Iran’s National Internet Development Manager has released official estimates showing that 60 percent of Iranians have become internet users, and 40 percent of those users are between the ages of 20 and 29. On Saturday April 20, the Mehr News Agency reported on the latest statistics, indicating that of the 45 million internet users mentioned [...]
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It has become so commonplace, no one gives it a second thought: nothing tells us more about a terrorist’s radical leanings than the jihadist videos and extremist sermons that show up on a playlist of an individual who turns to violence, or so we are told. As the Washington Post reports: In a few months, [...]
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U.S. authorities are preparing criminal charges against the Boston Marathon bombing suspect and could file them against him on Monday. The exact charges to be filed against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev remain uncertain. Some U.S. legal analysts say he could face federal terrorism charges in the deaths of three victims who were killed in twin explosions near [...]
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The Boston Marathon bombing has already demonstrated the best and the worst of America for all the world to see. First, let’s talk about the best. When the bombs detonated, despite the shock and the horror of the blown-off legs and arms, and the blood on street and sidewalk, and without knowing what else might [...]
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“A friend of mine was among the victims,” said Zannah Mustapha to MISNA. Mustapha is a lawyer and activist from Baga, a town on Lake Chad where the latest battle took place between government forces and Boko Haram militants. Based on some estimates, up to 185 people were killed in the fighting. “Homes were torched in [...]
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By Andy Dabilis The ongoing economic crisis that has dropped hotel rates and food prices made Greece one of the most attractive destinations for tourists this year. Tourism revenues could hit record highs of as much as 12 billion euros this year, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said. “Frankly, this is a great time to travel [...]
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By Ivana Jovanovic and Muhamet Brajshori Analysts are hailing the agreement reached by Pristina and Belgrade over the management of northern Kosovo — a deal that will allow both countries to pursue an EU path — although some hard-liners are expressing reservations. “For the region it sends the message that if an agreement is possible [...]
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By Rooh ul Amin “Who are the Taliban and whose war they have been fighting” is a question that has been storming headlines in Afghan media. The question popped up after the Afghan President Hamid Karzai made a diatribe against the US and international forces over the alleged collusion of Americans and the Taliban. Karzai [...]
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US Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, a U.S. citizen and resident of Cambridge, Mass., has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction against persons and property at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, resulting in the death of three people and injuries to more than 200 [...]
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Senior Israeli officials are in Turkey to discuss compensation for a deadly 2010 naval raid on a ship carrying aid to the Gaza Strip. Israeli commandos killed nine Turkish activists aboard the ship, which was trying toeach Gaza in defiance of an Israeli blockademeant to keep weapons from Hamas militants. The meeting Monday in Ankara [...]
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Hugo Chavez, who died on March 5, lavished the Venezuelan people with oil earnings for more than a decade. As in so many other Latin American countries, natural resources were used to prop up an economy characterized by a plethora of imbalances and economic contradictions. Part of Latin America’s problem lies in its generous natural [...]
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Authorities have reportedly prevented an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist attack that aimed to disrupt a major North American transportation route. Canadian media confirms that authorities thwarted an alleged terror plot in Canada that targeted a railroad that runs between Toronto, Ontario and New York City in the United States. According to CTV, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police [...]
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By Cheryl Pellerin In what Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called “a significant step in U.S.-Israeli defense cooperation,” he and his Israeli counterpart finalized an agreement today on a package of new defense capabilities the United States is offering Israel. Hagel and Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon held a joint news conference at Israel’s defense headquarters, [...]
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested Monday two men and charged them with conspiring to carry out a terrorist attack against a Via Rail passenger train that operates between Toronto, Ontario and New York City. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said while it believed that the men had the capacity and intent to carry out [...]
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By Essam Mohamed Gunmen ambushed a Libyan police convoy transporting detainees to a jail in a Tripoli suburb on Thursday (April 18th), killing one prisoner, Justice Minister Salah al-Marghani told AFP. Several other prisoners were seriously wounded and one kidnapped in the attack on the convoy on its way to a prison in Taji, east [...]
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At least 109 people have been documented as killed and up to 400 more are likely to have died in an almost week-long offensive by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on a rebellious Damascus suburb, opposition activists said, according to Reuters. If the accounts are confirmed, the killings in the mainly Sunni Muslim [...]
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Two Syrian Orthodox bishops have been kidnapped on the outskirts of Aleppo. While both clergymen are believed to be alive, their driver was killed during the attack. Syriac Orthodox bishop Yohanna Ibrahim and Greek Orthodox Archbishops of Aleppo Paul, who also happens to be the brother of Patriarch John of Antioch and All The East [...]
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Only two Presidents have faced impeachment. One was Andrew Johnson in 1868 and the impeachment was defeated by one vote. Cited for violating the Tenure of Office Act, it was later found unconstitutional. The other was Bill Clinton in 1998, charged with perjury and obstruction of justice, the Senate voted against impeachment on either charge. [...]
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Canadian police and security services announced the details of the capture of two terrorism suspects in Toronto on Monday and that they thwarted a “major terrorist attack” targeting the United States. The two accused, Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser, who live in the Montreal and Toronto area were conspiring to carry out a terrorist attack [...]
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By Karen Parrish The strategic rebalance to the Asia-Pacific doesn’t mean deploying high numbers of U.S. troops into the region, but it does involve more interest, more engagement and more quality in equipment and capabilities, America’s senior military officer said here today. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and [...]
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