Syrian opposition forces attacked an east Syrian village, killing an estimated 60 Shiites, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday. The majority of those killed in the attack were pro-government fighters, the Observatory added. The Syrian government spoke out on the attack on Wednesday morning, calling It a “massacre”. The event took place [...]
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A Hindu chariot parade will reportedly be held on the streets of Greater Vancouver, Canada on August 9. Arul Migu Thurkadevi Hindu Society, a Charitable Organization which runs a temple in Burnaby, will pull a chariot as a part of its Annual Ther Festival (Aadi Pooram) through Burnaby roads which will be closed to other [...]
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By Rajiv Nayan As expected, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s recent visit to Japan culminated in an India-Japan joint statement on May 29, 2013. Though several occasions during the visit provided opportunities to the Indian and Japanese premiers to make several policy statements on past achievements and the great untapped potential of the India-Japan bilateral relationship, [...]
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By A. Vinod Kumar For over two decades, a dominant section of western analysts harped on the volatilities of the India and Pakistan nuclear dyad, often overselling the ‘South Asia as a nuclear flashpoint’ axiom, and portending a potential nuclear flare-up in every major stand-off between the two countries. The turbulence in the sub-continent propelled [...]
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(RFE/RL) — The Lebanese Army has warned neighboring Syria it will respond to any further cross-border attacks, after a Syrian government helicopter fired three missiles that hit the Lebanese border town of Arsal. Lebanon’s army issued the warning on June 12 after the incursion. It said Lebanese military forces deployed in the Arsal area would [...]
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By Muhamet Brajshori Citizens in Turkey, Albania, Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) are concerned about religious extremist groups operating in their countries and oppose such groups’ tactics, a recently released Pew Forum report found. The report, The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society 2013, found 45 percent of citizens in Kosovo, 30 percent in [...]
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By Regis Gente Increasingly under pressure in Egypt, the Copts, one of the world’s oldest Christian communities, are starting to migrate to Georgia, a bastion of Orthodox Christianity in the South Caucasus. But the transition is not entirely a smooth one. In Egypt, violent clashes between Copts and Muslims have been on the rise since [...]
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(Civil.Ge) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was willing to restore relations with Georgia “in full scale” and called for cooperation between security services of the two countries in combating crime and terrorism in order to pave the way for lifting visa rules for the Georgian citizens. Speaking with the state-owned English-language Russia Today [...]
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In response to media flurry, the Latin American Confederation of Men and Women Religious (CLAR) released a statement on June 11 claiming that the assertion of a gay lobby at the Vatican “cannot be attributed with certainty to the Holy Father.” The news that Pope Francis acknowledged the existence of a gay lobby at the [...]
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In April, for the first time ever, estimated total liquid fuels consumption by the industrialized economies that are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), at 44.3 million barrels per day (bbl/d), was below that of non-member countries who used 44.5 million bbl/d. In the June 2013 Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), EIA [...]
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Wednesday designated 18 individuals and 15 entities linked to Rafael Caro Quintero, a Mexican drug trafficker. Rafael Caro Quintero is a significant Mexican narcotics trafficker who began his criminal career in the late 1970s when he and others, including Juan Jose Esparragoza Moreno (a.k.a. “El Azul”), formed the [...]
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By Karen Parrish The fiscal year 2014 defense budget request significantly increases the Defense Department’s cyber capacity — an area where it lacks authority but has most of the assets, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told the Senate Budget Committee Wednesday. The secretary and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, [...]
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1. Introduction – Complexity of the Environment Critical to meaning is a person’s inner world. Within every person there is perpetual struggle for self awareness going on, even if we don’t know it. Richard T. Pascale stated that the assumptions of people act as fences, thereby keeping some things in and other things out of [...]
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Google said Wednesday that it has discovered and stopped a series of attempts to hack the accounts of tens of thousands of Iranian users in what the company believes is an attempt to influence the country’s upcoming election. “For almost three weeks, we have detected and disrupted multiple email-based phishing campaigns,” Eric Grosse, the vice [...]
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North Korea came down on South Korea on Thursday after high-level talks between the sides were canceled, South Korean media reported. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) said South Korea deliberately hindered the resumption of the talks, Yonhap news agency reported citing North Korea media. “This fully proves that the south side had no [...]
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The firestorm of media coverage over a whistleblower’s revelation—that the National Security Agency (NSA) likely has been monitoring the telephone calls of most Americans and is likely reading some Americans’ emails, photos, and other electronic data without a search warrant when trying to catch suspected terrorists (a program called “Prism”)—has become muddled by pundits conflating [...]
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By Alyssandra Jaquith and Beatrice Loayza On Tuesday, June 11, Peruvian President Ollanta Humala made his first official visit to the White House in an effort to establish what Peruvian Ambassador to the United States Harold Forsyth calls a “strategic cooperation partnership” with the United States. In the wake of President Obama’s recent trips to [...]
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Vice Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Prince Salman yesterday held talks with visiting British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond on prospects of expanding defense cooperation between the two countries. “The two sides discussed prospects of strengthening cooperation between Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom in addition to major regional and international developments,” SPA said. At [...]
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By Jo Biddle Hopes, the new and indefatigable Secretary of State John Kerry could charm Israel and the Palestinians back into talks, are fading at the edges as months pass with no sign of a breakthrough, analysts say. True, the top US diplomat has visited the region four times since coming to office in February, [...]
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An increasing number of Muslim Sri Lankans, who make up around 9 percent of the population, are feeling uneasy amid fears of growing sectarian tensions, say local people and observers. “We just don’t feel we belong here any more,” Fadhil Ahamed, who works in a food store in Colombo, told IRIN. “I had a shop [...]
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