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2009 2010International Scholarships (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Oslo Peace Scholarship The International Peace Research Institute, Oslo and The Australian National University's Department of International Relations, in partnership with Bjørknes College, are offering a scholarship for Master of International Affairs specialising in Peace and Conflict. The program brings together academics at the forefront of international relations, peace,and conflict research...
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Architechnophilia (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
In September 2009 the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs announced the shortlist of competitors for the design of the New National Museum in Oslo. The names of the architects behind the designs have not been made public, but you can see the works here .
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Never an appealing or charismatic figure, Abbas has been losing popular support since his first day in office five years ago (his term technically expired in January 2009). Since the 1993 Oslo Accords, in which he played a prominent role, the official Palestinian leadership has been pursuing a formula for peace -- the two-state solution -- that has yielded nothing more than the intensification...
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France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Israeli President Shimon Peres on Saturday used a speech honouring slain premier Yitzhak Rabin to urge Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas to stay in power despite frustrations over the peace process. "We both signed the Oslo accords and I address myself to you (Abbas) as a colleague would: Don't give up," Peres said at a mass rally in a Tel Aviv square where Rabin was gunned down in 1995.
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Sweeping The Nation (Free subscription) | yesterday
I used to be pretty smug about my Billie the Vision & The Dancers standom, on some “Hah, the wider world isn’t yet ready to embrace a mixed-race transvestite tweepop act featuring nobody called Billie and a chick who looks like Jessica Stevenson’s corpse, I am soooooo liberal” tip. But then they went and had a #1 hit in Spain off the back of a beer commercial, and I kinda...
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday to stop seeking compromise with Israel but offered him an olive branch, saying Palestinians must end their divisions. Sounding conciliatory after raising the political ante against Abbas following his call for national elections last month, Mashaal said the Islamist group Hamas "stretches its hand" to Abbas' Fatah...
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GayandRight (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gee, they have some of the world's best strategic thinkers, no? Following Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' announcement that he would not run for another term, a senior Fatah official told Ynet that if serious progress was not made soon in peace talks, the organization would consider reverting to popular warfare. The source said Saturday that more and more Fatah operatives were calling for a return...
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Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | yesterday
"On Friday, modest groups of Fatah members and others marched in Ramallah and elsewhere in the West Bank to voice support for continued leadership by Abbas. Local Palestinian media continued running news headlines about various organizations or politicians discouraging him from retirement." I in fact watched footage of some of the "demonstrations" on Arab TV stations. They were...
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A Tykes Progress (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Captain, (my dad), has always been interested in Polar exploration. I grew up with the great explorers, Franklin, Amundsen, Scott, to name but three. I myself have been interested in the Franklin expedition to navigate the North West Passage for some time. So when his Lordship and I were discussing our holiday plans eighteen months ago it seemed like a reasonable leap to undertake our own polar...
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Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Khalid Amayreh in Ramallah "....But Abbas can still embark on some daring steps to salvage things before it is too late. At the top of these steps should be the orderly dismantling of the Palestinian Authority under whose rubric the national Palestinian cause is being liquidated . [ COMMENT: Dream on Khalid; this will never happen. A whole class of collaborators and "businessmen"...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fancy doing something different this season? Here's what's on offer, from cheap deals in eastern Europe to the trip of a lifetime to Antarctica Pods and pads Snowpod is a new collection of funky but cheap serviced apartments in Tignes , France, in the Val Claret area, targeting snowboarders with graffiti art, salvaged furnishings and X-boxes. From £199pp per week B&B, £299pp half-board....
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All About Microsoft (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Microsoft is making available for download the near-final Release Candidate (RC) test build of its "Geneva" framework, the technology officially known as Windows Identity Foundation. Meanwhile, a new test build of the Microsoft Oslo modeling platform is waiting in the wings.
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Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Oslo, Norway - International record label trade group IFPI has lost its court case that sought to compel Norwegian ISP Telenor to block its subscribers' access to file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay, TorrentFreak reported. read more
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Darker My Love (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Scandinavia. Nary a plastic Viking helmet has been purchased, much less observed for sale, and I mean, what the hell? Håve they nø pride? We sadly haven't seen much/any of this nether-land, except for the parcels immediately roadside (beautiful though they are), because we've been driving the whole time. This is a big place. There are still people named Leif here. Hamburg to Stockholm...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Oslo - Norwegian telecommunications group Telenor Friday welcomed a Norwegian court ruling that the firm was not obliged to block its customers from accessing the controversial Pirate Bay file- sharing website. The International Federation of the Pho...
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