Will Iran’s Former President Rafsanjani Be Allowed To Run? – Analysis

May 20, 2013, 9:47 pm

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By Golnaz Esfandiari (RFE/RL) — Recent comments by members Iran’s Guardians Council, the hard-line oversight body that vets all election candidates, have raised doubt that former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani will be allowed to run in the June 14 presidential elections. Hard-liners loyal to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei consider the 78-year-old Rafsanjani a serious [...]

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Promoting International Joint Investigations To Counter Terrorism In South-East Asia – OpEd

May 20, 2013, 9:59 pm

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By Mike Smith Terrorism continues to pose a grave threat to the political stability, economic progress and security, not just of individual States, but of entire regions. It is therefore essential that States work to strengthen their cooperation and afford one another the greatest measure of assistance in connection with criminal investigations and proceedings in [...]

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HRW Says No Progress In Sri Lanka Four Years On

May 20, 2013, 10:54 pm

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Respect for basic rights and liberties has declined in Sri Lanka in the four years since the government defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). This week marks the fourth anniversary of the brutal civil war’s end. Since the end of the 26-year-long civil war, the Sri Lankan government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa has [...]

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Oil Prices Rise As Investors Await Federal Reserve’s Latest Views On US Economy

May 20, 2013, 10:58 pm

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The price of oil rose toward $97 per barrel Tuesday, May 21, but gains were checked as investors waited for the Federal Reserve’s latest views on the U.S. economy, The Associated Press reported. Benchmark crude for June delivery was up 16 cents to $96.87 per barrel at midday Bangkok time in electronic trading on the [...]

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Mother Nature’s Message To Mankind‏ – OpEd

May 21, 2013, 8:40 am

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After a tornado tore through Moore, Oklahoma in 1999, people returned and rebuilt their homes and other structures destroyed by it. Many of the homes, instead of including a basement, were rebuilt on concrete slabs that offer no protection when high winds tear them loose. The elementary school was believed to be strong enough to [...]

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India: Protest Meeting Demands Punishment Of Media House Attackers

May 21, 2013, 8:54 am

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A protest meeting of media at Guwahati Press Club on Tuesday (May 21, 2013) has urged Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar to take appropriate actions to punish the assailants, who killed three newspaper employees in Agartala on last Sunday (May 19). The meeting also resolved in demanding the Communist party ruled State government to compensate [...]

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Using Gold Nanoparticles To Fight Ovarian Cancer

May 21, 2013, 8:57 am

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Positively charged gold nanoparticles are usually toxic to cells, but cancer cells somehow manage to avoid nanoparticle toxicity. Mayo Clinic researchers found out why and determined how to make the nanoparticles effective against ovarian cancer cells. “This study identifies a novel mechanism that protects ovarian cancer cells by preventing the cell death or apoptosis which [...]

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US Continues Crackdown On Bitcoin

May 21, 2013, 9:01 am

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By Valentin Mândrăşescu Bitcoin, the digital cryptocurrency, is starting to attract the attention of the US government. It seems that the American authorities would like to destroy the digital currency before it could become a widespread alternative to the US dollar. The Department of Homeland Security has closed Mt.Gox, the biggest Bitcoin exchange in America, [...]

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Bolivia: Morales To Run For President Third Term

May 21, 2013, 9:36 am

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While in the Andean nation the mobilization called by the COB (Bolivian Workers Center) main trade union demanding reform of the pension law continues, the government approved a constitutional amendment to allow President Evo Morales to run for a third term in 2014. The amendment was signed into law by Vice President Garcia Linera in [...]

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Drone Strikes In Pakistan Won’t Eliminate Jihadi Threat

May 21, 2013, 9:52 am

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Drone strikes alone will not eliminate the jihadi threat in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), but rather the extension of Pakistani law and full constitutional rights to the region is the only long-term solution. This is the main argument of the International Crisis Group, in its latest report, Drones: Myths and Reality in Pakistan, which [...]

