Is Islam the problem, or can it be part of the solution? Can Islam be reformed from within, or is Muslim violence and hatred due entirely to the teachings and history of the Qur’an? These were some of the major issues raised at the Secular Islam Summit in St Petersburg, Florida, this week.
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The Iranian former deputy defense minister who disappeared in Turkey last month left his country with documents that prove that there is a link between the Iranian military establishment and terror groups including Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah, the pan-Arab newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat reported Friday.
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The problem with Russia, in Mr. Rogers’ view, is that the country’s “outlaw” capitalists are “stripping” its assets.
“There are not a lot of people reinvesting in productive capacity,” he said. “They’re not maintaining their pipelines or highways or the bridges or the railroads. Everybody is trying to get their money out of there, to Switzerland, [...]

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UNITED NATIONS, Mar 8 (IPS) - When the U.N. Security Council decides to punish a member state — be it Somalia, Sierra Leone, Liberia or Iraq — one of its cherished prerogatives is the power to impose mandatory military sanctions crippling a country’s armed services.
But a primarily Western-sponsored Security Council resolution currently under negotiation, and [...]

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NEW DELHI: The Indian, Japanese and US navies will conduct, for the first time ever, trilateral exercises in the Pacific Ocean in April.
Apart from displaying India’s naval ambitions, it will be a first in many ways. Most important, it will be the first time after the 2004 tsunami that the three countries will be [...]

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JERUSALEM — Israel has placed its foreign installations on alert after a newspaper reported the defection of a senior Iranian official in Turkey.
The alert was issued after Israel was blamed for the disappearance of a former Iranian deputy defense minister in Turkey. An Iranian delegation has been sent to Turkey and demanded the whereabouts of [...]

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