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Syria on target U.S. wants 20000 troops arriving in Jordan
The Pentagon plans to relocate an effective military force beginning with 200 then up to 20 000 soldiers and station them in Jordan in order to be prepared for a possible military intervention in ...
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Mediterranean food...eat without guilt
A team of Spanish scientists from the Centre for Biomedical Research at the Carlos III Institute of Health, Madrid, led by Dr. R. Estruch, selected 7,447 patients with high cardiovascular risk, but who had not yet presented with clinically identifiable disease. The volunteers were 57% women, aged between 55 and 80 years. All were randomized and separated into three groups, based on the ...
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Russian nuclear rocket to facilitate interplanetary travel after 2025
A new Russian nuclear rocket will multiply the speed of movement through space: a flight round trip to Mars will take two to four months, while the current rocket requires a year and a half to two years to accomplish the same trip. With new ship, a flight round trip to Mars will take 2 to 4 months which is absolutely ...
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Origins of May Day
Rosa Luxemburg tells us in her article "What are the origins of 1st May?" written in 1894, that it was in Australia where the workers' cause was joined to the old Spring celebration on this day, more precisely in 1856, when the workers of this British colony began a campaign for an eight-hour working day, making a ...
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Who pays puppets without borders to slander Russia
Reporters Without Borders Calls Putin a Predator and Control Freak - Mikhail Doubik, Publisher at Vedomosti is the director of the Moscow Times. Vedomosti was conceived by Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal, the One Percent. The "news" outlet which calls itself the Moscow Times today published an article with this ...
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EUs expansion to the East Complete disaster
marked nine years since the largest in the history of the EU expansion to the east. In 2004, the EU was joined by 10 countries, eight of which are former socialist countries. But today it is clear that both for the EU and the member countries the "move to the east" has far more disadvantages than benefits. The situation is especially concerning for the Balts, Poles and ...
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Russia rejects creation of no-fly zone over Syria
Russia opposes the initiatives of the west to create a no-fly zone over Syria, the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said on Tuesday. "Unfortunately, these destructive ideas keep popping up over time, but no one ever bothered to think about the consequences," said Gatilov. It is worth mentioning that on March 19, the Supreme Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty ...
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Smellephone Crean smartphone that can send fragrances
Smellephone: Crean smartphone that can send fragrances Through Scentee one can send a relaxing aroma along with a message - For now, the prototype is not compatible with iPhone 5 and Android, but the company said that it will suit Google's platform, through a connection to the headphone jack. ChatPerf The Japanese company has gone a step further to contribute to the development of ...
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The riddle of capitalism
Everywhere today capitalism is on the ascendant; whether it is in India, China, Russia, Bangladesh or Vietnam. This greatest of man-engineered follies has come on its own at a time when millions of people around the world are on the streets looking for employment. Whether it's Spain, Greece, Turkey or France, the numbers of the unemployed continue to grow, threatening the integrity and ...
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Without much effort imagine the world reaction if Jews were in the situation of the Palestinians with them having a large army building a wall of shame and forcing the people to live in ghettos Thus the boycott of Israel is valid and I agree with it
As for the Jewish people, who are always on the lookout for any news that is broadcast on international media whose intent is critical to their behavior on this sensitive issue with Palestine, they deserve to be reprimanded, yes. Without much effort, imagine the world reaction if Jews were in the situation of the Palestinians, with them having a large army, building a wall of shame, and forcing ...
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Hardly a day goes by without a news story on some violation of womens rights. In recent months appalling incidents of violence against women and girls from Delhi to Johannesburg to Cleveland have sparked outrage and demands to tackle these horrif
Hardly a day goes by without a news story on some violation of women's rights. In recent months, appalling incidents of violence against women and girls, from Delhi to Johannesburg to Cleveland, have sparked public outrage and demands to tackle these horrific abuses. In Bangladesh and Cambodia, the shocking loss of life by garment factory workers, many of them women, sparked global debate ...
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Russias Putin out to silence independent voices pollster
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a meeting on shipbuilding industries in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, May 21, ...
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Sports Vivian to miss Moscow championships
Athletics fans around the world will miss what has been an exciting clash between Cheruiyot and Ethiopian rivals -- Olympic champions Tirunesh Dibaba (10,000m), Meseret Defar (5,000m) and Meselech Melkamu, the former Africa 10,000m silver medalist. Cheruiyot, a Chief Inspector of Police attached to the Criminal Investigations Unit (CID), said she will have a rare season off to be withn family, ...
