U.S. officials say Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been transferred to a federal prison medical facility from the hospital where he had been receiving treatment for injuries sustained during his capture last week. The U.S. Marshals Service said Friday that Tsarnaev was moved to the Federal Medical Center Devens, a Bureau of Prisons [...]
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The White House says President Barack Obama may approve using military force against the Syrian government. On Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney said the administration has a number of options with regards to handling reports that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons, and those include using military force among other possibilities. [...]
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It’s a well-known fact that rumours abound in the higher echelons of government, and however absurd some of them might appear to the casual observer, a proportion will, in the nature of things, turn out to be well-founded. On 25 April 2013, the Israeli daily Ha’aretz, reported that US Secretary of State John Kerry is [...]
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GDP grew at just a 2.5 percent annual rate in the first quarter, a bit faster than the 2.2-2.4 percent range needed to keep the unemployment rate from rising. Even this growth only came with a large boost from inventories. Final demand grew at just a 1.5 percent annual rate. The government sector continues to [...]
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By Elvira M. Jukic Bosnian police arrested Federation President and 18 others on suspicion of corruption on Friday after a series of top-level raids, the state prosecutor said. Budimir, the president of the Bosniak-Croat Federation, one of the two political entities ruling the country, was detained amid three different police actions on Friday aimed at [...]
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By Commodore R. S. Vasan (Retd.) There have been many questions raised after the killing of the elder brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the capture of the younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev post the Boston Marathon bombing. The blasts caused due to the pressure cooker bombs killed three and injured more than 260 victims on 15th April [...]
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By R. Upadhyay A huge belligerent rally led by the JEI-Hind in the historic maidan of Kolkatha in West Bengal on March 30 this year has largely gone unnoticed in India. The rally was to protest against the death sentence to Delawar Hussain Sayeedi awarded by Bangladesh court as he was one of the prime [...]
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By Cheryl Pellerin Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s first trip to the Middle East included a visit and official dinner with Gen. Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, crown prince of Abu Dhabi and deputy supreme commander of the United Arab Emirates armed forces. The two men met last night and reaffirmed the strong U.S. commitment [...]
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A statistical analysis by the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) has shown that if Venezuelan opposition claims that Nicolás Maduro’s victory was obtained by fraud were true, it is practically impossible to have obtained the result that was found in an audit of 53% of electronic voting machines that took place on the [...]
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(RFE/RL) — The revelation that two ethnic Chechen brothers were behind the Boston Marathon bombings has evolved into a larger question about the United States and Russia. Namely, how much did each country know about the suspects? And which side was responsible, however unwittingly, for the brothers’ extremism? It’s been a week since police arrested [...]
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“I don’t want to just end the war, I want to end the mindset that got us into war in the first place,” Barack Obama said referring to Iraq while campaigning in January 2008. On January 22, 2009, two days after taking office, Obama appeared to be making good on that aspiration as he signed [...]
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Prosecutors say a Dutch citizen has been arrested in Spain in connection with what experts described as the biggest cyberattack in the history of the Internet, launched against an anti-spam watchdog group last month. The Netherlands National Prosecution Office said a 35-year-old suspect it identified only by his initials, S.K., was arrested Thursday at his [...]
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The bomb attack on innocent civilians and subsequent shooting of two law enforcement officials was a reprehensible act of terrorism, but the saturation media coverage and resulting societal frenzy is unwarranted and actually harmful. Apparently, the lone surviving terrorist, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, told the FBI, before receiving notice of his Miranda rights, that he and his [...]
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President Obama’s policies have been criticized by some as harming the economy. The “stimulus” policies he has put into place are not working, according to critics. Indeed, the economic recovery has been unusually slow. Here and here are two of the many articles critical of the president’s economic policies. When I Googled “stimulus not working” [...]
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Three hundred Jordanians have demonstrated against the proposed deployment of 200 US troops on their nation’s border with Syria. The protest comes as Jordanian monarch King Abdullah II meets with US President Barack Obama. Leftists and independents chanted, “No to US troops in Jordan, this is not in our national interest” during the Friday rally [...]
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New York Police have found part of the landing gear of what is believed to be one of jets flown into the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001. The five-foot piece of metal, including a clearly visible Boeing identification number, was found wedged between two New York City buildings, police said. It was found [...]
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By Linda Karadaku and Igor Jovanovic Leaders in Pristina and Belgrade are urging Serbs living in northern Kosovo to accept the historic agreement that allows both countries to follow a path to the EU. “I call on the Kosovo Serbs to unite and carry out the agreement, because we cannot do without our people, nor [...]
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By Dan Robinson President Barack Obama says the world cannot stand by and permit any use of chemical weapons, and says the United States will work with international partners to vigorously investigate evidence in hand so far. In remarks before his meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah, Obama said the U.S. now has “some evidence” with [...]
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By Reyhan Güner Murat Karayılan, the chief of PKK’s armed wing, declared the withdrawal of PKK members from Turkey during a press conference yesterday, on April 25, with some of his deputies. The press conference was held in Kandil Mountain with the participation of almost 50 Turkish and foreign media members and reporters. The reporters [...]
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Scientists have long observed that species seem to have become increasingly capable of evolving in response to changes in the environment. But computer science researchers now say that the popular explanation of competition to survive in nature may not actually be necessary for evolvability to increase. In a paper published this week in PLOS ONE, [...]
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