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- Netanyahu’s Extrajudicial End-Run, To Imprison African Asylum-Seekers – OpEd
- BitTorrent Ethics: Punishing Piracy Or Criminalizing Sharing? – OpEd
- Australian Bush Fires To Be Among Worst Ever Seen
- US Debt Surges $328 Billion In Single Day, Surpassing $17 Trillion For First Time
- US To Use Romanian Airbase For Afghan Pullout
- Somalia: At Least 16 Killed, 30 Injured In Suicide Bomber Attack
- Titanic Violin Auctioned For Record £900,000
- China Cleared To Buy Into UK Nuclear Plants
- Gas Pipeline Plan Could Bring Solution For Cyprus
- Azerbaijan: Aliyev Sworn In For Third Term
- Russia Close To Inking Air Defense Deal With Brazil – Minister
- Canada: 13 Train Cars Transporting Oil And Gas Derail, Explode
- Mali: Death Toll From Boat Accident Rises To 72
- Geneva 4 Negotiations: One More Step Toward Mutual Confidence Building – ANalysis
- Why Malala Did Not Get The Nobel Peace Prize – Analysis
- UN Drone Reports Chide US Transparency Gap – Analysis
- Statement By President Barroso Following Meeting With Aung San Suu Kyi
- Strengthening The Food Supply Chain Through Stronger Cooperation
- Georgia: Margvelashvili Reiterates Will Pull Out From Race In Case Of Runoff
- We Don’t Need More ‘Spin’ About NSA’s Unconstitutional Domestic Snooping, We Need It Stopped – OpEd
- Although Two Men Weigh 75 Pounds Or Less, Guantánamo Prisoner Moath Al-Alwi Says, ‘We Will Remain On Hunger Strike’ – OpEd
- Report: Palestinian Mediation Freed Lebanese Abductees In Syria
- Jailed Vietnamese Dissident In New Hunger Strike Over Artwork Seizure
- Iranian Violin Master Zolfonoon Dies At Age 93
- ‘Death Watch’: What If Today Was Your Last Day? – OpEd
- Russia: Moscow Police Detain Another 675 Migrants In Ongoing Raids
- Syria’s Divisive Impact On Yemen – Analysis
- Hindus Want Entire Dibrani Roma Family Back In France
- Indian PM Praises Russia For Assistance In Nuclear Energy Development
- Argentina: At Least 79 Injured In Train Crash
Posted: 19 Oct 2013 08:50 PM PDT
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Mondoweiss
By Allison Deger I’ve seen the pattern before. Over the summer Israel’s
high court declared an amendment to the anti-Infiltration Law of 2009
unconstitutional. The amendment extended the maximum imprisonment for
those who entered the country illegally– namely would-be refugees who
managed to walk from North East Africa to the Jewish state– from three
months to […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 08:46 PM PDT
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RT
By Nile Bowie If you live in a densely populated modern city, there is a
strong chance that wireless network transmissions that are in breach of
copyright law could be around you at this very moment. The
decentralized network architecture known as peer-to-peer (P2P)
communications allows files of all kinds to be shared over the […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 08:38 PM PDT
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Eurasia Review
New South Wales firefighters could not possibly have done any more to
tackle the bushfires engulfing the area around Sydney and are now
ultimately at the mercy of the elements, according to a senior Kingston
University academic. Dr Neil Thomas, an expert in environmental hazards
and disaster management who has worked extensively with emergency
response […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 08:32 PM PDT
By
RT
Just one day after President Barack Obama signed into law a bipartisan
deal to end the government shutdown and avoid default, the US debt
surged a record $328 billion, the first day the government was able to
borrow money. Fasten your seatbelt, because the US debt rate is racing
out of control and nobody seems […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 08:30 PM PDT
By
VOA
Romania has agreed to allow the U.S. military to use an airbase near the
Black Sea as a key logistics hub for getting supplies and troops into
and out of Afghanistan. Pentagon officials said the agreement reached
Friday will allow them to move their operations away from Kyrgyzstan,
where lawmakers had voted not to renew […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 05:42 PM PDT
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PanArmenian
At least 16 people have been killed and more than 30 injured after a
suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded restaurant in the central
