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- Ukraine: Poroshenko Bloc Set To Dominate Elections – Analysis
- Iran Executes Woman For Killing Ex-Intelligence Officer
- Rare Footage Captures Ebola Discovery In 1976 (Video)
- Germany Struggles To House Rising Number Of Asylum Seekers – Analysis
- Vietnam-India-Japan Trilateral As An Asian Strategic Coalition – Analysis
- Cardinal Nichols Clarifies, Dispels Media Portrayals Of Synod
- Saudi Arabia: Women Driving Campaign Dropped
- Airline Deregulation Act Of 1978 – OpEd
- It’s Rarely About The Environment Anymore – OpEd
- Is Turkey Entering An Energy Bottleneck? – OpEd
- South Africa And China: Building Bridges To Beneficiation – Analysis
- Terrorism In China’s Xinjiang Region Is Escalating – Analysis
- Green Lines And Red Lines – OpEd
- Mounting Israeli-Palestinians Tensions Reverberate On Soccer Pitch – Analysis
- India: In Pursuit Of Great Power Status – OpEd
- Turkey: Deputy PM, Interior Minister Attacked By Protestors, Uninjured
- Government Approval Not Enough, Businesses Need Social License – Analysis
- Histories Of Illusion – OpEd
- Five Major Reasons Leading To ISIS Emergence – Analysis
- Iraqi Army Uncovers Mass Grave Near Fallujah
- 1st US Soldier Killed In Iraq Anti-ISIS Campaign
- Pentagon Spokesman Urges Patience In Anti-ISIL Campaign
- Obama: Focused On The Fight Against Ebola – Transcript
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 04:13 PM PDT
By Oleg Shynkarenko With less than a month to go until Ukraine’s presidential elections, President Petro Poroshenko’s coalition looks to dominate the vote, although nearly a third of voters remain undecided. According to a poll carried out last month by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives foundation, the Petro Poroshenko Bloc has a clear lead with […] The post Ukraine: Poroshenko Bloc Set To Dominate Elections – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 04:11 PM PDT
(RFE/RL) — Iranian authorities have hanged a 26-year-old woman for the murder of a former intelligence official. Iran’s official IRNA news agency quoted the Tehran prosecutor’s office as saying Reyhaneh Jabbari was hanged at dawn on October 25. A Facebook page, “Save Reyhaneh Jabbari From Execution In Iran,” that campaigned for her release confirmed her […] The post Iran Executes Woman For Killing Ex-Intelligence Officer appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 04:09 PM PDT
As the largest recorded Ebola epidemic in West Africa has infected over 10,000 people, a Belgian newspaper publishes rare footage from 1976 when the deadly virus was first identified in Congo, or in Zaire as it was then known. The three videos were recently released by the Institute of Tropical Medicine and were published by […] The post Rare Footage Captures Ebola Discovery In 1976 (Video) appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 04:03 PM PDT
When a video emerged last month of security guards physically abusing a resident of a refugee housing facility in the German town of Burbach, the ensuing media furore shone a light on an asylum system straining under the weight of an unprecedented caseload. The video showed a young man handcuffed and lying on a mattress […] The post Germany Struggles To House Rising Number Of Asylum Seekers – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 03:59 PM PDT
By Dr Subhash Kapila Imperatives exist for the crystallisation of an Asian Strategic Coalition comprising Vietnam, Japan and India for a more balanced Asian security environment and the foundation for this is already in existence in the form of Vietnam-India Strategic Partnership, Japan-India Special Global &Strategic Partnership and Japan-Vietnam Strategic Partnership. Advocacy for this Asian […] The post Vietnam-India-Japan Trilateral As An Asian Strategic Coalition –...
