Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:47 PM PDT
By
David Cupples With Jamaica having recently celebrated its Big 5-0 —
fifty years of independence from Mother England — it’s natural to think
of those things for which the tiny Caribbean island is famous. Fast
sprinters and Olympic bobsledders. Patch-eyed pirates raiding the
Spanish Main. Winter getaways to tropical beaches. A lyrical way of
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:33 PM PDT
Russia
agreed on Thursday, September 20 to write off nearly $500 million in
debt due from Kyrgyzstan in exchange for a package of deals that will
extend Moscow’s military and energy footprints on the volatile fringes
of the former Soviet Union, Reuters said. As Kyrgyzstan confirmed plans
to close a U.S. base used to fly [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:30 PM PDT
Honda
is aiming to double its global auto sales to more than 6 million
vehicles over the next five years as the Japanese automaker gears up for
ambitious growth after bouncing back from last year’s disasters, The
Associated Press reports. “We have now reached the stage of going on the
offensive,” Honda Motor Co. President [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:26 PM PDT
Google
said on Friday, Sept 21, it will shut its once-popular China music
download service next month, in a sign of how far the fortunes of the
world’s biggest search engine have fallen in China, according to
Reuters. Launched in 2009 with a local partner, the Google Music Search
was meant to be a legal [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:24 PM PDT
More
than 125 years after Gottlieb Daimler built the first motorised boat
and cruised up the River Neckar, Mercedes-Benz Style and Silver Arrows
Marine are presenting designs for a luxury motor yacht against the
backdrop of the 2012 Monaco Yacht Show. The 14-metre-long seagoing
Granturismo combines design elements typical of Mercedes-Benz
automobiles with innovations hitherto [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:18 PM PDT
By
Siham Ali Moroccan Youth and Sports Minister Mohamed Ouzzine had to
answer some tough questions from parliamentarians. The minister
addressed the MPs just four days before the national football federation
(FRMF) terminated the contract of coach Eric Gerets. The decision,
announced on Saturday (September 15th), came in response to the 2-0 CAN
qualifier loss [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:15 PM PDT
By
Houda Trabelsi Tunisian Interior Minister Ali Larayedh dismissed calls
to resign on Wednesday (September 19th) following criticism from
parliamentarians over deadly Islamist protests. “I don’t see it as
courage to give up my responsibilities in such a situation and in the
face of such challenges; my resignation now is not in the best interests
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 11:09 PM PDT
By
Bojana Milovanovic The Serbian government has initiated numerous
projects to improve life for the estimated 500,000 Roma in Serbia, but
critics said the results are far from satisfactory as many Roma continue
to live in poverty and be disproportionately affected by unemployment.
“In the past few years, the state secured between 50 and 70 [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:52 PM PDT
The
Economic and Monetary Union launched in Europe in 1999, was an
experiment amongst countries with diverse economic structures. A number
of reforms have since been initiated to address the flaws in its design.
Will these reforms be enough to save the euro? By Pradumna B Rana GIVEN
THE raft of gloomy economic data from [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:41 PM PDT
Here
we go again. Millions of Americans will soon vote for either the
Republican or Democratic presidential candidate not because they deeply
believe that he is absolutely the best possible president the country
needs and can have. No, they will know that they are compromising and
choosing the lesser of two evils, mainly because most [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:36 PM PDT
There
was something missing from the release of a tape showing Mitt Romney
pandering to fat cats in Boca Raton, Florida with these very
inflammatory words: “There are 47 percent who are with him, (Obama) who
are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who
believe the government has a responsibility to care [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:29 PM PDT
An
Israeli official said Thursday that military authorities have approved
the entry of 100 million shekels from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip to
assist with a liquidity crisis, amid a host of measures to facilitate
the entry and exit of goods at Gaza crossings. The Gaza Strip is under
an Israeli land and [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:24 PM PDT
By
Zak Rose The are an ethnic and religious minority of South Asia,
mostly living in Myanmar. Their numbers are disputed, as are their
origins in the region, but traditional animosities between the Rohingya
and other ethnic groups, the Buddhist majority of Myanmar in particular,
have resulted in considerable conflict over the years. A renewed wave
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:18 PM PDT
China’s
growing assertiveness in the South China Sea disputes underscores its
nation-state interests and rising global power. There are geopolitical
ramifications for Southeast Asia. By Victor R Savage CHINA’S INCREASING
assertiveness in the South China Sea (SCS) underscores its evolving
political system and leadership. China’s strategic approach to the SCS
disputes has wider geopolitical ramifications. [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:14 PM PDT
Spiralling
tensions between China and Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands are
the most serious manifestation of weakened leadership and transition
politics across Northeast Asia. The resulting drift towards militant
