Midday open thread

Source: Daily Kos

As we enter the three-day memorial weekend, the thread would like to remind everyone that we are remembering the ultimate sacrifice of many brave men and women. The thread honors their sacrifice. To the lin ...
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Hardline Islamists seed terror in Tunisian town

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(05-26) 11:38 PDT TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- Hundreds of hardline Islamists terrorized a Tunisian town on Saturday, attacking a police station and stores selling alcohol. The official TAP news agency said police fired tear gas in Jendouba to dispers ...
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Our national security ‘prison’

Source: The Express Tribune Pakistan

Even Maulana Fazlur Rehman, who should be committed to permanent jihad under Islam, thinks that Pakistan has been damaged by the label of “national security state”. I can’t find a better exposition of the national security state than what ...
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Source: Global Post

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Source: San Diego Union-Tribune

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Source: China Post

The China Post news staff--Former Education Minister Wu Ching-chi yesterday urged the government to relax the restrictions on mainland students studying in Taiwan. Taiwan started accepting students from mainland China to university degree programs last ...
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Democrat Challenges Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts

Source: The New York Times

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'West wants Iran to give up N-rights'

Source: Press TV

“The West is raising claims to increase the cost of developing peaceful nuclear energy for Iran so as to make the Islamic Republic gradually retreat [from its positions] and even give up some [of its] defense programs like building ...
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Source: Press TV

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