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The prevailing crises around Syria and Pakistan are so complicated, I really have nothing to say about them but one thing is for sure, those guys need to get their act together.
Big ups to the Japanese, the recent consecutive mishaps of the Boeing 787 has been warning enough that something is terribly wrong.
The question whether Hilary Clinton would still run for Presidency during the next election remains unanswered, and finally South African diamond mining industry needs to be more reactive and sympathetic to their workers whether black or white......JCGold.
- Explosions kill 83 at Syrian university as exams begin
- Pakistan turmoil deepens as court orders PM's arrest
- Japanese airlines ground Boeing 787s after emergency landing
- Hillary Clinton leaving world stage, but for how long?
- Workers at South Africa's Amplats down tools: labor leader
Explosions kill 83 at Syrian university as exams begin
(Reuters) - Two explosions tore through one of Syria's biggest universities on the first day of student exams on Tuesday, killing 83 people and wounding dozens, a monitoring group said.
Bloodshed has disrupted civilian life across Syria since a violent government crackdown in early 2011 on peaceful demonstrations for democratic reform turned the unrest into an armed insurgency bent on overthrowing President Bashar al-Assad.
More than 50 countries asked the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to refer the crisis to the International Criminal Court, which prosecutes people for genocide and war crimes. But Russia - Assad's long-standing ally and arms supplier - blocked the initiative, calling it "ill-timed and counterproductive.
Each side in the 22-month-old conflict blamed the other for Tuesday's blasts at the University of Aleppo, located in a government-held area of Syria's most populous city.
Some activists in Aleppo said a government attack caused the explosions, while state television accused "terrorists" - a term they often use to describe the rebels - of firing two rockets at the school. A rebel fighter said the blasts appeared to have been caused by "ground-to-ground" missiles
Pakistan turmoil deepens as court orders PM's arrest
(Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered the arrest of the prime minister on Tuesday on corruption allegations, ratcheting up pressure on a government that is also facing street protests led by a cleric who has a history of ties to the army.
The combination of the arrest order and the mass protest in the capital, Islamabad, led by Muslim cleric Muhammad Tahirul Qadri, raised fears among politicians that the military was working with the judiciary to force out a civilian leader.
"There is no doubt that Qadri's march and the Supreme Court's verdict were masterminded by the military establishment of Pakistan," Fawad Chaudhry, an aide to Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, told Reuters.
"The military can intervene at this moment as the Supreme Court has opened a way for it."
However, the ruling coalition led by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has a majority in parliament and lawmakers can simply elect another prime minister if Ashraf is ousted. In June, Ashraf replaced Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, who was disqualified by the Supreme Court in a previous showdown between the government and the judiciary.
Elections are due in a few months and President Asif Ali Zardari hopes to lead the first civilian government in Pakistan's 65 years as an independent nation that will complete its full term.
Japanese airlines ground Boeing 787s after emergency landing
(Reuters) - Japan's two leading airlines grounded their fleets of Boeing 787s on Wednesday after one of the Dreamliner passenger jets made an emergency landing, heightening safety concerns over a plane many see as the future of commercial aviation.
All Nippon Airways Co said it was grounding all 17 of its 787s and JapanAirlines Co said it suspended all 787 flights scheduled for Wednesday. ANA said its planes could be back in the air as soon as Thursday once checks were completed. The two carriers operate around half of the 50 Dreamliners delivered by Boeing to date.
Wednesday's incident follows a series of mishaps for the new Dreamliner. The sophisticated plane, the world's first mainly carbon-composite airliner, has suffered fuel leaks, a battery fire, wiring problem, brake computer glitch and cracked cockpit window in recent days.
"I think you're nearing the tipping point where they need to regard this as a serious crisis," said Richard Aboulafia, a senior analyst with the Teal Group in Fairfax, Virginia. "This is going to change people's perception of the aircraft if they don't act quickly."
Hillary Clinton leaving world stage, but for how long?
(Reuters) - In a matter of days, Hillary Clinton will leave the State Department behind and become a private citizen for the first time in 34 years. But her next big decision will be a very public one: whether to run for U.S. president in 2016.
Many factors would weigh in her favor should she decide to run. She leaves her Secretary of State job as the most popular member of Obama's Cabinet and the country's most admired woman - rated far ahead of even first lady Michelle Obama, according to a Gallup poll of Americans.
Plus, her party wants her. A Public Policy Polling survey found that 57 percent of Democrats would like her to run, compared to just 16 percent for another potential candidate, Vice President Joe Biden.
Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, has made no secret that he would love for her to seek the White House.
And yet Secretary Clinton seems to harbor doubts. She is recovering from a blood clot near her brain that befell her at the end of 2012. She will be 69 years old in 2016, a fairly advanced age for a president.
She would have to weigh whether she thinks Americans want four more years of Democratic rule in the White House, after President Barack Obama's eight years conclude in 2017.
And she seems to relish the idea of taking some time off, exiting the political stage, at least for a while. Running again would not only expose Clinton to the slings and arrows of political life once more, but also put at risk the reputation she has built as a loyal, hard-working, hard-nosed secretary of state. If she were to fail, part of her legacy would be as a two-time loser, after getting bested in the 2008 Democratic presidential race.
Clinton has been a public figure since entering the Arkansas governor's mansion in 1979 as first lady to Governor Bill Clinton. Since then, she's been America's first lady, a U.S. senator from New York, a presidential candidate who lost to Obama, and since 2009, the globetrotting top U.S. diplomat.
Workers at South Africa's Amplats down tools: labor leader
(Reuters) - Workers at the Rustenburg operations of South Africa's Anglo American Platinum refused to go underground for overnight shifts to protest company plans to close mines, a labor leader said on Wednesday.
"They didn't go underground," Evans Ramogka, a labor leader and activist at an Amplats mine in Rustenburg, about 120 km (70 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, told Reuters.
A company spokeswoman said she could not immediately comment because she was waiting for an operational update from managers at the mines.
Local media reported workers would be meeting later to plot wider strike action after Amplats, a unit of global mining group Anglo American, unveiled plans on Tuesday to mothball two South African mines, sell another and cut 14,000 jobs.
Amplats, the world's No. 1 platinum producer, said the initiatives are needed to restore profits. But the company also risks provoking a repeat of last year's violent wildcat strikes that left over 50 people dead.
Amplats said on Monday it would likely fall to a full-year loss because of last year's costly strikes.
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