Bijan Namdar Zanganeh has been chosen as oil minister in the Rohani cabinet that will take over the administration this month. ISNA reports that Bijan Namdar was the final choice of the president-elect and he will take over the oil ministry if Parliament endorses him with a vote of confidence. Bijan Namdar, 61, previously served [...]
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By Essam Mohamed The Libyan capital is experiencing recurrent power outages lasting several hours, with parts of Tripoli losing electricity twice a day. State electricity company GECOL blames the crisis on decreased gas flow, due to a series of strikes by energy workers. The ongoing labour actions at shipping terminals and oil fields are not [...]
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By Shahzeen Eram The soon-to-be-launched “Peace Mobile,” an Islamic smartphone, is a useful media gadget that reconciles Qur’an with modern science. The smartphone was invented by Dr. Zakir Naik, an internationally renowned public speaker on Islam and comparative religion, and is ready to be launched internationally in the last week of Ramadan. Demand for the [...]
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A Lebanese suspect with alleged links to Hezbollah and on trial in Nigeria for terrorism offenses told a court on Friday he was aware of a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador in Abuja. The alleged plot, which had not previously been made public, came up during questioning of the defendant during the trial of [...]
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Major telecom companies have been assisting the UK intelligence agency GCHQ by granting access to all the traffic passing through their fiber-optic cables – and by developing Trojan software for the agency, leaked papers obtained by German media reveal. The classified slides obtained by German news agencies Süddeutsche Zeitung and NDR list global telecommunication operators [...]
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By Ali Bluwi The strategic plan to empower the Muslim Brotherhood in the region has been exposed. As part of the plan, the Muslim Brotherhood tried to align its interests with those of the Americans and their Western counterparts in order to safeguard the security of Israel. Perhaps this is the reason behind Israeli intelligence [...]
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By PR Chari South Block is littered with official histories of India’s conflicts since Independence. Prepared with great exertion and expense, they have not seen the light of the day. At least officially. Amazingly, the official history of the first India-Pakistan War (1947-48) was released, some copies distributed, and it was then withdrawn because it [...]
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By Sushant Sareen When jail walls that hold dangerous terrorists start falling like nine-pins, they tend to become a metaphor not just for the dreadful state of security in a country but worse, for the unrelenting slide towards state failure. Just over a year after the jail break from the Bannu prison in which around [...]
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By Samuele Tamburini “How many poor people there still are in the world! And what great suffering they have to endure!” – Pope Francis, 2013 On March 13, the Catholic Church’s elective body, the conclave of Cardinals, selected Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, formerly Archbishop of Buenos Aires, as the new pope. Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, [...]
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Dear Ali, I feel compelled to respond to your beautifully written and well-argued epistle to Syed Farid Alatas. I understand your sense of disappointment and betrayal as a result of how events have unfolded in post-revolt Arab nations, but want to take issue with your notions of revolution that lead you to conclude that popular [...]
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By Rajiv Nayan Some of the members are expressing unnecessary apprehensions regarding India’s membership. Unlike China, India has a track record of complying with obligations of any treaty or agreement it signs. The 2013 Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) plenary meeting in Prague, from June 13-14, assumed significance in the context of the ongoing crises relating [...]
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By G. Balachandran and Kapil Patil With India’s first 1,000 MWe light water reactors at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu attaining safe criticality on July 13, 2013, the stage is set for electricity generation. While it may take another 30 to 40 days for Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) to fully synchronise with the power grid [...]
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In this week’s address, President Obama told the American people that his plan for creating a better bargain for the middle class builds on the progress we’ve made, fighting our way back from the worst economic recession of our lifetimes. The President underscored the need for Congress to end the logjam in Washington and act [...]
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By Jeff Seldin The United States is telling its citizens abroad to be on guard for possible terror attacks, while at the same time closing 22 embassies and consulates through Sunday. A look at what’s behind the warnings provides clues to what may lie ahead. Fears are growing that U.S. citizens are again about to [...]
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Analysis Parameter While much attention of the national policy making circles and the concerned public alike of the Indian Ocean countries is mostly focused on various internal and external issues of respective national importance, the much more serious issue of the evolving geopolitics of Indian Ocean appears to be neglected. Basically this issue is being [...]
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If John Kerry was beating his children and promising to stop “very very soon” and then explaining that he meant “very very soon” in a geological sense, he’d be forced to resign his office. If we even discovered that John Kerry had once beaten one of his children, even many years ago, perhaps shortly after [...]
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The emission of the greenhouse gas has reduced to near half due to the popularity in the use of nuclear power. Nuclear energy by far has the lowest impact on the environment since it does not release any gases like carbon dioxide, methane which are largely responsible for greenhouse effect. There is no adverse effect [...]
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By Anna Jefferys The UN and other aid agencies face ever-increasing levels of humanitarian need: the number of recorded disasters has doubled in the past two decades, according to the UN, while the needs-response gap remains stubbornly steady in the context of a shifting humanitarian landscape – with the dominance of UN agencies and the [...]
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Social networking site Twitter has issued new rules to help clamp down on abusive behavior, The Daily Telegraph reports. The company has updated its rules to make it clear that abuse will not be tolerated, and has put extra staff in place to handle reports of abuse, it said. The move comes as police revealed [...]
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Facebook announced Friday, Aug 2 amid the Def Con hacker conference here in Las Vegas that it paid more than $1 million during the past two years to 329 helpful hackers – known as “white hats” – who found vulnerabilities in its code and shared them with the company. Some of them have already earned [...]
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