By Jemal Oumar Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is changing its strategy to target children at an early age to lure them to its radical ideology. To do this, the group is using new methods deemed to be more capable of attracting children’s attention such as video games that include a clear strategy to [...]
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By Azad Garibov Given its role as the region’s former coloniser, Russia is quite oftenly characterized as a legacy player in Central Asia. By 1873, Russia completed the conquest of the region and Central Asia remained part of, first Tsarist Russia and afterwards Soviet Union until 1991. This long historical relationship provided Moscow with many [...]
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Android smartphones could be used by terrorists to hack into an aircraft’s control system, a security expert has warned, according to Digital Spy. Pilot and security consultant Hugo Teso revealed at this year’s Hack in the conference that he has spent the last three years developing an application potentially capable of this. Teso demonstrated how [...]
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The commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo ordered the transition of detainees from communal to single-cell living at Camp VI at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to ensure the health and security of those detainees, according to a task force news release issued yesterday. The commander, Navy Rear Adm. John W. Smith Jr., ordered the change early [...]
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With the prison-wide hunger strike at Guantánamo now entering its third month, conditions at the prison have come under sustained scrutiny for the first time in many years, and media outlets, both domestic and international, have learned, or have been reminded that 166 men remain at the prison. These men remain imprisoned despite President Obama’s [...]
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By Finian Cunningham The human suffering in Syria, which has escalated from crisis to disaster over the past two years, is the nefarious work of Western governments and their regional allies. It is a simple, provable, glaringly obvious truth. Yet, the thought-control Western mainstream media manage to somehow turn reality on its head, and make [...]
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By Stuart Littlewood Yesterday the G8 Foreign Ministers meeting in London issued the following statement on the British government’s website: Middle East Peace Process “G8 Foreign Ministers confirmed their commitment to a just, lasting, and comprehensive peace in the Middle East. They agreed on the urgent need to make progress on the Middle East Peace [...]
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As the polls have closed across the country, the Twitter account of the Venezuela presidential hopeful Nicolas Maduro has been compromised by the Lulz Security Peru hacktivist group. Two official websites have been brought down as well. The official’s twitter account was filled with vulgar messages in which @lulzsecperu claimed responsibility for the successful attack. [...]
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President Bashar al-Assad’s forces on Saturday destroyed the Omari mosque in the southern city of Daraa where Syria’s uprising erupted two years ago, opposition activists said on Sunday, according to reports from AFP news agency. In an amateur video uploaded to YouTube, the mosque’s towering minaret can be seen toppling into a cloud of dust [...]
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By Hanna Hindstrom and Aye Nai Doubts have been cast doubt on the Burmese government’s latest commitment to implement a “long-term” rehabilitation strategy in Arakan state, where Buddhists continue to oppose reintegration with the stateless Muslim Rohingya after two bouts of ethno-religious clashes last year. Many residents say they will not accept the construction of [...]
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The Asian Football Confederation (AFC), struggling to restore credibility after two scandal-riddled years involving allegations of financial mismanagement and corruption, has had a foretaste of questions and issues that are likely to be raised if Bahrain Football Association head Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa , widely viewed as a frontrunner, wins the group’s May [...]
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As Israel celebrates its independence on April 16 this year, it is worth pausing to consider that, while there are many miracl es in the Bible, modern man has a hard time seeing a miracle when it occurs. Secular societies in the West have tended to make a gospel of science and many in those [...]
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By Ghazanfar Ali Khan The GCC has expressed deep concerns over the possible radiation leaks following an earthquake in the area and called on the International Atomic Energy Agency to rush inspectors to check the vulnerability of the Bushehr nuclear plant. “The GCC has asked the IAEA to send a special technical team to inspect [...]
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By MD Rasooldeen Some of the Muslim Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh come to the Kingdom for employment with fake Bangladeshi passports, a senior Dhaka government official claimed. Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu told a group of visiting foreign journalists here that some of these refugees, who were trained in militancy, have been sent to countries [...]
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By Saad Al-Dosari It is in the harmony of sounds and melodies, in the mixture of colors, of shapes, and brush strokes. It is in the embrace between light and shadow, in the echo of words and songs. That is art. And once you expose yourself to art, there is lovely combination of memories and [...]
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By William A. Cook A debate rages in Israel today on the truth of Amira Hass’s words “Throwing a stone is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance” (Amira Hass, Haaretz, 4/3/13). The day after Hass’ comment, Dr. Rosenberg offered [...]
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Researchers at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine have discovered a technique that directly converts skin cells to the type of brain cells destroyed in patients with multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and other so-called myelin disorders. This discovery appears today in the journal Nature Biotechnology. This breakthrough now enables “on demand” production of myelinating cells, [...]
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A new chemical process can transform waste sulfur into a lightweight plastic that may improve batteries for electric cars, reports a University of Arizona-led team. The new plastic has other potential uses, including optical uses. The team has successfully used the new plastic to make lithium-sulfur batteries. “We’ve developed a new, simple and useful chemical [...]
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In the last few decades, glaciers at the edge of the icy continent of Antarctica have been thinning, and research has shown the rate of thinning has accelerated and contributed significantly to sea level rise. New ice core research suggests that, while the changes are dramatic, they cannot be attributed with confidence to human-caused global [...]
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A new 1000-year Antarctic Peninsula climate reconstruction shows that summer ice melting has intensified almost ten-fold, and mostly since the mid 20th Century. Summer ice melt affects the stability of Antarctic ice shelves and glaciers. The research, published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience, adds new knowledge to the international effort that is required [...]
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