By Klaudija Lutovska Representatives of the Macedonian Orthodox Church, the Islamic Community and Struga municipality met Saturday (August 31st) to resolve a tense dispute over the controversial construction of a church in the village of Oktisi. A group of Oktisi Muslims — witness estimates ranged from 50 people to several hundred — blocked a procession […]
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved a resolution giving U.S. President Barack Obama authority to take military action against Syria over its use of chemical weapons on civilians. The measure will go to the full Senate next week, and must pass there, as well as in the House of Representatives, where it could meet […]
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An Al-Qaeda-linked group attacked a predominantly Christian village sympathetic to the Assad regime in western Syria on Wednesday while rebel and government forces clashed in Damascus. The attack began at dawn when a Jabhat al-Nusra fighter blew himself up at a government checkpoint near the entrance to Maaloula – a village of 2,000 residents – […]
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Farmers who grow corn and soybeans can take advantage of government price support programs and crop insurance, but similar programs are not available for those who grow biomass crops such as Miscanthus. A University of Illinois study recommends a framework for contracts between growers and biorefineries to help spell out expectations for sustainability practices and […]
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The Cambodian government’s refusal to pay local staff at the Khmer Rouge tribunal is the latest attempt to undermine efforts to bring former Khmer Rouge leaders to justice, Human Rights Watch said today. On September 2, 2013, more than half of the Cambodians working on the government payroll at the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts […]
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The United States has only to gain from the likely military intervention which will give it unrestricted access to Syria’s oil reserves, with a larger control over the neighbouring oil producers and trade routes. The intervention comes at an opportune time for the superpower when the global economy has forced many into bankruptcy. The Gulf […]
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Chuck Todd: Mr. President, could you update us on your latest thinking of where you think things are in Syria, and in particular, whether you envision using U.S. military, if simply for nothing else, the safe keeping of the chemical weapons, and if you’re confident that the chemical weapons are safe? President Obama: I have, […]
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Suppose several armored vehicles belonging to a branch of the Palestinian Authority raided an Israeli border village at the eve of a new round of peace negotiations. One can picture PA President Mahmoud Abbas defending the killings, stating that the attack was made in the cause of protecting the security of the Palestinian public. Would […]
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By Vacy Vlazna Jewish American, Michelle Cohen Corasanti’s The Almond Tree should be retitled, The Normal Tree, because, as Shahada, the tree is witness, since 1947, to the normal daily atrocities by the Israeli occupiers of Palestine, and mainly because the author’s overall purpose is the normalisation of the illegal occupation through the turning of […]
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A criminal court sentenced two Tunisian rappers to prison on August 30, 2013, for “insulting the police”. The sentences of a year and nine months in prison, which violate their right to free expression, are the latest in a string of similar prosecutions. The First Instance Criminal Tribunal of Hammamet, a northern coastal city, convicted […]
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Lenovo is going after different segments of the laptop-buying public with its new Yoga convertible laptops and Flex laptops with 360 and 300-degree hinges so they can be used in less traditional orientations than simply as a clamshell laptop. The new systems leverage their HD touch screens and innovative chassis design to help Windows 8 […]
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By Vivek Kapur The first indigenously designed and built aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, was launched on August 12, 2013. While still several years from being operational, the launch of the carrier, which has been designed to carry 36 fixed wing fighter aircrafts, comprising a mix of MiG-29K and the indigenous LCA (naval variants) in addition […]
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C.J. Chivers reports from an undisclosed location: The Syrian rebels posed casually, standing over their prisoners with firearms pointed down at the shirtless and terrified men. The prisoners, seven in all, were captured Syrian soldiers. Five were trussed, their backs marked with red welts. They kept their faces pressed to the dirt as the rebels’ […]
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There’s an election in Australia on Saturday, September 7, and while the economy is of the greatest concern, it is a carbon tax that has driven up costs and put businesses into closure that is the issue that will determine the outcome. Meanwhile, in the U.S., imposing a carbon tax remains a top priority of […]
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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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Documents leaked by former U.S. intelligence analyst Edward Snowden indicate that U.S. and British spy agencies have cracked encryption codes designed to provide online privacy and security. The codes are used by hundreds of millions of people to protect their personal data, online transactions and email correspondence. The files show the U.S. National Security Agency […]
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By H.K. Tzanis A spike in the number of undocumented migrants landing on the eastern Aegean island of Chios from the opposite Turkish coast last month, many of whom reportedly declared themselves as Syrian nationals, again raised concerns in Greece of a wave of refugees fleeing war-torn Syria. As the nearest Schengen Pact country to […]
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President Obama has reportedly ordered the Pentagon to expand the list of potential targets in Syria, following intelligence data that Syria’s President Bashar Assad has been moving troops and equipment ahead of the possibility of military intervention. Initially, 50 sites were chosen to carry out the potential air strike aimed at “deterring and degrading” Assad’s […]
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The cabinet reshuffle will bring greater stability and efficiently – but the new ministers now have to prove they have skills and support to deliver on expectations. By Gordana Andric Serbia’s newly appointed ministers have swiftly got down to business, announcing their plans to improve the various departments they now run. While the public welcomed […]
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“Will we be helping Syria? We will,” Vladimir Putin said at a press conference following a G20 summit in St. Petersburg on Friday. The US and other countries will put themselves outside of law if they begin a military operation in Syria, Putin added. “I presume that everything concerning the so-called use of chemical weapons […]
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