Eurasia Review: News & Analysis
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- River Erosion Along India–Bangladesh Border: Source Of Violent Conflict – Analysis
- Clinton Addresses APEC Forum
- US Favoured Destination For Iranian Expats
- Saudi Arabia Literacy Rate 96%, Up From 60% In 1972
- The RAP Vote: Alternative To TweedleBar’k And TweedleMitt – OpEd
- Sri Lanka Has To Act Patiently, But Stern In Diplomacy – OpEd
- Striker Abou-Treika: A Symbol Of Egypt’s Convoluted Political Transition – Analysis
- Iran Fires Back As Canada Cuts Diplomatic Ties
- Iraq: Inside The Belly Of CIA Beast – OpEd
- South Africa: Marikana, A Lesson, Says Motlanthe
- Violence In Assam: Resource Wars, Illegal Migration Or Governance Deficit? – Analysis
- No Child Left Behind Waivers: Bogus Relief, Genuine Overreach – Analysis
- EU Must Step Up Sea Rescues To Save Lives, Says HRW
- Improving Survival Rates For Myeloma And Lymphoma Patients
- US Sees Racial And Ethnic Diversity Spreading
- The Challenging Paradoxes Facing Morsi – OpEd
- Sure Obama Caved Again On Palestine, But Will He Benefit? – OpEd
- The Invisible War In West Asia – Analysis
- Democrats No Longer Call Israel ‘Our Strongest Ally’ – OpEd
- Pakistan: Sunni Militants Killing Shias – Analysis
- Colombia: Extrajudicial Killings Demand Action – Analysis
- The Pussy Riot Affair – OpEd
- Jobs Wanted As Eurozone Slides Further Into Recession
- North Korea Standing Up To China – Analysis
- Libya: Eight Names In Prime Minister Election List
- Colombia: Santos Rules Out Truce With FARC, Says ‘It Is Not Time’
- Sri Lanka: Bishops Denounce Human Rights Violations And Education Void
- Swiss Executive Pay Plunges For Banks, But Not For Others
- Is Palestine A Lost Cause? – OpEd
- Palestine In Protest: Echoes Of The Past – OpEd
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 11:23 PM PDT
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Ishak Mia River erosion along the border often triggers violent
conflicts between India and Bangladesh. These two countries share an
international border of about 4098 km, 180km of which runs through the
middle of shared rivers. When these rivers erode their banks on one
side, sediments are deposited slowly onto the other, causing new [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 11:20 PM PDT
By
Margarita Bogatova The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed
the APEC forum after meeting with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey
Lavrov. She said that Washington spent too much on conflicts and it’s
time for investments now. Hillary Clinton’s speech was one of today’s
highlights and at the very beginning of her speech she touched [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 10:21 PM PDT
The
Census Organization of Iran has released its latest report on the
number of Iranians living abroad, identifying the United States as the
country with the largest number of Iranians expatriates. The Mehr news
agency quoted Mohsen Karami, the deputy head of identification documents
at the Census Organization, saying: “The United States has the most
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 10:19 PM PDT
Saudi
Arabia has made major strides in illiteracy eradication over the past
40 years. “The Kingdom brought down the level of illiteracy in the
country from 60 percent in 1972 to 4 percent in 2012,” an statement
issued by the Ministry of Education on the occasion of the World Day of
Illiteracy Eradication today. The [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 10:16 PM PDT
Well,
the second half of the quadrennial political charade is over, Pres.
Barack Obama making his case for a second term in office before a
friendly audience of militant Democrats at the convention in Charlotte.
