World leaders including King Abdullah of Jordan, the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry are set to attend this weekend’s World Economic Forum (WEF) in Jordan, which will focus on the key economic challenges faced in the Middle East and North Africa. The forum, held at the Dead Sea, will [...]
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Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs, Teo Chee Hean, met this week with INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble as part of collaborative efforts between Singapore and INTERPOL against 21st century threats such as cybercrime. During his visit to the INTERPOL General Secretariat headquarters, the first [...]
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His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President of the UAE and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai ordered Thursday the drafting of a decree making it a criminal offense the import, sale, purchase and use of anabolic steroids in all horse related sports in the UAE, reports the Emirates News Agency, WAM. [...]
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The Tabloid “New Cold War” Term There continues to be some disagreement and misunderstanding of the past and present situations in Russia. Spying, Syria, the Magnitsky Act and the terrorist attack at the 2013 Boston Marathon, are among the recent news headlines which relate to this matter. As someone who welcomes the opportunity to engage [...]
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The consolidation of support for the social movement among Kosovo Serbs and the efforts of Milošević to break the resistance of Kosovo’s officials to the constitutional reform gradually affected political alliances in the provincial leadership, which had rarely followed ethnonational cleavage. By Momčilo Pavlović Before 1988, political alliances in Kosovo’s leadership had rarely followed ethnonational [...]
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Another EU–Russia summit will be held in Yekaterinburg on 3–4 June 2013. It is expected that the agenda of the upcoming event will overlap with the main topics of Russian-European government consultations that took place in March. According to the media reports, the parties intend to discuss trade and economic partnership, cooperation in the field [...]
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A series of sex scandals involving underage girls has prompted widespread public anger and calls for a review of Chinese laws, lawyers said on Friday. Earlier this month, official media reported that six primary schoolgirls aged around 10 and 11 were taken by a headmaster and a government official to hotels in Hainan island’s Wanning [...]
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By Andy Dabilis With Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party accused by critics of being behind the increasing assaults on immigrants as it rises in popularity, Jewish community leaders are worried about what they said are the extremists’ anti-Semitic positions. The calls come as Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is struggling to find a way to deal [...]
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As Afghanistan enters the endgame of its 13-year partnership with the US, Afghan president Hamid Karzai has added a new twist to its reliable relationship with India by presenting prime minister Manmohan Singh with a “wish list” for military equipment so as to give teeth to the Strategic Partnership Agreement signed between both countries in [...]
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By Dmitry Minin The situation surrounding Syria is like a pendulum; first it swings in the direction of a major war, then suddenly a peaceful resolution glimmers. Observers barely have a chance to evaluate the new tendency before the pendulum starts to swing in the opposite direction again. The amplitude of its swing is so [...]
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In a review of German energy policies launched Friday, the International Energy Agency commended Germany for its commitment to developing a low-carbon energy system over the long term – in particular its comprehensive energy strategy, ambitious renewable energy targets and plans to reduce energy consumption. The report noted that Germany has successfully implemented a broad [...]
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When there is this, that is With the arising of this, that arises When this is not, neither is that With the cessation of this, that ceases – Law of Universal Nature1 Introduction The concept of dependent origination (paticcasamuppāda)2 was developed by the spiritual teacher Siddhārtha Gautama who became known as the Buddha upon enlightenment.3 [...]
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Guatemala on Friday extradited ex-president Alfonso Portillo to the United States to face money laundering charges. “Farewell, people of Guatemala,” the former president said as he boarded a flight at a Guatemalan military air force base. Portillo, who had been fighting extradition, earlier on Friday “received a letter ordering him” to the military base, so [...]
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(CORDIS) — Robots could become a lot more ‘sensitive’ thanks to new artificial skins and sensor technologies developed by European scientists. Leading to better robotic platforms that could one day be used in industry, hospitals and even at home. The new capabilities, and a production system for building touch-sensitivity into different robots, will improve the [...]
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Google is considering buying map-software provider Waze, setting up a possible bidding war with Facebook, Businessweek reported citing people familiar with the matter. Waze is fielding expressions of interest from multiple parties and is seeking more than $1 billion, said one of the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private. [...]
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Malaysian police have arrested four opposition figures, including a prominent parliamentarian, in an apparent crackdown on government critics less than three weeks after elections. Among those arrested is Tian Chua, vice president of the opposition Pakatan Rakyat (People’s Alliance), led by Anwar Ibrahim. He tweeted on May 23 that police had taken him into custody [...]
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Serious electoral flaws and human rights abuses by the Iranian government undermine any meaningful prospect of free and fair elections on June 14, 2013, said Human Rights Watch. Dozens of political activists and journalists detained during the violent government crackdown that followed the disputed 2009 presidential election remain in prison, two former presidential candidates are [...]
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“For the record, I do not believe it would be constitutional for the government to target and kill any U.S. citizen — with a drone, or with a shotgun — without due process, nor should any President deploy armed drones over U.S. soil.” In saying this during his speech yesterday at the National Defense University, [...]
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CAN A law be both ridiculous and dangerous? It certainly can. Witness the ongoing initiative of our government to enact a law that would define the State of Israel as “The Nation-State of the Jewish People”. Ridiculous 1 – because what and who is the “Jewish people”? The Jews of the world are a mixed [...]
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The international mainstream media is back in action with article headings reading “India has 3000 child soldiers”. Many would jump to the conclusion that the Indian Army is forcibly kidnapping and recruiting child soldiers. Is this so? Sri Lanka faced a similar media onslaught where many reporters were hesitant to declare that it was the [...]
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