On November 9, the New Yorker magazine published a lengthy article by veteran correspondent Seymour Hersh dealing with the considerable nervousness in US ruling circles over the security of Pakistan’s arsenal of between 80 and 100 nuclear weapons. Hersh’s sources told him that the primary fear was not a Taliban takeover, but a mutiny by anti-American Islamist tendencies inside the Pakistani armed forces, in which they attempt to seize all or parts of the country’s nuclear arsenal.
The head of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Leon Panetta on Friday met with Pakistani Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani to ensure “operational functioning between the two militaries and intelligence agencies,” AFP reported.
The world is about to enter a period of unprecedented investment in nuclear power. The combined threats of climate change, energy security and fears over the high prices and dwindling reserves of oil are forcing governments towards the nuclear option. The perception is that nuclear power is a carbon-free technology, that it breaks our reliance on oil and that it gives governments control over their own energy supply.
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health said in a statement on Friday that the mutation could enable the virus to go deeper into the respiratory system than it could otherwise, resulting in more severe symptoms.
CAIRO, (AP) – Egyptian soccer fans burned Algerian flags and rioted outside the Algerian Embassy in Cairo, smashing cars and shop windows, in an escalating row between the two countries over a bitter World Cup rivalry.
This process, by which pre-existent Arabo-Persian traditions were moulded to new Indian contexts, involved changes in the manner in which Islamic rule was conceived and conducted in the subcontinent. It became gradually apparent to the conquering Muslim sultans (and later to their successors, the Mughals), as well as to the medieval thinkers and writers of treatises on Islamic morality, theology, and political doctrine, that the conduct of Islamic statecraft in a country comprising mostly Hindus entailed shifts in Islam's conceptual and institutionalised vocabulary. Islamic rulers could not command a vast country without accepting certain cultural limitations to the exercise of their power. In this process of acculturation, political Islam in India was forced to reinvent itself as a doctrine of rule.
(ANHRI/IFEX) – Cairo, November 16, 2009 – The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) expressed concern over a recent decision by the prosecutor of the Court of First Instance in Casablanca. On 13 November 2009, the prosecutor banned “Al Masheel” newspaper on the grounds that the paper's former managing editor, Edriees Shahtan, is serving a prison sentence.
(ANHRI/IFEX) – Cairo, November 7, 2009 – The Library of the Legal Aid Unit of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), in cooperation with the Cultural Committee of the Intellectual System of Advocates, organized a seminar entitled, “Whither press freedom?”. Lawyers, journalists and bloggers were invited to the event on 5 November 2009 at ANHRI's offices.
“As yet, nobody can say with any certainty whether we have in fact escaped the prospect of a global economic collapse,” said the 68-page report, headed by asset chief Daniel Fermon. It is an exploration of the dangers, not a forecast.
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