By David T. Jones Canadian activity has an entr’acte (intermission) quality. We are in a period of pause, more confident of what has gone before in federal government action, politico-military affairs, and Quebec politics than what is to come. The Harper/Tory government has suddenly found itself hip deep in scandal, affecting them more psychologically than [...]
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Many developing countries are stuck in the middle-income gap. Focusing on Malaysia, this column argues that countries trapped in the middle-income conundrum will need to expand their ‘modern’ sectors. Traditional sectors with low productivity must shed labour, and high-productivity modern sectors (be they in goods or services) must hire more labour if they want to [...]
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By Ravi Joshi The recent events in Cairo, on June 30 and July 3, first the Army issuing an ultimatum to the democratically elected leader to bring order to the escalating civic unrest or else face dismissal and second, its eventual removal of the President raises the question as to whether the ‘Tahrir Square Revolution’ [...]
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The battle between Iran and various Gulf state for the identity of the energy-rich region has spilled onto its soccer pitches. It’s the Persian Gulf League vs. the Arabian Gulf League. The struggle erupted when the United Arab Emirates, alongside Saudi Arabia, the Gulf’s most fervent opponent of political Islam, recently renamed its premier league [...]
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By Monia Ghanmi and Mohamed Foily Esperance Tunis lost away to Recreativo Libolo 1-0 in an Orange CAF Champions League Group B qualifier. A substitute striker for the Angolan hosts scored the lone goal five minutes into stoppage time. Two-time Champions League winners and four-time finalists EST are the only Maghreb side to make it [...]
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Large cities in the U.S. are significantly safer than their rural counterparts, with the risk of injury death more than 20 percent higher in the country. A study to be published online tomorrow in Annals of Emergency Medicine upends a common perception that urban areas are more dangerous than small towns (“Safety in Numbers: Are [...]
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In a twist on “survival of the fittest,” researchers have discovered that evolution is driven not by a single beneficial mutation but rather by a group of mutations, including ones called “genetic hitchhikers” that are simply along for the ride. These hitchhikers are mutations that do not appear to have a role in contributing to [...]
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By Jim Garamone The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff came away from a meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai today convinced that the United States and Afghanistan can sign a bilateral security agreement between now and October. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey gave his assessment during a roundtable with Western and Afghan media [...]
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Never mind the non-stop collection of metadata and other sneaky surveillance tools being implemented by the NSA: a new report has revealed that the National Security Agency’s spy powers allow the government to grab location data on just about anyone. In an article published by the Washington Post over the weekend, journalist Dana Priest detailed [...]
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The Brazilian military discovered an improvised bomb in a parking garage bathroom at the shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida July 22, which Pope Francis is due to visit on Wednesday, July 24. “It was a homemade device with little potential to cause fatalities,” according to a statement of the Brazilian Air Force. “It is [...]
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A U.S. policeman is facing discipline for his unauthorized release of photos he took of a bloodied Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as the Boston Marathon bombing suspect was arrested in April. Police authorities in Massachusetts scheduled a hearing Tuesday to determine whether a police photographer, Sergeant Sean Murphy, should be disciplined beyond the one-day suspension he was [...]
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There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down a street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery—then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.” According to those who have slammed George Zimmerman for racial profiling, those words would qualify as the penultimate expression [...]
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Should recall elections be reserved only for politicians who break the law? Columnist Rick Moran thinks so. Opining on an impending recall election in Colorado, he writes: The recall device should be reserved for politicians who either break the law or are corrupt in some other way. It shouldn’t be employed because 10,000 people disagree [...]
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“The First Black President … Spoke First as a Black American,” ran the banner headline of Sunday’s Washington Post. But why, when the fires of anger over the Zimmerman verdict were dying down, did he go into that pressroom and stir them up? “A week of protests outside the White House, pressure building on him [...]
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By Marian Chiriac The mother of one of the Romanians suspected of carrying out a high-profile art theft from Rotterdam has changed her story. The mother of a Romanian suspected last October of stealing seven artworks from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam on Monday said the paintings were not burned, as she had previously said. [...]
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The king of Morocco on Monday accepted the resignation of cabinet ministers from the junior party in the ruling coalition, the palace said, a move that opens the way for Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane to begin trying to form a new government. Five ministers from the conservative Istiqlal party quit this month, arguing among other [...]
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Two divers were nearly swallowed by humpback whales that were gulping down fish off the central California coast near Avila Beach. The divers were wearing wetsuits and floating near their boat at Souza Rock when they experienced the close encounter. The men were surrounded by a shoal of krill, which the giant mammals frequently feed [...]
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(RFE/RL) — Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for coordinated attacks on two Iraqi prisons that freed hundreds of inmates, including some believed to be senior members of the militant group’s leadership. An online statement posted on July 23 by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant — the merged Al-Qaeda affiliates in Iraq and Syria [...]
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Chinese authorities in Tibetan-populated counties in Qinghai province are placing new restrictions on the display of photos of the Dalai Lama, searching personal vehicles and beating and detaining those who resist the photos’ confiscation, Tibetan sources say. The move follows reports in June of a relaxation on the ban of images of the exiled Tibetan [...]
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Over 2,500 servicemen and 350 weapons systems are involved in snap combat readiness drills for Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN), a Defense Ministry spokesman said Tuesday. The drills, involving the headquarters and two missile divisions of the Orenburg Missile Army in Russia’s Urals region, began Monday and are set to run through Saturday, Col. Igor [...]
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