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The Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi warned Israel that 150,000 missiles awaited its arrival should it dare to attack the Islamic republic. He also warned Israel that they would not survive war with Iran, reiterating the Ayatollah’s rhetoric from a few weeks ago. Vahidi also exhorted the United States to realize how mighty [...]

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Egyptians are casting ballots for the first post-Mubarak parliamentary contests in a long awaited moment for Egypt’s revolutionary movement. Voters turned out in large numbers to vote for their candidates and proceedings went largely without incident with women and Coptic Christians reportedly arriving at polling stations in large numbers. This is the first of two [...]

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The Danish government has set a bold goal for its energy sector – to have all of its domestic energy supplied by renewable sources by the year 2050. These goals are expected to transfer over to Denmark’s six-month presidency of the European Union during which it is planning on pushing renewable energy goals for the [...]

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Jeremy Page’s article for the Wall Street Journal, “Children of the Revolution,” explores the emergent privileged class in China and the social tensions this brings forward in a nation with an average annual income of $3,300. The ‘little kings’ and privileged youth that are the children of the Cultural Revolution generation display a taste for [...]

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A viral video of a British mother verbally abusing minority passengers on a London tram has resulted in her arrest by the British Transport Police who apprehended the woman on suspicion of committing a racially aggravated offense. The clip above shows the mum in question ranting in public to the other passengers on the tram. [...]

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