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29 Jan 2015

Diesel spill in West Virginia leaves 12,000 without water

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Clement Daly About 12,000 people in southeastern West Virginia were left without drinking water after a diesel spill over the weekend. Tr...

WikiLeaks considers legal action over Google’s compliance with US search orders

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Evan Blake On Monday, lawyers for WikiLeaks announced at a press conference that they may pursue legal action against Google and the US g...

Will the Genie Want to Go Back?

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  D Suba Chandran Ever since the horrible attack on school children in Peshawar, there have been a series of measures within Pakistan in ...

US stock sell-off in response to Fed policy statement on interest rates

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Barry Grey All three major US stock indexes fell sharply Wednesday in response to the policy statement issued mid-afternoon by the Federa...

Israel threatens war following clashes with Hezbollah

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Thomas Gaist Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened war in Lebanon and Syria on Wednesday, saying that Israel is prepared t...

Syriza hands Greek defence ministry to right-wing nationalist

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Robert Stevens The first meeting of the cabinet named by the Syriza-Independent Greeks (ANEL) coalition government was televised on Wedne...

India-Nepal: Disparate Partners in Fuel Diplomacy

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  Kalpana Jha   At a time when developed countries are expanding fuel diplomacy and exploring alternative options for fuel, Nepal is c...
27 Jan 2015

Australian Productivity Commission launches wage-cutting review

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Mike Head With Australia’s economic position deteriorating rapidly, the Australian Productivity Commission last week spelled out a centra...

Berlin mayor resigns: The end of the era

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Emma Bode & Serena Nees On December 11, 2014, Klaus Wowereit, the Social Democratic (SPD) mayor of Berlin, resigned after 13 years in...

Sri Lankan government promises “devolution pact” to woo Tamil elite

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Pani Wijesiriwardena Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe declared last week that his government would implement the 13th amend...

State of emergency declared in eastern Ukraine, as US vows more sanctions against Russia

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Niles Williamson Presaging a further escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, Prime Minster Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Monday declared an officia...

US resumes drone strikes in Yemen

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Thomas Gaist Just days after Houthi rebels in Yemen’s capital of Sanaa toppled the US-backed government of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Washin...

Syriza forms coalition government with right-wing Independent Greeks

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Robert Stevens It took just hours for the leftist pretensions of Syriza, (the Coalition of the Radical Left) to be exposed following its...
26 Jan 2015

Russia and US end collaboration on nuclear disarmament

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Clara Weiss Russia and the United States ended their collaboration in the disposal of nuclear waste in mid-December, according to a repo...

US announces plans to deploy military advisers to Ukraine

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Niles Williamson The head of the United States Army Europe, Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, announced on Wednesday that a contingent of US...