Ninety-five years ago, on June 12, 1918, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich and his secretary Nicholas Johnson were abducted from a hotel in Perm by a Bolshevik squad and slain outside the city. This murder, five weeks before the Yekaterinburg massacre of former Tsar Nicholas II and his family, opened Soviet leaders’ plan of getting rid [...]
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Ask your man-in-the-street in the West what he knows about Islam, and you are likely to get a blank stare. Many people are aware that the religion has two main branches – Sunni and Shi’ite − but as for the differences between them, or where each is mainly practised, most people haven’t a clue. Classic [...]
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By Ihsan Bal Urban uprisings have felled governments across the Arab world, including Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, and threatened even more. Despite the widespread expectation that Arab publics would never succeed in overthrowing their regimes through street protests, recent history has surprised many. This awakening in the Arab streets has sparked many debates. The [...]
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According to the doctors, more than 100 people have been killed and thosands of protestors have been injured after a night of mass protests by supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in the capital, Cairo. Although the exact death toll from Saturday’s violence is not immediately clear, different sources of reports also claim it [...]
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By Fuad Ferhavi On July 25th, Mohamed Brahmi, leader of Tunisia’s main opposition paryt Movement of the People, was killed in a spray of bullets from unknown assailants as he sat in his car outside his home in Tunis. With uncertainty abound, Tunisia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has announced that it has started an investigation [...]
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Pope Francis says gay people should be integrated into society, not marginalized, but that the Roman Catholic Church stands by its teaching that homosexual acts are a sin. The pope, flying home from a visit to Brazil, also told reporters on his plane that the “door is closed” on the issue of ordaining women priests. [...]
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The FBI says they’ve recovered 105 missing and exploited children over the weekend by orchestrating a massive crackdown on crime rings that trafficked minors for sex. The Federal Bureau of Investigation made the announcement Monday morning, and reportedly has arrested 150 pimps involved in selling minors through an underground sex trade that exploited missing children [...]
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Rosneft published Monday its consolidated IFRS financial statements for Q2 and H1 2013, noting that hydrocarbon production (including production by fully and proportionally consolidated subsidiaries and share in production by affiliates) increased by 82.8% in H1 2013 and reached 4,804 th. boepd. H1 crude oil production reached 4,183 th. bpd, which represents a 73.5% increase [...]
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I have been deeply ashamed of my country a number of times. The Nixon Christmas bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong was one such time, when hospitals, schools and dikes were targeted. The invasion of Iraq was another. Washington’s silence over the fatal Israeli Commando raid on the Gaza Peace Flotilla–in which a 19-year-old unarmed American [...]
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The police violence against peaceful protesters in Tunis on July 27, 2013,underscores the need for Tunisia’s government to issue clear orders to protect and allow peaceful protests,as well as new guidelines on when and how teargas may be used. Many witnesses Human Rights Watch interviewed described excessive use of teargas bythe police, which would be [...]
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Pope Francis speaks about materialism for one straight week in Brazil before millions of people, and his formal comments garner 74 news stories on Lexis-Nexis. He speaks off-the-cuff about homosexual priests before a handful of reporters on the airplane going back to Rome and his remarks trigger 220 news stories. One might logically conclude that [...]
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By Natana J. DeLong-Bas I had to look three times to make sure I was really seeing Dzhokhar “Jahar” Tsarnaev on the front cover of Rolling Stone Magazine. Rolling Stone has featured any number of cutting-edge figures in past stories as an expression of its dedication to “serious and thoughtful coverage of the most important [...]
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Indonesia has been identified as a major source of malicious Internet traffic. A close examination, however, reveals that such traffic may not originate in Indonesia. More likely, Indonesian networks are exploited by outside e-criminals. By Senol Yilmaz MALICIOUS INTERNET traffic from Indonesia has increased from 0.7 percent in the last quarter of 2012 to 21 [...]
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By Sanchita Bhattacharya On June 27, 2013, two displaced persons (DPs) were killed and another six were wounded when Security Forces (SFs) fired to disperse a crowd that had gathered at a military base in Kyein Ni Pyin, a camp for DPs in the Pauktaw area of Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Again, on June 30, 2013, [...]
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By Giriraj Bhattacharjee On July 24, 2013, suspected Karbi People’s Liberation Tigers (KPLT) militants lobbed a grenade killing one person and injuring 21 near the Bokoliaghat Daily Market situated along National Highway (NH) 36 in Karbi Anglong District. According to the Karbi Anglong Police, ten persons sustained grievous injuries in the attack. Earlier, on May [...]
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The Russian government has approved a defense collaboration agreement with Spain, according to a document posted on the government’s website Monday. The agreement defines the goals, areas and forms of bilateral collaboration in defense, including the exchange of information on military, political and international security issues, confidence-building measures and arms control, the document says. Other [...]
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Responding to requests from key stakeholders Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice President of the Commission, is visiting Egypt on Monday. During the visit Ashton is meeting with acting President Adly Mansour, Vice-President Mohamed ElBaradei, Minister of Defence General Abd Al Fattah Al Sissi and other members of [...]
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In a July 27 phone call with Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel expressed deep concern about the security situation and recent violence in Egypt and encouraged restraint during this difficult period, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said. “The United States believes that the current transition needs to be marked by [...]
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Two passenger trains collided in Switzerland early Monday evening, leaving dozens injured. Local media reported that 44 people are among the wounded, four of whom are in serious condition. Train services in the area have been halted. The accident occurred near Lausanne, in the western French-speaking region of the country. The train crashed approximately 100 [...]
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UCLA computer science professor Amit Sahai and a team of researchers have designed a system to encrypt software so that it only allows someone to use a program as intended while preventing any deciphering of the code behind it. This is known in computer science as “software obfuscation,” and it is the first time it [...]
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