Tongue-in-arm Joe Biden, likely to be held accountable for his
“America’s best days are ahead of us” remark, introduced the [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 10:07 PM PDT
By
Noor Nizam The Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India HE. Prasad
Kariyawasam has blamed “fringe pro-LTTE groups” in the state of Tamil
Nadu for the violence against visiting Sri Lankans, but underlined it
will not affect robust ties or the visit of President Mahinda Rajapaksa
to India later this month. “It’s an unfortunate aberration, [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 10:01 PM PDT
Starred
striker Mohamed Abou-Treika symbolizes the struggles in virtually every
Egyptian institution between post-Mubarak reformers and supporters of
the Mubarak-era status quo ante. Breaking with the tradition of soccer
players standing on the sidelines of popular revolts in the Middle East
and North Africa, if not supporting autocratic leaders, Mr. Abou Treika
announced late this [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 09:49 PM PDT
Iran
has slammed Canada’s decision to close its embassy in Iran, saying it
will soon give Canada an appropriate response. On Friday, Canadian
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird announced that Canada is suspending
all diplomatic relations with Iran. The Canadian Embassy in Iran has
been closed and Canadian consular services have been referred to the
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 09:46 PM PDT
By
Ismail Salami Much to the bitter disappointment of international
community, a report recently declassified by CIA reveals that a war that
started in the name of democracy in Iraq in 2003 and claimed the lives
of more than one million innocent Iraqis and thousands of US-led troops
was waged on the basis of an [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 09:43 PM PDT
The
Marikana tragedy should make South Africa turn the tide on how the
country confronts poverty and inequality, Deputy President Kgalema
Motlanthe said on Friday. “It also challenges us to recommit ourselves
to more effective social dialogue at national and regional level,”
Motlanthe said. He was speaking at the opening of the annual National
Economic [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 09:41 PM PDT
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Shanthie Mariet D’Souza and Bibhu Prasad Routray Since 19 July 2012, a
wide range of issues, combined with gargantuan administrative ineptness,
has produced nearly 100 dead bodies in India’s northeast state of Assam
and displaced close to 400,000 people from their places of residence.
The month-long violence between the Bodo tribal community and the [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 09:27 PM PDT
By
Lindsey Burke Seizing on widespread dissatisfaction with No Child Left
Behind (NCLB) and blaming congressional inaction for the need to act
unilaterally, the Obama Administration has begun issuing waivers from
the law to states willing to accept Department of Education (DOE)
conditions that will end up further centralizing education policy. The
NCLB waivers pose [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 09:23 PM PDT
The
deaths of scores of migrants and asylum seekers in the Mediterranean
over the past 48 hours should prompt concerted European Union action to
limit further deaths in the Mediterranean, Human Rights Watch said
today. Sixty-one people, including 3 babies and 28 other children, are
confirmed dead after their boat sank in the Aegean Sea [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 09:21 PM PDT
(CORDIS)
— More than 9 million people in Europe are living with cancer, and
every family is touched in some way by this devastating disease.
European researchers have focused every effort in combatting this
disease and improving the quality of life of those affected. Now,
researchers at the University of York in the United Kingdom [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 09:19 PM PDT
Increasing
racial and ethnic diversity has long been apparent at the national
level and in our nation’s largest metropolitan gateways. Since 1980 over
nine-tenths of all cities, suburbs and small towns have become more
diverse. And rural communities are following the lead of their urban
counterparts, according to a U.S. 2010 policy brief. “What really [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 09:12 PM PDT
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Ali Harfouch It did not take long before the euphoria from our brother
Muhammad Mursi’s[1] “victory” was clouded by the paradoxes and
inconsistencies packaged with the illusion of power. The real scope and
parameters of Mursi’s “power” proved to be more constraining than
liberating in any progressive sense. Prior to the cinematic elections,
revolutionary [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 09:08 PM PDT
As
a former law professor President Obama knows something about
international law and US constitutional law which he taught at the
University of Chicago. But he besmirched his academic bona fides,
violated Democratic Party rules and hurt his campaign on 12/5/12 by
ordering the Democratic Party to summarily change earlier a twice
debated and unanimously [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 09:03 PM PDT
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Cherian Samuel Almost imperceptibly, West Asia has become the new
