(CORDIS) — Just like any mode of transport that carries members of the public, ships are subject to strict safety regulations. These not only cover the use and maintenance of the vessel but also its construction and the materials a ship is made of. Until a few years ago, the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of [...]
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For the state’s counter-Maoist strategy, the intervening night of March 27-28 brought a landmark success. In Jharkhand’s Lakarbandha forests in Chatra district, 10 CPI-Maoist cadres, including a number of key leaders, were killed by the outfit’s bete noire, the Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC). Twelve more cadres were arrested and subsequently released by the TPC after [...]
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(RFE/RL) — The Russian Navy’s new Borei-955 class submarines will each carry 16 Bulava intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM). Russian media reported on April 13 that original designs called for the new submarines to carry 20 ICBMs but technicians said the additional ICBMs would require extending the hull by 10 meters and making other modifications that [...]
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U.S. President Barack Obama made less money in 2012 than in any other year since taking office. Obama released his federal income tax returns to the public late Friday, showing he and first lady Michelle made more than $600,000 last year, with about $260,000 coming from the president’s book sales. The Obamas paid $112,214 in [...]
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Aipac, with its hand deeply in the pocket of the U.S. taxpayer on Israel’s behalf, and with Congress in its own pocket, has devised proposed legisltation that would even further surrender of U.S. sovereignty to Israel. It’s advancing a visa waiver program that would allow both countries to waive documents for their citizens. This would [...]
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Pakistan suffering from limited production of crude oil, as well as concentration of refinery on the coastal belt, aims at setting up a refinery in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It will use crude oil produced in the province and will also enjoy the potential of exporting some of its products to landlocked Afghanistan. In this [...]
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Clashes between prisoners and guards have taken place in the extra-legal prison at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Guards swept through communal cellblocks at the Guantanamo detention camp on Saturday and moved the prisoners into one-man cells in an attempt to end a hunger strike that began in February, a U.S. military [...]
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The Embassy of the Republic of China-Taiwan in Paraguay awarded on April 11, $500 thousand to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce ito support the National Export Plan that is being implemented by Rediex (Red de Inversiones y Exportaciones), an eight year old agency in charge of exports and the betterment of international commerce-trade climate [...]
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One of the most important and yet most neglected determinants of the outcomes of the economic crisis and resultant deepening of social inequalities and immiseration is the ‘class struggle’. In one of his most pithy metaphors, Karl Marx referred to class struggle as ‘the motor force of history’. In this essay we will analyze the [...]
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By Michael Lelyveld China’s new government is trying to deal with complaints about fuel prices by easing, but not abandoning, state price controls. The delicate maneuver announced by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on March 26 would shorten the time period for price adjustments to “better reflect changes in the global oil market,” [...]
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Mastercard stole the word priceless. But even if they hadn’t, the ideas of uniqueness and unquantifiable value only skirt around the edges of intrinsic value. I think it was the saxophonist, Wayne Shorter, who once said: “You don’t dance to get somewhere.” And that’s the point: intrinsic value has no reason; it is beyond means [...]
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As the US troops prepare to thin themselves out of Afghanistan starting from next year, India has to worry whether 1996 can repeat itself in Afghanistan, when the Taliban, with the help of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), captured power from the Afghan Mujahideen in Kabul and enforced its rule. In searching for an answer to [...]
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(RFE/RL) — China says two cases of bird flu have been detected in the central province of Henan. The Xinhua news agency reported on April 14 that one of the victims was critically ill in the hospital, while the other was stable. The two cases do not appear to be connected. In total, 55 people [...]
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(RFE/RL) — The Japanese foreign minister says Japan and the United States cannot allow North Korea to have nuclear weapons. Fumio Kishida was speaking at a news conference in Tokyo on April 14 after talks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Kerry said the United States was “fully committed” to protecting Japan. Kerry is [...]
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By Matthew Allen Switzerland has been forced firmly back on the defensive as the global row over tax evasion heated up during the week, culminating in fresh calls for Swiss banks to automatically hand over details of foreign clients to other countries. Having already succumbed to a United States demand for information on its citizens’ [...]
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With its highly favorable soil and climate, Paraguay will provide to the world, more than 8.5 million tons of grain. The region has a great potential for growth and is currently demanding the establishment of additional ports in the Rio de la Plata region, in order to reduce the constant burdens caused from the lack [...]
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The Abadan governor has announced that the remains of two unknown soldiers from the Iran-Iraq War were laid to rest at the the campus of the Open University of Abadan on Sunday April 14. Mehr reports that the remains of the soldiers, aged 19 and 22, were discovered in the Fav region of Iraq and [...]
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Thousands of people have hit the streets of Madrid to protest the Spanish monarchy. Demonstrators demand return to a republic, which was last established 82 years ago. The marchers convened on Puerta del Sol, a central square in the capital. Waving thousands of red, gold and purple republican flags, the crowd chanted: “Tomorrow, Spain will [...]
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After initial hiccups caused by delayed station openings, the voting in today’s presidential elections in Venezuela has been proceeding very smoothly, with high turnouts reported from every district, Voice of Russia correspondent Alexander Krasnov reports. There is no word of incidents or irregularities in the process. Oblivious of the ban on campaigning on the voting [...]
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By Miki Trajkovski Macedonia NGO Aureola and Albania’s Association of Women with Social Needs are joining forces to develop tourism in Lake Ohrid. By increasing the number of tourists, the two countries hope to form stronger cultural ties between residents on both sides of the lake’s borders. “We want to improve the image of the [...]
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