By C. Raja Mohan “Eighty per cent of success,” Woody Allen famously said, is just “showing up”. India’s longest serving defence minister, A.K. Antony, however, was a “no-show” at Asia’s leading annual defence forum, the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore last week. As Asia becomes the cockpit of great power rivalry and regional conflict, the SLD, [...]
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Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri urged Syrians to unite to bring down President Bashar Assad and thwart what he said were U.S. plans to set up a client state in Syria to safeguard Israel’s security. The recording was 22 minutes long and posted on an extremist website on Thursday, as Palestines marked the end of [...]
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The United States government doesn’t need a reason to seize and search the cell phones, laptops and other electronic devices of Americans entering the country, according to a Department of Homeland Security document provided to the press this week. The DHS has long insisted that border agents and immigration officers are allowed to collect the [...]
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By Karin Zeitvogel Russian bees are the latest buzzword among American beekeepers who see the hardy honey-makers as potential saviors against a mysterious blight that has decimated the US bee population. Originally from the coastal Primorsky in Russia’s Far East, Russian bees are twice as resistant to varroa mites, tiny parasites that can infest beehives [...]
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The Singaporean government should withdraw an onerous new licensing requirement for online news sites. The new rules will further discourage independent commentary and reporting on the Internet in Singapore. On May 28, 2013, the Media Development Authority, which is controlled by the Ministry of Communications and Information and is responsible for regulation of Singapore’s media [...]
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For Iran and its proxy, armed militia — the Lebanon-based terrorist group Hezbollah — preserving Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime is of prime importance and a strategic necessity, according to a report published Tuesday by an Israeli think tank. “Syria is Iran’s greatest ‘resistance camp’ ally, providing it with a firm foothold in the heart [...]
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Saudi families returning from Syria will be provided jobs and accommodation and their children will be given education, a local Arabic daily reported yesterday quoting an informed source at the Foreign Ministry. Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal urged Lebanon’s people to act “wisely” and end their fighting in the city of Tripoli, wracked by [...]
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Articles in the American media usually portray China as a potential adversary, and recent press coverage is no exception. Stories have appeared about China’s military hacking into the computer systems of the American government and business and Chinese oil companies’ reaping of unfair gains in Iraq on the backs of dead American soldiers. Yet the [...]
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By William Gallo The top U.S. spy chief has slammed the leak of top-secret documents that have shed light on how the government collects information on people’s telephone records and Internet use. In a statement late Thursday, James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, defended the programs as crucial to U.S. anti-terror activities, and warned [...]
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The May jobs numbers were in line with expectations with the Labor Department reporting 175,000 new jobs. There were modest downward revisions to the sum of the prior two months data, bringing the average over the last three months to 155,000. The unemployment rate was essentially unchanged at 7.6 percent. Job growth was again narrowly [...]
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A Cairo court has convicted 43 men and women of using foreign funds to foment unrest inside Egypt in connection with the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak. Sixteen of those convicted were Americans. All but one, Robert Becker of the National Democratic Institute, had already departed. Becker fled this week rather than serve two years [...]
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By Somya Chhabra The acute power crisis in Pakistan, which has accelerated in the last five years under the PPP government, is indicative of the institutional failure of the state. In the light of the massive load-shedding, varying from 6-20 hours a day, the public has high expectations that the new government will be able [...]
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The US missile defense system is no match for the new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that Russia tested this week, a senior Russian official said Friday. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who oversees the defense industry, hailed Thursday’s tests as a success and dubbed the new ICBM a “missile defense killer.” “Neither current nor future [...]
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Kudankulam is a nuclear power plant constructed by the Russian company Rosatom in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Construction process has been challenged by civil unrest and ridiculous new laws introduced by authorities. What is fuelling anti-nuclear protests and who is interested in slowing down the project by using semi-legal tricks? By Igor [...]
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Defence Minister A. K. Antony’s visit to Australia this week was a significant step forward in the defence relationship. In coming years an India-Australia partnership will be important for managing maritime security in the Indian Ocean and will also have implications for security in Southeast Asia and the Pacific By David Brewster This week’s visit [...]
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The Ethiopian military and paramilitary forces, operating in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia, are, it is alleged, carrying out extra judicial killings and gang rapes; falsely arresting and torturing innocent civilians; looting and destroying villages and crops in a systematic attempt to terrify the people. This is the consistent message coming out of the region [...]
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BHP Billiton said Friday it has completed the sale of its 8.33 per cent interest in the East Browse Joint Venture and 20 per cent interest in the West Browse Joint Venture, located offshore Western Australia, to PetroChina International Investment (Australia) Pty Ltd for US$1.63 billion plus customary purchase price adjustments as announced on December [...]
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By Michael Kaczmarek (EurActiv) — German environmental experts doubt that developing shale gas is economically profitable and worthwhile for the country’s energy transition. They also question the technology of fracking and call for a European Environmental Impact Assessment Procedure to be adopted. EurActiv Germany reports. Experts at the German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU) [...]
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Murphy Oil Corporation announced Friday, through its wholly owned subsidiary, Murphy Australia WA-408-P Oil Pty Ltd., the well results of the non-operated Bassett West-1 well in the Browse basin offshore Western Australia. According to Murphy Oil, the well encountered over 20 feet of net gas condensate pay. The partnership group will be performing further technical [...]
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“We said we are sorry for the tear gas used, but there is no country in the world that does not use tear gas.” — Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogen. It all started in Istanbul, at Taksim Square, May 31. Hundreds of thousands of protestors soon swept over Turkey, with some camping out under the [...]
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