frontline of the current manifestation of cyber warfare with various
types of cyber weapons being deployed by parties whose identities can
only be speculated upon, but presumed to be state and non-state actors
from within the region and beyond. Since the discovery of the [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 09:00 PM PDT
While
the token of loyalty that the Israel lobby demanded from the Democrats
on Wednesday was the undemocratic reinstatement of an affirmation of
Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, curiously another piece of doting
flattery from the 2008 platform — “our strongest ally in the region and
its only established democracy” — has been dropped. Allies cooperate
[...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:57 PM PDT
By
Devinder Kumar Human Rights Watch has expressed concern about
increasing violence against the minority Shia Muslim community in
Pakistan and asked the government in Islamabad to protect it from
sectarian attacks by Sunni militant groups. “Deadly attacks on Shia
communities across Pakistan are escalating,” HRW’s Asia director Brad
Adams said. “The government’s persistent failure [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:55 PM PDT
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Justin Halatyn On June 12, the Nasa tribe, an indigenous community from
the southwestern highlands of Colombia, released a video of members of
the Colombian army standing around the naked corpse of 30-year-old Luis
Alberto Cunda. The Army insisted that Cunda belonged to the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and had engaged in [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:51 PM PDT
The
members of the Russian punk rock (some prefer to call it porn) band
Pussy Riot await the out come of their appeals after being sentenced to
two years imprisonment for their song “Mother God, drive Putin out”. It
wasn’t that they sung it, so much as where there did it – in Moscow’s
Cathedral [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:48 PM PDT
(EurActiv)
— The eurozone crisis has pushed Europe deeper into recession, which is
now slowing the global economy, the Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development said in presenting its revised forecast for
the year. G7 economies are expected to grow at an annualised rate of
just 0.3% in the third quarter of 2012 and 1.1% [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:41 PM PDT
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Parameswaran Ponnudurai Tensions and resentment over China’s
investments in ally nations such as Burma, Pakistan and Zambia may have
raised eyebrows in recent months. But, North Korea takes the cake with
its extremely rare attack this week on a major investment by China, its
closest ally and benefactor. While experts are scratching their heads
[...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:37 PM PDT
Eight
candidates were formally proposed by the General National Congress,
Libya’s new parliament, for the post of prime minister. According to the
local media, officials indicated that the list will reduce to three
candidates to head the government: current deputy premier Mustafa
Abushagur, leader of the National Force Alliance, former prime minister
Mahmoud Jibril and [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:32 PM PDT
Colombian
President Juan Manuel Santos stated that there will be no cease-fire
with the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), despite talks
opening between the guerrilla group and government toward a final peace
deal, reports Radio Caracol. “Military operations will not cede until
the talks don’t bring to an end to the armed conflict”, added [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:29 PM PDT
In
a statement, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Sri Lanka (CBCSL)
condemns violence against prison inmates that often leads to
hospitalization, even death; threats and reprisals against farmers who
do not supply enough rice and the failure of the government to ensure
human rights for all its citizens. In the statement, signed by CBCSL
president, [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:24 PM PDT
Salaries
for top managers at the largest Swiss banks declined by 23 per cent in
2011 while senior staff in other business sectors earned five per cent
more, according to latest data from the Swiss Foundation for Sustainable
Development, Ethos. Forty-nine of the 100 biggest Swiss companies also
put their managers’ salaries to a shareholder [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:20 PM PDT
A
long version of the headline question would be something like this:
Given that in the 46th year of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank
Jewish settlers are continuing to consolidate their hold on the
territory’s land and water resources by stealing more and more of both,
thus demonstrating not only Zionism’s contempt for international [...]
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Posted: 07 Sep 2012 08:17 PM PDT
By
Patrick O. Strickland At first glance, it may appear that the
demonstrations which alighted across the West Bank on 05 September were
routine. Weekly demonstrations, sit-ins, marches, hunger strikes, and
graffiti are only a small fraction of the vast reserve of strategic
means of rebellion regularly employed by Palestinians. Indeed, the
notion of resistance [...]
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