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It all ads up Spot-fixing is chicken-feed compared to the next big IPL scam
All these cops snooping around are getting too much, i tell you. Just the other day, this bowler puts up his arm and raises one finger and they pounce on him and haul him away to the thana because they thought it was a spot-fixing ...
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Contraceptive access improves womens chances in education work Jill Sheffield
Millennium Development Goals (MDG) began on April 5. At the end of May, Women Deliver, a Washington-based advocacy group working to reduce maternal mortality and ensure young girls' reproductive health, will hold a conference in Kuala Lumpur, bringing together some of the world's strongest voices on women's ...
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States must spend allocated funds on police modernization
It's time to view security as a vital element of the country's infrastructure rather than an entitlement of VIPs alone. But states, especially, are slipping up in this respect. This lack of commitment to internal security is borne out by their reluctance to spend centrally-sponsored assistance, which exposes a mindset seemingly framed around maintaining entitlements rather than ...
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Editorial This grisly crime must not erode our freedoms
With the two assailants in hospital, the questions now start - and they are legion. The most telling is whether the men were acting alone or were part of a terrorist "cell" supported by others, either here or abroad. But there will also be issues for the security services to address. Although sources suggest that the perpetrators were known to the authorities - and only the ongoing ...
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Struggle Against Dire Conditions for Iran Workers
On April 29, just ahead of International Workers' Day, Iranian authorities summoned Behnam Ebrahimzadeh to discuss the terms of his temporary release from Tehran's notorious Evin prison. Ebrahimzadeh, a labor activist and blogger who is almost three years into a five-year prison sentence, was given leave from the prison after many pleas to care for his ailing son, who suffers from a ...
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Burma the EU has been too quick to lift sanctions
Uzbekistan: A Massacre That Should Not Fade Into History Eight years after the Andijan massacre, Uzbekistan remains a human-rights disaster. When will the EU change its strategy towards ...
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Sex Offenders Aren’t All Monsters
Enlarge A series of newspaper clippings that a father of two sons has collected over the years. The two sons are listed on the public sex offender registry for offenses committed when they were ages 9 and 11, and they were often publicly named in the local ...
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What others say Teachers show heroics during Oklahoma tornado
Teachers carry children away from Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City, Okla, Monday, May 20, 2013. Near SW 149th and Hudson. (AP Photo/ The Oklahoman, Paul ...
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Editorial Dont let Trade Center be an armed camp
Photo credit: Getty Images While a rebuilt World Trade Center site nears its debut as one of the world's most important and iconic business districts, a critical controversy is brewing. How much security is too much? The tower at 4 World Trade Center should be finished this year, its 72 floors filled mostly with offices and a smattering of retail. And 1 World Trade Center should open in ...
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Why the Kremlin Hates Levada Center
The older undemocratic regimes become, the more mistakes their leaders tend to make. Cutting themselves off from accurate information is one of the most common - and most self-destructive. This problem became particularly relevant earlier this week, when Lev Gudkov - the director of the Levada Center, Russia's preeminent independent polling agency - said he feared he may have to shut down ...
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African Union Don’t Let Them In
On May 19, African countries will kick off a special summit to celebrate 50 years of unity, first under the Organisation of African Unity and, since 2000, under the African Union. This is an opportune time for the AU to set the record straight on its support for accountability, especially the atrocities during Kenya’s 2007-08 post-election violence. Indeed, Kenyan government sources ...
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This is why Jordan cant be trusted on torture
If Home Secretary Theresa May thinks the Jordanian government can be trusted not to torture its prisoners, she needs to look a little harder at the ...
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Russias Middle Class Is Prosperous but Powerless
In Moscow, they are "non-Soviet Russians." In New Delhi, they are a "political Goliath" that may soon awaken. In Beijing and Sao Paolo, they are lawyers and other professionals who complain about ...
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A deeply disturbing attack on me
Contributed by : Carol Gould First published December 12, 2012This has not been a happy few months for me; as soon as Israel is in the news I find myself in the firing line in various fora or having to take an extra aspirin to avoid a fatal heart attack listening to enraged Zionist-haters venting their thinly-disguised Jew-hatred on radio and television. What an irony! My parents never sent ...
