In time for the third annual International Tiger Day, recent findings from a camera trap survey in Sumatra, Indonesia have uncovered a burgeoning tiger stronghold on an island that typically makes headlines for its rampant loss of forests and wildlife. Mr. Tomy Winata, an Indonesian businessman, conservationist and founder of Tambling Wildlife Nature Conservation (TWNC, [...]
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By Michele McDonald A compound found in soybeans may become an effective HIV treatment without the drug resistance issues faced by current therapies, according to new research by George Mason University researchers. It’s in the early stages, but genistein, derived from soybeans and other plants, shows promise in inhibiting the HIV infection, says Yuntao Wu, [...]
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By Marianna Grigoryan It was a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, back in 1955 that catalyzed the civil rights movement in the United States. These days in Armenia, some observers believe a recent bus boycott in Yerevan may reinvigorate the country’s democratization process. The Yerevan public transport boycott started July 20, after the city government [...]
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Year-round ice-free conditions across the surface of the Arctic Ocean could explain why the Earth was substantially warmer during the Pliocene Epoch than it is today, despite similar concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to new research carried out at the University of Colorado Boulder. In early May, instruments at the Mauna Loa [...]
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Eleven bodies found close to the sit-in in support of Mohamed Morsi in Rabea al-Adaweya Square bear “signs of torture,” according to an official source at Egypt’s Interior Ministry. Ten individuals have so far complained about undergoing torture by Muslim Brotherhood loyalists at Rabea al-Adaweya and al-Nadha squares in Cairo, the source revealed. Both squares [...]
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The European Commission adopted a report on the activities undertaken in 2012 under the Instrument for Stability (IfS), one of the key European Union instruments for external assistance. This (sixth) annual report[1] demonstrates the wide range of contributions that the mobilisation of EUR 286 million of IfS funds in 2012 has made to the EU’s [...]
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Israeli and Palestinian negotiators sat down together at dinner Monday night in Washington as they get set to hold the first direct peace talks in three years. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hosted the meal after urging both sides to make “reasonable compromises” in their talks. Kerry called the issues at stake tough, complicated, [...]
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The judge presiding over the case of Army private first class Bradley Manning will announce her verdict Tuesday afternoon from Ft. Meade, Maryland. Col. Denise Lind, the presiding judge in the court-martial of the United States v. Pfc Manning, said Monday morning that the long-awaited verdict will be delivered at 1 p.m. EDT from the [...]
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In 1977, I was an undergraduate at Lancaster University in England coming towards the end of my first year studying politics. My perspective on America at that time had been shaped by events of the preceding decade: Vietnam; the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and Bobby Kennedy; Watergate and Nixon; the CIA’s illegal operations; [...]
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By Romana Michelon The Palestinian Territories are a noticeable absentee in the Euro- pean Union’s (EU) official response to the Arab spring. Indeed, neither the ‘Partnership for Democracy and Shared Prosperity with the Southern Mediterranean’ nor the ‘New Response to a Changing Neigh- bourhood’ devote much attention to the Territories or the Palestinian question more [...]
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By Ignacio Molina Introduction[1] Everything indicated that after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world would enter a long period of stability, with order and security provided by the last remaining superpower –the ‘hyperpower’ in the words of Hubert Védrine–: the US. And that is how it [...]
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By Aron Lund for Syria Comment MEET ALI KAYALI The murder of the Syrian regime loyalist Mohammed Darrar Jammo in Lebanon, now said to have been an internal family affair, led to much firing in the air. At Jammo’s funeral in Latakia, there was a heavy presence of militiamen, and militiawomen, who were there to [...]
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Iberia, the Spanish airline company, said Tuesday that its new Iberia A330 aircraft has operated its first flight from Madrid to Chicago. It took off from Madrid T4 at 11:50 and arrived in Chicago airport at 14:10, where it got a water salute. Then, it flew back from Chicago to Madrid at 16:40 hours. “On [...]
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Local Serbs in the north of Kosovo blocked a main road and threw stones, injuring two EU police officers, after two fellow Serbs were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The brief clash between local Serbs and EU rule-of-law mission, EULEX police officers erupted in the northern Kosovo town of Zvecan on Monday after protesters [...]
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Hamas authorities in Gaza on Tuesday summoned the bureau chief of Ma’an’s Gaza office for questioning and confiscated the keys to the office, a journalists’ union said. Abed al-Nasser al Najjar, chairman of the Palestinian Journalists’ Union, said that the group has filed a complaint against the office of Gaza’s public prosecutor for violating press [...]
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Occidental Petroleum Corporation said Tuesday that net income for the second quarter of 2013 was $1.3 billion ($1.64 per diluted share), compared with $1.3 billion ($1.64 per diluted share) for the second quarter of 2012. The second quarter of 2013 included non-core items amounting to a net after-tax benefit of $46 million. After excluding the [...]
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The answer is: Not much more than the Arab world is prepared to give. Thanks to the unremitting efforts of US Secretary of State John Kerry, the first tentative steps towards a resumption of the Israel-Palestine peace process took place on Monday, July 29 2013, when Israeli and Palestinian representatives sat down together in Washington [...]
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By Yelisha Sharma The Fund for Peace has been developing a Failed State Index since 2005. The most interesting feature of this index are the indicators it takes into account. The position of various states all over the world is analysed on the basis of 12 indicators which takes into consideration not just the national [...]
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By Iranga Kahangama China and India continue to vie for maritime influence, as influence over the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) remains both commercially and strategically advantageous. However, India’s recent strategy includes developing regional cooperative maritime frameworks that focus on security as a preventative hedge on Chinese incursions. While China consolidates commercial maritime interests in South [...]
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By Selcuk Colakoglu American public opinion began looking more positively at the Middle East and the Arab World after the Arab Spring started in early 2011. The Arab publics’ calls for democratization earned them admirers in many corners of the globe. When the Arab Spring came to Syria, the majority of observers expected regime change [...]
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