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"Christmas greetings from the banana republic called Belgium."
The text message arrived on this correspondent's mobile phone on Monday, sent by a Belgian friend not normally characterized by her interest in politics.
And it put into words a widespread feeling of weariness and deja vu as the country found itself looking...
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In recent years, the Islamic charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) has done more welfare work than many other national and international non-profit organizations in Pakistan.
But its suspected affiliation with the militant group Lahkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which is believed to be behind November 26 Mumbai attacks, landed it Wednesday on the...
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A Pakistan-based charity denounced on Thursday sanctions by the United Nations Security Council levelled against it for being a front group for the terrorist organization accused of carrying out the Mumbai attacks.
Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) was included in a list of entities subject to an assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo by...
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Independent firms have been commissioned to assess the value of Carnegie Investment Bank AB recently taken over by the Swedish state, officials said Friday.
Bo Lundgren, head of the Swedish National Debt Office that took over the bank last week, said the two entities that make up Carnegie were to be sold separately but said it was...
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 Lebanon’s capital was paralyzed last week by conflicts between supporters of the Iranian- backed group Hezbollah and militants loyal to the Western-backed government.
According to Lebanese authorities, clashes also burst out in northern town Tripoli. Members of Hezbollah attacked supporters of the pro-government Druze leader,...
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 The consequences of the Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar in Yangon are overwhelming.
About 22,000 people died, 41,000 are still missing and about 1 million were left homeless.
The city is short of water and there is no electricity. Food and fuel prices are swiftly going up, leading people to despair. Vegetables have now a three-fold price...
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 After five decades the ground links between North Korea and South Korea have been reestablished, as two trains passed Thursday the border between the two neighbouring countries.These were test runs, but as the trains crossed the boundary it was clear the dissensions between the two Koreas are coming to an end. Following the World War II,...
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 According to the Washington Post, officials are allowed to take and examine travelers’ laptops or other electronic devices to an off-site location for an undetermined period of time without suspecting them of unlawful activity, as part of boundary search policies the Department of Homeland Security lately disclosed.Furthermore, federal...
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 A day after Darfur rebels attacked Sudan’s capital Khartoum, things continue to unfold with reactions on both sides.
Darfur leader Khalil Ibrahim threatened Sudan with a follow up of the assaults. As a response, Sudan officials made public their intention to cut diplomatic relations with Chad, as they consider that the governing...
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Myanmar was the only country that used landmines in the past year, an international coalition reported Friday, adding that Turkey, Greece and Belarus failed to meet their deadlines to destroy stockpiles of the weapon.
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines also said Russia was still considered a violator as it had not reported...
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Bosnian authorities arrested two Serb military officers suspected of taking part in the massacre of Muslims at Srebrenica 13 years ago, local media said Wednesday.
The two high-ranking officers, Momir Pelemis and Slavko Peric, face genocide charges for their alleged role in the imprisonment and execution of 1,700 Muslim boys and men...
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Despite a 13-year, multi-billion-dollar international peacekeeping and development effort in Bosnia, Western officials now openly admit it: the divided country is stuck in a blind alley and nobody sees the way out.
The disappointment, the most severe since the end of the 1992-95 war, now runs in the open. The European Union's...
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Bosnia is under threat of partition, the mood reminiscent of that in Czechoslovakia and in former Yugoslavia before they were split up, Miroslav Lajcak, the international community's representative in the country was quoted to have said Wednesday.
Persistent tension between the Muslim majority and the Serb minority, each thoroughly...
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 Serbia’s pro-Western president Boris Tadic is celebrating victory in the country’s parliamentary elections. According to the assessments, Tadic’s alliance attained 39% of the vote, about 10% more than the nationalist Radicals.
“Tadic’s coalition has convincingly won these elections,” said Zoran Lucic...
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 On Tuesday, Google launched the beta version of its online tool called Lively. The application can be used for creating personalized 3D social spaces on various websites. According to Niniane Wang, Engineering Manager at Google, Lively enables users to put together their very own characters (avatars) and to create rooms, that can later...
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 On Monday, Facebook announced that a "significant part" of its platform code will be released as open-source. This comes one year after the launch of Facebook Platform, which gives third party developers the chance to write programs that work inside the social-networking site. More than 400,000 developers have taken advantage...
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 It seems that AOL has decided to support OpenSocial. This piece of information came out on Wednesday, at the Google I/O conference, during the speech of Google Director of Engineering David Glazer. OpenSocial was first announced by Google in October as a response to the multitude of already existing networks and future strategies...
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 The next big thing in online social networking is being prepared by Google. On Monday, company officials presented a new free service that is to enable any website to present visitors with the features of a socially-oriented site. With the help of Google's Friend Connect, any web page, regardless of its contents, can be used to create...
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At IBM's Business Partner Leadership Conference on Thursday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt reinforced his stand with regard to social networks, saying that he continued to consider them too closed. "If it's not searchable by Google, it's not open, and open is best for the consumer," Mr. Schmidt said.Obviously, his opinion does not...
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The Maltese government formally launched Monday its bid to privatize the Mediterranean island's state-controlled shipyards by inviting tenders.
Fourteen international entities, including US and Norwegian companies, had already expressed interest in the shipyards, Finance Minister Tonio Fenech said.
The government also renewed its...
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 In a speech held in front of bankers in Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday, the Us Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke made a call for lenders to partially forgive homeowners’ mortgages, even at the risk of defaulting.Amid the more and more serious housing recession, maybe the worst in the last quarter century, Bernanke stated that “more...
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administration’s recent initiative regarding a cyber security plan has started
to raise concerns among lawmakers, as new details about the largely classified
plan have emerged recently. House lawmakers raised concerns yesterday related
to the connection between the new cyber security program and its privacy
implications. Bush...
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 Yahoo and Microsoft are working at the same time, but
separately, in the attempt to facilitate the use of social networks even more.
Thus, on one hand, Yahoo is teaming up with Google and MySpace
with the goal of forming a foundation called OpenSocial. According to CNET News.com,
the purpose of this new independent non-profit...
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is now on the list too! Starting with Tuesday, the 9th of October,
the people are able to register .asia Internet Web domain names. The
registration for the .asia top-level web domain names has just started and this
way any legal entity could register its own web domain name under .asia. The
companies, corporations,...
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 Basketball star Shaquille O’Neal has filed for divorce from his wife of five years, claiming their marriage has been “irretrievably broken.”
Shaquille O’Neal, 35, married Shaunie Nelson in 2002. They have four children together, and one more each from previous relationships. The family of six lives on the...
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 After the International Atomic Energy Agency announced it will send a team of inspectors to Iran in the first weeks of July, Tehran reacted in an unexpected way, saying this visit represents a “big step in settling the dispute.”The statement was made by Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini on Sunday.“The visit of the...
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 In 2002 Saudi Arabia proposed a peace plan for the Arab-Israeli conflict and mainly for the Israeli-Palestinian feud, that would imply an independence of all Palestinian territories, but the initiative was left hanging until 2007. During the anniversary of the Six-Day War, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said his country is ready to...
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