Somali town of Beledweyne. The Islamist militant group al-Shabab has
said it carried out the attack, according to BBC News. The Somali
government, backed by troops from several African […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 05:39 PM PDT
By
PanArmenian
The violin that was apparently played to calm passengers on the Titanic
as the giant liner sank has sold for £900,000 at auction in Wiltshire,
BBC News reports. It was played by band leader Wallace Hartley, who died
along with 1,517 others as the ship went down. It had a guide price of
£300,000. Other […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 05:36 PM PDT
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World Nuclear News
UK Chancellor George Osborne described the step as “an important
potential part of the government’s plan for developing the next
generation of nuclear power in Britain.” He announced the development
during a visit to the Taishan site in southern China, where two
French-designed EPR reactors are being built through collaboration
between EDF and the China […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 05:01 PM PDT
By
SETimes
By Menekse Tokyay Israel’s efforts to establish gas pipelines to Turkey
and Cyprus have triggered hopes that co-operation in the energy sector
could help resolve the nearly four-decade division of Cyprus. The small
Mediterranean island has been partitioned between Turkey and Cyprus
since 1974. Michael Lotem, Israel’s energy envoy, revealed the pipeline
plan in September […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 04:59 PM PDT
By
RFE RL
(RFE/RL) — Ilham Aliyev has been sworn in for his third term as
Azerbaijan’s president. The inauguration ceremony took place on October
19 at the country’s parliament. According to official results, Aliyev
was reelected with nearly 85 percent of the votes in the October 9
presidential poll. The candidate of the united opposition, Camil
Hasanli, […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 04:56 PM PDT
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Ria Novosti
Russia and Brazil are at the final stages of talks on the delivery of
Russian Pantsir-S1 air defense systems to the Latin American country,
Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said. A Russian delegation, led by
Shoigu, visited Brazil to discuss prospects of bilateral defense and
space cooperation, including the sales of Pansir-S1 and Igla missile
systems, […]
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Minister appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 04:53 PM PDT
By
RT
Thirteen cars of a tanker train carrying crude oil and liquefied
petroleum gas derailed in Alberta, Canada causing an explosion and fire.
The incident prompted an evacuation of the area, said Canadian National
Railway. One rail car carrying liquefied petroleum gas exploded and
three others caught fire about 80 kilometers west of Edmonton in
Alberta,Canada […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 04:51 PM PDT
By
VOA
Authorities in Mali say the death toll from a boat accident near the
town of Konna last week has more than tripled to 72. Security Minister
Sada Samake says rescuers found were able to refloat the boat and when
they did, they found more bodies inside. During a Friday news
conference, government officials said more […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:28 PM PDT
By
Iran Review
By Hassan Beheshtipour Introduction The fourth round of negotiations
between representatives of Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers ended
on Wednesday, October 16, 2013. This round of talks was a great leap
ahead for both sides and a solid measure aimed at mutual trust building.
The two-day talks in Geneva were very remarkable […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:20 PM PDT
By
Observer Research Foundation
By Vikram Sood The Nobel Peace Prize is not so much about achievement or
ideals of peace, but is also about making a political statement. Thus
it is about timing and is unlike other Nobel acknowledgements for
physics, chemistry or literature. Mahatma Gandhi, the world’s foremost
apostle of peace, was never awarded this prize and […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:17 PM PDT
By
IDN
By Jaya Ramachandran Armed drones are the subject of two landmark
reports presented to the 193-nation General Assembly – the main
deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the UN – in
October: one urging transparency over the killing of civilians by U.S.
