The United States on Monday insisted that no peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians have been cancelled, despite Palestinian claims to the contrary. “I can assure you that no meeting has been cancelled,” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters, AFP reported, after Palestinian Authority officials announced a session. The peace talks, brokered by […]
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The Catholic community, led by the bishops, has voiced its objections to the Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate on several occasions. The Obama administration has made “accommodations” and other revisions, but the fundamental problem remains: the HHS mandate adopts a definition of what constitutes a “religious employer” that is entirely too narrow; and the […]
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The 2013 Annual Conference of the Global Engineering Deans Council will be held in Chicago, Illinois, on October 20 through October 22, with this year’s Conference focusing on the use of technology in the enhancement of engineering education and, specifically, on evidence-based practices in making engineering education more effective and efficient. Among the keynote speakers […]
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Warplanes and military transporters” have reportedly been moved to Britain’s Akrotiri airbase in Cyprus in the latest sign of the allied forces’ preparations for a military strike on Syria amid bellicose rhetoric against the Syrian government. Two commercial pilots who regularly fly from Larnaca, Cyprus, claim to have spotted C-130 transport planes from their own […]
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There has been a major debate in Washington policy circles over who should replace Ben Bernanke as Federal Reserve Board chair when his term expires in January. The two leading contenders are Janet Yellen, the current vice-chair of the Fed, and Larry Summers who served as Treasury Secretary in the Clinton administration and as the […]
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Defence engagements are slowly reshaping the Asian region. Asia’s security architecture is changing incrementally in three ways: from the U.S.-centred “wheels” to “webs”; from being multilaterally foreign policy-focused to an expansion of the role of defence institutions; and potentially from “talk-shops” to “workshops.” By See Seng Tan DEFENCE DIPLOMACY – or the efforts by national […]
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A true cynic would question the timing of the widespread closings of U.S embassies in the Middle East and the concurrent barrage of drone attacks in Yemen, just as the Obama administration is defending its intrusive spying on Americans after exposure by an intelligence agency contractor. Although in May, President Obama told us that he […]
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Thanks to the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit which will take place in Colombo in November this year, the government finally scheduled the much anticipated election to the Northern Provincial Council for September 21, 2013. Elections to the Central as well as North Western Provinces will also take place on the same day. If […]
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By Kaveh L. Afrasiabi Although President Hassan Rouhani is scheduled to participate in next month’s summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, the whole Iranian approach toward this regional, part economic, part security, organization is now under review in Tehran, as part and parcel of a “new foreign policy” promised […]
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As evolving technologies multiply the rate of “big data” in emergencies from crowd-sourcing, to crowd-seeding to social media – humanitarian organizations are now focusing on how to ensure it is accurate and thus usable. There are many plusses to crowd-sourced information. “It addresses a real pain for humanitarian organizations: situational awareness in unstable environments,” Chris […]
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Politico.com, August 26: “Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday called Syria’s use of chemical weapons “undeniable” and said President Barack Obama will “be making an informed decision about how to respond to this indiscriminate use of chemical weapons.” Politico went on to report: “Setting the stage for eventual military intervention, Kerry said in a […]
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The good news this Labor Day: Jobs are returning. The bad news this Labor Day: Most of them pay lousy wages and low if non-existent benefits. The trend toward lousy wages began before the Great Recession. According to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute, weak wage growth between 2000 and 2007, combined with […]
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The Caspian Sea region is one of the oldest oil-producing areas in the world and is an increasingly important source of global energy production. The area has significant oil and natural gas reserves from both offshore deposits in the Caspian Sea itself and onshore fields in the Caspian basin. Traditionally an oil-producing area, the Caspian […]
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Girls report more math anxiety on general survey measures but are not actually more anxious during math classes and exams, according to new research forthcoming in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Existing research suggests that females are more anxious when it comes to mathematics than their male peers, despite similar […]
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By Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan As the US continues its ‘pivot’ back to Asia, three important points need to be reiterated. First, is there really a ‘pivot’? Did the US really leave Asia to pivot back? While Asia may have had attention deficit from the US, the reality is that the US never left the […]
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By Cheryl Pellerin In a first-of-its-kind deal worth about $500 million, the United States has agreed to sell eight new Apache AH-64E attack helicopters and Longbow radars to Indonesia, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said here today. Hagel announced the deal during a joint news conference with Indonesian Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro after productive meetings this […]
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By Rima Al-Mukhtar and Rob L. Wagner In a landmark decision, the Cabinet on Monday passed a law making it a crime to commit domestic abuse. The law also provides treatment and shelter to victims of violence. For the first time, public and private sector workers have been encouraged to report abuse cases to law […]
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Peace is presented as the opposite of war. Stop war and we have peace. Is it that simple? What if there is no war, is there any peace to be pursued? History answers that question. Israel’s stance toward the West Bank Palestinians is similar to that of the Puritans’ Massachusetts Bay Colony toward its native […]
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Once again the “something must be done” brigade has taken charge. The cruise missiles being readied for strikes against targets unspecified in Syria will carry the message of “accountability.” CBS News reports: There was no debate at the Saturday meeting [of President Obama's national security team] that a military response is necessary. Obama ordered up […]
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By Prof. Dr. Ludger Kuehnhardt Among the many known unknowns and unknown unknowns of the future of Afghanistan, one fact is uncompromising: demography. According to a projection by the Population Division of the UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs, Afghanistan will explode from roughly thirty million inhabitants today to 47 million inhabitants in 2024, […]
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