Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Saturday 22 September 2012

“Flight Attendant Arrested For Stealing Passenger’s iPad‏: Caught By App” plus 29 more : Eurasia Review

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 11:48 PM PDT
An Oregon flight attendant has been arrested for stealing a passenger’s iPad. This past Wednesday a Reno Nevada resident contacted the Oregon City Police Department to report that on Sept. 11 he flew on a Horizon Airlines Flight from Reno Nevada to San Jose California., and when he arrived at his destination he realized his [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 11:34 PM PDT
By Courtney Brooks for RFE/RL The Middle East conflict has broken out into a war of words, and the Big Apple is set to be the next battlefield. Next week, commuters in New York will get their first look at a controversial ad campaign that depicts Muslim radicals as “savages”. “In any war between the [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 10:41 PM PDT
By Leena El-Ali In the past week, Muslim-Western relations have come back under the global media spotlight after widespread protests in several Middle Eastern, Asian and African countries. Most people find the video that sparked the protests, Innocence of Muslims, to be indeed insulting to Islam and Muslims. At the same time many people in [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 10:36 PM PDT
Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereydoun Abbasi says Iran has no intention of enriching uranium above the 20 percent level. Abbasi said that Iran started producing 20 percent enriched uranium when it could not obtain fuel for Tehran Research Reactor from the international market due to the sanctions imposed against the [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 10:28 PM PDT
As the United States, Britain, France and Germany accused Iran at the UN Security Council of providing arms to the Syrian government, Beshar Assad gave an interview to the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram in which he severely attacked Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey for arming the Syrian opposition forces. The four Western powers expressed their concern [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 10:25 PM PDT
Have you ever read an article in which the writer compares the incomes of the top 1 percent to the bottom 99 percent over the last decade, say? The problem: The author is encouraging you to think that the people in the top 1 percent at the beginning of the decade are the same people [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 10:17 PM PDT
By Drazen Remikovic Police officials agree co-operation, as well as training, is needed to adequately address computer-conducted crime, which increasingly affects citizens’ property and safety. Cyber criminals are often felony offenders capable of operating locally as well as internationally, said Gojko Vasic, general director of police in Republika Srpska in BiH. Vasic noted a recent [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 10:15 PM PDT
By Walid Ramzi Algerian security forces are struggling to cope with arms smuggling gangs that have stepped up their operations along the southern border, prompting the Algerian army to intensify its presence across some rugged border crossings currently exploited by smugglers. Forces from the People’s National Army in the border area adjacent to Libya recently [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 10:13 PM PDT
Police have arrested a retired Protestant bishop after a Mumbai court ordered his remand into custody on suspicion of fraud, forgery and breach of trust related to a church land deal. Former bishop Vijay Sathe, 65, of the Church of North India (CNI), was arrested at his home Sept. 20 in Pune and is to [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 10:10 PM PDT
Once upon a time, President Richard Nixon wanted to appoint a certain lawyer to the US Supreme Court. “But the man is a complete moron!” one senator exclaimed. “So what,” answered another, “There are a great many morons in the US, and they have a right to be represented in the court as much as [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 10:06 PM PDT
By Vladimir Sazhin Against the background of the growing political tensions in the region, on September 19 Israel conducted a brief but full-scale military exercise on the Golan Heights that was designed to test the level of combat readiness of the Israeli Army in the event of a sudden attack. The observers believe that the [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 07:07 PM PDT
Rosneft and Gazprom have signed a cooperation agreement to create and jointly operate offshore field development infrastructure. The agreement was signed by Igor Sechin, President and Chairman of the Management Board at Rosneft, and Alexei Miller, Chairman of the Management Board at Gazprom, in the presence of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at the XI [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 07:00 PM PDT
U.S. Intelligence officials are finally speaking out and confirming what experts believed from day one of the Muslim uprisings in Libya and Egypt on Sept. 11, 2012: the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was a deliberate and planned act of terrorism and is linked to the activities of al-Qaeda. Now members of [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 06:57 PM PDT
(Neelum Valley, Pakistan administrated Kashmir) –  Pakistan and India on Friday were urged to avoid violations of ceasefire on Line of Control (LoC) to save lives of civilians and the troops. “Both countries should respect the existing peace accord for the protection of people”. On World Peace Day a Rally and Walk of children was [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 06:47 PM PDT
China has become the world’s leading exporter, and specialists in international relations confirm that it is increasingly exporting high-tech products. However, a rigorous analysis of this development confined to the traditional study of trade flows would be misleading. In fact, from the 1980s onwards East Asia has been characterized by the development of regional production [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 06:42 PM PDT
