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An inquiring Journalist shares his thoughts after a nearly three-week sojourn in the United States, telling us what America is and what it is not, and that looking at it in black or white is certainly not the answer to our problems. Asiff Hussein, though a layman, was fortunate to be part of a group of Sri Lankan religious scholars …

              XIX Right to Found a Family and Related Matters.   a.       Every person is entitled to marry, to found a family and to bring up children in conformity with his religion, tradition and culture. Every spouse it entitled to such rights and privileges and carries such obligation as are stipulated by the law. b.      Each …

  It is difficult for politicians to admit they were wrong. But when it comes to Afghanistan, the consequences of not doing so could be high. It is time for the West to cut its losses and withdraw. The most difficult thing to do in politics is to change course — admitting that everything that was right yesterday is wrong …

The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present …

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Outgoing head of internal oversight office says there is an "absence of strategic guidance" Ahlenius says "there is no transparency (or) accountability" Ban's spokesman calls his efforts "visionary" on a number of fronts United Nations (CNN) — A departing senior U.N. official has released a rare rebuke of her boss's performance — saying the United Nations is "drifting …