previous political actions and you will find the answer. The two leaders are cut from the same cloth and produce similar garments. Their personal lives have similar patterns, and their political lives are so alike that they [...]
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Rape In India: Why Are There No Mass Protests For Raped Dalit Women? – OpEd
By Shenali Waduge The question is very simple. While rape in any form is abhorred and should be severely punished by all nations what needs to be answered is what makes the recent gangrape by 6 men of a 23 year old on a bus in Delhi any different from the gangrape of a 16 [...]
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Venezuela Registers Record 21,700 Murders In 2012
Some 21,700 murders were registered in Venezuela in 2012, which is a 12 percent increase against the previous year, a report from Observatorio Venezolano de Violencia independent organization said. “A significant increase of violence was registered in Venezuela in 2012, which was a result of the increased number of crimes and their expansion on the [...]
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Labor Disputes Threaten To Close Many US Ports
Two labor disputes are threatening to disrupt traffic from many major U.S. ports, which could hurt the economic recovery. The first involves 14,500 dockworkers in the International Longshoremen’s Association, who are haggling with companies that handle billions of dollars’ worth of cargo in ports from Maine to Texas, including New York. The contract expires at [...]
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2012: Hype And Realism – OpEd
By Jamal Kanj The year 2012 was the last in the 21st century to have matching day, month and year (12-12-12.) It will be another nine decades before new congruent calendar is possible. That wasn’t, however, the only unique phenomenon ending the year. Hyped by Nostradamus 500 years ago, the ancient Mayan calendar – long [...]
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India: West Bengal Terror Assessment 2013 – Analysis
In 2010, when Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress (TMC) had formed a covert alliance with the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) in the run-up to the State Assembly elections to unseat the then ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-Marxist) Government, Maoist violence in West Bengal had peaked. With 425 Maoist-linked fatalities, the State secured [...]
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India: Nagaland Terror Assessment Year 2013
On December 16, 2012, in a fresh spurt of factional violence, six militants belonging to the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K) and NSCN-Khole-Kitovi (NSCN-KK) were reportedly killed in two separate incidents in Kiphire and Phek Districts. Early in the morning, two NSCN-K militants, identified as ‘lieutenant’ Among of Anatonger village and ‘2nd lieutenant’ Tholo [...]
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Saudi Arabia: Maid Doesn’t Regret Killing Sponsor
Investigators are questioning an African maidservant for killing her Saudi sponsor in Jeddah on Tuesday by stabbing him several times while he was sleeping in his home. Lt. Nawaf Al-Bouk, spokesman of Jeddah police, said security officers had taken all necessary evidence including thumb impressions from the site. “We have handed over the pieces of [...]
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An ‘Indian Spring’ Is Finally Here – OpEd
By Aijaz Zaka Syed Indians aren’t easily excited. After all, it was India that gave the world meditation, yoga and the ever content Buddha. Eliot prescribed Indian approach to life as the way out of the West’s spiritual Waste Land. Shantih, Shantih, Shantih!!! Protests are of course normal in a healthy democracy. But when was [...]
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