Aid from Arab states will carry Egypt through its transition period, and it does not need to restart negotiations with the IMF now, the man named planning minister in the interim government said on Monday, July 15, according to Reuters. Ashraf al-Arabi, a U.S.-educated economist who served in the same post under deposed President Mohamed [...]
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Eni said Monday that it has signed in Baghdad with South Oil Company and the Iraqi Ministry of Oil an Amendment to the Technical Service Contract for the development of the Zubair Oil Field. The Amendment sets a new production target of 850,000 barrels of oil per day and extends the duration of the Technical [...]
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(EurActiv) — Poland’s shale gas business is facing a serious challenge after the EU’s highest court ruled that Warsaw violated European law by allowing licences to be issued for the exploration and extraction of hydrocarbons, without fully open tenders. The European Court of Justice ruling, issued on 27 June, affects around 100 shale gas exploration [...]
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(EurActiv) — A controversial measure that allows the police to detain people and force them to be tested for HIV has been reinstated by the new Greek health minister, Adonis Georgiadis. In one of his first decisions as health minister, Georgiadis last week re-introduced the Public Health Decree 39A, which imposes measures such as obligatory [...]
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By Fakir Mohan Pradhan The uncertain gains that Maharashtra had secured in its campaigns against the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) through 2012 appear to have been further consolidated in the first half of 2013. On July 7, 2013, Maharashtra Police’s C-60 Commandos, along with a section of the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) [...]
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By Sanchita Bhattacharya At least 14 female students, four nurses and four Security Force (SF) personnel, including Quetta Deputy Commissioner of Police Abdul Mansur Khan, were killed and another 27 sustained injuries when unidentified terrorists first blew up a bus of the Sardar Bahadur Khan (SBK) Women’s University in Quetta, the Provincial capital of Balochistan [...]
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By S. Binodkumar Singh On June 13, 2013, the Interim Election Government formed on March 13, 2013, headed by Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi, announced November 19, 2013, as the date for holding fresh Constituent Assembly (CA) elections. After the dissolution of the first CA on May 27, 2012, it was first decided to hold [...]
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French nuclear giants Areva and EDF are to help train workers for Saudi Arabia’s planned nuclear power industry. The two French companies have signed a cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia’s National Institute of Technology “with the aim of contributing to the development of technical nuclear skills in Saudi Arabia.” Areva and EDF will train Saudi [...]
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Every six months, I urge readers to send letters to the prisoners in Guantánamo, and, as this is the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which began July 8, there is no better time to write to the 166 men still held, the majority of whom have been on a hunger strike for over five months, [...]
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An Oregon State University scientist and partners borrowed some technology from the Human Genome Project to more clearly identify the genes used by a type of water mold that attacks fish and causes millions of dollars in losses to the aquaculture industry each year. Researchers compared the fish and plant pathogens to clearly identify the [...]
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The top U.S. law enforcement official is calling for a new national discussion about the “complicated and emotionally-charged issues” surrounding the shooting death last year of an unarmed black teenager. Attorney General Eric Holder spoke Monday in Washington, two days after a Florida jury acquitted neighborhood-watch volunteer George Zimmerman of murder charges in Trayvon Martin’s [...]
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Germany’s foreign intelligence agency (BND) has known about US spying program for years and made use of it, the daily Bild reported on Monday. The newspaper said that the BND used German data collected by US secret services in cases of Germans kidnapped abroad. Citing US government sources, the Bild reported that Germany’s foreign intelligence [...]
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Let X = number of persons who died in the USA as a result of the 9/11 attacks. X ≈ 3,000. Let Y = number of persons who have died in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan as a result of direct war violence associated with the U.S. attacks and occupations since 9/11. Y ≈ between 158,000 [...]
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On 1 July 2013, the Bank of England took a milestone decision by installing a foreigner at its helm. Does this mark a new era for central banking or the end of independent central banking? By J. Soedradjad Djiwandono Mark Carney, the former Governor of the Central Bank of Canada, was installed as the new [...]
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BG Group said Monday that, with effect from November 2013, Simon Lowth has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and as an Executive Director. The effective date of the appointments remains to be confirmed and will be the subject of a separate announcement. Simon is currently the CFO of AstraZeneca PLC and an Executive [...]
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Aleksander Vucic said that if the announced government reshuffle does not take place, elections may be the only option. Serbia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Aleksandar Vucic, on Tuesday said he would no longer take part in the government if a promised reshuffled does not take place. The leader of the ruling Progressive Party hinted that early [...]
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Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam† It now seems that the first popular uprising associated with the now famous names of Tahrir square and the Arab Spring had little more than symbolic significance to the Egyptian populace. Not because it didn’t result in the downfall of Hosni Mubarak, the country’s long-reigning dictator, but because it led to the [...]
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Nearly two decades after setting a world water-depth record for drilling and production, Shell said its Auger tension-leg platform is still playing a central and innovative role in the company’s deep water Gulf of Mexico portfolio – currently producing some 55,000 barrels oil equivalent (boe) per day (Shell share ~30,000 boe per day), and acting [...]
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ArcelorMittal said it met Wednesday with the Government of Odisha’s Chief Secretary to inform him that the company has decided not to progress with its planned construction of an integrated steel plant and a captive power plant in the district of Keonjhar. ArcelorMittal initially planned to construct a 12 million tonne integrated steel plant in [...]
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A prominent United States senator says the US should consider boycotting the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi if Russia grants asylum to fugitive former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. “I would just send the Russians the most unequivocal signal I could send them,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, told The Hill newspaper. [...]
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