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A World At Risk
In a world that is filled with continued atrocities against man and nature how can any one individual survive, let alone prosper? A sobering question considering the complexities of today. The 21st century began with horrific acts of violence against man, continued from the 20th century. Destructive...
photo: AP / Vahid Salemi
China has become capitalist nation aimed investments in US and EU.
Sahit Muja: China become more of capitalist nation aimed investments in US and EU. China's central bank plans to create a $300 billion investment vehicle, aimed at investments in the private sector in US and Europe, in an effort to boost returns on its foreign...
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Iran Calls U.S. Sanctions on Financial Institutions Psychological Warfare
Iran dismissed the latest U.S. sanctions against its financial institutions as “psychological warfare” and said the Islamic Republic was open to “meaningful talks” on its nuclear program. Sanctions against Iran will fail to influence the nation’s determination to pursue its “rights” and will have...
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'No contradiction in India's ties with Iran, US'
Washington: Amid mounting pressure from the US to reduce its dependence on Iranian oil, New Delhi has said its ties with Tehran do not contradict its relationship with Washington and stressed that it was opposed to the spread of nuclear weapons in West Asia. "Our relationship with Iran is neither...
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The Horrors of Miramonte: After an L.A. School's Sex-Abuse Scandal, Can the Children Be Healed?
A group of parents gathered across the street from an elementary school in a largely Latino neighborhood in South Los Angeles on Friday and took turns assailing its directors. Clutching a press release that had just been handed out by the school board, they were...
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Phone hacking: Met Police failed to warn victims, says review
The Metropolitan Police failed to warn people that they had been the victims of possible phone hacking by the News of the World, a judicial review has said. Ex-deputy prime minister Lord Prescott, Labour MP Chris Bryant and ex-Scotland Yard deputy assistant commissioner Brian Paddick had all pushed...
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British outrage as radical cleric gets bail
BRITAIN'S Home Office has clashed openly with judges after a court decision to free on bail the radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada, who is accused of posing a grave threat to British national security. The decision by judge Sir John Edward Mitting will see Abu Qatada (pictured), once described by...
photo: AP / H.M. Prison Service
Bombardment of Syria's Homs resumes - activists
AMMAN (Reuters) - Heavy bombardment of the Syrian city of Homs resumed on Tuesday after at least 95 civilians were killed on Monday in an offensive to put down a popular revolt against President Bashar al-Assad's rule, activists and residents said. "The bombardment is again concentrating on Bab...
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Suu Kyi hits the campaign trail in Myanmar
AYE AYE WIN Associated Press= PATHEIN, Myanmar (AP) — Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi hit the campaign trail Tuesday as an official candidate for upcoming elections, traveling to the Irrawaddy delta for the first time in two decades. Cheering crowds greeted Suu Kyi's convoy at every major town...
photo: AP / Khin Maung Win
Obama campaign urges fundraisers to back super PAC
KEN THOMAS Associated Press= WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is urging his top fundraisers to support a Democratic super political action committee which can spend unlimited amounts of cash to influence elections. Obama campaign manager Jim Messina says in an email to supporters Monday that...
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