The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant will cease electricity production by the end of next year and will then be decommissioned, Entergy has announced. The company said that continued operation of the plant was “not financially viable.” Entergy anticipates shutting down the Vermont Yankee plant – a single 600 MWe boiling water reactor (BWR) that […]
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To understand what a militarily-inspired democratic transplant might achieve in Syria, one might look at what happened when the Iraqi Ba’athist regime of Saddam Hussein was overthrown. By Matthew Parish Modern Syria is not a country with natural geographical boundaries. For bearing this curse it has intermittently paid with blood. The historical region of Assyria covered […]
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With the top of the leadership pyramid removed, the societies left behind were rife with internal divisions. Without any historical experience, or sufficient wealth to divide among all claimants, they were never going to assemble themselves into polities and societies peacefully resolving their differences through constitutional, liberal mechanisms. Nor were they going to move toward such […]
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By Manoj Joshi During his visit to the United States earlier this year, Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping gave the call for “a new type of great power relationship” with Washington. Originally the concept was aimed at relations between the Chinese and American militaries, but now it seems to be a catch-word for a reset […]
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By Arvind Gupta China and Japan are positioning themselves to take advantage of the opening of the Northern Sea Route (NSR). Presently, the Chinese shipping company COSCO’s container ship is transiting through the NSR carrying exports from a Chinese port to Europe. Earlier this year, a 66,000 tonne vessel carried iron ore to China. Given […]
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By Sanjiv Tomar With an aim to monitor and protect information and strengthen defences from cyber attacks, the National Cyber Security Policy 2013 was released on July 2, 2013 by the Government of India. The purpose of this framework document is to ensure a secure and resilient cyberspace for citizens, businesses and the government. With […]
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Saudi Arabia on Tuesday urged the international community to take a “decisive and serious” stand against the regime of Bashar Assad for massacring Syrian people using chemical and other destructive weapons. “The rejection of the Syrian regime of all serious and earnest Arab efforts and the horrible massacres he committed against his people … requires […]
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Approximately 614,000 Facebook users whose personal details appeared in ads on the site without their permission will each receive a $15 (£9.65) payout, BBC News said. The names and pictures of an estimated 150 million Facebook members were used in Sponsored Stories, but only those who responded to an email from the site earlier this […]
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By Abdulateef Al-Mulhim Since the start of the Arab Spring, we have seen men, women and children get killed by stray bullets, tank shells, scud missiles, attack helicopters and fighter jets. There are innocent people in Syria under attack by chemical weapons, regardless of which side is guilty of using them, and nothing has been […]
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Nokia today unveiled the Nokia 515, a premium mobile phone made with style-conscious people in mind. Wrapped in lightweight aluminium, the device combines the best of Nokia – contemporary design, high quality materials and top performance. The Nokia 515 is available in single and Easy Swap Dual-SIM variants. Nokia 515The Nokia 515 reflects Nokia’s approach […]
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(EurActiv) — The combined requests by EU member states for information from Facebook amounted to roughly two-thirds the number of US requests, according to global data disclosed by the social network site yesterday (27 August). Facebook disclosed how many requests for data were made by which countries and how often they were successful, according to […]
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(EurActiv) — The controversial Dutch far-right leader wants to gather like-minded parties in a mass movement ahead of next year’s European elections, but not all are ready to join. UKIP frontrunner Nigel Farage has rejected such an initiative. The controversial leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV), Geert Wilders, has toured Europe over the […]
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Prolexic, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services, today shared attack signatures and details that are helpful to detect and stop DDoS attacks from the Drive DDoS toolkit, an attack tool often used as a source of distraction while criminals break into customer accounts at finance firms and e-Commerce businesses. DDoS […]
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As the Labor Day weekend approaches, the U.S. national average retail price for regular gasoline has drifted downward from a summer-to-date peak of $3.68 per gallon, reached on July 22, to $3.55 per gallon on August 26, despite an increase in crude oil prices since early July. This decrease in the U.S. average regular gasoline […]
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Children as young as eight years old are working in Tanzanian small-scale gold mines, with grave risks to their health and even their lives, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Tanzanian government should curb child labor in small-scale mining, including at informal, unlicensed mines, and the World Bank and donor countries […]
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(RFE/RL) — U.S. President Barack Obama says that Martin Luther King, Jr’s vision of an America free from inequality has been partially, but not fully, realized. He joined thousands of Americans of all races on the National Mall in Washington on August 28 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of King’s iconic “I Have A Dream” […]
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By US President Barack Obama To the King family, who have sacrificed and inspired so much; to President Clinton; President Carter; Vice President Biden and Jill; fellow Americans. Five decades ago today, Americans came to this honored place to lay claim to a promise made at our founding: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, […]
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American Atheists are threatening a lawsuit seeking to stop the erection of a memorial cross in Princeton, New Jersey. New Jersey has a 9-11 memorial, and one of the local firefighters would like to display a beam in Princeton that was taken from the World Trade Center. American Atheists are objecting because the beam has […]
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U.N. special envoy to Myanmar Vijay Nambiar visited the headquarters of Kachin ethnic rebels in for the first time Wednesday, meeting with officials from the group’s political wing and touring camps for people who remain displaced by fighting which ended under a peace agreement signed in May. Nambiar, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Special Advisor on […]
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By Donald Kaul The year 2000 marked not merely the end of a century but the end of a millennium, a thousand years of history. The media’s desire to fill empty space with naming “the Person of the Millennium” became all the rage. George Will, the unfailingly smug conservative columnist, made Thomas Jefferson his top […]
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