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Morocco Dismantles ‘Ansar Al-Sharia’ Terror Cell

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By Mawassi Lahcen Morocco thwarted a large-scale terrorist plot to bomb strategic sites in several cities, the interior ministry announced on Monday (November 5th). Eight members of a new Ansar al-Sharia offshoot group were arrested in Rabat and other cities for allegedly plotted attacks against “sensitive buildings, security headquarters and tourist sites”, the interior ministry [...]

Tunisia: Government Denies Existence Of Jihadists Training Camps

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By Houda Trabelsi The Tunisian interior ministry last week dismissed news reports of jihadist training camps in the country. “The internal security forces, in co-operation with the army, are on high alert to protect the integrity of Tunisia’s borders and maintain the country’s security and stability,” the interior ministry said in an October 30th statement [...]

How Butterfly Wings Can Inspire New High-Tech Surfaces

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A South American butterfly flapped its wings, and caused a flurry of nanotechnology research to happen in Ohio. Researchers here have taken a new look at butterfly wings and rice leaves, and learned things about their microscopic texture that could improve a variety of products. For example, the researchers were able to clean up to [...]

The Hurricane And The Failed State – OpEd

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So-called advanced nations are never so advanced that they can stand up to the forces of nature. New York and New Jersey are just the latest examples of seemingly safe and “developed” places which were laid low by a change in the weather. Then again, things outside of human control can expose what was already [...]

Serbia: Nikolic’s Rhetoric Could Damage Regional Relations, Analysts Say

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By Biljana Pekusic and Drazen Remikovic Serbia President Tomislav Nikolic may cause “irreparable harm” in relations between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) by his analysis that BiH does not function as a state and is “slowly disappearing ahead our eyes,” BiH Presidency Chairman Bakir Izetbegovic said. Izetbegovic said that Nikolic’s pronouncements cause “irreparable harm [...]

California Man Behind Anti-Muslim Movie Sentenced To Prison

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A California man behind the anti-Muslim video that sparked widespread protests in the Muslim world has been sentenced to one year in prison for breaching the terms of his probation on a previous offense. The U.S. District Court in Los Angeles sentenced Mark Basseley Youssef Wednesday after he admitted to four allegations, including the use [...]

US Retail Gasoline Prices Expected To Decline In Coming Weeks – Analysis

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The national average retail price for a gallon of regular gasoline has fallen 36 cents per gallon over the last four weeks to hit $3.49 per gallon on November 5, the lowest price since mid-July. The decrease in retail gasoline prices has been a result of easing crude oil prices, narrowing gasoline crack spreads (the [...]

Iran Says Judges US By Its Actions Not Words

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The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman says only practical and fundamental changes in Washington’s policies could restore the trust of the Iranian nation towards the United States. The Islamic Republic of Iran believes that only respect for the rights of the Iranian nation, as well as a fundamental and practical reconsideration of the US government’s wrong [...]

Obama Win ‘Opens Way For New Mideast Push’

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World leaders have hailed US President Barack Obama’s sweeping re-election, with allies pledging to deepen cooperation with the US on fighting the world economic slump and maintaining security across the globe. Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and Crown Prince Salman congratulated Obama and wished greater progress and prosperity for American people under [...]

Religious Freedom “Only Viable Option For Consolidating Russia’s Extraordinary Diversity”

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By Geraldine Fagan The Orthodox-centred model of national identity is now an ill-fitting one, even when allowing certain ethnicities alternative “traditional” religious affiliation. For Soviet deconstruction of previous ethno-religious identities has created a different Russia. Sovietization established what [Shireen] Hunter terms “an amorphous soviet identity .. often coexisting and sometimes superseding the more ethnocentric, religious [...]

Thailand: Long-Term Peace In South Only Through Space For Insurgents – Analysis

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In order to bring an end to the violence and and bloodshed that has been plaguing Southern Thailand for nearly eight years, it is absolutely pivotal that insurgency groups be encouraged to organise politically and come to the negotiating table as soon as possible. By Timothy Williams Secessionist impulses in Southern Thailand have existed since the Sultanate [...]

Merkel Pitches Revived EU Vision To European Parliament

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The European Union must find the courage to reform and integrate further, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel told a full house of European Parliament members on Wednesday. Outlining her vision for a revamped Union, Merkel stressed the need to protect the euro, whereas EP political group leaders pressed her to be more ambitious, not least on [...]

Ambitious EU Security And Defence Policy Needed To Avoid Decline, Say MEPs

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The EU’s common security and defence policy (CSDP) must respond to strategic trends and play a full part in the Union’s external relations, said foreign affairs and security and defence MEPs in a debate with Catherine Ashton on Wednesday. Member states should make full use of the CSDP tools and the EU institutions, they added. [...]

Tennessee Muslims Instrumental In Getting The Vote Out – OpEd

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By Remziya Suleiman It is not easy being a Muslim woman activist in Tennessee. A bill to ban sharia, or Islamic legal principles, was introduced in 2011 in the state legislature (and ultimately overturned). More recently, conservatives criticised the governor for appointing Samar Ali, a native Tennessean and Muslim, to a top position in the [...]

Five Tibetans Self-Immolate

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Five Tibetans, including a young mother and three teenage boys, set fire to themselves on Wednesday in protest against Chinese rule in the largest number of self-immolations in a single day, triggering massive demonstrations in at least one area, according to exile and local sources. The burnings—which raised the self-immolation toll to 68 so far—came [...]

Guatemala: Powerful Quake Kills 48

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A 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Guatemala on Wednesday killed at least 48 people, the country’s president said. President Otto Perez Molina told reporters during his visit to the disaster area in the San Marcos state on the border with Mexico that the tremor also destroyed over 50 homes and injured more [...]

Greece Adopts Crucial Budget Austerity Measures

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The Greek parliament passed early on Thursday a highly unpopular austerity bill that ensures continued funding from the country’s international lenders. The bill envisions 13.5 billion euros in spending cuts as well as tax hikes and labor reforms by 2016 in order to secure a new 31.5-billion-euro bailout tranche from the European Union, the International [...]

Sandy Spanking Disciplines Climate Adamant USA – OpEd

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By Julio Godoy Back in 1779, the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya painted a scene that obviously was already common at the time in that retrograde country of his: An old man – or it can be an old lady – is beating a child on the bottom in front of numerous other children in [...]

America’s Toughest Sheriff Victorious On Election Day‏ – OpEd

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Indestructible! That’s the word supporters use to describe Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio whom voters reelected to a sixth term on Election Day in spite of federal officials’ harassment and illegal-alien advocacy groups campaigning against him. The octogenarian Arpaio gained national attention for thumbing his nose at President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric [...]

US Sanctions Four Iranian Individuals And Five Entities For Censorship Activities

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The U.S. Department of State reported Thursday to Congress the designations of four Iranian individuals and five Iranian entities for having engaged in censorship or other activities that prohibit, limit, or penalize freedom of expression or assembly by citizens of Iran, or that limit access to print or broadcast media, including by jamming international satellite [...]
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