Eurasia Review: News & Analysis
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- Iraq: New Violence Claims Over 80 Lives
- Instability Reigns In Post-Gaddafi Libya – Analysis
- Tattooed Mummy Of 2500 Year Old Siberian Princess Discovered
- Living And Sustaining An Occupation – OpEd
- Left And Right Call For Escalation In Syria – OpEd
- Why Romney’s Choice Of Ryan Won’t Help America Debate The Big Issues – OpEd
- Patrick Buchanan: ‘The Most Dangerous Man In The World’? – OpEd
- PetroSA, Cairn India Group Sign Agreement
- Ukraine Picks Western Firms For Offshore Gas Project
- Africa Most Devout Region In The World
- Turkey: Is Alcohol Apartheid Coming To Istanbul?
- India: Priest, Nun Arrested For “Violating” Wildlife Act
- Iran’s Neighbourhood Rapprochement Against US – OpEd
- Controversy Around “Kidnapped And Released” Turkish MP – OpEd
- Saving Lives At Sea: Everyone’s Responsibility – Analysis
- Dispelling Myth Of Foreclosure Crisis And Rising Metropolitan Crime Rates
- Somalia: Two Women Running For President
- US, Russia Resume Hypersonic Race – OpEd
- Mursi’s Gamble With Generals Pays Off – OpEd
- Saudi Arabia Summit Strengthens Drive For Islamic Solidarity
- Iran: Universities Close Nursing To Male Applicants
- Albania: Debate Over New Head Of Secret Service
- Assange In Limbo – OpEd
- Russia In The Middle East: Return Of A Superpower? – OpEd
- US Judge Postpones Hearing On Aurora Mass-Shooting Suspect’s Notebook
- Brazil: Economic Paradise Versus Bizarre Politics – OpEd
- British Threat To Raid Ecuadorean Embassy Is Grave Violation Of Diplomatic Conventions And International Law, Says CEPR
- UN Observers End Mission In Syria
- Bahrain Jails Prominent Activist Rajab For 3 Years
- Global Strategic Trends: Who ‘Is’ We? – Analysis
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 10:21 PM PDT
More
than 80 people were killed and over 270 injured in a new spate of
shootings and bombings across Iraq on Thursday, CNN reported citing the
country’s police officials. Militants carried out coordinated attacks
throughout the day targeting mostly Shiite areas in Baghdad and Kirkuk,
Salaheddin, Anbar, Wasit and Diyala provinces. “The violence came in
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 10:15 PM PDT
By
Bernhard Schell A new report paints a rather gloomy picture of
post-Gaddafi Libya: fighting between tribes, ethnic groups and rival
militia has accounted for instability at a local level; and flare-ups
continue to occur in the country’s hubs of Benghazi and Tripoli. This
has made travel more dangerous and the risk of assets being [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 10:11 PM PDT
High
in the Altai mountains of Siberia, not far from the border between
Russia and Mongolia, researchers have found the mummified body of a
young woman covered with tattoos that archeologists say look remarkably
modern, ABC news reported. The woman, probably about 25 years old, was
buried some 2,500 years ago and found in 1993. [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 10:09 PM PDT
By
Melkam Lidet “Bethlehem? Bethlehem?” an older man approached us, asking
if we were looking for a “servees” that is heading to Bethlehem. A
“servees” is the Palestinian term for a mini-van type of shared taxi.
While most of the cities in the West Bank are connected to Jerusalem
with public Palestinian buses, transportation between [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 10:07 PM PDT
For
some time, Sen. John McCain and the Wilsonian neoconservatives have
been beating the drum to escalate the U.S. intervention in Syria. Now,
from the other side of the political spectrum, the Wilsonian
progressives are calling for the same solution. The hawks on the left
and right abhor each other on most policy issues, but [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 10:05 PM PDT
I
keep hearing that Mitt Romney’s pick of Paul Ryan “enables the country
to have the debate it needs to have,” or “permits us to have a grownup
discussion,” or “finally presents America with a real choice.” The New
York Times oped page proclaims: “Let the Real Debate Begin!” Debate?