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Afghanistan Sees Sharp Increase In Women Jailed For ‘Moral Crimes’

May 21, 2013, 10:05 am

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There has been a sharp rise in Afghanistan of women and girls being imprisoned for ‘moral crimes,’ warned Human Rights Watch this Tuesday. Upon that backdrop, HRW is urging the Afghan government to take urgent steps to halt what it describes as an alarming increase of these detentions, although it notes senior government officials in [...]

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Uzbek Radical Arrested On Terrorism And WMD Charges In Northwest US

May 21, 2013, 10:10 am

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By John Storey Fazliddin Kurbanov, a man with no known criminal record besides two traffic violations, was arrested by U.S. federal agents last Thursday at his home in Boise, Idaho after being indicted on charges related to weapons of mass destruction and terrorism. Two separate federal grand juries in Utah and Idaho indicted Kurbanov on [...]

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Afghanistan: Radio Station Technician And Host Murdered In Kapisa Valley

May 21, 2013, 11:10 am

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Reporters Without Borders said Tuesday that it is saddened to learn that the body of Mohammad Hassin Hashemi, a 30-year-old employee of local radio Nadjhrab in the northeastern Kapisa Valley, was found near his home Monday, 18 days after he disappeared. Hashemi was apparently shot in the head the day after he went missing. His [...]

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Kyrgyzstan May Not Renew US Lease On Manas Air Base

May 21, 2013, 11:51 am

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The Kyrgyz government has penned a bill that would see the closure of the US-leased Manas air base in July next year. The country will lose $60 million for not extending the contract. The US has maintained a presence at Manas International Airport near the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek since 2001. The base has been a [...]

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Fear And Loathing In Kosovo – Analysis

May 21, 2013, 11:53 am

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The conflict over the north has been – and remains – zero sum. No matter what the Kosovo Albanians say to their internationals, the local Serbs do not believe that they will be allowed to remain in possession of the land, water and border with Serbia in the north should they be forced to accept [...]

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EU Threat To Visa Regime Worries Macedonia

May 21, 2013, 11:58 am

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By Sinisa Jakov Marusic In a bid to head off moves to reassess the visa-free regime, Macedonia says the number of asylum seekers in the EU from the Balkans is falling. Macedonia’s Foreign Ministry says numbers of asylum seekers heading for the EU from the region are falling. The ministry spoke out following reports of [...]

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Global Action Needed To Fight Organized Crime Links To Illegal Wildlife Trade

May 21, 2013, 12:06 pm

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There is a need for a more systematic and global approach to information gathering in the fight against the illegal trade in wildlife, according to INTERPOL. INTERPOL argued for the changes Tuesday at a conference hosted by The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge, and which was convened by The Prince’s International Sustainability [...]

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ISAF Says Not Seeing Mass Group Of Insurgents In Helmand

May 21, 2013, 12:14 pm

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The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan denied Tuesday media reports of a massive group of insurgents attacking checkpoints in Helmand, Afghanistan. While admitting that there have been reports of some attacks on police checkpoints, Col. Thomas Collins, an ISAF spokesperson, said the numbers that have been reported are exaggerated. “The International Security Assistance [...]

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Catholic Church Sees Numbers Increase Across Global South

May 21, 2013, 12:49 pm

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By Alessandro Speciale (Religion News Service) — Gains in Asia and Africa are making up for losses in Europe among the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, according to Vatican statistics released May 13, signaling a shift of the church’s center of gravity toward the Global South that was heralded by the election of the first Latin [...]

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ACLU Sues FBI Over Surveillance Of News Organizations

May 21, 2013, 1:03 pm

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Tuesday it has sued the FBI in a freedom of the press lawsuit on behalf of two editors at a libertarian online magazine. According to the ACLU, after learning that their Bay Area-based site, Antiwar.com, was the subject of FBI surveillance, Eric Garris and Justin Raimondo sought the [...]

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