Iraq Airs Confessions Of Plotters Behind "Bloody Sunday"(KUNA) -- Baghdad's operation command released on Sunday video confessions of three men from Saddam Hussein's former Baath party who admitted to have targeted Iraq's ministry of Justice ...
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Iran To Hold Air And Cyber Defense Drills(RSD) - Iran will start a five-day aerial defense drill on Sunday in western parts of the country. According to RIAN, Iran will launch the large-scale air-defense exercise ...
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Costs of War: Cracks In The EdificeThe decision to have Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the four other 9/11 planners face trial in a criminal court in New York is Obama’s boldest break yet from ...
Posted Nov 17, 2009 2:37 AM by RSD Reports
Radical Islamism In Spain Seen Growing, Warns Terrorism Expert(RSD) -- Jihadist networks "have been trying to implement their structure in Spain" since the 2004 Madrid train bombings, and therefore it is necessary for police authorities to "design and implement ...
Posted Nov 16, 2009 3:34 AM by RSD Reports
Measuring U.S. Poverty: Income Transfers Alone Won't Eradicate Poverty(RSD) -- Eradicating poverty is a favorite slogan of politicians. Barack Obama promised to halve poverty within ten years. His Republican opponent, John McCain, vowed to “make the eradication of poverty ...
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U.S. Government Grants Guo Feixiong's Family Political Asylum(RSD) -- On November 10, 2009, the U.S. government confirmed political asylum status for the wife and two children of Chinese legal advocate Guo Feixiong, according to ChinaAid. The law ...
Posted Nov 21, 2009 12:24 PM by RSD Reports
Muslim Brotherhood And Rumors Of Resignation: Schism Or Discussion(Arab West Report) -- The claims according to which the Muslim Brotherhood General Guide Mahd Akif resigned from his post on October 18 were first made on a television show on ...
Posted Nov 20, 2009 3:22 PM by RSD Reports
Is Uzbek Guerrilla Force Planning Homecoming?Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan has relocated next door to Tajikistan, but analysts doubt it will move back into Central Asia. By Ainagul Abdrakhmanova, Aida Kasymalieva, Inga Sikorskaya, and Anara Yusupova ...
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The EU's Approach To Israel And The PalestiniansBy Clara Marina O’DonnellUS President Barack Obama is firmly committed to making progress towards peace in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Since taking office, he has repeatedly emphasised the ...
Posted Nov 21, 2009 11:56 AM by RSD Reports
US Faces Difficult Decisions After Iran Rejects UN Nuclear PlanBy Andrew Tully Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki has said that Tehran won’t export its partially enriched uranium for further enrichment, as proposed by the United Nations. Instead, Mottaki ...
Posted Nov 21, 2009 10:27 AM by RSD Reports
Major Sources And Users Of Energy In United States(EIA) -- The major energy sources in the United States are petroleum (oil), natural gas, coal, nuclear, and renewable energy. The major users are residential and commercial buildings, industry, transportation, and ...
Posted Nov 20, 2009 3:10 PM by RSD Reports
Weekly Petroleum Forecast: Pressures On Fuel Ethanol Production Capacity
(EIA) -- Capacity to produce fuel ethanol from corn nearly tripled between January 2006 and January 2009. However, over the past 18 months, a combination of surplus production capacity, the decline ...
Posted Nov 18, 2009 2:29 PM by RSD Reports
Falling U.S. Rental Prices Continue To Restrain Inflation(CEPR) -- The CPI rose by 0.3 percent in October while the core index increased 0.2 percent. Over the last quarter, the overall CPI has increased at a 3 ...
Posted Nov 18, 2009 9:52 AM by RSD Reports
Rating Aggressive And Delinquent Behavior In Pre-AdolescenceIn a study published in an upcoming issue of The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry researchers show that over reactive parenting, such as heavy criticism or yelling as a ...
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Swine Flu Peak Is Yet To Come - ExpertRIA Novosti interviews TAMARA LOBOVA, Ph.D. (Medicine), Academic
Secretary of the North-West Department of the Russian Academy of
Medical Sciences Question: Is the A/H1N1 flu dangerous?Answer ...
Posted Nov 21, 2009 11:11 AM by RSD Reports
Spreading Hysteria About Swine Flu "Hysteria"By Stephen SoldzPublic health is bedeviled by the public's lack
of understanding of uncertainty. Public health policy deals with
potential future events. Decisions about policy have to be ...
Posted Nov 21, 2009 11:08 AM by RSD Reports
From Words To Deeds In Afghanistan's Corruption FightBy Tanya Goudsouzian, Helena Malikyar At the height of election fever in Afghanistan this summer, a series of cleverly staged, humorous infomercials were aired on various television channels, instructing average ...
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The Global Carbon Footprint ScamBy Alan Caruba I never cease to marvel at the environmental alarmists who create one “crisis” after another using wretchedly bad “science” to support their scams. On Tuesday, November 24 ...
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Karzai's Second BirthBy Dmitry KosyrevHamid Karzai's second presidential inauguration took place as planned, with tough security measures and in the presence of high-ranking officials from the United States, Tajikistan ...
Posted Nov 20, 2009 12:23 PM by RSD Reports
Hundreds Pay Last Respects To murdered Moscow Priest(RIA Novosti) -- Hundreds of people came on Sunday to a southern Moscow church to pay their last respects to a well-known Russian Orthodox priest who was recently murdered. Priest ...
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Serbian Patriarch Pavle Laid To Rest(BIRN) -- The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Pavle, was laid to rest Thursday afternoon at the monastery in the Belgrade suburb of Rakovica. The funeral service at the ...
Posted Nov 19, 2009 1:12 PM by RSD Reports
