Acer has announced two new tablets at Computex in Taiwan Monday, Digital Spy said. The firm unveiled the world’s first 8-inch Windows 8 tablet in the shape of the Iconia W3, and added the Liquid S1 hybrid device to its range. The Iconia W3 comes with Microsoft’s latest operating system on board and is powered [...]
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To a lot of folks who recall Ronald Reagan’s two terms as President, 1981 to 1989, June 5th is a day that marks his passing in 2004. Nostalgia prompts us to think of it as a golden period of prosperity and memory tells us that it was also the closing decade of the Cold War [...]
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As America grew in the 1800s from a republic of a few millions, whose frontier stopped at the Mississippi, into a world power, there were constant collisions with the world’s greatest empire. In 1812, we declared war on Britain, tried to invade Canada and got our Capitol burned. In 1818, Andrew Jackson, on an expedition [...]
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And the beat goes on! More studies, more surveys, more statistics, more data to feed the ongoing fires in present day American cultural wars. Apparently, it isn’t enough to have the constant bickering between the three conservative factions in American politics – ultra-right Tea-partiers, old-guard Republicans and Democrats – so we are now witnessing an [...]
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Congress is questioning top U.S. commanders in a hearing aimed at changing the decades-old military justice system to stem sexual assault in the military. Top U.S. military commander General Martin Dempsey and the chief officer of each branch of the military are testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill. Committee chairman Senator [...]
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US police are now legally allowed to take DNA samples from those who are arrested, even if they have not been convicted for a crime or gone to trial. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to uphold the controversial practice on Monday. Critics claim that taking DNA samples from anyone in custody without a warrant is [...]
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I’m sorry to report that claims that two prisoners were released from Guantánamo to Mauritania on Friday have apparently proved to be false. I was alerted to the story by a Mauritanian friend on Facebook on Friday night, and checked out two Arabic news sources that were cited — here and here. These seemed plausible, [...]
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Colombia cannot be considered for NATO membership, but the alliance is exploring ways of boosting ties with the country, a NATO official said Tuesday after an uproar in Latin America over the possibility. Colombia “does not meet the geographically-limited membership criteria,” the official said, noting that the NATO Treaty “states that membership is open to [...]
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On today’s sombre anniversary of the bloody 1989 crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, Reporters Without Borders reiterates its appeal for the release of journalists, bloggers and campaigners for freedom of expression, in particular those imprisoned for having taken part in, or referred to, the pro-democracy movement. We also call for the [...]
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By Narayani Basu Earlier this month, the Arctic Council agreed to expand to include six new nations, including Singapore, as observer states. The decision sees the entry of some of the world’s most important emerging powers, as well as countries like India and Singapore, reflecting the potential opportunities for the exploitation of oil and gas [...]
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By Deepak Kumar Nayak The CPI (Maoist) has claimed responsibility of the 25 May 2013 attack on the convoy of Congress leaders at Darbha Ghati in the Bastar district of Chhattisgarh that has left 29 people dead, including senior Congress leader Mahendra Karma, state Congress chief Nand Kumar Patel and former legislator Uday Mudliyar. In [...]
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By Rana Divyank Chaudhary Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe’s vision of a confluence of the ‘two seas’ vis-a-vis India might become a reality soon with New Delhi and Tokyo now entering into a new phase of bilateral strategic partnership this year. Prime ministers Abe and Manmohan Singh endorsed the expansion of each of the key [...]
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Warfare is the man’s oldest vocation and preoccupation – from Stone Age to Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon, to Pope Urban preaching the First Crusade, to Thirty Years’ War, to Crimean War, to American Civil War, to Balkans Wars, to World War I, nicknamed a Great War, to Spanish Civil War, to the Nazi troops [...]
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By Behzad Ahmadi Lafuraki Introduction Foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) member states met on May 27, 2013, to discuss revocation of bans which had been imposed earlier on sending weapons to the armed opposition in Syria. Offering support for the forthcoming Geneva 2 international conference on Syria, which is scheduled to be held [...]
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Good news about Pakistan is rare, and all the more precious for that. The country, often considered the “most dangerous place on earth,” seems a boiler of violence, terrorism and religious extremism. But recently, it touched a major democratic landmark.\ The national general elections were held in Pakistan. It was the first time since its [...]
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wo Saudi Arabian citizens were beheaded after being convicted of murder, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday. Shuwail Al Amri was found guilty of killing his relative Mohammed Al Amir by running him over with his car after an argument, according to a ministry statement run by SPA state news agency and picked up by AFP. [...]
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By Joe Torres Dorita Vargas, a 63-year-old widowed farmer from central Negros Occidental province, is yet to set foot on the five-hectare piece of land given to her by the government six months ago. Vargas was one of 56 farmers who went on hunger strike in December to force the government to redistribute land to [...]
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Divisions of the Malian army are marching north towards Kidal according to an announcement issued shortly after the government communicated its desire to reassert authority, as soon as possible, over this city, which is still under the control of Tuareg rebels. “For the time being, we have reached Anefis – said an army spokesman – [...]
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More than 40 activists and NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) workers were sentenced today by a Cairo court to up to five years in prison reports the Al Ahram newspaper. Many of the convicted are foreigners and had left Egypt some time ago. On 43 convictions, 27 were handed down in abstentia. Among the convicted are workers [...]
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Israeli bulldozers demolished four homes housing over 40 people on Tuesday in an area of the Jordan Valley just north of Jericho, the family and the city’s Palestinian governor said. The Israeli defense ministry confirmed the demolitions in al-Nuweima saying the structures were illegally built, without commenting on claims they were located in Area A [...]
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