What debate? Romney isn’t even [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 10:02 PM PDT
U.S.
newspapers this fall will devote countless column inches and network TV
will set aside endless hours to revisiting the most perilous month in
the history of the republic, if not of the world. Nikita Khrushchev’s
decision to secretly install nuclear-armed intermediate-range ballistic
missiles in Cuba began to form in his mind sometime earlier, perhaps
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:57 PM PDT
State
oil company, PetroSA, and Indian oil and gas exploration company Cairn
India Group on Thursday signed a farm-in agreement for crude oil and
natural gas exploration in the Orange Basin on the west coast of South
Africa. The agreement is in the offshore Block 1 in the Orange Basin on
the west coast. It [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:55 PM PDT
(EurActiv)
— Ukraine has selected ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell to develop its
Skifska hydrocarbon field in the Black Sea, choosing the American and
Dutch companies over Russia’s Lukoil for the €8.15-billion project. The
Skifska offshore project is part of Ukraine’s plan to ease its
dependence on gas imported from Russia, which amounted to some [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:52 PM PDT
By
Munyaradzi Makoni Africa has topped the list of most devout regions of
the world, with 89 percent calling themselves religious, according to a
worldwide poll called “The Global Index of Religiosity and Atheism.” In
Ghana, 96 percent of respondents said they were religious, followed by
Nigeria at 93 percent and Kenya at 88 percent. [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:49 PM PDT
By
Dorian Jones The Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which concludes August
18, can be a time of heightened friction in Istanbul, when the beliefs
of the pious clash with the lifestyle preferences of secular-minded
Turks. This year, Ramadan has been marked by a secularist outcry over
recent efforts to restrict the consumption of alcohol. [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:45 PM PDT
By
Jessy Joseph A Catholic priest and a nun have spent more than a week in
a northern Indian jail for violating India’s wildlife act when they
allegedly killed more than 250 white crane chicks while trimming a tree.
The tree at Prabhat Tara Junior School had branched over a water tank
and bird droppings [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:38 PM PDT
By
Aygul Hanova In the light of sanctions against its nuclear program and
rapidly changing security environment, Iran is enforcing policies of
rapprochement with its regional neighbors. Alliance with Afghanistan is
growing in importance for Iran. While Iran has been attempting to boost
trade with Pakistan earlier in August, Afghanistan is another point in
Iran’s [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:36 PM PDT
By
Gizem Erbas Turkish parliamentarian Hüseyin Aygün who was kidnapped by
the militants of the outlawed Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) released after
48 hours in 14 August. Aygün, the representative of the main opposition
Republican People’s Party (CHP) said he was detained for propaganda
aims. In his statement to the press, he further stated that [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:33 PM PDT
Responsibility
for saving lives at sea is not a matter of sovereign jurisdiction. It
is the responsibility of all countries and all seafarers regardless of
where a ship might be in distress. By Sam Bateman RECENT TRAGEDIES
involving the deaths of hundreds of asylum seekers in the waters between
Indonesia and Australia have focussed attention [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:30 PM PDT
The
housing foreclosure crisis has been blamed for widespread economic and
social problems in the United States, including reduced property values,
depressed consumer spending and a decline in government services. Some
observers speculate that it has also led to more crime in hard-hit
cities. Not so, according to research by doctoral student Roderick Jones
and [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:26 PM PDT
wo
women are running for president: Amal Abdi Ibrahim and Asha Ahmed
Abdalla. In announcing her candidature, Asha Ahmed Abdalla, a member of
parliament, accused the current government of favouring corruption and
intimidation in the parliament. This is the second time she runs in the
presidential race: in 2004 she was defeated by former president [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:24 PM PDT
By
Ilya Kramnik The US carries on its hypersonic projects in a bid to
create hypersonic weapons. The US Air Force’s experimental X-51A
Waverider could someday lead to weapons that would be able to strike
targets anywhere in the world in as little time as one hour. The
