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• Obama needs to take on the Israel lobby over Iran - FT.com

  "or Barack Obama, striking a nuclear deal with Iran may turn out to be the easy part. The president’s biggest struggle now is facing down Israel and its supporters in the US as they attempt to rally opposition to the deal. The administration knows this and it is quietly confident that it can take on the Israel lobby in Congress – and win. "

  tags: israel lobby unitedstates obama politics israelifirster

• Energy reform stirs Mexico’s deepwater opportunities - FT.com

  "Welcome to the offshore, deepwater Lakach field, which state-owned oil company Pemex believes holds a total of 4tn cubic feet of gas – equivalent to roughly 16 years of gas supply for the UK. In the ancient Maya language, lakach means “everything”, and it illustrates all that there is to play for in Mexico’s energy reform, which plans to allow private investment in the sector for the first time since 1938. "

  tags: mexico oil gas energy energysecurity

• Playroom on PS4: Sony's new PlayStation 4 hosted what looks like sexual abuse.

  "The Playstation 4 has only been out a little over a week, but Kotaku reports that users have already figured out a way to ruin a virtual reality game called Playroom, which uses the console's camera to film you in your living room and impose, onscreen, virtual objects, which you and others viewing you can "play" with. Playroom is supposed to be used for playing games, but gamers are an ingenious bunch, and some swiftly started using it for more exhibitionist purposes, including creating a call-in TV show. "

  tags: playstation technology abuse random japan

• Expo 2020 triumph to boost Dubai’s global Islamic economy ambitions | The National

  "If Dubai wins the right to stage the Expo 2020 exhibition it will be a major boost for its ambition to be the hub of the global Islamic economy, according to senior executives in the teams involved in both initiatives. "

  tags: expo dubai uae middleeast islamic

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