Iran’s judiciary should not implement provisions of the new penal code that violate basic rights, including execution by stoning, said Human Rights Watch on Monday. The Guardian Council, composed of 12 religious jurists, reinserted the stoning provision into a previous version of the draft law which had omitted stoning to death as the explicit penalty [...]
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Poland is committed to modernizing its armed forces despite prolonged economic woes and will invest about $40 billion in its military within the next decade, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Monday. The modernization program’s priorities include the purchase of guided missiles for F-16 fighters, the development of special purpose forces and the naval missile division [...]
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The width of blood vessels in the retina, located at the back of the eye, may indicate brain health years before the onset of dementia and other deficits, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Research shows that younger people who score low on intelligence [...]
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Analysts have hailed the decision by the African Union to adopt a resolution to create a rapid response force that will help Africa with a military capacity to respond swiftly to emergency situations. But they have also cautioned that it is too early to make meaningful judgments. A week after the AU summit in Addis [...]
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By Igor Jovanovic The the Fiscal Council of Serbia recently told parliament that the state may face a severe economic crisis unless it urgently starts resolving the matter of debts and budget deficit. Council Chairman Pavle Petrovic told SETimes that a budget rebalance is necessary to fill up the gap in the state treasury, because [...]
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“The pungent smell of tear gas is still in the air, but the situation this morning appears calmer. The road block is limited to the immediate area around Taksim Square, otherwise circulation appears to have resumed regularly,” said Father Nicola Masedu, a Salesian missionary in Istanbul, theater to clashes between protesters and police that has [...]
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By Marko Savkovic It is hardly rocket science, achieve more by pooling and sharing resources that are already available within many different parts of a complex system. To put it into a perspective, maximum utilization has been one of the mainstays of any production cycle since early days of organised human life. However, for two [...]
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(RFE/RL) — Unidentified gunmen have killed a newly elected lawmaker in northwestern Pakistan. Police on June 3 said provincial lawmaker Farid Khan was killed in Hangu, a district in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari condemned the killing and called on authorities to bring the assailants to justice. Khan was elected as [...]
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It is time to pull out the stops. Yes, efforts have been made, some commendable, some noisily admirable, and the protesters have gathered constantly over the thousand and more days that Private Bradley Manning has been held. The trial is about to begin, larded with 22 charges on the prosecution’s part, including espionage and aiding [...]
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By Adnan Khan On the 22nd of May 2013, a serving British soldier was targeted by two youths, who proceeded to kill the man with a machete and a butcher’s knife, in Woolwich, South East London. This relatively unremarkable district of the London metropolis was transformed into the hub of media activity for numerous days [...]
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As it becomes clear that the arrangement between Belgrade and Pristina is no more decisive than was Dayton or so many other internationally supervised agreements, local actors will discount it and refocus on whatever issues shape the next rounds of their various, unending internal, inter-communal, and international disputes. By David B. Kanin The implementation process [...]
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BlackBerry said its new Q10 smartphone is expected to be available in the Philippines starting from June 7. The BlackBerry Q10 is the company’s first smartphone to feature a classic BlackBerry QWERTY Keyboard, and will be available in two colors, black and white. According to BlackBerry, its Q10 smartphone will combine the power of the [...]
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Samsung said Monday its Galaxy Tab 3 8-inch and 10.1-inch tablets will be available globally this month. Offering an expanded range of options along with previously announced 7-inch version, according to Samsung the Galaxy Tab 3 Series provides customers various ways to view, listen, create, and share meaningful events and special content with those who [...]
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Iran has dismantled an alleged “terror network” backed by Israel’s Mossad intelligence services that had a headquarters in Britain, the intelligence ministry said on Sunday. Officials claimed that the network had planned to disrupt the upcoming presidential election in the Islamic republic, the state broadcaster said, according to AFP news agency. “The intelligence ministry has [...]
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By Svetla Dimitrova New Bulgarian Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski plans to focus on fiscal stability and measures to address citizen’s grievances. A former finance minister, Oresharski was elected prime minister last week with the support of the 120 lawmakers of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and the mainly ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms. [...]
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If there is one lesson Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan should have drawn from the popular revolts that toppled four Arab leaders and sparked civil war in Syria in the last two years, it is that police brutality strengthens protesters’ resolve and particualrly that of militant, street battle-hardened soccer fans. As police on Friday [...]
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By Dr. Chandra Muzaffar Any human being who abhors violence and bloodshed would be shocked by remarks made by a leading religious personality, Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi, on the 1st of June 2013. At a rally in Doha, he urged Sunni Muslims in the region to go to Syria and fight the Bashar al-Assad government and [...]
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By Stuart Littlewood Australian federal and state MPs have been indulging in an orgy of anti-anti-Semitism by signing en masse the London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism. Over 100 have put their mark on it. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that even more of the nation’s 226 federal parliamentarians in Canberra are expected to sign up, [...]
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By Julie Webb-Pullman Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan might now be pondering on his own advice to Syrian President Bashar Assad, to listen to his people, before he finds himself and his government similarly beset. There are three main issues here – the short-sighted sacrifice of one of the few green public spaces in [...]
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(CORDIS) — Brain research has made unprecedented progress over the years, with Europe at the forefront of scientific advances. But more can be done. This comes from Alzheimer’s Disease International who issued their report on the Global Economic Impact of Dementia. They estimate that if dementia care were a country, it would be the world’s [...]
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