Approximately half the Europeans surveyed said Jews are more loyal to Israel than to their own country, and more than a third said Jews have too much power in business and finance. A majority of respondents in Austria, Hungary and Switzerland said they believe American Jews control U.S. policy on the Middle East.
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In the North West Frontier Province, the mullahs’ word is law and the veil is worn. But one ancient tribe refuses to cover up. Jerome Taylor reports from the Rumbur Valley
But in the remote Chitral region nestled high in the Hindu Kush mountain range are the last remnants of a tribe where the women [...]

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It was only when pollution literally started to bloom across the lakes of China earlier this summer that the country’s leaders finally sounded full alarm on the environment.
Blue-green algae blooms choked Lake Taihu - China’s third biggest source of freshwater - in May, forcing 5 million people to use bottled water for drinking and bathing.
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Capitalising on the increasingly bellicose rhetoric in Moscow, a group of influential retired generals yesterday said the United States was preparing to invade Russia within a decade.
Interviewed by Komsomolskaya Pravda, Russia’s biggest circulation newspaper, the four senior generals - who now direct influential military think tanks - said the United States had hatched a [...]

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Whatever the strategic merits of President Carter’s 1979 decision to cut formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan, the U.S. no longer needs to appease China in order to contain the Soviet Union. To the contrary, China has taken over the former Soviet role as the main external supporter of dictatorship and anti-Americanism in the Americas. It [...]

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The Chinese government has been accused of attempting to cover up nearly three quarters of a million deaths caused by rampant pollution.
Chinese officials reportedly tried to censor a World Bank document that found filthy air and water prematurely kill 750,000 people every year in China.
One woman told Sky News that people in her village are [...]

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Today we begin FSM’s presidential candidate interviews with Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter, one of the strongest candidates on national security and immigration issues. FSM’s interviewer, Political Editor Tom McLaughlin, learned that this congressman knows what he thinks and states it clearly.
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Poland’s right wing is consolidating, and may end up threatening the newly-minted EU treaty. Two extremist politicians on Monday joined forces amid pledges to put the breaks on Polish integration into the EU. more…

Kaczynski Watch: Polish Prime Minister: ‘Something Very Negative’ Happening in Germany
EU Hammers Out a Deal: The Fresh Impetus that Europe [...]

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A leading historian wants ‘Mein Kampf’ to be republished in Germany. Copyright issues have kept it off the shelves since World war II, but in 2015 it will enter the public domain. Then, anyone will be allowed to print it — including neo-Nazis. By David Gordon Smith in Berlin more…

Overturning Hitler’s Military Tribunals: Germany [...]

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A new generation of Russian businessmen has discovered Germany. Investments, joint ventures and takeovers from the East are on the rise. One reason: Wages in Moscow and St. Petersburg are too high. By Anselm Waldermann more…

Back in the Global Technology Race: Russia Bids to Become a Tech Tiger
Russia’s Venture Capital Boom: Tech [...]

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“The largest Achilles heel of this regime in economic terms is this intersection of really poor state planning and dependence on foreign petroleum,” Berman said at a news conference in Washington earlier this week. Iran imports 40 percent of its total consumption, he said, and “without that gasoline, Iranian cars won’t run and the Iranian [...]

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General who served in Second Lebanon war says army’s premise now completely different than before war which ‘proved we were wrong in 2000 when our military power was aimed at Palestinian terror; now we realize that we should be preparing for something completely different’
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(IsraelNN.com) The IDF Deputy Commander of the Northern Command during the Second Lebanon war says Israel is learning from last summer and preparing for war.
Speaking at a Monday conference at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, Gen. (res.) Eyal Ben-Reuven said the IDF is learning the mistakes of last summer’s war and [...]

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MOSCOW: Russia will beef up its missile defence by deploying the long-delayed S-400 Triumph missile system around Moscow later this month, an air force spokesman said on Monday.
“One division and a command point will be put into combat duty at the end of the month,” air force spokesman Alexander Drobyshevsky said, news agency Interfax reported.
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In the past several years there have been several events, where the fighters of the two world military aviation leaders could test each other, including test fights. In Gwalior, February 14-26, 2004 Indian and American Air Forces held their first joint combat exercise, where the score between F-16 and Mig-29 was close to 9 to [...]

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“Not until the military steam-roller has passed over the country (Waziristan) from end to end, will there be peace. But I do not want to be the person to start the machine.”
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UN inspectors confirmed the shutdown of North Korea’s main nuclear reactor. Does this represent genuine progress or just another feint by the North Korean regime?
Moreover, even assuming the current wave of shutdowns proceeds in good faith, many questions remain unanswered. The Economist argues there is good reason to doubt Pyongyang will easily agree to the [...]

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When the European Union and China agreed to cooperate to develop the E.U. Galileo Satellite System in 2003, the United States reacted with strong skepticism since Washington was against the sharing of sensitive dual-use technology (with civilian and military applications) with China. In the past, the United States had tried unsuccessfully to impede the European [...]

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