Iran NRI hosts first wind energy confab
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- Category: Iran
- Created: 19 May 2013
- Written by PressTV
Iran’s Niroo [Energy] Research Institute (NRI) has hosted the first national conference and exhibition on wind energy in the capital, Tehran, Press TV reports.
Size of CAR regional force to increase
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- Category: Africa
- Created: 19 May 2013
- Written by PressTV
African military chiefs have agreed to increase the number of regional peacekeeping troops in the Central African Republic (CAR) to 2,000.
Farhadi’s ‘Past’ to hit Iran theaters
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- Category: Arts
- Created: 19 May 2013
- Written by PressTV
Acclaimed Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s Paris-set tale movie The Past is slated to be screened in the home country’s movie theaters.
Congolese journalist found dead in east
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- Category: Africa
- Created: 19 May 2013
- Written by PressTV
The body of a Congolese journalist has been found near the city of Bunia in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the city mayor says.
IDF Commando Filmed Crapping on Friend’s Head
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- Category: Roi Tov
- Created: 19 May 2013
- Written by Roi Tov
"I had a female-commander who didn't stop cursing, dirty words that I had never heard before," complained a few days ago Yosef Duvdevany while describing his IDF service as a Haredi soldier. Despite his heartbreaking descriptions, anybody aware with the IDF reality couldn't help but giggle in embarrassment at his naivety.
Disconnect: Soaring Markets/Troubled Economies
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- Category: Steve Lendman
- Created: 19 May 2013
- Written by Steve Lendman
Forget everything you learned about markets, economics and finance. Perhaps Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, Darwin, Freud, Einstein, and other noted figures were wrong.
America Honors Its Worst
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- Category: Steve Lendman
- Created: 19 May 2013
- Written by Steve Lendman
Presidential Medals of Freedom are awarded annually. They mock what they claim to represent. Many go to deplorable recipients.
UK cops routinely used dead kids IDs
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- Category: Britain
- Created: 19 May 2013
- Written by PressTV
A British police chief has admitted that the use of dead children's identities by Scotland Yard undercover officers was "common practice".
Heroplex
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- Category: Dick Eastman
- Created: 19 May 2013
- Written by Dick Eastman
Sick of reading "no hero" is coming help you, you have to do it yourself"? Me too. We must have heroes. To get them what we need is a Heroplex. Heroism is a community thing.
School closings in US spark protests
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- Category: United States
- Created: 19 May 2013
- Written by PressTV
Hundreds of people including parents, students and teachers have taken to the streets in Chicago, US, to protest against local education authority's plan to close public schools.
Number of Syria refugees to hit 3mn: UN
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- Category: Mideast
- Created: 19 May 2013
- Written by PressTV
The United Nations has warned that the number of Syrian refugees could double and reach three million people by the end of this year if the unrest does not end.
1000s protest austerity in Israel
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- Category: Mideast
- Created: 19 May 2013
- Written by PressTV
Thousands of Israelis have taken to streets to protest against the austerity measures imposed by the regime.
UK MPs raise concern over booze culture
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- Category: Britain
- Created: 19 May 2013
- Written by PressTV
A quarter of British MPs have expressed concerns about an "unhealthy" drinking culture in the Houses of Parliament, a new poll shows.
Bomb and bullets kill 16 across Iraq
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- Category: Mideast
- Created: 19 May 2013
- Written by PressTV
At least 16 people have been killed in a fresh wave of violence in Iraq, one day after multiple bomb blasts left over 60 people dead in the country.
Bomb rocks Damascus, 8 die, 10 injured
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- Category: Mideast
- Created: 19 May 2013
- Written by PressTV
At least eight people have been killed and ten others injured in a bomb attack in a neighborhood of north Damascus.
UK urged to come clean on drone raids
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- Category: Britain
- Created: 19 May 2013
- Written by PressTV
Britain’s Foreign Office has been funding surveys in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas to find out only that the U.S.-led drone campaign triggered deep resentment among local population, it was revealed.
‘France to buy drones from US, Israel’
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- Category: Europe
- Created: 19 May 2013
- Written by PressTV
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says his country is in talks with the Unites States and Israel to purchase surveillance drones in a bid to enhance its military capabilities.
Terror drone kills 4 in southern Yemen
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- Category: Mideast
- Created: 19 May 2013
- Written by PressTV
The United States has carried out an assassination drone strike in southern Yemen that has killed at least four people.
Russia arm sales to Syria worries Israel
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- Category: Mideast
- Created: 19 May 2013
- Written by PressTV
An Israeli official has expressed concerns over Russia’s shipment of advanced arms to Syria, saying they could be used against Israel.
Tehran to host 2013 short Filmfest
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- Category: Arts
- Created: 19 May 2013
- Written by PressTV
Iran is preparing to hold the 2013 edition of International Short Film Festival (TISFF) in the capital city of Tehran with presenting various categories.