Reports from Iran indicate that a wide range of reformist groups have announced their support for Hassan Rohani. The Islamic Iran Participation Front and the Association of Combatant Clerics as well as top government critics such as Ahmad Montazeri and Ali Motahari have lent their support to the Hassan Rohani campaign. Meanwhile, former presidents Mohammad [...]
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Islamic Jihad is preparing a generation of Palestinians ready to defend themselves and their people against Israeli attacks, a spokesman said Wednesday. As the movement completed a summer camp for 80 teenagers in the southern Gaza Strip, Daoud Shibab said Palestinian children needed to learn to defend themselves. “We need to prepare our children to [...]
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Facebook said Wednesday that starting today, hashtags will be clickable on Facebook, and will be similar to those used by Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, or Pinterest. The announcement was made on the company’s blog by Greg Lindley, Facebook’s product manager for hashtags, who said the hashtags on Facebook will allow users to add context to a [...]
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An Al-Qaeda missile manual found in Mali suggests jihadists in the region may possess the SA-7 surface-to-air missiles, capable of taking down commercial aircraft, AP reports. The arms are suspected to have been looted from Libya during the recent war. The 26-page document that AP obtained was recovered from the building that was previously occupied [...]
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By D Suba Chandran Shujaat Bukhari in his column Treading a dangerous path published in the Rising Kashmir on June 5, focussed on the educated youth picking up guns in J&K. A cursory look at the rest of South Asia will also reveal a pattern – from Pakistan to India’s Northeast – of unrest amongst [...]
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Erin Niemela’s recent proposal that we amend the Constitution to ban war is provocative and persuasive. Count me in. But I have a related idea that I think should be tried first. While banning war is just what the world ordered, it has about it something of the whole Bush-Cheney ordeal during which we spent [...]
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By M. Mahtab Alam Rizvi and Rajeev Agarwal Iran goes to polls on 14 June to elect its 11th President. The process and the selection of candidates have created considerable controversies in stead of public debate on the election manifesto. The 2009 Presidential elections still continues to haunt Iran. The power centres and the current [...]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin says that as in the past, there is no evidence that Iran is in any way violating its commitments under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Ria Novosti reports that Putin said: “I have no doubt that Iran is sticking to the rules, since there is no proof it isn’t.” Putin added that all [...]
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On June 12-13, Ivan Gašparovič, the President of Slovakia hosted the 18th Summit of Central European Heads of State, in Bratislava. The Summit was held in the Bratislava Castle and the Reduta building and was attended by twenty presidents from Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European nations. This gathering took place at a time when Slovakia [...]
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Clarence P. Cazalot, Jr, chairman, president and CEO of Marathon Oil Corporation has elected to retire on Dec. 31, 2013, after almost 14 years leading Marathon Oil and 41 years in the oil and gas industry. Cazalot will continue as executive chairman through Dec. 31, 2013. The Marathon Oil board of directors has elected Lee [...]
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Following the results of the 22nd Licensing Round announced by the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy, RN Nordic Oil AS, a 100% indirect subsidiary of Rosneft, has been granted the award of a 20% participating interest in the license PL713 covering the area of 1,213 sq. km. License PL713 consists of four promising blocks: [...]
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A recent mining accident that killed 16 people at an unlicensed artisanal gold mine in Ghana underscores the need for tougher measures to end child labor and protect the safety of adult artisanal miners, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch visited the site of the mine collapse between May 31 and June 2, [...]
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The Obama administration is opposed to a National Defense Authorization Act amendment that would protect the religious liberty of men and women in the Armed Forces. If the religious liberty of the Armed Forces were secure, there would be no need for an amendment to safeguard it. Sadly, there is. Rep. John Fleming wants to [...]
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Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, no doubt knows the outcome of Friday’s, June 14 elections. My money is on Saeed Jalili, Iran’s nuclear negotiator whose job it has been to talk the other negotiators into a stupor while work toward the creation of Iran’s nuclear weapons program continues. Meanwhile, Gulf States are rather nervous [...]
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Next year should be a banner year for the GOP, and may yet be. Obamacare, a “train wreck” about to happen, says Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, goes into full effect Jan. 1, with the popular IRS as enforcer. The Obama media feel betrayed by the secret intrusions on First Amendment rights. Libertarians see the National [...]
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Libyan authorities should promptly and thoroughly investigate the violent clashes in Benghazi on June 8, 2013, that left 32 people dead. The authorities should also hold those who violated the law accountable, the group said. Witnesses described to Human Rights Watch how demonstrators in Benghazi gathered at the headquarters of the Libya Shield 1 Brigade, [...]
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By Charles Recknagel (RFE/RL) — Campaigning in Iran’s election marked its last day on June 12 with all the public trappings of an exercise in popular democracy. As candidates made their last speeches before the June 14 presidential poll, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on all eligible voters to participate enthusiastically and show [...]
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By Nile Bowie Fresh allegations of hacking and cyber-theft between China and the United States as well as resources channeled into cyber-warfare and digital troops by both superpowers show uncertain diplomatic terrain ahead. As the Obama administration imposes gouging cuts on fundamental social spending, the White House is allocating $13 billion for the US Cyber [...]
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urkish protesters said Thursday they would remain in Istanbul’s Gezi Park despite a “last warning” by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to evacuate the green patch at the centre of deadly anti-government unrest. “We will stay in Gezi Park with all our demands and sleeping bags,” Taksim Solidarity, the core group behind the campaign to [...]
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By Dan Robinson The White House has announced a new definitive assessment that says chemical weapons have been used on a small scale by the Assad regime in Syria. President Barack Obama has made a decision to provide new assistance, including unspecified military aid, to the Syrian opposition forces. Following what it calls a deliberative [...]
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