research is part of the Prompt Global [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:20 PM PDT
By
Aijaz Zaka Syed Most newspapers in India where I am right now ignored
the developments in Egypt choosing to bury them inside. Even Urdu
dailies that usually show greater interest in the goings on in the
Middle East went with the current. But anyone with the slightest
familiarity with the Middle East would know [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:17 PM PDT
By
Siraj Wahab The Islamic Solidarity Summit called by Custodian of the
Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah ended with a focus on inter-sectarian
harmony and Islamic unity, and a definitive stand against the Bashar
Assad regime in Syria. “A regime that kills its people has no right to
continue in power,” said Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:12 PM PDT
Iran’s
Nursing Association has slammed the university decision to restrict
nursing programs to female applicants. The Nursing Association website
says: “The decision to eliminate male applicants for nursing is shocking
and against national policies and patients’ needs.” The association
claims the decision to refuse male nursing applicants is “shocking” in
view of the country’s shortage [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:09 PM PDT
By
Erl Murati Albanian President Bujar Nishani’s decision to dismiss the
head of intelligence services and appoint the deputy minister of
innovation, Visho Ajazi Lika, to the post is being criticised as an
invasion of the secret service institution. According to the Albanian
media, Bahri Shaqiri learned of his August 9th dismissal as head of
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:07 PM PDT
In
an article in 1988 published in the Law Society Gazette, the author
Carl Islam explains, with some rigour, the basis of immunity afforded to
diplomatic and consular premises in Britain. The subject seems dry,
until you realise the serious implications it poses to individuals such
as Julian Assange, who sought refuge in the Ecuadorean [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:05 PM PDT
By
Eric Walberg The US ‘withdrawal’ from Iraq last year and the planned
‘withdrawal’ from Afghanistan in 2014 cannot help but change the face of
Central Asia and the Middle East. But how does Russia fit in? The world
is living through a veritable slow-motion earthquake. If things go
according to plan, the US obsession [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 09:03 PM PDT
A
hearing regarding the notebook of the Aurora theater shooting suspect
James Holmes that he mailed to his psychiatrist has been postponed for
one week. The subject was supposed to be debated during Thursday’s court
hearing in Holmes’ murder case. But in his ruling on Wednesday, Judge
William Sylvester granted a motion to postpone the [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 08:59 PM PDT
It
became quite common to see Brazil stamped on the top international
newspapers and magazines’ pages both as a good place to start businesses
and as an underdeveloped land where bizarre stuff happens. As a
Brazilian economist, I couldn’t agree more with both kind of analysis –
even if it looks kind of odd to [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 08:01 PM PDT
The
U.K. government’s threat to raid the Ecuadorean Embassy in order to
arrest Julian Assange is itself a serious violation of international law
and diplomatic conventions and deserves international condemnation,
Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Co-Director Mark Weisbrot
said today. Were British police to breach the inviolability of the
embassy, it would set [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 07:57 PM PDT
he
UN Security Council announced Thursday the completion of the mission of
the UN observers in Syria as the powers were unable to agree on
measures to deal with a conflict that continues to worsen. “The general
finding was that the conditions were not met for the pursuit of this
mission” said France’s ambassador to [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 07:53 PM PDT
Bahraini
Human rights activist Nabeel Rajab has been sentenced to three years in
jail for “participation in an illegal assembly” and “calling for a
march without prior notification.” Rajab has been in police custody
since June 6 over comments he made on Twitter critical of the Bahraini
Prime Minister, which called for him to step [...]
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Posted: 16 Aug 2012 07:50 PM PDT
Demographics
and absolute population numbers are a key global driver for the next 30
years. How these pressures are dealt with and energies harnessed will
be crucial, as will the management of and access to natural resources.
Here both the ‘hard’ aspect of technology and ‘soft’ dimension of
governance will feature. By Greg Mills Thinking [...]
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