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Response to Hungary is a Test for the EU
Enlarge Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban presents his annual state-of-the-nation speech in Budapest, February 22, 2013. The text reads: Hungary doing ...
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Patrick Chappatte Computer Piracy
Ready or not, computer piracy comes when you least expect it. Patrick Chappatte is an editorial cartoonist for the International Herald Tribune. View more of his work, visit his Web site or follow him on ...
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Globe Editorial Note to politicians Stop blaming the media for your problems
Canadian conservatives, be they mayors, MPs or senators, need to stop blaming alleged media bias for their troubles when scandals arise. In Toronto, Mayor Rob Ford and his brother Doug both claim that reports of a video showing the mayor inhaling from what appears to be a crack pipe are an attempt by a left-of-centre newspaper to undermine him. In Ottawa, Senator Marjory LeBreton claimed in a ...
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Before Midnight Jesse And Celine Are Older Now And So Are We
is information that they don't want. But it's impossible -- absolutely impossible -- to write about the movie without talking about where they stand and what the premise is. I did my absolute best to spoil as little beyond that as possible. But if it's extremely important to you not to know whether he missed the plane, whether they've seen each other in the last nine years, ...
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U.S. Congress Moves Toward Full Trade Embargo on Iran
- The U.S. Congress moved closer here Wednesday to imposing a full trade embargo against Iran and pledged its support to Israel if it felt compelled to attack Tehran's nuclear programme in ...
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Op-Ed Contributors Democracy Jobs and Growth in Europe
The economic turmoil of the past several years has pushed Europe toward greater integration, starting with financial stabilization and a banking union that is still a work in progress. Everyone now recognizes that a single currency zone without a common fiscal policy invites the kind of crisis we have all been experiencing. Europe has reached this stage grudgingly and with great strain, ...
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Uzbekistan A Massacre That Should Not Fade Into History
Eight years have passed after one of the worst massacres in the former Soviet Union since its collapse. On May 13, 2005, security forces in the city of Andijan, Uzbekistan, opened fire on protesters, the vast majority unarmed, killing hundreds of men, women and children as they tried to flee. No one has been held accountable, and the authoritarian president, Islam Karimov, has defied calls for ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Rise of the Vampire
View results THE RISE OF THE VAMPIREBy Erik ButlerReaktion / University of Chicago Press, $25, 175 pagesFascination with the undead and fear of the supernatural have filtered through the mists of time, and the vampire has become the star of a dark and bloody show still playing in the 21st century.Following the legend’s footprints in the past, Erik Butler notes that the vampire has ...
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Immigration bill a testament to compromise
Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), left, delivers remarks toward Republican Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), center, while Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) looks on during the Senate Judiciary Committee meeting to work on the legislation "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act," on Capitol Hill in ...
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In L.A. polishing up the pedways
In downtown Los Angeles, elevated pedestrian walkways - called pedways - slice the air between tall buildings on Bunker Hill, like a 1970s vision of a future metropolis. That's exactly what they were intended to be - the first phase of what would become a mechanized people mover. Those plans were abandoned long ago, but the existing 10 pedways have something of a cult following among the ...
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WLOX Editorial Remember and honor those who died serving our country
Part of the coast is being invaded this week by termites. Millions swarmed across Harrison County Wednesday night. Several WLOX viewers called our newsroom to tell us about it. One person called ...
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Turkmenistan's new olympic development could be blessing or curse
Work has finally begun on the massive Ashgabat Olympic complex development, a US $5 billion project that aims to enhance the standing of the capital city when Turkmenistan makes a bid to host the Olympic Games.
The sports complex being built in Ashgabat will be the largest and most state-of-the-art of its kind in Central Asia, underscoring Turkmenistan’s position as a regional power due to the country’s extensive natural gas and oil reserves, while its completion will also illustrate the growing presence of the country in the international community. Read more
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