Eurasia Review: News & Analysis
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- India Needs To Accept UN Rights Body Recommendations, Says HRW
- Fallout From Reactionary Costa Rican Road Construction Project The Latest In Chinchilla Corruption Allegations – Analysis
- Lessons Of World War II – OpEd
- Mali: Calls Mount For Intervention
- Rooting Out Fake Job Creators – OpEd
- GCC Seeks All-Out Efforts To Resolve Syrian Crisis
- Corrie Case Exposes Israel’s Ruthless Impunity – OpEd
- An Integrated Strategy To Fight For Human Survival – OpEd
- NAM Group To Seek Syrian Solution
- Apple Rumored To Be Revamping Earbuds
- Pirate Bay Founder Arrested in Cambodia
- Experts Warn E-Cigarettes Can Damage The Lungs
- Burma Must End War In Kachin State So Show Empathy For Refugees – OpEd
- Farzana, ‘2 Million Friends’ And A Ceasefire In Afghanistan – OpEd
- Victory? Obama, Holder Abruptly End Investigation Of Sheriff Joe Arpaio – OpEd
- Maldives: It’s Not A Coup: CNI Submits Report – Analysis
- Reflections On Visit By Chinese Defence Minister To India – Analysis
- Acceptability Of Namo Outside Gujarat Will Remain Uncertain – Analysis
- Sri Lanka’s National Armed Forces Is Envy Of Foreign Private Contractors – OpEd
- Is GOP Becoming Less Invested In War? – OpEd
- Bahrain Wants Apology From Iran Over Morsi Speech Translation
- Mali: Al Qaeda Executes Algerian Diplomat
- Bahrain Slams Iran Over Summit Speech Translation Debacle
- Unique Gamma Ray Station To Be Built On Baikal
- Ethiopia: ‘Visionary’ Leader Meles Zenawi Laid To Rest
- Pakistan: Muslim Cleric Accused Of Planting Evidence In Blasphemy Case
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 09:12 PM PDT
India
should accept the recommendations by United Nations member states at
the UN’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) to address the country’s most
serious human rights problems. During the September 2012 session of the
UN Human Rights Council, India will submit its responses to the 169
recommendations made at its second review on May 24, 2012. [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 09:07 PM PDT
By
Trent Boultinghouse The fallout from a 2010 incident over a historical
territory in dispute between Nicaragua and Costa Rica continues to be a
compass of relations between the administrations of Costa Rican
president Laura Chinchilla and Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega. The dispute is
heavy on nationalistic sentiment but littered with corruption and
administrational malfeasance. The [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 08:48 PM PDT
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Mikhail Aristov On September 2, 1945, Japan, Nazi Germany’s last
remaining ally, signed the act of unconditional surrender, putting the
last dot in the history of the Second World War. The bloodiest war ever
fought, it lasted 6 years, affected 40 countries and claimed 55 million
lives. The historic signing ceremony was held aboard [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 08:44 PM PDT
By
Bakari Gueye Algeria and Mauritania need to be more actively involved
in helping solve the Malian crisis, Nigerien Justice Minister Marou
Amadou said at a recent Dakar conference. “The crisis in Mali cannot be
resolved by side-lining Algeria and Mauritania on the pretext that their
position is unclear,” Amadou said at the August 23rd [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 08:42 PM PDT
By
Amy Dean Ed Gillespie, a senior adviser to Mitt Romney, recently
declared on Face the Nation that that President Barack Obama “is hostile
to job creators,” reciting a standard Republican canard. Especially
since movements such as Occupy Wall Street began shining a spotlight on
inequality, right-wingers have tried to rhetorically position the rich
as [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 08:37 PM PDT
Gulf
Cooperation Council (GCC) foreign ministers yesterday emphasized the
need for finding a quick solution to end the bloodbath in Syria. “The
most important issue that concerns the council is the worsening
situation in Syria. It’s important that the GCC utilizes its potentials
to achieve a quick solution to this crisis,” said Deputy Foreign
Minister [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 08:27 PM PDT
By
Samar Al-Sayed Last week’s decision by an Israeli court to clear its
army of any wrongdoing in the killing of American activist Rachel Corrie
in 2003 brought it all back. The grunts, the condemnations, the
“official” UN statements, the usual. No one with an inkling of sympathy
for the Palestinian cause would bat an [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 08:22 PM PDT
By
Robert J. Burrowes Have you read any good news lately? In a recent
article, ‘The Global 1%: Exposing the Transnational Ruling Class’, the
authors identify the global power elite (that is, the mainly white men
setting the agenda at the Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Group
and other elite organizations) and explain the ways in [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:59 PM PDT
The
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister has announced the formation of a
“friends of NAM” group, including Iran, Venezuela and Egypt, that will
seek to resolve the Syrian crisis. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian commented on
Egyptian President Mohammad Mursi’s condemnation of the Beshar Assad
regime, saying: “If Mursi was better informed about Syria, he would
change his views.” [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:57 PM PDT
While
Apple’s long been praised for its music players and smartphones, one
area the company’s never received many accolades for is its earbuds,
which come bundled with the aforementioned devices. Neowin reports that
according to leaked pictures and video, however, that may change when
Apple’s new iPhone is announced. New video and pictures posted in [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:55 PM PDT
One
of the founders of the popular file-sharing Pirate Bay website, has
been arrested in Cambodia, the local police have announced, according to
BBC. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was held in Phnom Penh after an
international warrant was issued against him in April by his native
Sweden. Sweden acted after he had failed to show up [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:51 PM PDT
