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Sunday 21 July 2013

“FAA Warns Colorado Town That Shooting Down Drones Could Lead To Prosecution” plus 29 more : Eurasia Review

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 11:25 PM PDT
On the heels of a Colorado town’s announcement that it was floating the idea of legalized drone hunting, the Federal Aviation Administration has warned that the practice could result in prosecution and fines. The small town of Deer Trail, Colorado is currently weighing an ordinance that would grant residents permits to shoot down unmanned aerial [...] The post FAA Warns Colorado Town That Shooting Down Drones Could Lead To Prosecution appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 11:21 PM PDT
Egypt’s military-backed interim president has selected legal experts to rewrite the Egyptian constitution, which the military suspended this month by ousting the previous Islamist president who ratified the charter. In a decree issued Saturday, interim leader Adly Mansour appointed 10 judges and law professors who will have one month to propose constitutional amendments as part [...] The post Egypt’s Mansour Decrees Constitutional Rewrite appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 07:52 PM PDT
By Vikram Sood A former colleague remarked the other day that the Abbottabad inquiry report revelations reminded him of the Hamoodur Rehman Commission report that had indicted the Pakistan Army for the 1971 debacle. Both the reports show the Pakistan Army in a poor light, even decrepit. The important news is not that Osama is [...] The post Pakistan: The Gathering Storm – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 07:48 PM PDT
Discernment of the probable form of the political transition of Afghanistan is one of the focal points of concern of the governments and public of Afghanistan, Pakistan and US, besides the regional countries and US’ major ISAF partners. The recent breakdown of the dialogue between US and Taliban – the two major ‘contenders’ in the [...] The post Afghanistan Transition 2014: Discerned Probabilities – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 07:35 PM PDT
In the wake of the Cold War, the EU acted decisively and brought a group of fragile, newly-independent states into the European Community in a geopolitical gamble that paid off big. Now, as Ukraine finds itself between an increasingly menacing Russia and a lethargic Brussels, it is time to act once again. Back in the [...] The post Russian Aggression And Ukrainian Accession: Lessons From History – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 07:28 PM PDT
By Cheryl Pellerin The director of the National Security Agency said he has proof that terrorist groups are benefitting from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s public disclosure about agency data-gathering efforts. Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander, also commander of U.S. Cyber Command, spoke Thursday with Pete Williams, chief justice correspondent for NBC News, at the [...] The post NSA Director Says Terrorists Benefit From Snowden’s Actions appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 07:26 PM PDT
By Cheryl Pellerin Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter began a weeklong trip today that will take him first to Israel and then to Uganda and Ethiopia in sub-Saharan Africa. During Carter’s first official trip to Israel as deputy secretary, he will meet with senior Israeli defense officials to discuss issues of mutual strategic importance and [...] The post US Deputy Defense Secretary Travels To Israel, Uganda, Ethiopia appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 07:22 PM PDT
By Shahin Abbasov Just like the protagonist in the eponymous opera, the Nabucco pipeline, the one-time leading option for carrying natural gas from Azerbaijan to Europe, has been outmaneuvered and knocked from its preeminent perch. In the opera, Nabucco is a king of Babylon who is outwitted by a group of palace conspirators and temporarily [...] The post Azerbaijan: When It Comes To Pipelines, It’s Not Personal, It’s Strictly Business appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 07:20 PM PDT
(RFE/RL) — Tribal elders and shopkeepers in northwestern Pakistan have banned women from shopping in bazaars without a male relative present. Local clerics in the Karak district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province have urged shopkeepers not to allow women to enter stores and markets without a male relative accompanying them. The clerics said the presence of [...] The post Pakistan: Women Banned From Shopping Alone In Northwest appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 07:18 PM PDT
By Parameswaran Ponnudurai A royal pardon allowing exiled Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy to return home has taken some of the heat off Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen but the respite may be short-lived as the international community narrows its focus on upcoming general elections that many expect to be tainted with irregularities. The wily [...] The post Sam Rainsy’s Return Puts Focus Back On Cambodia’s Elections – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 07:15 PM PDT
Civil society’s shorthand for Malawi’s drive to expand its extractive resource sector is T2 – “trouble or treasure”. While Malawi has dabbled in mineral exploitation in the past, it only formed a mining and minerals ministry in December 2012. The country hopes to ramp up the sector’s contribution to GDP from less than two percent [...] The post Malawi: Can Oil And Water Mix? – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 07:11 PM PDT
Interview with Hassan Beheshtipour Since April 6, 2013, when the representatives of Iran and the group P5+1 of world powers – comprising the United States, the UK, France, China, and Russia plus Germany – came together for talks, negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 have been at a standstill because of the presidential election in [...] The post Iran Viewpoint: Tehran Should Trust West One More Time – Interview appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 07:08 PM PDT
By Albert Che Suh-Nwji An Austrian statesman, Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, once remarked: ‘When France sneezes, Europe catches the cold’, referring to the 1848 revolutions which started in France and spread to other European states. This can also aptly explain the revolution that ignited in Tunisia later in 2010 and spread like wild fire [...] The post Role Of Diaspora In Post-Arab Spring Reconstruction – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 07:05 PM PDT
One way to view Detroit’s bankruptcy — the largest bankruptcy of any American city — is as a failure of political negotiations over how financial sacrifices should be divided among the city’s creditors, city workers, and municipal retirees — requiring a court to decide instead. It could also be seen as the inevitable culmination of [...] The post Detroit And The Bankruptcy Of America’s Social Contract – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 07:03 PM PDT
By Mitchell Clark, B.Comm. The equity market continues to trade while hanging on the Federal Reserve’s every word. There continues to be buoyancy in investor sentiment, and it’s flying in the face of what can only be described as modest earnings results so far. And the fervor that institutional investors have to be buyers in this market [...] The post Why Investor Sentiment Is Still Bullish In The Face Of Lackluster Economic News – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 06:56 PM PDT
