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Cuban Fidel Castro made a suggestion for American people: vote for a robot this November. Former Cuban President, in his latest op-ed, stated that "90 percent of voting Americans, especially Hispanics, blacks and the growing number of the impoverished middle class, would vote for the robot." While the current US political scene stands divided between Obama and yet unknown definite Republican candidate, a robot would certainly be a novelty. Now, if we are to consider HAL9000 (Artificial Intelligence from 2001:A Space Odyssey) as a serious candidate, we should compare him to the current White House incumbent in a imagined debate.

GOTV (Get Out the Vote) robocalls are a valuable campaign tool for candidates who are looking for a targeted and inexpensive method to remind voters about election information. Candidates or their spokespeople can send out pre-recorded messages via phone to thousands of voters simultaneously for a fraction of what it would cost to send campaign literature through the mail. Fact is, people do really forget to vote and the United States has one of the lowest voting rates in the free world hovering around 50% at a time when many European countries average well over 80% turnouts.

Virginia now stands strong in decision to ban state officials from abiding by some elements of the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act).

Russia believes that emergence of new military world powers is unacceptable, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference reviewing the results of 2013 here on Tuesday.

Consulttions with the participation of experts from the Russian Federation, the United States, and Syria on the question of eliminating 12 facilities involved in the chemical production programme of the Syrian Arab Republic (S.A.R.) will be held at the beginning of February in the Hague where the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are located, a source at the UN told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.

Iran plans to build semi-heavy and training jets, a senior Air Force commander announced on Monday, adding that the country's experts have equipped Mirage fighters with state-of-the-art home-made weapons.

MUNICH, Germany:-- US Secretary of State John Kerry met Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Sunday amid ongoing efforts to resolve the dispute over Iran's nuclear programme.

US Secretary of State John Kerry slammed Russia on Monday for "enabling" Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to stay in power in the war-torn country, after Geneva peace talks broke off without result at the weekend.

Barack Obama praised France's unpopular President Francois Hollande as a leader of courage Tuesday, and wined and dined his solo guest at a lavish state dinner.

Tehran, YJC. Iranian official says Iran has imported worth 350 from and exported $200 million to the United States.

The United States on Wednesday warned Russia against any military intervention in Ukraine as it revealed it was drawing up an economic aid package including $1 billion in loan guarantees.

The United States offered Sunday to assist the Ukraine in rebuilding its battered economy following three months of devastating protests that have plunged the country into its worst crisis since independence.

US Secretary of State John Kerry bluntly warned Russia Sunday that it risked losing its seat among the prestigious Group of Eight nations, as well as economic turmoil, if it fails to pull its forces out of Crimea.

Ukraine warned Sunday it was on the brink of disaster and called up all military reservists after Russia's threat to invade its neighbour drew sharp rebukes from the United States and its Western allies.

Russia has really helped Ukraine, in contrast to vain promises and insolent demands of the West, speaker of RF State Duma (lower house of parliament) Sergei Naryshkin said on Thursday, opening an 'Open Tribune' meeting.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has implied to expel US Ambassador to Ankara for his alleged remarks regarding a major graft probe in which four ministers face allegations of bribery and wrongdoing, and the state bank Halkbank is accused of for links to suspicious money transactions and gold-smuggling from Iran.

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has expressed concern about instability in neighbouring South Sudan and other volatile states in the region, official media reported Sunday.

Tehran, YJC. Larijani says the UN is taken by absurdness as shown in recent report on the state of human rights in Iran.

The events in Ukraine have been conditioned by a scenario realised by external forces, primarily by the United States, that should be played in the course of presidential elections in 2015, former chief of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Aleksander Yakimenko said.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi headed to Geneva Saturday to join US Secretary of State John Kerry and other top diplomats for talks on Iran's nuclear programme, the government said.