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Putin hopes his talks with S Ossetian leader would help solve some of S Ossetia’s problems
SOCHI, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday he hopes his talks with his South Ossetian counterpart Leonid Tibilov would help solve some problems facing the ...
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Visiting a foreign country can be just as frightening as it is an exciting adventure. Even though you get the experience the wonder of immersing yourself in a previously unfamiliar culture you also have to experience the downsides. Nobody wants to perpet
Visiting a foreign country can be just as frightening as it is an exciting adventure. Even though you get the experience the wonder of immersing yourself in a previously unfamiliar culture, you also have to experience the downsides. Nobody wants to perpetuate the Ugly American stereotype by not knowing the basics. If you aren't fluent in a country's native language, you will struggle ...
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Moscow St Petersburg vie in Impressionist tug-of-war
State Museum of New Western Art housed a collection of more than 500 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works including scenes of fin-de-siecle Parisian life and more than 50 early works ...
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Wealth Fund Trio Each Investing $500 Million in VTB
expects to close its $3.3 billion offering of new shares by the end of the week, with three sovereign wealth funds investing about $500 million each, chief executive Andrei Kostin said. Azerbaijan's state oil fund SOFAZ, Norges Bank Investment Management and Qatar Holding are buying more than 50 percent of the offering of 2.5 trillion VTB shares on the Moscow stock market at 4.1 kopecks ...
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Lavrov Blasts Vote Theft at Eurovision
Jessica Gow / Reuters Dina Garipova of Russia performing at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, on Saturday. Russia's point man on Syria and on its relations with the U.S. on Tuesday turned his attention toward a subject close to Russian hearts - alleged vote theft at the Eurovision Song Contest. Foreign ...
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Brussels intensifies diplomatic efforts for the implementation of the new agreement on Kosovo signed by Belgrade and Pristina on April 19. The head of European diplomacy Catherine Ashton has recently said that the parties had been invited to take part
From the outset, the Serbian authorities have not hidden their interest in a speedy resolution of the Kosovo problem. In the end, Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and the leader of the self-proclaimed state of Kosovo failed to reach an agreement to settle the long-standing conflict. Thus, Belgrade expects to be able to join the European Union this summer. The consequences of the attempt to pass ...
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If the latest development in Somalia gives you the feeling of being trapped in the Twilight Zone - somewhere between relative security and renewed bloodshed - you are not alone. The formation of Jubbaland State is proving as highly volatile as
If the latest development in Somalia gives you the feeling of being trapped in the Twilight Zone - somewhere between relative security and renewed bloodshed - you are not alone. Due to the array of competing internal and external interest groups and the federal government's lack of clear grand strategy or capacity to assert its authority, the formation of "Jubbaland State" is ...
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Fish communicate in sign language
It turns out that there is some kind of fish sign language understood by the representatives of various species and invertebrates. Biologists from the UK figured this out by observing the behavior of coral grouper and salmon. Using an interesting alarm, fish predators informed their neighbors about the location of prey they could not ...
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Security Council chief to deliver Putin’s reply to Obama
SOCHI, May 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, who has arrived in the United States on a visit, will deliver to President Barack Obama a message from Russian President Vladimir ...
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Russia probes Moscow terror attack ‘plot’
Russia was Tuesday set to question the sole survivor of a deadly police raid outside Moscow that authorities said had prevented a major attack in the capital.The operation in the Moscow region town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo took place shortly after twin car bombs killed four and injured more than 40 in the Dagestan region, a province bordering Chechnya to the east."The decisive actions of the law ...
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Moscow Seeks $6.45Bln in Metro Cars
The Moscow City Hall's transportation department on Tuesday announced plans to collect bids for a $6.45 billion contract to supply and further service 2,500 to 3,500 metro cars. A tender for the cars, which are to be delivered in 2015-2020, will be held in August. The contract is the first of its kind for the Moscow metro and constitutes an approach to private-public partnership that has ...
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Moscow Attack Foiled Two Suspects Killed In Shootout
Sky News reports that two terror suspects were killed and a third captured after a shootout that took place in the town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo. The town is 85km east of Moscow, but Russian intelligence claims that the three people were planning on attacking Moscow in an unspecified manner. Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee released the following ...
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Moscow's biggest development will keep city on the map
Moscow is the heart of Russia, the capital city account for 20% of the country’s GDP and a new development taking place in the city, which was first conceived in 1995 and will take another several years to complete, looks set to become the heart of the capital.
In 2010, three of the thirteen main buildings that make up the Moscow International Business Center (MIBC) were completed, providing visual evidence of progress to a huge project that is expected to cost over $12 billion and involves a plethora of investors and development companies. Read more
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