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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