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Water is scarce in arid Saudi Arabia. Now the king has hired a team of German scientists to search for groundwater trapped in aquifers beneath the massive kingdom’s sands. Their pioneering work could provide solutions for other desert countries.
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Thanks to the ongoing debacle in Greece, we’ve become all too aware about the dangers of the rapid build-up of government debt throughout the developed world in the wake of the financial crisis. The potential consequences of that trend are made ever more frightening in a new study by economists Carmen Reinhart of the University [...]
This is typical Leftist thinking. Troublemaker countries like Iran are truly victims. Who is the victimizer? Countries that are successful and powerful like America and Israel.
This is a sick and dangerous way of thinking that literally says bad is good and good is bad. This thinking is just as dangerous as Marxism/Communism.
His conclusion is [...]
They’re here, they’re queer, and governments from Africa to Asia don’t quite know what to do about it. Four countries where gay rights movements face an upward battle for equality.
Four New Gay Rights Battlegrounds – By Peter Williams | Foreign Policy
China has started exploring how to reap economic and strategic benefits from the ice melting at the Arctic with global warming, a Stockholm research institute said Monday.
Chinese officials have so far had been cautious in expressing interest in the region for fear of causing alarm among the five countries bordering the Arctic, the Stockholm International [...]
Iran further consolidated its anti-US coalition and honed its hard edge against Israel this week with two important defense treaties signed with Syria (covering Lebanon) and Qatar, home to the biggest US air base outside America. These treaties opened doors for Iranian troops to be stationed in all three countries. According to debkafile’s military sources, [...]
Many countries have started to see a rebound from last year’s economic recession. But will it last? Economists at the World Economic Forum in Davos warn that paying down massive public debt will be “very, very painful.” Deep spending cuts and significant tax hikes may be unavoidable.
‘It Will Be Terrible’: Economists in Davos Look with [...]
Yet it was Mr Sarkozy’s new promise to press countries with huge trade surpluses — such as China — to revalue their undervalued currencies that captured attention. It echoed similar comments by George Soros, the veteran investor, earlier in the day that China must let its currency appreciate.
“We cannot preach free trade and at the [...]
The world debt overhang is threatening the world recovery, because markets will realize at some point how risky it is and the yields on bonds will increase, Niall Ferguson, professor of history at Harvard University, told CNBC Thursday.
“I think we have a situation where Greece is leading the pack but other countries will follow,” Ferguson [...]
In the last three days, the governments of eleven countries have scrambled to elevate their preparedness levels for Islamist terror, or enforced extraordinarily stringent security measures. Another six governments have pursued these steps without fanfare.
DEBKAfile – Rush of terror alerts on three continents plus Middle East
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