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(Photo: AP / Gerald Herbert)Romney Should be Concerned about Poverty, Especially His Own
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and Donald Trump, arrive for a news in Las Vegas, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, where Trump endorsed Romney....Full Story

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(Photo: AP / Iranian Presidents office, File)What Israel Really Fears about Iran
FILE- In this April 8, 2008, file photo released by the Iranian President's Office, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, listens to a technician during his visit of the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. For the first time in nearly two decades of escalating tensions over the Iranian nuclear program, it appears that world leaders are genuinely concerned that an Israeli military attack on the Islamic Republic could be imminent, an action that many fear might trigger war, terrorism and global economic havoc. (AP Photo/Iranian Presidents office, File)...Full Story

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Taiwan complaints have familiar ring
I visited Taipei after the Lunar New Year, when results of Taiwan's presidential election were still fresh in people's minds. So naturally, the conversation with the hired driver turned to politics and the life of islanders. | //--> Tuesday, February 07, 2012 | I visite...Full Story
In pursuit of perfection
Winning more than 80 international awards, the world-famous British luxury car maker is proud of its new Jaguar XF for 2012. | //--> Roger Boschman | Friday, February 03, 2012 | Winning more than 80 international awards, the world-famous British luxury car maker is prou...Full Story
Syria needs diplomacy, not intervention
President Bashar al-Assad's government has used brute force to crush a genuine popular upheaval against his regime. The death toll is nearly 6,000. Human rights have been systematically violated. But the crucial question is how and what steps can international society l...Full Story
Iran boosts nuclear work in bunker - diplomats
| VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran is believed to be expanding uranium enrichment activity deep inside a mountain, diplomatic sources said on Monday, a move likely to add to tension with Western powers that suspect Tehran is seeking nuclear weapons capability. | The move to incr...Full Story
Iran boosts nuclear work in bunker: diplomats
VIENNA - Iran is believed to be expanding uranium enrichment activity deep inside a mountain, diplomatic sources said on Monday, a move likely to add to tension with Western powers that suspect Tehran is seeking nuclear weapons capability. | The move to increase sensiti...Full Story
Egypt presidential race to open mid-March
CAIRO ' Candidates for Egypt's first presidential election since the ouster of veteran leader Hosni Mubarak can start registering from March 15, a month earlier than expected, the head of the elections committee said on Monday. | "Registration for the presidential elect...Full Story
BSY worry: Gowdas ganging up?
| A restless former CM B.S. Yeddyurappa has started finding falut with almost every decision of the party after being out of power for six months. Earlier, it were the veiled attacks by party president, K.S. Eshwarappa on him and his hunger for power which enraged Mr Ye...Full Story
Shared stakes in safety
SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweet Afghanistan is in a perpetual time warp. The British, while ruling India, left it mostly alone keeping their acti-vities confined east of the Khyber Pass. Russian attempts at establishing hegemony in the 1970s and 1980s met with dismal failure...Full Story
Waitangi Tribunal claim seeks to halt asset sales
| The Maori Council will today lodge a claim at the Waitangi Tribunal, asking it to stop the sales until the tribunal first considers claims to water. | The Government is pushing ahead this year with one of National's major election policies, to sell 49 per cent of four...Full Story
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Power plant threat to Sundarbans
Asia Times |      Feb 7, 2012 | Power plant threat to Sundarbans | By Syed Tashfin Chowdhury | DHAKA - Prime Minister Hasina's Awami League government is pushing through construction of a 1,320-megawatt coal-fired power plant, the country's ...
China presses Myanmar on stalled dam
Asia Times |      Feb 7, 2012 | China presses Myanmar on stalled dam | By Melody Kemp | One of the first indications that change was afoot in Myanmar came when President Thein Sein announced last year the suspension of the China-backed, US$3...
Desperate wheeling and dealing
Asia Times |      Feb 7, 2012 | Desperate wheeling and dealing | By Victor Kotsev | The gloves are off, both inside Syria and at the United Nations Security Council: this is the overwhelming impression one gets after the latest restive weeke...
Run-up to proxy war over Syria
Asia Times |      Feb 7, 2012 | Run-up to proxy war over Syria | By M K Bhadrakumar | If a date needs to fixed marking the end of "post-Soviet era" in world politics, it might fall on February 4, 2012. Russia and China's double veto of the A...
US undercuts message to Israel
Asia Times |      Feb 7, 2012 | US undercuts message to Israel | By Gareth Porter | WASHINGTON - When Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Washington Post columnist David Ignatius last week that he believed Israel was likely to attack Iran be...
Playful lessons for Kim Jong-eun
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A border too far for Bangladesh
Asia Times |      Feb 7, 2012 | A border too far for Bangladesh | By Syed Tashfin Chowdhury | DHAKA - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government last week showed its determination to maintain improved ties with New Delhi, defying public anger...
Indonesian Power Prices to Rise 10% to Plug Budget Deficit
Jakarta Globe Power prices will surge by an average of 10 percent from April under a government plan to ease the budget deficit, a deputy minister said on Monday. | Widjajono Partowidagdo, the deputy energy minister, said the proposed increase could save up to Rp ...
Syrian rockets pound protest hubs
The Daily Telegraph Australia | SYRIAN forces rained rockets and shells on protest hubs yesterday killing at least 46 civilians, activists said. | The opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) said the regime was surrounding Homs with tanks ahead of "a major offensive" a...
Siemens wins Saudi turbines order
Gulf News | Dubai: Siemens Energy has won a Dh3.67-billion order to supply 18 turbines and generators for the 4,000 megawatt Qurayyah Independent Power Plant (IPP) in Saudi Arabia, considered one of the world's largest Combined Cycle Power Plants (CCPP). | Onc...
DEWA: Two new stations to boost power capacity
Gulf News | Dubai: The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) said it commissioned two power stations with a capacity of 132/400 kv at a total cost of Dh883 million at Al Aweer and Meydan last month. | Work to set up the new stations included setting up ...
Korean Political Star Starts Charity to Confront Inequality
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Age row: Time for MoD to see sense
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What a disaster!
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