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Lure Your Enemy Onto The Roof, Then Take Away The Ladder – Analysis

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By Mandip Singh Among the 36 stratagems attributed to Sun Tzu, there are some that have never lost relevance even with the changing times, weaponry or tactics of modern warfare. One such stratagem is called “Lure Your Enemy onto the Roof, Then Take Away the Ladder”. This has been explained by way of an interesting [...]

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US Justice Department Acknowledges Surveillance Of AP Phone Conversations

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The president of the Associated Press has sent a letter of protest to US Attorney General Eric Holder over the Department of Justice’s broad surveillance of individual reporters’ phone conversations. In a letter received by the AP on Friday, the Justice Department acknowledged but offered no explanation for the seizure of two months’ worth of [...]

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Massoud Barzani: A Regional Powerbroker Rises In Iraqi Kurdistan – Analysis

Saudi Arabia Says Coronavirus Not Spreading

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By MD Rasooldeen The Ministry of Health said yesterday that it had stopped the spread of coronavirus from Al-Ahsa in the Eastern Province to other parts of the Kingdom. The virus had reached Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam, but not further incidences have been reported. “No new cases of the virus were found in any part [...]

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Angelina Jolie Has Double Mastectomy To Prevent Breast Cancer

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US film star Angelina Jolie revealed Tuesday that she recently underwent a double mastectomy to reduce her genetically high predisposition for the cancer that killed her mother at age 56. Writing in an op-ed for The New York Times, Jolie said that genetic testing revealed she carries the “faulty” BRCA 1 gene and her doctors [...]

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Kerry Says Syria Peace Talks Expected In June

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he expects Syria’s government and the main opposition coalition to attend a peace conference in early June, with the goal of ending their two-year conflict. Speaking during a visit to Stockholm, Kerry said Tuesday that Russia has informed him that the Syrian government has presented names of potential [...]

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Elections: Pakistan 2013 To India 2014 – Analysis

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By Dr. Rajesh Tembarai Krishnamachari In this essay, we analyze the results of the recently concluded elections in Pakistan through the prism of voting patterns of four non-overlapping social categories. Positing that these categories extend to contemporary India, offers us an insight into their likely voting behavior in the Indian elections scheduled for 2014. For [...]

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Zuckerberg’s Lobby Group Losing Top Donors Over Keystone XL Support

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Though only officially announced in April, the new political lobbying group spearheaded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has already waded into controversy after a subsidiary sponsored a television ad for the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. FWD.us, the new group comprised of Silicon Valley heavyweights such as LinkedIn CEO and founder Reid Hoffman, super-angel [...]

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What Is The Agenda Of Sri Lanka’s Ministry Of External Affairs For CHOGM? – OpEd

Serbian Church Likely To Back Government On Kosovo Deal

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By Bojana Barlovac At its forthcoming annual congress, the Serbian Orthodox Church is expected to discuss the EU-brokered deal with Kosovo and support the government on the issue, experts believe. Serbian Orthodox Church leaders will decide the religious body’s stance on Kosovo this month at the annual session of its governing body, the Holy Synod, [...]

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Naxal Violence: A Profile Of Sabyasachi Panda – Analysis

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By Deepak Kumar Nayak The CPI (Maoist) organisation has asked Sabyasachi Panda, to return cash, goods, and arms of the parent organisation. Panda, the former Odisha State Organising Committee (OSOC) secretary of the CPI (Maoist) was expelled after being termed a renegade. He and his group have been cornered in the jungles bordering Ganjam, Gajapati, [...]

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The Triumph Of Progressivism: Graduation 2013 And 1968 – OpEd

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Many of you soon-to-be college graduates are determined to make the world a better place. Some of you are choosing careers in public service or joining nonprofits or volunteering in your communities. But many of you are cynical about politics. You see the system as inherently corrupt. You doubt real progress is possible. “What chance [...]

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Pakistan’s Elections: Turning Over A New Leaf – OpEd

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Pakistan’s elections come at a key junction in the region’s geopolitics, with the public firmly opposed to the US ‘war on terror’ being conducted on Pakistani soil with no regard for its sovereignty. Pakistan’s new prime minister has a mandate to take his country in a new direction, but will he use it? Steel magnate [...]

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Kurdish Card Played By Washington – Analysis

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By Olga Zhigalina Saudi Arabia and the other Persian Gulf monarchies have an interest in the project to establish a “Greater Kurdistan,” which is an important part of America’s “Greater Middle East” doctrine. These monarchies want Iraq, Syria, Iran and Turkey to be quickly dismembered. This is not the first time Washington has tried playing [...]

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Obama, British Prime Minister Reaffirm Security Commitment

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By Army Sgt. 1st Class Tyrone C. Marshall Jr. President Barack Obama met yesterday with British Prime Minister David Cameron to discuss shared peace in the Middle East, future roles in Afghanistan and other global security developments. Speaking during a news conference at the White House, the president shared some of the global security issues [...]

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Energy For Sustainable Development In Asia Pacific – Analysis

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Energy is central to sustainable development and poverty reduction efforts. It affects all aspects of development — social, economic, and environmental — including livelihoods, access to water, agricultural productivity, health, population levels, education, and gender-related issues. None of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) can be met without major improvement in the quality and quantity of [...]

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Fall And Rise Of Khan: Pakistan’s General Elections 2013 – Analysis

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Metaphor of an Empire Empires rose and fell in the history but none fell before the rise. The empire (a metaphor) characterised by his appeal to the masses’ passion rather than territories that is christened by (Imran) Khan, a cricketer turned philanthropist and later a politician, saturates the nation morally as does a mystic inspires [...]

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Nuclear Industry Re-Energizing After Fukushima – Analysis

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Reconstructing nuclear confidence in post-Fukushima world is a long and painful process. But real-life energy demands especially in the developing countries predetermine a significant share of nuclear energy in their national energy consumption structure. Russian experience in this field can offer some interesting solutions to the decision-makers. By Igor Alexeev The Fukushima incident has contributed [...]

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ASEM Custom Cooperation Experts Meet To Boost Trade

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By Shada Islam European and Asian representatives will meet in Prague on May 15-17 to discuss ways of enhancing customs cooperation between the two regions. With trade between the EU and Asian ASEM countries valued at almost 900 billion euros a year, agreement on more efficient customs procedures and greater transparency in the sector is [...]

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Obama Says Won’t Tolerate IRS Partisanship, Dismisses ‘Sideshows’ On Benghazi – OpEd

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