nationalism poses a great threat to regional security. By Euan Graham
TOKYO’S NATIONALISATION of the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands has been
provocative to China and Taiwan, though it [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:09 PM PDT
The
attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, which killed
four U.S. diplomats, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, is the
latest example of tragic blowback from the U.S. government’s
interventionist foreign policy in the Islamic world. That it happened on
the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, an even more severe example
of such [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:06 PM PDT
Extremists
used scandalous film “Innocence of Muslims” as a pretext to carry out
worldwide attacks against interests of the United States, President
Barack Obama said. “What we do know is that the natural protests that
arose because of the outrage over the video were used as an excuse by
extremists to see if they can [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:02 PM PDT
By
Margaret Besheer The United States, Britain and France said Thursday
that Iran’s supply of weapons to the Assad regime in Syria is
unacceptable and must stop. U.N. ambassadors for the three powers also
criticized the Islamic Republic for failing to stop enriching uranium
and not seriously engaging with them and others in talks on [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 10:23 AM PDT
By
Melkam Lidet One of the first things I noticed on my very first day in
Ramallah was old and young men, walking around the main Manara square,
wearing a flamboyant red and golden costume, carrying a golden flask on
their backs and selling a dark brown liquid which at that brief moment I
thought [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 09:44 AM PDT
India
said that it has successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable strategic
ballistic missile Agni-IV with a strike range of about 4000 km with the
help of a mobile launcher from a test range at Wheeler Island off the
eastern coast of an Indian state Orissa on September 19. Quoting a
defense official leading Indian daily Times [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 09:34 AM PDT
Exxon
Mobil Corporation announced Thursday an agreement that will
significantly increase its production acreage in the prolific Bakken oil
shale region in the U.S. states of North Dakota and Montana. ExxonMobil
and its subsidiary, XTO Energy, signed an exchange agreement with
Denbury Onshore, LLC, a subsidiary of Denbury Resources Inc., to acquire
100 percent of [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 09:25 AM PDT
By
T Navajyoti Licenses of a liquor bar in the press clubs are omnipresent
in India. The press club, which on principle does not function as a
trade union body, is basically a place of recreations for media persons.
But the journalists union or associations try to raise voices for the
benefit of media persons [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 09:22 AM PDT
A
large crowd protesting against a controversial US-produced film
ridiculing the Prophet Mohammed yesterday ransacked and set fire to the
Press Club in Wari, in the Upper Dir district of the northwestern
province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, injuring three journalists. “We condemn
such acts of violence against journalists and the premises they use,”
Reporters Without Borders [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 09:20 AM PDT
There
is reportedly a bronze Shiva statue in the medieval St Peter Ad Vincula
Church in Pennal village of north-west Wales (United Kingdom), founded
in sixth century CE. According to reports, Shiva statue, which has been
inside this church for few years and has kind of become a permanent
fixture, was taken out by a [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 09:19 AM PDT
Now,
I’ve seen everything. Back in the day, an Israeli prime minister
wouldn’t breathe a word about his personal political preferences
regarding U.S. presidential races. Israel’s leaders knew that they’d
need to work with whoever became president, and for them discretion was
the better part of valor. There was a certain humility in recognizing
that [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 09:14 AM PDT
By
Boris Volkhonsky Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi made a
visit to the US, where she was welcomed almost like the head of the
state. She met US State Secretary Hillary Clinton and US president
Barack Obama and received the prestigious Congressional Gold Medal from
the US Congress. Aung San Suu Kyi used [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 09:10 AM PDT
By
Besar Likmeta Dismssing rumours to the contrary, Albania’s League of
Imams said they had no plans to stage any public protests against the
notorious film that has caused such unrest in the Islamic world. Masked
Palestinians throw stones towards Israeli security forces, during
clashes that erupted after a demonstration against an anti-Islam film
called [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 09:07 AM PDT
French
scientists have revealed that rats fed on GMO corn sold by American
firm Monsanto, suffered tumors and other complications including kidney
and liver damage. When testing the firm’s top brand weed killer the rats
showed similar symptoms. The French government has asked its health and
safety agency to assess the study and had also [...]
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Posted: 20 Sep 2012 09:04 AM PDT
A
Syrian rights group says a blast in northeast Syria has killed at least
30 people and wounded dozens of others. The Britain-based Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights quotes witnesses as saying the blast
occurred when an air strike hit a fuel station in al-Raqqa province
Thursday. The group’s director, Rami Abdelrahman, says witnesses told
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