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Gaza: ‘Collaborator’ Murders Go Unpunished, Says HRW

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The Gaza government has apparently not even begun a promised investigation more than four months after gunmen killed seven Palestinian prisoners accused of collaboration with Israel. Meanwhile, the Hamas government has set a deadline of April 11, 2013, for suspected collaborators to turn themselves in, promising them an amnesty. The men, who were last seen [...]

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Nearly Half Of US Drone Strikes In Pakistan Not Against Al-Qaeda

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A trove of leaked classified reports has confirmed what many had suspected – US drone kills in Pakistan are not the precision strikes against top-level al-Qaeda terrorists they are portrayed as by the Obama administration. Instead, many of the attacks are aimed at suspected low-level tribal militants, who may pose no direct danger to the [...]

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Ivanishvili Comments On Georgian Orthodox Church

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(Civil.Ge) — Georgia’s PM Mikheil Ivanishvili said on April 10 that “problems exist” in the Georgian Orthodox Church too and speaking publicly on these issues should not be a taboo. Ivanishvili was speaking during a press conference, held for a group of senior editors from some print media and major television channels. He made these [...]

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The U.S. War On Communism, Drugs, And Terrorism In Colombia – Analysis

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By Jenny O’Connor On Thursday, September 6, 2012, the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, rejected a proposed bilateral ceasefire by FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) rebels aimed at bringing an end to Colombia’s decades of armed conflict. In fact, he declared that he had asked operations to be intensified and stated, “There will [...]

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North Korea Threatens Rest Of The World, Again – Analysis

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By Emre Tunç Sakaoglu Pyongyang tested medium range ballistic missiles in December 2012 and conducted a nuclear test in February 2013. The United Nations then approved a fresh set of sanctions against Pyongyang to convince it into nuclear demilitarization and putting an end to its protracted intimidations against the South. In retaliation to the fresh [...]

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India And Pakistan: Tracing The Nuclear Trajectory – Analysis

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By PR Chari Comparing countries to animals is an absorbing pastime for foreign policy analysts to discover their essential character. It is, therefore, no accident that the US has chosen the eagle to be its national symbol to emphasize its aggressive, risk-taking nature. The erstwhile Soviet Union, now Russia, identified itself with the bear, which [...]

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Rosneft President Igor Sechin Starts Working Trip To Sakhalin Region

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Igor Sechin, Rosneft President and Chairman of the Management Board started a working trip to Sakhalin Region. As part of the visit he held talks with the region governor Alexander Khoroshavin. The parties signed a cooperation agreement between Rosneft and Sakhalin Region aimed at regulating the parties’ obligations concerning hi-tech projects on the territory of [...]

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Guam At ‘Yellow’ Threat Level Amid Mounting Threats By North Korea

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As the Emergency Operations Center operates on a 24-hour basis to monitor the developments on the Korean Peninsula, Governor Eddie Baza Calvo has placed Guam under threat level “yellow”. This means be careful. According to the latest advisory from the Joint Information Center issued at 8:00pm this indicates there is a medium risk for the [...]

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As Guantánamo Hunger Strike Continues, Activists Rally Nationwide In US

When The War Is Over: The Gotovina Verdict And Confronting The Past – Analysis

Iran’s Oil Production Lowest Since 1980s

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OPEC’s latest report indicates that Iran produced 2.675 million barrels of oil per day in March, which according to TREND, an Azerbaijani news agency, is the country’s lowest volume of oil production since 1988. OPEC reports that daily oil production in Iran has fallen by about 49,000 thousand barrels in March 2013 compared to the [...]

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Lady Flies Can Decide Who Will Father Their Young

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Females in the animal kingdom have many methods available to them to help bias male paternity. One such process is displayed by Euxesta bilimeki, a species of Ulidiid fly, whose females expel and then consume male ejaculate after copulation. A new study by Christian Rodriguez-Enriquez and his colleagues from the Instituto de Ecologia in Mexico [...]

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Cheap And Quick HIV Testing Made Possible With DVD Scanners

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Thanks to USB sticks and video streaming, DVD players are becoming all but obsolete. But their cheap optics may find a new life in a cost-effective and speedy technique for on-the-spot HIV testing and other analytics. Aman Russom, senior lecturer at the School of Biotechnology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, says that [...]

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Mali: Two Torture Victims Die In Detention

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Two ethnic Tuareg men who had been arrested on February 15, 2013, and tortured by Malian soldiers in the town of Léré, Timbuktu region, have died in detention at the Central Prison in Bamako. Human Rights Watch had interviewed and documented the torture inflicted on seven men, including the two who died, in a March [...]

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Kerry Heads To South Korea, China, Japan

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By Scott Stearns U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry travels to South Korea on Friday, to China on Saturday, and to Japan on Sunday. This first trip to Asia will focus on North Korea and a series of regional disputes. While in Seoul, State Department officials say Kerry will discuss an agreement already in place [...]

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North Korea Nuclear Missile Capability? Pentagon Says No, Intel Report Says Maybe

Scientists Calculate Probability Of World War IV

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By Nikita Sorokin A pause between World War III and World War IV comes to an end, pundits from the Russian Academy of Military Sciences said on Thursday. The conclusion is based on a theory of cycles mapped out by Soviet economist Nikolai Kondratiev. According to the theory, the next world war may start in [...]

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Krugman Vs. Stockman – OpEd

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It was no Rumble in the Jungle, that’s for sure. There were no blindside blows to the ribs, no bone-crushing roundhouse punches, and no blood-spattered warriors sprawled out on the canvas for the mandatory 10-count. But by the time ABC’s 15-round bareknuckle extravaganza was over, just one man was left standing, David Stockman, TKO champ of ”This Week’s“ Sunday morning political blabberfest. The anticipation [...]

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Israel To Open Gaza Crossing For 4 Hours

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Israel will open the Kerem Shalom crossing for four hours on Friday to allow food and gas into the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said Thursday. Israeli authorities informed Palestinian liaison officials that the terminal would open from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m., said border official Nathmi Muhana. Only food products, animal feed and domestic-use gas [...]

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Pakistani Candidate Shot Dead In Hyderabad

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(RFE/RL) — A candidate in Pakistan’s upcoming elections has been gunned down in a drive-by shooting in the southern city of Hyderabad. Fakhrul Islam, a 46-year-old ethnic Pushtun member of the Mutahhida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Party, was shot by gunmen on motorcycles on the outskirts of Hyderabad on April 11. A spokesman for the Pakistani [...]

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