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Scotland Recalls Captain Brown
March 11, 2014

Scotland Rugby national team management has recalled Kelly Brown to their national side for the match against France in the six nation rugby event 2014. The team management has also made him the captain for the match. Kelly Brown was dropped by head coach, Scott Johnson, after the defeat suffered at the hands of Ireland in Scotland’s first match. John said that the management had decided to recall Kelly Brown for the match against France on Saturday as his game would be suited to handle France’s...

Making Sense of China's Xinjiang Unrest
March 11, 2014

One of the Chinese newspapers have termed the recent gruesome killing of 29 people at the Kunming railway station as the Chinese version of 9/11 attacks. The Chinese state-run news agency, Xinhua, called this as a terrorist act carried out by Xinjiang separatist group. XinJiang is a mineral rich state in the southwestern part of China. This has around 9 million Uighurs, a Turkic minority community. Most of the Uighurs belongs to the Sunni Muslim sect. Last year alone, more than 100 people have been...

President Obama's Caution on Ukraine to Loom Over Election
March 11, 2014

With the congressional elections happening later this year, President Obama had received a blow to his credentials due to his defensive stand on Russia during their forceful occupation of Ukraine. This would make it more difficult for the president to seek votes for democrats during the election campaign. For the last five years, President Obama had been taking a cautious approach to foreign policy matters including the presence of army in Iraq and Afghanistan. This was also seen during the president’s...

Law & Politics

Supreme Court Rejects Anti-Abortion Activists’ ‘Personhood’ Plea

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On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the challenge brought against the decision of the Oklahoma Supreme Court striking down an attempt to place a “personhood” amendment to ballot in Oklahoma. The challenge was brought by anti-abortion group Personhood Oklahoma, which supported the movement for a measure to be put to ballot for declaring that [...]

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