U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says the bank may ease back on efforts to stimulate the economy later this year, because the economy is growing moderately. “Job gains, along with the strengthening housing market, have in turn contributed to increases in consumer confidence and supported household spending,” Bernanke said. But Bernanke says the jobless [...]
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Kim Dotcom has accused the US government and Leaseweb, one of the hosting providers of former file-sharing site Megaupload, of deleting millions of personal files “without warning.” The information stored on the dormant servers – “petabytes of pictures, backups, personal & business property” – was what Dotcom called evidence in the case US authorities launched [...]
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Architect Carlos Cataldi, the director of the restoration project for the Paraguayan Government Palace announced June 18 that the first phase of the project will be completed by July 15th. Accompanied by the President of Paraguay, Cataldi stated that: “by mid next month, will be finalized the first stage of the project and the areas [...]
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Finally, President Barack Hussein Obama paid an official visit to Germany. This time he could deliver his speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate. Before a handpicked audience of some 4 000 cheerleaders he held a mediocre speech focusing on history. He brushed a hodgepodge of all sorts of topics. The only topic the international [...]
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In the recently released report on Technically Recoverable Shale Oil and Shale Gas Resources, covering 42 countries, including the United States, EIA estimates that there are 345 billion barrels of technically recoverable shale oil resources in the covered formations (Figure 1). The assessed resources represent 10 percent of the world’s technically recoverable crude oil resources, [...]
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Is Pakistan’s incoming PM, Nawaz Shari, the pivot on which Pakistan’s freedom from religious terror and his country’s military revolves? Nawaz Sharif is returning to power for the third time in fourteen years as his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has emerged as the winner on May 11th general elections. The rising question within his country [...]
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Pakistan Petroleum Limited has successfully hit gas reserves in its exploratory well Wafiq at Gambat South Block (located in Sindh province). The field is operated by PPL with 65% working interest in the block. Drill stem tests indicated different gas flows at different choke sizes. According to experts the final gas flow may settle in [...]
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f you own a television or read a newspaper you’ve probably heard that we need another war because the Syrian government used chemical weapons. If you own a computer and know where to look you’ve probably heard that there isn’t actually any evidence for that claim. Below are 10 reasons why this latest excuse for [...]
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U.S. film and television actor James Gandolfini, who portrayed an emotionally vulnerable crime boss on the groundbreaking television drama “The Sopranos,” has died at the age of 51. Statements issued by the actor’s managers and U.S. cable television network HBO, which aired the series from 1999 through 2007, said Gandolfini died while on vacation in [...]
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By Zlatica Hoke The World Food Prize Foundation has announced that its prestigious prize this year goes to three scientists who helped advance the development of genetically modified crops. The announcement Wednesday in Washington comes just weeks after protesters worldwide demonstrated against genetically modified food. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday the United [...]
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Libyan judicial authorities should immediately drop all criminal charges that violate freedom of speech over election poster cartoons against two Libyan National Party officials. Under the laws being applied in this case, the men could face the death penalty over posters their party displayed during the 2012 election campaign for the General National Congress. Authorities [...]
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There are around 377 million results on Google.com for the query “Can I live forever?” Ask that question to company’s top engineer, though, and you’re likely to hear an answer that’s much more concise. Simply put, Google’s Ray Kurzweil says immortality is only a few years away. Digital immortality, at least. Kurzweil, 64, was only [...]
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Newly appointed Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah submitted his resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday, government sources told Al Arabiya. Hamdallah’s resignation comes only two weeks after he took office. However, it was not immediately clear whether Abbas had accepted the resignation. A source described Hamdallah’s move as “tactical” and likely meant to get [...]
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Natural gas will continue to increase its share of the global energy mix, growing at 2.4% per year between now and 2018, the IEA said in its Medium-Term Gas Market Report (MTGMR) issued today. However, this projected growth rate is lower than the IEA’s forecast last year of 2.7%, due to persistent demand weakness in [...]
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(EurActiv) — The European Commission has given France and Britain two months to respond to a request to lower charges for passenger and freight trains to use the Channel Tunnel, or face possible court action. The Commission on Thursday (20 June) said the illegally high track access charges result in higher ticket prices for passengers [...]
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Angelina Jolie said Thursday, June 20, the Syrian civil war is the world’s most acute humanitarian crisis and called on world leaders to make diplomatic efforts to end it succeed, The Associated Press reported. Jolie spoke at Jordan’s largest camp for Syrian refugees, which she toured as special envoy for the United Nations refugee agency. [...]
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By Dr. Zabikhulla S. Saipov A Russian weekly VPK – Voenno-promyshlenniy kur’yer (military industrial courier) in its last week of May issue carried a piece titled “Neither quantity, nor aptitude: Uzbek army is not a modern military power” by Boris Sokolov (http://vpk-news.ru/articles/15980, full issue is at http://vpk-news.ru/sites/default/files/pdf/VPK_19_487.pdf). Overall information on Uzbek national legislature regulating defense [...]
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A new issue brief from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) finds that multilateral lenders the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) could provide greater assistance to Jamaica through cancelling existing debt than through making new loans. The brief, “The Multilateral Debt Trap in Jamaica,” finds [...]
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Airbus, Air France, Safran and Total organized the “Joining our Energies – Biofuel Initiative France” flight to illustrate the French industry’s technical capacity to integrate aeronautical biofuels. The four players underline the need to improve research into the development of sustainable biofuels with a view to creating a French biofuel industry. Today, the air transport [...]
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Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah left his office in Ramallah at noon Thursday for his home in Anabta, east of Tulkarem in the northern West Bank. He was traveling in a private vehicle just after offering his resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas, knowledgeable sources told Ma’an. A delegation from the president’s office arrived in Anabta for [...]
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