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Jakarta, Indonesia "It's the most logical choice," says Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Not only is Jakarta the capital of the world's most populous Muslim nation, it is also part of the Obama narrative: he lived in the city for a few years as a child. Hooper says the President "will get an incredibly warm welcome there" - which will help with the symbolism of the moment...
...Hadba won 19 of the provincial council's 37 seats during elections in January, running on an anti-Kurdish platform in the still violent mixed but predominantly Sunni province. Its victory meant a realignment of power away from the minority Kurds who held disproportionate sway due to a Sunni electoral boycott in 2005. However, it has also set the stage for a showdown between the two groups. (See an analysis of Iraq's future...
...Deron Lovaas, a Policy Director at the U.S.-based environmental group the Natural Resources Defense Council, says military researchers have a history of spawning transformative technologies that trickle into society, including DARPAnet, the communication system of the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that eventually evolved into the Internet. "What's exciting here is potential spin-off effects," he says. "The military can invest so much more than the private sector can. They can invest billions into substitute fuels. And they can take bigger risks...
...first acts would be to reevaluate her predecessor's decision, and she didn't drag her feet. "It's an exercise in leadership that takes the first step in regulating CO2 emissions from automobiles," says John Walke, the clean air director for the Natural Resources Defense Council...
...spare security forces for the cricket tournament ... We are forced to take the decision to move the event out of India," BCCI president Shashank Manohar told the media in Mumbai on Sunday. Bollywood superstar actor Shah Rukh Khan, who owns Team Kolkata and was part of the IPL governing council meeting where the decision was taken, was more magnanimous: "We need to respect the general elections, they are much bigger than our issue. This is an attempt to resolve our problems [rather] than create more." (See pictures of cricket...