(RFE/RL) — The United States has lifted a ban on sales of communications equipment to Iranians and opened access to Internet services and social media. The move by the U.S. Treasury was made in consultation with the State Department in a bid to help Iranians circumvent government controls on the free flow of information, according [...]
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By Jaya Ramachandran A new poll finds that Europeans are growing dissatisfied with the inequities of the economic system, which are also rooted in the “still rising unemployment” that, as the OECD’s Chief Economist Pier Carlo Padoan avers, present “the most pressing challenge for policy makers” in the euro area. The euro area consists of [...]
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By Monia Ghanmi Three “Femen” activists staged a topless protest in downtown Tunis, a day before the trial of Tunisian feminist Amina. Amina Sboui, known by her pseudonym Amina Tyler, went on trial Thursday (May 30th) for illegally possessing pepper spray, AFP reported. She was arrested May 19th in Kairouan after she allegedly wrote the [...]
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By Inge Fryklund Rebellious American colonists once proclaimed that “taxation without representation is tyranny.” A corollary is more significant in the modern world: “government without taxation results in tyranny.” This phenomenon is primarily observed in developing countries afflicted by the “resource curse,” in which the discovery of valuable natural resources has tended to exacerbate cronyism [...]
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The new Secretary of State John Kerry taking four trips to the Israeli/Palestinian region in the past two months means yet another U.S. effort for a negotiated peace process between the Palestinians (under ruthless occupation) and the very dominant Israelis. Why should the prospects be any better than the failed attempts by the esteemed former [...]
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Many billions of Euros are being extracted from Europe’s vassal-debtor nations – Spain, Greece, Portugal and Ireland –and transferred to the creditor banks, financial speculators and swindlers located in the City of London, Wall Street, Geneva and Frankfort. Under what has been termed ‘austerity’ programs vast tributary payments are amassed by ruling Conservative and Social [...]
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A giant asteroid will zip past Earth on Friday at the relatively close space distance of 3.6 million miles (5.8 million km) and it’s not alone. Astronomers studying the asteroid on Thursday noticed that it is bringing along a passenger – its own moon. Telescopes around the world began picking up distant images of the [...]
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Manssor Arbabsiar, aka “Mansour Arbabsiar,” was sentenced Thursday in New York City federal court to 25 years in prison for participating in a plot to murder the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the U.S. while the Ambassador was in the U.S., announced John Carlin, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division at the Department [...]
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Repsol’s Executive Chairman, Antonio Brufau, informed the company’s shareholders Friday attending the Annual General Meeting of progress on the 2012-2016 Strategic Plan, which has transformed Repsol into one of the energy companies with best growth prospects thanks to its intense and successful exploration and production activity. Brufau pledged to continue with the commitment to create [...]
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A Bangkok criminal court investigating Italian freelance journalist Fabio Polenghi’s death during clashes between security forces and “Red Shirt” demonstrators in Bangkok on 19 May 2010 ruled yesterday that a soldier fired the bullet that caused his death. After talking to Polenghi’s sister, Elisabetta Polenghi, Reporters Without Borders urges the authorities not to pardon those [...]
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Some on the left are writing hopefully these days that perhaps President Obama has finally realized he needs to back off on his warlike posture on drones and the War on Terror. They are seeing his talk about scaling back the use of drone killing machines and of reconsidering or having his “Justice” Department “investigate” [...]
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Bahrain police early on Thursday arrested 10 suspects after a bomb attack that injured seven policemen on patrol a few hours earlier. Two arrest announcements, one related to seven suspects and the other to three, were posted an hour apart on the ministry’s Twitter account. The police added that the search operation and investigation they [...]
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By Marija Ristic and Boris Pavelic Serbian state security officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic have returned home to Belgrade after the Hague Tribunal found them not guilty of war crimes in Bosnia and Croatia. Former head of Serbian state security Jovica Stanisic and his right-hand man, Franko Simatovic, former commander of the interior ministry’s [...]
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By Shada Islam Asian and European governments, business leaders and civil society talk to each other in numerous fora and on an expanding array of political, economic and social questions. They meet at bilateral level, in regional cooperation meetings and within the multilateral framework provided by the United Nations and other international organisations. These gatherings [...]
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By highlighting again the atrocities of the war in Herzeg-Bosna, and by pinning liability for grave crimes upon some of that war’s leaders, the Hague Tribunal may have been lending moral stigma to a political project that threatens again to awaken from an extended slumber. By Matthew Parish Amidst angry debates over the Srebrenica massacre and the [...]
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The father of a Chechen immigrant shot dead in Florida while being questioned by the FBI in connection with the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings claims his son was killed “execution style.” At a press conference in Moscow on Thursday, Abdul-Baki Todashev displayed photographs showing the body of a young man who looked like his [...]
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A statue of Hindu goddess Saraswati has reportedly been erected about a mile away from White House in Washington DC. This 10-foot high statue raised by Embassy of Indonesia on public space on Massachusetts Avenue NW was unanimously approved by Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 2B Dupont Circle. It is said to be even taller than [...]
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By Geethanjali Nataraj The 8th World Chambers Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce World Chambers Federation held in Doha, Qatar, on 25 April gave hope for the conclusion to the Doha Round. The Congress began with a call to break the 12-year-old deadlock on the Round. On the opening day of the event, all [...]
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Sen. Carl Levin was aghast. Before his committee sat, unapologetic and uncontrite, Apple CEO Tim Cook, whose company had paid no U.S. corporate income taxes on the $74 billion it had earned abroad in recent years. “Apple has sought the Holy Grail of tax avoidance,” said Levin. “Apple has exploited an absurdity.” Actually, Apple had [...]
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A US Muslim alleges he was held illegally for 106 days by FBI agents and was subjected to severe beatings. The plaintiff said he was abused when he refused to become an informant at the Portland Mosque he attended while living in the US. Yonas Fikre, a Sudanese man of Eritrean descent has filed a [...]
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