Microsoft has announced plans to open a dedicated tablet gaming studio in London, Digital Spy said citing MCV. The new studio will focus on developing games for Windows 8 tablets and will be headed by former Rare production director Lee Schuneman. Opening in November, the studio is currently hiring staff, including a creative director, incubation [...]
Microsoft To Open London-Based Tablet Gaming Studio
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China’s Nuclear Dilemma – Analysis
An expert assessment of China’s nuclear weapons strategy highlights the risk of escalation to nuclear war from a conflict beginning with conventional weapons, due to the unusual structure of the nation’s military. The new study, previously only available in Chinese, appears in the latest edition of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, published by SAGE. [...]
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Pashtun Awakening: Defeat The Taliban By Changing The Narrative – Analysis
By NWSC Pakistan has systemically weakened Afghanistan by undermining the sacred tribal structure of the Pashtuns, the country’s largest ethnic group, by attempting to replace it with the extremist ideology and practices of the Taliban – a process we refer to as “de-Pashtunization”. The only way to stop this process is by changing the narrative [...]
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Obama: Carrying On The Work Of Our Fallen Heroes – Transcript
By President Barack Obama This week in Libya, we lost four of our fellow Americans. Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods, Sean Smith, and Chris Stevens were all killed in an outrageous attack on our diplomatic post in Benghazi. These four Americans represented the very best of our country. Glen and Tyrone had each served America as [...]
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US Authorities Question Man Allegedly Behind Anti-Islam Film
U.S. probation officials in California have questioned the man allegedly behind the controversial film that sparked violent protests in the Muslim world. Sheriff’s officials said Saturday that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula was questioned in Cerritos near his home for possible probation violations stemming from a 2010 bank fraud conviction. They say the terms of his probation [...]
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Porn Director Pegged As Man Who Shot Now-Infamous Anti-Islam Film
According to the cast and crew of “The Innocence of Muslims,” the man previously thought to have directed it – Nakoula Basseley Nakoula – was just the producer. The moviemaker, it turns out, is known for his work in soft-core porn. In a story broken by American culture website Gawker.com, it turns out that while [...]
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Spain: Mass Protest In Madrid Against ‘Authoritarian’ Austerity
Tens of thousands of protesters from across Spain gathered in Madrid to decry austerity measures enacted by the government. Activists accused leaders of “destroying” Spain with brutal program cuts and tax hikes, aimed at avoiding an EU bailout. Some 50,000 protesters converged in waves in the center of the Spanish capital, blowing whistles and waving [...]
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“Anti-West Fever”: Time To Vaccinate – OpEd
By Konstantin Garibov A wave of protests triggered by a U.S.-produced film said to insult Prophet Muhammad, “Innocence of Muslims” has turned into a global tsunami. After the U.S. embassies, the tsunami has covered the diplomatic missions of Germany and Britain and reached closer to Israeli embassies. The “anti-West fever” has spread from its epicenter [...]
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A Division Of Labor: Ultras Wage Parallel Battles To Shape Egypt’s Future – Analysis
Militant soccer fans of arch rival Cairo soccer clubs Al Zamalek SC and Al Ahly SC represent two sides of the same coin in the forefront of a struggle for the future of Egypt. Militants of the Ultras White Knights (UWK), the Zamalek support group, are locked near the US embassy in Cairo into vicious [...]
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India: Will PM Press Ahead With His Economic Decisions? – Analysis
The three important economic decisions taken by the Government of Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on September 13 and 14, 2012, are not going to herald an economic miracle for tomorrow. These decisions relate to a significant increase in the price of diesel and permitting foreign direct investment in the civil aviation and retail sectors. [...]
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India: Anti-US Protests By Some Muslims In Chennai – Analysis
A group of about 1500 Muslims staged an ugly demonstration outside the US Consulate-General in Chennai on the evening of September 14, 2012, in protest against a derogatory film on Islam and its Holy Prophet produced by an unidentified person in the US. A video clip from the film with Arabic sub-titles uploaded on to [...]
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Obama, The Courts And Congress Are All Responsible For Latest Death At Guantánamo – OpEd
I felt sick when I heard the news: that the man who died at Guantánamo last weekend was Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, a Yemeni. I had been aware of his case for six years, and had followed it closely. He had been cleared for release under President Bush (in December 2006) and under President Obama [...]
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Ryan Highlights Role Of Faith In His Political Views
By Michelle Bauman Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan defended his Catholic faith, pro-life views and economic policies at a conservative gathering in the nation’s capital. “I am a Catholic, not because anyone has ordered me to accept a creed, but because of the grace and truth revealed in my faith,” said the Wisconsin congressman. [...]
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Pope Benedict Touts Lebanon As Model Of Religious Coexistence
(RFE/RL) — Visiting Pope Benedict XVI has urged multifaith Lebanon to be a model of peace and religious coexistence for the Middle East. Speaking in Beirut, the Roman Catholic pontiff told a gathering of Lebanese political, religious, and cultural leaders that religious freedom was a basic right for all people. “Lebanon is called, now more [...]
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Global Economy: Four Years Of Crisis – OpEd
By Anastasiya Pershkina This week Europe narrowly escaped the loss of a major donor to the European Stabilization Mechanism in the face of Germany. Europe could have easily slid to a new economic crunch after four years of the current crisis. Now that things have been straightened out, experts are summing up the results of [...]
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‘Defenders’ Law Shakes Macedonia Politics
By Klaudia Lutovska A draft law that would regulate the special and social rights of those who defended the sovereignty of Macedonia during the 2001 conflict was proposed to parliament on Tuesday (September 11th). The legislation, tabled by the ruling VMRO-DPMNE, has prompted its coalition partner, the Albanian Democratic Union for Integration (DUI), to threaten [...]
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Protest In Ramallah – OpEd
Visiting Ramallah in the West Bank after an absence of several months, I was again amazed by the ongoing building activity. Everywhere new high-rise buildings are going up, and many of them are beautiful. (Arabs seem to have an innate talent for architecture, as any world anthology of architecture affirms.) The building boom seems to [...]
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Turkey’s Syrian Misadventure – OpEd
By Jeremy Salt Turkey’s intervention in Syria has been an act of unprecedented folly. Not since the republic was established in 1923 – not even when the military was in charge – has a Turkish government sought ‘regime change’ in another country. In sponsoring armed groups seeking to destroy the Syrian government, the collective calling itself [...]
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Maldives: Time Just Right For Dialogue, Political Reconciliation – Analysis
By N Sathiya Moorthy Now that the CoNI report and the controversy that it was tasked to sort out is behind, it is time Maldives as a nation and Maldivians as a people should pick up the pieces and rearranging the zig-saw puzzle that stares stark at the nation in full bloom. It should be [...]
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Climate Change Severely Impacting Food Prices – Analysis
By Jaya Ramachandran While there are hardly any signs of substantive and forward-looking agreements being reached at the United Nations climate change conference from November 26 to December 7, 2012 in Doha, latest research cautions that impact of climate change on future food prices is being underestimated. “By the end of the most recent round [...]
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