By Yves Engler While the Harper Conservative government has loudly proclaimed its close ties to Israel, most Canadians would be surprised to learn the Tories have decided to make the two countries blood brothers. In the international affairs equivalent of a Mafia initiation ceremony Canada has sworn undying loyalty and to be a faithful soldier [...]
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(RFE/RL) — U.S. authorities say a cybercrime ring stole $45 million by hacking into a database of prepaid debit cards and making withdrawals from thousands of automated cash machines in 27 countries. It is being called one of the biggest bank thefts in history. Countries where cash machines were plundered include France, Germany, Britain, Italy, [...]
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Israel has given the go-ahead to build nearly 300 homes in the settlement of Beit El near Ramallah, a spokesman said, just two days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu allegedly ordered a freeze on construction. “The Civil Administration has given the green light for 296 housing units at Beit El, but this is only [...]
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By Nang Mya Nadi The Burmese army attacked another outpost belonging to the Shan State Army-South (SSA-S) close to Sino-Burmese border on Thursday morning, according to rebel sources. A spokesperson for the ethnic rebel group told DVB that an outpost in northern Shan state’s Namhkam township came under attack by about 50 Burmese army soldiers [...]
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Has the bell begun to toll for the GOP? The question arises while reading an analysis of Census Bureau statistics on the 2012 election by Dan Balz and Ted Mellnik. One sentence in their Washington Post story fairly leaps out: “The total number of white voters actually decreased between 2008 and 2012, the first such [...]
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found the building blocks for Earth-sized planets in an unlikely place– the atmospheres of a pair of burned-out stars called white dwarfs. These dead stars are located 150 light-years from Earth in a relatively young star cluster, Hyades, in the constellation Taurus. The star cluster is only 625 million years [...]
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By Guy Lasnier The era is long gone when a romantic breakup meant ripped-up photos and burned love letters. Today, digital photos and emails can be quickly deleted but the proliferation of social media has made forgetting a bigger chore. What about the ubiquitous digital records of a once beloved that lurk on Facebook, tumblr, [...]
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A University of Southampton professor has carried out the most detailed analysis ever of the archaeological remains of the lost medieval town of Dunwich, dubbed ‘Britain’s Atlantis’. Present day Dunwich is a village 14 miles south of Lowestoft in Suffolk, but it was once a thriving port – similar in size to 14th Century London. [...]
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Sister Megan Rice of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus was convicted May 8 for breaking into and causing damage at a Tennessee nuclear weapons manufacturing facility. The 83-year-old nun was accompanied in the July break-in by Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed, all of whom are members of Transform Now Plowshares. The three were [...]
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By Saeed Al-Abyad and Hussain Al-Saqqaf Unregistered SIM cards are still being sold locally despite a ban by Saudi Arabia’s Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC), the country’s telecommunications regulatory authority. The government recently introduced regulations requiring all subscribers to recharge their prepaid SIM cards by providing their identity card numbers or residency permit numbers. [...]
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The fact that South Africa, in late March, hosted the Fifth Summit of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) shows just how quickly the continent is changing ,” according to President Jacob Zuma in his opening speech at the World Economic Forum in Africa that is taking place now in Cape Town Speaking [...]
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Africa’s attitude towards itself and how it interacts with the world has changed for the better, South Africa President Jacob Zuma said today at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa held in the city. Speaking at the event’s main plenary session, Zuma said 50 years after the setting up of the Organisation for Africa [...]
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Bilateral relations between South Africa and the oil rich Azerbaijan will come under the spotlight this week. International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) Deputy Minister Marius Fransman arrived in the capital Buku for the two-day official visit which will review the relations between the two countries. Fransman, according to his department, will hold discussions with his [...]
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By Karen Parrish The United States faces “astounding challenges” surrounding its strategic interests in the Middle East, but is working with allies and partners to comprehensively address the political, economic and security uncertainty, and the threats of extremism and proliferation that beset the region, America’s defense chief said today. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel traveled to [...]
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The 10 Iranian political prisoners who were moved to solitary confinement and began a hunger strike to protest that move, have ended their strike after being returned to the general ward of the prison. The Kaleme website reported on Wednesday May 8 that the prisoners are now in the general ward of the prison and [...]
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Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has reaffirmed Tehran’s opposition to any foreign intervention in Syria, calling for a negotiated solution to the crisis in the Arab country. “We reject any foreign intervention in Syria and we don’t want Syria to plunge into crisis…,” Salehi said. “The Syria crisis and its consequences for the region [...]
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Hezbollah Should Keep Away from Syria Crisis Interview with Hojjatollah Joudaki, analyst of Regional Issues and Iran’s Former Cultural Advisor to Egypt Perhaps, it would be no exaggeration if one claimed that the biggest war which is currently raging in the Middle East region is a war between Shia and Sunni Muslims. Not a single [...]
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Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi pushed Friday for amendments to the country’s constitution before 2015, when elections will be held in which she could be barred from becoming president. “For us, we want constitutional amendments before 2015,” the Nobel laureate told a press conference in the Burmese commercial capital Rangoon. “The sooner, the [...]
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By Abubakar Siddique for RFE/RL Pakistan’s parliamentary elections are historic in that they mark the country’s first democratic transition of power. But the lead-up to the May 11 vote also exposed some worrying democratic shortcomings. Islamic militants left their bloody mark on the elections through numerous bombings and assassinations intended to keep secular parties from [...]
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By Svetla Dimitrova The results of Bulgaria’s upcoming early parliamentary elections have become even more unpredictable after citizens’ attention has been turned towards a sensational scandal involving illegal wiretapping of the country’s top politicians, analysts said. The scandal has affected the election campaign, shifting the focus away from parties’ programmes and platforms, Evgeniy Dainov, a [...]
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