Hamas security forces have launched an arrest campaign against Fatah leaders and affiliates in the Gaza Strip, Fatah said in a statement on Sunday. Hamas security forces raided the home of Fatah official Abed al-Aziz al- Maqadma on Thursday, confiscating his computer and mobile phone. He was taken to internal security headquarters in northern Gaza, […]
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By Kevin J. Jones Facebook’s continued tolerance for obscene anti-Catholic pages in Spanish are causing some users to question the site’s policies – and whether they should keep using the social network. “I report anti-Catholic pages every so often,” user Carlos Wadsworth of Costa Rica said in response to an open Facebook query from CNA […]
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(Civil.Ge) — Georgia President Saakashvili and PM Ivanishvili made a rare joint appearance on Sunday evening when they visited the U.S. navy ship, Bulkeley, which makes a four-day port call in Batumi, during which the two exchanged barbs highlighting tense political cohabitation. In his speech at the reception hosted by the warship’s command and U.S. […]
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By Philip Weiss On Friday, President Obama held a press conference at which he said that those who have questioned government’s spying on its own citizens in the name of privacy and civil liberties are “patriots” and at which he announced supposedly-sweeping reviews of that surveillance program. Among other measures, he ordered an overhaul of […]
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By Sohan Prasad Sha Elections in Nepal are a time for politicians to embark on tours and visits. No sooner are they announced than leaders of all stripes make a beeline to New Delhi, to curry favour, cut deals, and carry back home evidence of their skills in negotiating everything from ‘trilateralism’, ‘bilateralism’ to hanging […]
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By Dr. Subhash Kapila The Indian Republic stands incensed intensely this last week not only because of the fixative obsession of the Government for resumption of the Pakistan-India Peace Dialogue but more incensed that the Government forgetful of India’s National Honour resorted to vain subterfuges to provide escapist loopholes to the Pakistan Army over its […]
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By Pramod Jaiswal The Fund for Peace’s ninth annual Failed States Index (FSI) has been released. The index looks at four Social Indicators (Demographic Pressures, Refugees and IDPS, Group Grievance, Human Flight), two Economic Indicators (Uneven Development and Poverty and Economic Decline) and six Political and Military Indicators (Legitimacy of the State, Public Services, Human […]
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Supporters of ousted President Mohammad Morsi called on Egyptians to march Monday to stop any police crackdown on two Cairo protest sites that Islamists have manned for weeks, Reuters news agency reported. Officials had said Sunday that police would move at dawn to break up the sit-ins, but they did not do so, and demonstrators […]
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By Ajit Kumar Singh In the early hours of August 6, 2013, personnel of Pakistan Army’s Border Action Team (BAT) along with a group of 20 heavily armed terrorists entered 450-metres deep into the Indian Territory along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Poonch sector (Poonch District) of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). The intruders […]
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By Tushar Ranjan Mohanty On August 6, 2013, terrorists killed Diamer District Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Muhammad Hilal Khan, and two Army officers, Colonel Ghulam Mustafa and Captain Ashfaq Aziz, in an ambush at Rohni in the Chilas District of Gilgit Baltistan (GB) in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). The officials were involved in the […]
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By Anurag Tripathi On August 8, 2013, at least 38 persons, including 21 Policemen, were killed and another 40 were injured in a suicide bombing at a funeral in the Police Lines area of Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan. Among those killed were Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Operations, Fayyaz Ahmed Sumbal; Superintendent of Police […]
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More than 500 people have been evacuated from a tiny Indonesian island where a volcano erupted at the weekend, spewing rocks and lava that killed five villagers, an official said Monday. Mount Rokatenda, on Palue island in East Nusa Tenggara province, threw red-hot ash two kilometres (1.2 miles) into the sky Saturday and unleashed torrents […]
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Apple’s newest iPhones are rumored to be released on September 10. The devices, which may be called the iPhone 5S and the iPhone 5C, are believed to come in many colors and include sensors to identify their owners by their fingerprints. The Japanese Apple blog Mac Otakara first revealed the news, claiming that its “sources […]
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By Chris Hannas The Justice Department is taking steps to reduce the number of non-violent drug offenders who face long mandatory prison terms. U.S. laws dating from the 1980s require long jail terms for anyone convicted of certain drug crimes. But in a speech Monday to the American Bar Association in San Francisco, U.S. Attorney […]
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By Dalia Hatuqa In 2011, when Palestinian detainees were released from Israeli prisons as part of a prisoner exchange deal, the West Bank and Gaza Strip were overcome with jubilation. Similar celebrations are expected in the coming week, when 26 Palestinians, most of whom have been languishing in Israeli prisons for more than 20 years, […]
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Ecuador should revoke a presidential decree that grants far-reaching powers to the government to oversee and dissolve nongovernmental organizations, Human Rights Watch said today. On June 4, 2013, President Rafael Correa adopted a decree that creates new procedures for Ecuadorean nongovernmental organizations to obtain legal status and requires international organizations to undergo a screening process […]
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The United States embassy in Yemen remained closed Monday due to ongoing concerns about a possible terror attack, according to US media reports. The Yemen facility and 18 other US embassies in the Middle East and Africa were closed last week after a message between two high-level al-Qaida leaders about an attack was intercepted. All […]
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Dutch Prince Johan Friso has died after nearly a year and a half in a coma following a skiing accident in Austria, officials say, according to BBC News. Prince Friso, who was 44, was moved from hospital in London back to the Netherlands last month, but had since suffered complications. He was hit by an […]
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In 1991, the current Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh as finance minister orchestrated India’s entry into global commerce. Since then, India has come a long way. In the current era of globalisation, where India has integrated itself to the global financial system, rapid strides in development due to liberalisation are discernible, albeit in the […]
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(EurActiv) — German opposition parties accused Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday (11 August) of lying before elections next month about the risks of a new bailout for Greece, after a magazine reported the Bundesbank expects it will need more European aid in early 2014. Der Spiegel quoted an internal document prepared by the German central bank […]
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