Oman’s primary foreign policy objectives appear to be to ensure stability in the Arabian Gulf and maintain independence from Saudi Arabia. For decades, a pillar of Muscat’s foreign policy has been to balance its alliances with the U.S., its fellow Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, and Iran. Oman’s strategy of playing off its more powerful [...]
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By Riad Kahwaji Syrian rebels have learned, as all their Arab allies have, that it is very hard to be an ally of Western democracies, especially when your adversary is a brutal dictatorship allied with authoritarian regimes. It does not always pay off to be an ally of democracies like the United States or the [...]
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The United States will close a number of its embassies and consulates around the world on Sunday for security reasons. In a written statement, the State Department did not specify which missions have been asked to close, nor the type of threat they face. The statement said the embassies and consulates that have been told [...]
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As I noted a few months ago, President Obama’s economic policies have been widely criticized for slowing the economic recovery; meanwhile, one sector of the economy — firearms — has greatly benefited from the president’s policies. As this article notes, sales at Sturm Ruger & Co. are up 50% over last year, and sales at Smith [...]
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In the 30 years, since President Ronald Reagan created his expensive pie-in-the-sky Strategic Defense Initiative—quickly and appropriately named “Star Wars” by critics and journalists alike—the United States has spent a whopping $250 billion on trying to shoot down fast intercontinental ballistic missiles, such as those that might someday be fielded by Iran and North Korea. [...]
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Hundreds of Palestinian residents of Israel rallied Thursday afternoon against Israel’s Prawer Plan which could displace thousands of Bedouin residents of the Negev from their land. The protestors gathered near al-Arakib village where Israeli forces have demolished tents and tin-roofed houses more than 50 times. A Ma’an reporter in the Negev said Israeli police deployed [...]
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By Obinna Anyadike Rosalba Duran and her family of 11 live in a single-room wooden hut on patch of local government-owned land on the outskirts of El Tarra, in Colombia’s northern province of Norte de Santander. Eight-months ago she had a house in town, and her husband a job at a next-door fish farm. But [...]
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The United States indicated Thursday that it could cancel a planned bilateral summit between US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin after Moscow’s decision to grant temporary asylum to fugitive former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. “We have a wide range of interests with the Russians, and we are evaluating the utility of a [...]
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Is it a coincidence that the least attractive people in your office are the butt of all the jokes? A study just published in the journal Human Performance would suggest that it’s not. Brent A. Scott and Timothy A. Judge wanted to learn more about counterproductive work behaviour (CWB), understood as “behavior intended to hurt [...]
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Investors in VC/PE funds continue to look to emerging regions for new, attractive opportunities, especially with the European economy stagnating and the United States growing at a snail’s pace. To help investors identify the best opportunities, IESE’s Center for International Finance, in conjunction with Ernst & Young, has published its fourth annual Venture Capital and [...]
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Archaeologists have completed a month-long dig at the site of Richard III’s burial – the “site that keeps on giving”. A team from University of Leicester Archaeological Services (ULAS) made a much larger excavation at the site of the Grey Friars church in Leicester city centre than was possible during the first dig in August [...]
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(CORDIS) — A key requirement for aircraft security is an efficient and modern communication network. The procedure carried out before each take-off requires input by multiple individuals at each stage. A fail in communication may lead to an accident and, with air traffic in Europe estimated to grow 50% by 2035, integrating communication in a [...]
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the Worldwide Olympic Partner in the Wireless Communications Equipment category, presented THursday its Samsung GALAXY Team Russia for Sochi 2014, which includes top athletes in various winter sports and promising Russian sportsmen who will be competing in the upcoming Olympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi. According to the company, Samsung is [...]
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(EurActiv) — French motorists continue to register new models of Mercedes-Benz despite a government ban, but the damage may already be done to sales of the German luxury car. The environment ministry invoked a “safeguard clause” in reiterating on 28 July the ban, which began in June. Legally, the French government had the right to [...]
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Mercedes-Benz has been showcasing its brand through a pavilion in the Powisle district of Warsaw since July 20, due to remain there for three months. The brand has chosen this location for its new temporary brand experience quite deliberately: Powisle with its parks lies in close proximity to the city centre and is a popular [...]
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By Marco Zoppi Brazil is intimately connected with Africa: the cultural imprint left by Africans in loco is so vibrant that it has generated the contention according to which Brazil would be conceptualized at its best as an African nation [1]. If we look at history, the prominent event within which the encounter of Brazil [...]
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On Thursday, U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the current chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee handed down two congressional subpoenas to the office of Secretary of State John Kerry and officials at the State Department. The subpoenas call for all documents related to the lawmakers’ probe into the attacks on a diplomatic [...]
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Michele Catalano tells a story that is emblematic of the far reach of America’s national security state, the stupidity by which it is guided, and the incompetence with which it executes its operations. In a country where we now know nothing is concealed from the NSA’s all-seeing, never-blinking eye, it’s easy to imagine that with [...]
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By Fadia Jiffry Religious scholars, through their sermons, have advised Muslims in the Kingdom not to waste food during the holy month of Ramadan, when food is prepared in large quantities and the leftovers go waste. Abdulrahman Bakri, an Islamic scholar said: “During Ramadan, there is always a major increase in food wastage not only [...]
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By Nadeem M. Qureshi What do the International Space Station, the Czech Post Office, the French Parliament and the Turkish government have in common? All have switched from using a proprietary Operating System (OS) on their computers to an “open source” or free OS; or putting it simply: They have switched from Windows to a [...]
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