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Since the job was created in 1947, there have been 24 secretaries of defense, counting Donald Rumsfeld twice. With Chuck Hagel’s departure, nine of them have been fired or forced to resign. This troubling record contrasts with that of secretaries of state, only two of whom have been fired since the post was created in 1789 – Timothy Pickering in 1800 and Alexander Haig in 1982.
"I don't believe the ban will go on indefinitely," Ameerah told the Daily Mail. "It will be like the decree calling for 20 per cent of Parliament to be made up of women - a surprising development, but one which happened very rapidly."
An investigation by the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee has concluded that the CIA and U.S. military responded appropriately to the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012, dismissing allegations that the Obama administration blocked rescue attempts during the assault or sought to mislead the public afterward.
The sudden spurt in transfers — the Saudi was the 13th prisoner released this year — has unsettled some in Congress as the Pentagon works toward President Barack Obama’s goal of closing the detention center in southeast Cuba.
The list approved by the UAE Cabinet on Nov. 15 includes 83 organizations, including the Washington-based Center for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Serbian non profit group CANVAS and the Houthi movement in Yemen. The list, however, excludes Lebanese Hezbollah and Gaza- based Hamas.
Of the 17,958 people who died in terrorist attacks in 2013, 82 percent were in one of five countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Syria. That's one finding from this year's Global Terrorism Index report, published by the Institute for Economics and Peace. The report is based on data from the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database, which has information on more than 125,000 terrorist attacks between 1970 and 2013.
Rebel groups based in southern Syria are advancing on the western suburbs of Damascus and warning they might soon enter the capital, a development that’s in sharp contrast to the grim reports from northern Syria, where moderate rebels have suffered setbacks from the government and radical Islamists.
xercise and participation in sports represent important progress for Saudi women, who have traditionally been excluded from most activities outside the home. It is not just a question of social evolution and liberalizing trends, it is a major public health issue. The kingdom has one of the world’s highest rates of obesity and diabetes.
The IEA, which advises 29 nations, including the U.S., left its estimates for global oil demand in 2014 and 2015 unchanged in this month’s report, at 92.4 million barrels a day, but noted an uptick in global oil supply in October to 94.2 million barrels a day.
Saudi King Abdullah called on Egypt on Wednesday to back an agreement between Gulf Arab states that ended an eight-month dispute over Qatar's backing of Islamist movements and its promotion of Arab Spring revolts.
