By Estefania Aguirre and Carl Bunderson The head of the Coptic Catholic Church has expressed solidarity with other Egyptians over the wave of violence that has struck the country, bluntly calling the events a struggle against terrorist forces. Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak of Alexandria said that “out of love for our country and in solidarity […]
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By Beenish Altaf Several developments are taking place at regional and global levels that have posed serious concerns and apprehensions for Pakistan to think about them seriously. In this regard, one of the credential steps was the channelizing of strategic relationship among India (who is aspirant to become an Asian super power) and the US […]
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Readings of tritium in seawater taken from the bay near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has shown 4700 becquerels per liter, a TEPCO report stated, according to Nikkei newspaper. It marks the highest tritium level in the measurement history. Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has detected the highest radiation level in seawater collected in the […]
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In escalating crackdown on supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s interim authorities have arrested the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, local media reported Tuesday citing security officials. The television channels and electronic media showed images of Mohammed Badie being escorted away by security personnel from an apartment in northeast Cairo. Badie, 70, was […]
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The worsening of the relations between the United States and Russia, symbolized by the decision of U.S. President Barack Obama to cancel his trip to Moscow for a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, has raised concerns over the risk of a new Cold War between the two powers. Although the current tensions between […]
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By analysing MRI images of the brain with an elegant mathematical model, it is possible to reconstruct thoughts more accurately than ever before. In this way, researchers from Radboud University Nijmegen have succeeded in determining what letter a test subject was looking at. The journal Neuroimage has accepted the article, which will be published soon. […]
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Climate change combined with rapid population increases, economic growth and land subsidence could lead to a more than nine-fold increase in the global risk of floods in large port cities between now and 2050. ‘Future Flood Losses in Major Coastal Cities’, published in Nature Climate Change, is part of an ongoing project by the Organisation […]
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Top US lawmakers have quietly agreed to temporarily suspend most military aid to Egypt, indicating that behind the scenes Washington is starting to treat the military’s ouster of President Morsi as a coup, according to a new report. The Obama administration has temporarily halted the delivery of weapons to the Egyptian military as well as […]
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Saudi Arabia said on Monday that Arab and Islamic countries will step in to help Egypt if Western nations cut aid packages to Cairo over its deadly crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood protesters. “To those who have announced they are cutting their aid to Egypt, or threatening to do that, (we say that) Arab and Muslim […]
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By Noam Chomsky The Israeli-Palestinian peace talks beginning in Jerusalem proceed within a framework of assumptions that merit careful thought. One prevailing assumption is that there are two options: either a two-state settlement will be reached, or there will be a “shift to a nearly inevitable outcome of the one remaining reality — a state […]
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By Linda S. Heard Lastweek, Egypt’s interim government was in grave danger of international isolation over its crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. President Obama has refrained from calling the army’s ousting of Muhammad Mursi “a coup,” eliciting a mandatory cessation of annual US aid under American law. Instead, he has punished the Egyptian military by […]
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Iran Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Araqchi has warned against a “very dangerous” plot to sow sectarian discord across the Muslim world, saying the Israeli regime is liable for such plots. “We hold the Zionist regime [of Israel] accountable for the heavy plot to cause sectarian conflict among Islamic sects,” Araqchi said. “Fueling the flames of […]
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At the inauguration ceremony for Iran’s new administration, President Hassan Rohani announced that the executive will enlist the power of Iran’s ethnic and religious minorities as well the country’s women and youth. Iranian media report that the new president emphasized that all groups have equal rights in the eyes of the government and no official […]
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On the 60th anniversary of the August 19, 1953 coup that brought down the government of popular Prime Minister Mohammad Mosadeq and left an indelible mark on modern Iranian history, Foreign Policy reports that a new document regarding this event has been published on the U.S. National Security Archives website, confirming once again that the […]
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By N Sathiya Moorthy The recent Indian demarche to Sri Lanka on the continuing arrests and judicial detention of Tamil Nadu fishermen in the island-nation should bring back to memory the October 2008 Joint Statement on the subject. According to this statement, the two countries had “agreed to put in place practical arrangements to deal […]
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By Col Rajeev Agarwal The crackdown by the Egyptian police and the military on pro Morsi supporters camping in Cairo since President Morsi’s ouster on 3 July was waiting to happen and therefore didn’t come as a surprise when it took place in the early hours of 14 August. What was however not expected was […]
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The Guardian, a major outlet for revelations based on leaks from former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, says the British government threatened legal action against the newspaper unless it either destroyed the classified documents or handed them back to British authorities. In an article posted on the British newspaper’s website on Monday, Guardian editor Alan […]
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Police in Kerala yesterday arrested the brother of Asia’s richest evangelizing Christian, KP Yohannan, for allegedly running a racket in defunct currencies. KP Punnoose, the 62-year-old elder sibling of the self-appointed archbishop of the Kerala-based Believer’s Church, was arrested for unauthorized possession of defunct Yugoslavian dinars, police said. A spokesman for the Believer’s Church, Sijo […]
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Tweeting on everything now is a new mania in Indian Kashmir and indeed has become a symbol of VIP-ism. However, a day before Eid (Eid al-Fitr also called Feast of Breaking the Fast), one of my friends rightly tweeted that ‘Eid is the only time Muslims are officially happy . She is right because who […]
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By Zachary Fillingham Events on the ground in northern Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan suggest that the Syrian conflict is about to become a lot more complex, as it seems a new combatant might be entering the fray: the Kurds. Local authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan received a shock earlier this week when the normal flow of […]
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