New
research has shown that despite electronic cigarettes being marketed as
a potentially safer alternative to normal cigarettes, they are still
causing harm to the lungs. A new study, presented today (Sunday 2
September 2012) at the European Respiratory Society’s Annual Congress in
Vienna, has added new evidence to the debate over the safety of [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:49 PM PDT
By
Zin Linn Burma’s quasi-civilian government has erased two sons of Aung
San Suu Kyi from a blacklist that a long time ago banned them from
coming into the nation, President’s official website said Thursday. A
list of 2,082 Burmese (Myanmar) nationals and foreigners, including Suu
Kyi’s sons Alexander and Kim Aris, and her late [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:30 PM PDT
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Hakim and Kathy Kelly “Stop fighting,” suggests Farzana, a brave 22
year old Afghan stage actress. Significantly, her statement is in sharp
contrast to what seems to be the democratic world’s unquestioned modus
operandi of today, exemplified by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton’s pet-phrase for Afghanistan, ‘Fight, talk and build.’ What
Farzana and [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:19 PM PDT
Only
hours after the U.S. Justice Department dropped their investigation of
CIA agents, an Assistant U.S. Attorney and the U.S. Department of
Justice announced that President Barack Obama and his Attorney General
are ending the lengthy investigation into allegations of criminal
conduct by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office in Maricopa County, Arizona. In
addition, the probe [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:14 PM PDT
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Dr. S. Chandrasekharan The report submitted by Judge Selvam to
President Waheed on 29th morning, declared that the change of government
was “legal and constitutional” and that the events of February 6-7 were
in large measure reactions to the actions of President Nasheed.
Additionally, the Commission found that: The resignation of President
Nasheed was [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:09 PM PDT
Mr.Liang
Guanglie, the Chinese Defence Minister, who is in Sri Lanka since
August 29,2012, on an official visit at the head of a 23-member
delegation, is reaching New Delhi on September 2, 2012, for a three-day
official visit before proceeding to Laos from where he will return home.
His visit to India has aroused considerable [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:05 PM PDT
The
conviction of 31 of the accused in the Naroda Patiya massacre case of
Gujarat by a special fast track court has to be welcomed for two reasons
despite the fact that the case has not yet reached its logical
conclusion with all avenues for appeal exhausted. Ninety-six people,
mainly Muslims, were massacred by the [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 06:01 PM PDT
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Shenali Waduge There is just one word that describes why the West
refuses to acknowledge Sri Lanka’s successful elimination of globally
banned terrorist movement the LTTE – it is because of their Jealousy.
This explains why Sri Lanka received very few bouquets and why the force
of that envy produced the demand that Sri [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:43 PM PDT
The
Associated Press reports: With America embroiled in its longest armed
conflict, Mitt Romney became the first Republican since 1952 to accept
his party’s nomination without mentioning war. Three election cycles
after the 2001 terrorist attacks, neither Romney nor his running mate,
Rep. Paul Ryan, had anything to say about terrorism or war while on
[...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:41 PM PDT
Bahrain
has demanded “explanations” from Tehran after the Iranian state
television substituted the word “Syria” with “Bahrain” in the
translation of the Egyptian president’s speech during the recent
Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran. The Egyptian leader slammed the
Syrian regime, a close ally to Iran. The head of the Iranian TV channel,
Mr. Ezatollah Zarghami, [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:39 PM PDT
Al
Qaeda in Mali declared “the execution of the Algerian diplomat Tahar
Touati after the expiry of the deadline set to the Algerian government.”
The statement was signed by its leader Walid Abou El El Sahraoui. The
information has not been officially confirmed by Algeria, but according
to the Mauritanian Sahara Media site, the Movement [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:37 PM PDT
Bahrain
has demanded an apology from Tehran after the mistranslation of a
critical speech by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi by Iranian official
translators, which replaced the word “Syria” with the word “Bahrain.”
Morsi gave the speech on Thursday during at the summit of the
Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran. It was an Egyptian head of state’s [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:34 PM PDT
Work
began by the Siberian Lake Baikal to create a unique gamma ray
observatory, which will span 100 square kilometers in one of the world’s
cleanest places, researchers said on Sunday. The Tunka experiment has
been ongoing since 1990s, when the first array of photomultipliers began
work in the Republic of Buryatia. It was expanded [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:31 PM PDT
By
Gabe Joselow Ethiopia has laid to rest Prime Minister Meles Zenawi who
led the country for more than 20 years before his death, announced last
month. Heads of state from around the continent praised Meles’ intellect
and his vision for his country and Africa. Ethiopian soldiers stood in
formation as the flag-draped casket carrying [...]
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Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:29 PM PDT
By
Ayaz Gul Police in Pakistan have arrested a Muslim cleric for allegedly
planting evidence against a Christian girl accused of blasphemy. The
development has raised hopes the girl may be released in a case that has
revived calls for reform in the country’s controversial anti-blasphemy
laws. The overnight arrest of Khalid Jadoon, a prayer [...]
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