U.S. officials say the Obama administration is planning to remove an Iranian militant group once allied with former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from the U.S. terrorism list. A court had given Secretary of State Hillary Clinton until October 1 to decide the fate of Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, also known as the People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran or [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 11:40 AM PDT
By Vincent Warren Most of the 55 men listed have endured 11 years of indefinite detention without charge or trial, despite the unanimous assessment of every responsible U.S. national security agency that these men could be safely released or transferred. The government’s justification for hiding the identities of these men was always unconvincing, and their [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 11:37 AM PDT
By Rajesh Rajagopalan With just about six weeks to go for the US Presidential elections, the race shows all signs that it is probably too close to call. Opinion polls are all over the place with even experienced opinion poll analysts expressing frustration. That should be good news for President Obama. No incumbent President with [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 11:30 AM PDT
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation has warned that cartoons denigrating Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) published in France could trigger a new wave of anti-Western violence but urged Muslims all over the world to show restraint. In a statement, OIC Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu “expressed shock and dismay over” the depictions and warned they would [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 11:27 AM PDT
By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed TIME magazine has published a lengthy report predicting the end of Al-Qaeda. The prediction was based on a number of important events, such as the killing of its leader Osama Bin Laden and the killing of a large number of its members in Yemen. The report covered in detail the great [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 09:24 AM PDT
(EurActiv) — Several countries would like a special budget for the eurozone to protect the single currency from “asymmetric shocks”, with France, Germany and others backing the idea, according to EU diplomats. The idea of a special budget for the eurozone was shared by many influential countries, including Germany and France, according to one senior [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 09:19 AM PDT
Discussions on energy security and its geostrategic ramifications continue to be topical for a wide range of states and business stakeholders. For many foreign policymakers, Eurasia, in the first decade of this century, has become the focal point for evolving and future geopolitical strategies. China, Russia and the United States are major global players who [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 09:14 AM PDT
According to the latest figures from the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR) released Thursday, more than 29,000 people have been killed since March 2011, most of them civilians. Today, at least 110 civilians have been killed or injured in an air raid in the Syrian province of Raqa, reported the London-based NGO. “Until Wednesday [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 09:09 AM PDT
On September 27, the Edward Tyler Nahem gallery in mid-town Manhattan will host an exhibit, “Body and Spirit: Andres Serrano 1987-2012,” that features Serrano’s “Piss Christ” piece; it shows a crucifix submerged in a jar of his own urine. The exhibit ends October 26. Serrano has said that “Piss Christ” was “meant to question the [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 09:04 AM PDT
By Zara Gul As a consequence of the September 11 attacks, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was set up as an action force for security interventions in Afghanistan, particularly to eliminate Osama’s Al Qaeda and Omar’s Taliban from the country. This task was taken up to ensure that Afghanistan would never become a sanctuary [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 08:58 AM PDT
Eni met local and national institutions Friday, as well as trade unions to explain the Green Refinery process which will lead to the conversion of the Venice Refinery into a “bio-refinery”, producing innovative and high quality bio-fuels. The project, which involves an estimated investment of approximately 100 million euro, is the first in the world [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 08:54 AM PDT
By Elvira M. Jukic A trilateral meeting of Bosnian, Croatian and EU officials in Brussels discussed open questions between the two countries, with a focus on border problems around the Bosnian coastal town of Neum. Bosnian, Croatian and European officials met in Brussels to hammer out unresolved border issues between the two countries in the [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 08:46 AM PDT
As investigations widen in the case of the recent assault in Benghazi that left US Ambassador John Stevens and three other Americans dead, new intelligence suggests the attack was tied to al-Qaeda, and particularly an associate of Osama bin Laden. It has been suggested ever since the September 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi that terrorists [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 08:41 AM PDT
Mitt Romney has conceded that his thoughts, expressed at that Boca Raton, Fla., fundraiser, were “not elegantly” stated. Those mocking him might concede he has tabled one of the mega-issues of our time. Can America continue down the path President Obama is taking us on, to a time soon and certain when a majority of [...]

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Posted: 21 Sep 2012 08:38 AM PDT
By Marthe Van Der Wolf Hailemariam Desalegn has been sworn in as prime minister of Ethiopia. The new Ethiopian leader has pledged to continue the policies of his predecessor. Ethiopia’s parliament approved the appointment of Mr. Hailemariam during an extraordinary session on Friday, several days after ruling coalition EPRDF elected him as its chairman. Hailemariam [...]

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