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Nigerian Violence Leads President Jonathan To Declare Emergency In 3 States

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By Heather Murdock After an upsurge of violence in Nigeria’s north, President Goodluck Jonathan has declared a state of emergency in three states and ordered the immediate deployment of more troops to the region. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan announced emergency rule in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, northern states that have been hard hit by the [...]

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Georgian Prime Minister Says Sexual Minorities Have Equal Rights

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(RFE/RL) — Georgia’s prime minister says sexual minorities in his country “have the same rights as any other social groups.” Talking to journalists in Tbilisi on May 14, Bizdina Ivanishvili said although there are groups in Georgia that do not accept sexual minorities as equals, society will “gradually get used to it.” Ivanishvili added that [...]

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Three Controversies Swirl Around Obama Administration

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By Kent Klein President Barack Obama’s administration is facing tough questions on three separate matters, most recently the government seizure of telephone records from news reporters. Reporters peppered White House Press Secretary Jay Carney with questions Tuesday about each of the three issues. The Associated Press news agency said Monday the U.S. Department of Justice [...]

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Rosneft Sign MoU With PetroVietnam To Strenghten Cooperation

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OJSC Oil Company Rosneft (Rosneft) and Vietnam Oil and Gas Corporation “PetroVietnam” (PetroVietnam) signed Tuesday a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Sochi to strengthen cooperation between the two oil and gas companies. The MOU – signed by Rosneft President and Chairman of the Management Board Igor Sechin and PetroVietnam Chairman of the Board of Directors [...]

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Putin To Send Letter To Obama Addressing Missile Defense, Security

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President Vladimir Putin will take up the issues of missile defense and cooperation between the US and Russian security and intelligence services in a written reply to US President Barack Obama’s recent message to the Russian leader, a Russian presidential aide said on Wednesday. Putin’s letter is a response to a message from Obama which [...]

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Smithsonian To Launch World’s 1st Yoga History Exhibit

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“Yoga: The Art of Transformation”, termed as “world’s first exhibition of the visual history of yoga”, will be held at Smithsonian in Washington DC (USA), world’s largest museum and research complex, from October 19 to January 26 next. Through over 130 stone and bronze sculptures, devotional icons, illustrated manuscripts, court paintings, photographs, books, missionary postcards, [...]

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US Research Study Spells Boom For Sri Lanka’s Cinnamon Industry

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By Hassina Leelarathna Results of a scientific research study just released in the US and publicized by news media worldwide present a game-changing bonanza for Sri Lanka’s cinnamon industry needs. In the first known US study to analyze levels of the banned toxic chemical coumarin in cinnamon products, University of Mississippi scientists have basically given [...]

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Post-Conflict Syria – OpEd

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When the dust settles on Syria’s civil war, what sort of a situation will the world in general, and the Middle East in particular, be facing? Even if Russia and the US manage in their current discussions to agree that a negotiated settlement is the way forward, there is no guarantee that either the Assad [...]

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Macedonia Population Drained By Emigration, Report Says

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By Sinisa Jakov Marusic A new European statistical report saying that more than ten per cent of Macedonians have left their country in little more than a decade has stirred up a debate on emigration. In a new report on migration, the European statistics agency EUROSTAT said that from 1998 to 2011, some 230,000 people [...]

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Serbian Orthodox Church Dignitaries Face Criticism After Remarks

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By Ivana Jovanovic The Serbian Orthodox Church is facing criticism after some of its representatives took part in a protest against the recent agreement reached by Serbia and Kosovo in Brussels, and made what analysts and officials are calling “threats against the state.” Serbs from Northern Kosovo, who do not accept the recent agreement, organised [...]

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Agreement Between Kosovo And Serbia

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The agreement is an important step in the direction of establishing good-neighbourly relations between the two countries, although it does not determine the ultimate success of the Kosovo-Serbian dialogue. The question of how to implement the agreement, however, remains open. By Jan Muś On 19th April, an agreement was signed in Brussels between the governments [...]

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Chinese Prime Minister’s Visit To India – Analysis

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Prime Minister Li Kequiang of China, who took over in March last, is to visit India, Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany during his first round of overseas visits after taking over as the Prime Minister. His clubbing together his visits to India and Pakistan on his way to Europe indicates the equal importance which the newly-elected [...]

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Chinese Incursion In Ladakh: Local Perspectives – Analysis

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By Zainab Akhter Although India and China have decided to end the standoff in Ladakh along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), for the people of the region, the incursions in the border area are not a new occurrence. They have been witness to such activities for a long time now. This commentary is an [...]

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NASA Probe Counts Space Rock Impacts On Mars

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Scientists using images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year forming craters at least 12.8 feet (3.9 meters) across. Researchers have identified 248 new impact sites on parts of the Martian surface in the past decade, using images [...]

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Kuwait: Draft Law Threatens Free Speech, Says HRW

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Kuwaiti authorities should amend a proposed new press law that would increase state control of the news media and further curtail the right to free speech. The draft should be revised to protect free speech, consistent with requirements under international law, not curtail it, Human Rights Watch said. The government proposed a draft Unified Media [...]

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How The Obama Administration Is Strangling Press Freedom – OpEd

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Whether or not this has been formulated in written policy, it seems clear that the way the Obama administration attempts to control the release of classified information is by trying to exert as much control over those who receive such information as those who disseminate it. The leaker and the recipient are treated as sharing [...]

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IAEA, Iran Fail To Clinch Deal On Tehran’s Nuclear Program

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Talks between the UN nuclear watchdog and Iran about Tehran’s nuclear program failed to clinch an accord and no date has been set for more meetings, a senior UN official said on Wednesday, May 15, according to Reuters. “We had intensive discussions today but did not finalize the structured approach document that has been under [...]

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Google’s Chrome Browser Hits 750 Million Monthly Active Users

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Sundar Pichai, Google’s senior vice president for Chrome and Android announced that the company’s Chrome browser now has more than 750 million monthly active users, TechCrunch reports. That’s up from 450 million users Google announced at last year’s I/O. This number includes both desktop and mobile users. Google launched Chrome in 2008 and since then, [...]

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Strategies To Achieve A Net-Zero Energy Home

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Chances are you know how many miles your car logs for each gallon or tankful of gas, but you probably have only a foggy idea of how much energy your house consumes, even though home energy expenditures often account for a larger share of the household budget. This disparity in useful energy data is just [...]

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IMF’s Lagarde: ‘Stability And Growth For Poverty Reduction’– Speech

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By Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund Bretton Woods Committee Annual Meeting, Washington DC, May 15, 2013 It is a great pleasure to be here with this distinguished audience, and to host the Bretton Woods Committee Annual Meeting at the IMF. Let me thank Bill Frenzel and Richard Debs for their welcome. “Ending poverty [...]

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