By Michael Lombardi, MBA I told you so. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the Chinese economy grew at an annual pace of 7.5% in the second quarter of this year from a year earlier—down from 7.7% in the first quarter. (Source: Bloomberg, July 15, 2013.) Regular readers of Profit Confidential shouldn’t be surprised by that; I have warned [...] The post Why Investors Should Be More Concerned About The Chinese Economy – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 06:46 PM PDT
By Mohamed El-Sayed Regardless of whether 3 July was a revolution or a coup d’état against Egypt’s first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi, the scene of millions of Egyptians taking to streets on 30 June shows that the 25 January Revolution is still in the making. Though it has taken a dangerous slide into violence [...] The post Egypt: What Next? – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 06:45 PM PDT
By Ani Soetjipto With less than a year to prepare, Indonesian female candidates are gearing up for their 2014 general election campaigns. But if Indonesian women want to make a mark on national politics and achieve the gender equality they have been working toward, they need to put forward competent candidates with adequate track records [...] The post 2014 Indonesian Elections An Opportunity For Female Candidates – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 06:42 PM PDT
A senior Israeli official says some Palestinian prisoners will be released as part of the new breakthrough by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in efforts to restart Mideast talks, according to AP. Israel’s intelligence and strategic affairs minister, Yuval Steinitz, told Israel Radio on Saturday, July 19 that some “hardcore prisoners” will be released. [...] The post Israel To Release Palestinian Prisoners Amid Revived Talks appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 03:37 PM PDT
When history is twisted, humanity loses. No country epitomizes this notion to the hilt better than Buddhist-majority Myanmar where history is twisted not only to deny human rights but also to justify genocidal campaigns against religious minorities. There is no historical record of Buddha ever visiting any part of Arakan and Burma, and yet the [...] The post Buddhism In Burma Is Not That Old – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 03:02 PM PDT
British efforts to stop the forces of Syria’s President Bashar Assad could drag the UK into war to prevent the regime’s chemical weapons falling into the wrong hands, Britain’s retiring General Sir David Richards has warned. “The risk of terrorism is becoming more and more dominant in our strategic vision for what we might do [...] The post Army Chief Urges Britain To Prepare For War In Syria appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 03:00 PM PDT
During next week’s World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, Pope Francis will be staying in a modest residency, visiting a slum and traveling without his popemobile. “It was thought that the Pope does not feel he is treated differently from others,” said Sister Irma Terezinha, who is in charge of the Center for Sumaré [...] The post Pope Francis To Visit Slum, Not Use Popemobile In Rio appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 02:56 PM PDT
By Emma Lo As President Barack Obama arrived in Berlin last month to deliver a speech at the Brandenburg gate, many Germans were already expressing concern about revelations of NSA spying. Little did they know that they were viewing the tip of the iceberg and that tensions in the Atlantic alliance would continue to escalate [...] The post NSA Spying Leaves Washington Lonelier Than Ever – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 02:54 PM PDT
By Jakub Grygiel The objective of much of US foreign policy toward Europe of the past century was, to use Lord Ismay’s phrase, to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down.[1] The pithy saying sounds blunt and undiplomatic, but it is still true. It is in the interest of the US [...] The post The Russians Are Seeping In, The Americans Are Pivoting Out, And The Germans Are Moving Up: The Future Of Europe – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 02:48 PM PDT
By P. K. Upadhyay There has been a spate of attacks on security forces in FATA and Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa (KPK), as also terrorist bombings in many cities outside KPK in the past couple of weeks. Perhaps, the most significant of these incidents is the July 7 bomb attack in Anarkali Bazar of Lahore. There has been [...] The post Pakistan Army Vs Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan: The Latest Round – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 02:44 PM PDT
By Prasanta Kumar Pradhan The overthrow of Mohamed Morsi, the first democratically elected president after the Arab Spring, by the army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has put Egypt in a period of political uncertainty. The army’s decision to overthrow Morsi and appoint Adly Mansour, the chief justice of Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court as the [...] The post Egypt Poised For Long Political Battle – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 02:41 PM PDT
The 6th South Africa-European Union (SA-EU) Summit ended on Thursday, with leaders in agreement that joint programmes were needed to address the common challenge of job creation. In a joint communiqué issued after the summit, South African President Jacob Zuma, EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy said education [...] The post South Africa, EU Vow To Tackle Employment, Boost Trade appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 02:39 PM PDT
We simply don’t get it; better yet, we simply don’t want to get it! For all our proud puffing of an academic structure in economics second to none, coupled with business expertise we continuously claim to be the envy of the world, we’ll soon be proving ourselves as nothing but an inflated yokel with our [...] The post Enough Oz-Economics: Let’s Get Back To Kansas-Reality – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 02:35 PM PDT
There is a shifting discourse on India – Pakistan relations in the West holding rivalry between two nuclear armed neighbours as the root cause of current impasse in Afghanistan. The discourse runs on the lines that India – Pakistan are reaching a negative crest in their relationship underscored by growing economic and military asymmetry. This [...] The post India – Pakistan Look For Bilateral Solutions Sans Outsiders – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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Posted: 20 Jul 2013 02:32 PM PDT
On Wednesday July 24 is the closing date for the popular vote on Facebook to elect the winners of the award “Best Public TV in Latin America (TAL)”. All those with Internet access are eligible to participate and contribute to select the best of Public TV program in Latin America. Until now online selection process [...] The post TV Publica Paraguay participates In Region’s Best TV Awards (TAL) appeared first on Eurasia Review.

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