 India and Pakistan celebrated their 62nd Independence Day (National Day) in August, but it is the partition of the Indian sub-continent by the British colonial rulers in 1947 that has come to haunt the Hindu right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.), which ironically was not even in existence when the two nations were born.
A book on Mohmmad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pa
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 In the 19th century the Balkan Peninsula was the powder barrel of Europe, the region where nearly all the wars started. Then in the 20th century, Russian and German ambitions made Eastern Europe the powder barrel. Besides the Middle East, the 21st century seems to have its own soft spot: the Caucasus region. Here an explosive mixture of
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 After decades of conflict and repressive policies, Turkey appears to be taking crucial steps toward introducing a peace initiative to resolve longstanding unrest among its Kurdish population. But for any plan to succeed, it cannot be simply another state-run, unilateral initiative that fails to take into account local grievances.
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 The long-running disputes between the London Mining Company, African Minerals Ltd. (A.M.L.) and the Government of Sierra Leone (G.o.S.L.) were resolved amicably in a meeting at the Sierra Leone High Commission in London on Aug. 20. Under the able chairmanship of the minister of Mineral Resources and Political Affairs, Hon. Alhaji Alpha Bakarr Said Kanu, the parties reached a milestone consensus. "We are delighted that this misunderstanding has now been resolved and both our companies are fully committed to the development of the iron ore industry in Sierra Leone," Kan
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 The main opposition party in India, the Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.), besides struggling to come out of the shock of defeat in recent general elections, is now facing another problem. The Party called a three-day "chintan baithak" (brainstorming session) in the hill station of Shimla to discuss the causes of defeat in the general elections and plan future strategy. The discussion on the causes of defeat was yet to start when, on the very first day of the session, Party President Rajnath Singh announced a decision of the party's parliamentary board to the media. He dec
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 Hamas' attack against a jihadist group inside Gaza is about to provide the Palestinian Islamist organization an opportunity to become a mainstream movement, accepted internationally as a partner in negotiations. Or at least that is what Hamas strategists think may happen as a result of crushing the minuscule militant entity known as Jund Ansar Allah (The Soldiers or the Partisans of Allah) last week. This is another murky development in the world of jihadism, where the biggest forces in holy war devour the little ones in a battle to achieve victory over the Kuffar (infi
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 Arms control went out of fashion several years ago. We can already see negative consequences of this neglect, but still more serious problems loom ahead. If we stay on our current course, international agreements are likely to erode further, with tensions rising and military spending increasing.
So what happened to arms control? To start with, one of the majo
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 In Yekaterinburg, 425 children could not go to school because of influenza H1N1, reports RIA Novosti. According to head of department of control over the conditions of education and training of regional management Rospotrebnadzor Natalia Moiseeva, children returning from countries with unfavorable epidemic situation on t
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 The French Army ordered a batch of 332 armored personnel carriers VBCI production joint venture, Renault Trucks Defense, AB Volvo and the French state companies are the Nexter Systems. As reported by Dow Jones, stated by the Ministry of Defense of France.
In the country's Defense Ministry reported that the
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 The Supreme Court of Berlin-known law enforcement authorities allowed Islamists, a native of Egypt Rhode Seyam (Reda Seyam) called his four sons named Jihad, said the publication Bild.
One of the meanings of the word "jihad", which takes place from the verb "jihad" - his efforts - is the armed struggle of Muslims for their faith against the infidels. In Germany, the pejorative connotation of the word received after the events of September 2001 in the United States.
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 The rate of Russia's gas transit through Ukraine from January 1, 2010 will be increased by 65-70 percent, depending on what will be the price of oil. This statement was made by Ukrainian Prime MinisterYulia Tymoshenko, reports the agency
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 Almost 24-hour search operation ended with the Indian authorities, the discovery of remnants of the missing Bell 430 helicopter, carrying the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Radzhashekhar Reddy (Rajashekhar Reddy), informs Associated Press.
Discovered the bodies of all five passengers crashed helicopter. The sear
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 Government of Krasnoyarsk begun collecting applications for the competition to assess the shares owned by the region.According to the newspaper Kommersant,so the authorities began to prepare for the resumption pledge auctions at the regional level.
According to the chairman of the Government of Krasnoyarsk Terri
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 In RuNet recently appeared weird news about robots, which for some reason he had been taught to deceive each other. Find themselves at the trough, the excessively developed robots learned to not signal lamp that found food - in order (of course) got himself more. The essence of this news (or rather, old), its, so to speak, Tzimes was in that part of the robot (about 10%) have never been able to master the art of lying and remained "altruistic", that is, outsiders and technological progress. Even more amusing experiment with "robots" (or rather with electronic modelkami living "inside" the program, but the essence remains the same) was conducted several decades ago. He lay in the fact that "e-men" which gave the opportunity to calculate the intentions of others. These "reflection" could be a different order. More developed "special" might as well know that and they i
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Russia has formally acknowledged plans for the first time deliveries to Syria of the Party of fighter-interceptor MiG-31E, wrote Kommersant.Said head of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Alexei Fedorov.The contract was signed in 2007, but has not yet entered into force.Negotiations on the supply continues. Through this transaction in the KLA expects to stabilize the situation in OJSC "Nizhny Novgorod Aircraft Building Plant" Sokol ", which is modernizing machines commissioned by Rosoboronexport. Earlier, Russia categorically denied that there are plans to supply Syria MiG-31, RSK MiG stated that such a contract does not exist. Subsequently, Syria denied these allegations.  Syria was one of the countries that the United States listed as an "axis of evil" - a regime that, according to Washington, sponsor of terrorism. First, President George W. B
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 Until people happy ticket and harvest and most dystantsyruyutsya from news and political conflicts, which nadoely all. Policy only zasevayut.
Weather in society показывает, if not the storm, then rain and wind. Majority of Ukrainians (about 80%) otsenyvayut stable situation in the country as nehatyvnuyu and confidently spoken about to the mistrust of authority and existing political forces. Key all the political leaders of the country are preparing to join i
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 There are at least ten reasons that IMF may be a claim to the government. That simply ignores Ukraine Action Plan, written in the Memorandum of the Fund. Perhaps this could be the worst outcome if the government proposed a way of economic development. However, today there is nothi
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 The national economy of Ukraine after the country's independence, inherited from the Soviet economy's fundamental imbalances and contradictions.
The production capacity of Ukrainian economy in the structure, quantity and quality of its products did not meet the complex needs of Ukrainian society, since the available capacities evolved under the requirements of another state - the USSR. Ukraine is not needed, for example, so many and such weapons, which could produce its MIC, which was significantly on the dependent cooperative deliveries from the former Soviet republics.
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 When the Russian government is now throwing angry accusations of "Hitlerism hanger, it should be first remove the beam from your own eye.
One could start with the fact that in the SS Division "Galicia", which really created as kolaboratsionistske military force, has been barely 22 thousand Ukrainian. At the same time through kolaboratsionistski formation alone Russian "vlasovtsiv" went from 0.5 to 0.8 million Russians, and their composition at the end of the war exceeded 120 thousand people. This occurred despite the fact th
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