At least 14 killed in Syria on Human Rights Day
World powers piled pressure on Syria to let in
observers as activists reported at least 14 civilians killed by
security forces on Saturday’s anniversary of International Human
Rights Day.
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India, China clash with EU
Over UN climate package :
India and China clashed angrily with the European
Union over a planned “roadmap” towards a new pact on curbing
greenhouse gases at the UN climate talks here on yesterday. Indian
Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan told a plenary of the talks,
running more than a day and a half into overtime, that her country
was being threatened with demands to surrender the principle of
burden-sharing between rich and poor.
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‘Iran among few states with drone tech’
A senior Iranian commander says the Islamic
Republic is among the few countries that possess the technological
know-how of the unmanned aerial vehicles fitted with scanning and
reconnaissance systems. Deputy Commander of Iran’s Islamic
Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), Brigadier General Hossein Salami said
on Saturday that the US spy drone, recently downed by the Iranian
military forces while violating Iran’s airspace, showed the US
modern intelligence technology and the fact that the Islamic
Republic could decode the drone’s data and figure out the technology
applied to it, IRNA reported.
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