drones in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen; and the other warning against
“the use […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:15 PM PDT
By
Eurasia Review
By José Manuel Durão Barroso, President of the European Commission Good
afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Before starting with our statements to
welcome Aung San Suu Kyi to the European Commission, let me tell you
that I just learned about the aviation accident in Namur and I was
shocked to know there were some victims. I […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:13 PM PDT
By
Eurasia Review
(CORDIS) — While the EU has some of the toughest food safety regulations
in the world, the food supply chain remains susceptible to disease and
danger. Sharing knowledge and best practice is an effective means of
ensuring that any possible weak link in the chain can be dealt with as
swiftly and as effectively as […]
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Cooperation appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:11 PM PDT
By
Civil.Ge
(Civil.Ge) — GD presidential candidate Giorgi Margvelashvili reiterated
that he is absolutely convinced in winning election in the first round
and that there will be no runoff, but if “a theoretical question” is
still asked what he would do in case of runoff, Margvelashvili said, he
“will not participate in the second round.” He said […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:07 PM PDT
By
Ivan Eland
In response to an avalanche of criticism over revelations of his
National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) bulk collection of Americans’
telephone and other electronic metadata, General Keith B. Alexander, the
director of the agency, in a recent interview with the New York Times,
claimed that his spy agency is just misunderstood—not operating
illegally or nefariously. Alexander […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:06 PM PDT
By
Andy Worthington
For six months, Guantánamo managed to be in the news on a regular basis,
as a prison-wide hunger strike succeeded in pricking the consciences of
the mainstream media. Unfortunately, since the numbers of those
involved fell (from 106 on July 10 to 53 a month later), the media
largely moved on. At the height of […]
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Prisoner Moath Al-Alwi Says, ‘We Will Remain On Hunger Strike’ – OpEd...
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:05 PM PDT
By
Maan
It was Palestinian brokers who secured the release of nine Lebanese
Shiite pilgrims who had been held in Syria since 2011, according to a
Beirut-based satellite TV station. Al-Mayadeen reported Saturday that
the first phone call with the abductors was made by Palestinian
ambassador to Turkey Nabil Maaroof from his mobile phone. Additionally,
al-Mayadeen reported, […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:03 PM PDT
By
RFA
Jailed prominent Vietnamese dissident Cu Huy Ha Vu has begun another
hunger strike—this time in protest against the seizure of his artwork he
had drawn in prison, according to his wife. The 56-year-old Vu, who had
staged a 25-day hunger strike in June and a brief fasting protest
recent, began the new protest on Oct. […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 01:01 PM PDT
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Radio Zamaneh
Mahmoud Zolfonoon, the Iranian violin master, has passed away at the age
of 93 in the United States. A student of Iranian music legends Ruhollah
Khaleghi and Abolhassan Saba, Zolfonoon studied at Iran’s National
Conservatory of Music. In the 1940s, he joined National Radio
Broadcasting and soon after the National Music Orchestra. Later, he
moved […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 12:56 PM PDT
By
VOR
By Olga Yazhgunovich What would you do if you knew the exact moment when
you were going to die? You’d probably want to do something really
significant, or something that actually matters only to you, or perhaps
try to make this world a better place. Though death may be an awkward
thing to think about, […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 12:53 PM PDT
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Ria Novosti
Large-scale arrests of migrants following recent clashes between the
police and an angry mob of nationalists showed no sign of nearing an end
in Russia at the weekend as police announced the detention of nearly
700 migrants in the Moscow Region. Police said 675 people from Central
Asia were detained as part of Operation: Anticriminal […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 12:30 PM PDT
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Eurasia Review
The violent clashes that erupted last month between Sunni Islamists and
Shi’ite rebels in Yemen’s Amran province were partly a reaction to U.S.
President Obama’s declaration of his intention to launch a military
strike against Syria. This violence was illustrative of the ability of
the Syrian crisis to polarize and destabilize a country more than […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 12:27 PM PDT
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Eurasia Review
Hindus want that France should welcome Roma girl Leonarda Dibrani’s
whole family back into France, which was deported few days back to
Kosovo, sparking protests across France. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a
statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that it would be inhuman to
separate Leonarda from her parents and five siblings just to […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 12:25 PM PDT
By
VOR
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday praised Russia for
assisting New Delhi in nuclear energy and expressed hope that an accord
on Moscow’s further participation in India’s Kudankulam nuclear power
plant would be clinched in the near future. “Russian and Indian
companies are continuing negotiations on finalizing arrangements for
Kudankulam units 3 and 4, […]
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Posted: 19 Oct 2013 12:22 PM PDT
By
RT
A commuter train slammed into a busy Buenos Aires station on Saturday
morning, injuring at least 79 people in exactly the same spot where a
similar train crash killed 52 others last year. The train went straight
through the end-of-line buffers. The train itself ended up wedged
between the floor and ceiling of the platform, […]
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