Investigators in Panama discovered two Soviet-built MiG-21 fighter jets while unloading a North Korean ship that was seized last week with 240 tons of concealed weapons parts on board as it tried to enter the Panama Canal en route to North Korea from Cuba, media reports said Monday. “Apparently these aircraft were in use because [...]
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By Narayani Basu Eponyms for new policies instigated under the aegis of political leaders nearly always become a catchphrase. Recently, the global community saw the emergence of Abenomics in Japan, under the leadership of Shinzo Abe. Now, China appears to be joining the fray with the advent of what is being called ‘Likonomics’. What is [...]
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By Besar Likmeta Members of the Democratic Party are voting across Albania to select their new chairman following their poll defeat and the resignation of outgoing Prime Minister Sali Berisha. Around 105,000 members of the party are heading to the ballot box on Monday to select a new party leader, with the main contenders being [...]
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Riot police will stay in place “as long as necessary and until a lasting calm is restored” in the Paris suburb of Trappes, following violent clashes after a woman was stopped by police because she was wearing a full Islamic veil. French riot police remained on full alert in a Paris suburb Monday following a [...]
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By Ajit Kumar Singh At least four persons were killed when Security Forces (SFs) opened fire on a violent group of protesters who attacked the Border Security Force (BSF) Dharam Camp in the Gool area of Ramban District on July 18, 2013. The deceased included a teacher at the Government Higher Secondary School, Manzoor Ahmed [...]
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One tool being employed by the government of Israel to evict Palestinian people from their homes is the claim that doing so will allow archaeologists to discover historical evidence of the existence of King David. Such evidence is intended to strengthen the claim that Jews are returning to land occupied by Jews millennia ago. Yet [...]
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Iran has its political limitations, human rights violations, governance failures and domestic problems – all indefensible. Not a rational for excuse, but qualify each of the contemporary rights violations with case stories and quantify them with statistics, and Iran, in year 2013, is much less repressive compared to other nations whom the United States favors. [...]
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By Giriraj Bhattacharjee In a dramatic escalation of their rhetorical posture, the Pro-Talks faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB-PTF) declared, on July 14, 2013, that they would prefer existence as a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), rather than accept the Centre’s move to provide more powers [...]
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By Siham Ali Morocco may have avoided the worst of the global financial crisis, Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane asserted this week, but its long-term outlook depends on politics. In a time of widespread economic uncertainty, Morocco has been able to safeguard its fundamentals, even though results fell short of aspirations, Benkirane said Wednesday (July 17th) [...]
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Plans to restart Japan’s idled nuclear power reactors remain on track after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s pro-nuclear ruling coalition secured a majority in the upper house of parliament in elections yesterday. Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its coalition partner New Komeito secured 135 of the 242 seats in the upper house of parliament (the [...]
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1. Introduction Looking at entrepreneurship from the economic-history context allows us to look at the flow of events in time and space such as inventions and innovations, the context in which they occurred and the impacts upon society these actions and events had. Looking directly at the biographies of historical figures can assist us in [...]
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Shell, and its partners, are expecting to boost production with two new deepwater projects at Parque das Conchas (BC-10) and the Bijupirá/Salema fields. “Offshore Brazil is a key part of our plans to grow our deepwater portfolio – a key component of our global strategy,” said John Hollowell, Executive Vice President for Deep Water, Shell [...]
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By John C.K. Daly Australia’s massive mineral exports allowed it to weather the global recession, which began in 2008, quite nicely. The U.S. government’s Energy Information Administration noted in its country’s analysis for Australia, “Australia, rich in hydrocarbons and uranium, was the world’s second largest coal exporter in 2011 and the third largest liquefied natural [...]
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I’ve held off writing about John Kerry’s shuttle diplomacy attempting to restart the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, because I thought there was “no there, there” and figured it might collapse of its own weight. But developments in the past 24 hours indicate that while this is still likely, all parties have already been guilty of bad [...]
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The European Union and Georgia concluded Monday negotiations for a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA), as part of the Association Agreement between them. The Association Agreement, together with the DCFTA, will provide for the close political association and economic integration of Georgia with the EU. The EU is Georgia’s biggest trading partner. Bilateral [...]
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The European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Dacian Cioloș is in Beijing, China, 22-24 July, to strengthen EU-China cooperation in the areas of agriculture and rural development. “Agriculture is of strategic importance for both the EU and China in our efforts to address challenges such as ensuring food security, fighting climate change, and achieving [...]
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At the end of the first quarter of 2013, the government debt to GDP ratio in the euro area (EA17) stood at 92.2%, compared with 90.6% at the end of the fourth quarter of 2012, according to data released Monday by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In the EU27 the ratio increased [...]
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Dutchman Guus Hiddink on Monday, July 22 resigned as coach of wealthy Russian football team Anzhi Makhachkala after a year and a half on the job, the team said, according to RIA Novosti. Hiddink, 66, leaves just two games into the new Russian Premier League season, of which Anzhi drew one and lost the other. [...]
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Motorola’s Moto X smartphone has appeared in yet more purported leaked photographs ahead of its release, Digital Spy said. The latest pictures of the handset appeared on Android Police, along with what is claimed to be hardware specs for an AT&T variant dubbed ‘ghost’. The report claims that the device features a 4.5-inch screen, a [...]
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Brazil has witnessed one of the world’s most striking socio-economic reversals in modern history: from a dynamic nationalist industrializing to a primary export economy. Between the mid 1930’s to the mid 1980’s, Brazil averaged nearly 10% growth in its manufacturing sector largely based on state interventionist policies, subsidizing, protecting and regulating the growth of national [...]
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