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 03:48 PM PDT
After returning from the 2014 Synod on the Family, Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster has clarified that the meeting was focused upon reaching out to those in difficulty, rather than changing doctrine. “You may have heard or read that this Synod has been about changing the teaching of the Church on marriage, family life or […] The post Cardinal Nichols Clarifies, Dispels Media Portrayals Of Synod appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 03:44 PM PDT
By Ghazanfar Ali Khan and Afifa Jabeen Quraishi Women will not take to the streets on Sunday to mark the one-year anniversary of a nationwide campaign launched on Oct. 26, 2013 calling on the Saudi government to lift the driving ban. The statement, made by a leading advocate, comes in the wake of a recent […] The post Saudi Arabia: Women Driving Campaign Dropped appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 03:39 PM PDT
President Jimmy Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act on October 24, 1978. That law phased out the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) over the next four years, ending five decades of federal regulation of passenger airfares on interstate commercial flights and entry into the airline industry. One of prime movers behind this first legislative initiative to […] The post Airline Deregulation Act Of 1978 – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 03:35 PM PDT
Back in 1970, when I got involved in the first Earth Day and nascent environmental movement, we had real pollution problems. But over time, new laws, regulations, attitudes and technologies cleaned up our air, water and sloppy industry practices. By contrast, today’s battles are rarely about the environment. As Ron Arnold and I detail in […] The post It’s Rarely About The Environment Anymore – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 03:31 PM PDT
In the coming days, we will be seeing new developments in Turkey’s energy markets and should therefore make upfront predictions to develop appropriate strategies. We have very serious problems in our natural gas supply. Even if we do not have any political friction with Ukraine or Russia, in the days when temperatures drop below -5 […] The post Is Turkey Entering An Energy Bottleneck? – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 03:29 PM PDT
By Chris Alden and Yu-Shan Wu The announcement of a joint agreement between the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) and Hebei Iron and Steel Group to open a steel mill in Phalaborwa could signal a new stage in the longstanding relationship between South Africa and China. Financed in part by the China Africa Development Fund, the […] The post South Africa And China: Building Bridges To Beneficiation – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 03:19 PM PDT
By Jai Kumar Verma The strength of Islamic terrorist organizations is escalating in Xinjiang region of China. Several Uyghur outfits, including East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), East Turkistan Liberation Organization (ETLO), United Revolutionary Front of East Turkestan (URFET), and the Uyghur Liberation Organization (ULO) carried out several terrorist incidents despite the ruthless repression by authorities […] The post Terrorism In China’s Xinjiang Region Is Escalating –...
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 03:16 PM PDT
“Settlements” – there’s a word to conjure with. It carries connotations of hardy pioneers, supported by their doughty wives, trekking across empty plains to set up a collection of makeshift homes on virgin land, aiming to scratch a living from the barren soil. When applied to Israel, however, the term has been stretched well-nigh beyond […] The post Green Lines And Red Lines – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 03:06 PM PDT
Mounting tension between Israel and Palestinians on the occupied West Bank and in East Jerusalem have spilt on to Israeli Palestinian soccer pitches in Israel proper as Israel swings towards ultra-nationalists that make Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu look like the best card in a bad hand. Israeli human rights and legal advocacy group Adalah – […] The post Mounting Israeli-Palestinians Tensions Reverberate On Soccer Pitch – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 03:03 PM PDT
By Saima Ghazanfer* The Indian strategic community appears to be perturbed by the rise of China as an economic powerhouse of the world and that country’s unprecedented growth in offensive and defensive military might over the preceding decades. To position itself as a great power, India is also trying to emerge as a formidable pole […] The post India: In Pursuit Of Great Power Status – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 02:55 PM PDT
By Rufiz Hafizoglu Turkish Interior Minister Efkan Ala and Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus were attacked in the country’s Sanliurfa province, Kanal7 TV channel reported on Saturday. Reportedly, a group of unknown people threw stones at a government delegation which arrived in the Sanliurfa province to get acquainted with the living conditions of refugees from […] The post Turkey: Deputy PM, Interior Minister Attacked By Protestors, Uninjured appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 02:50 PM PDT
In era of globalized awareness, best business, government practices demand local consent and social license. By John Morrison There was a time when signing a piece of paper and a handshake were enough for companies to start a factory or mine. This is how business still works in many places, but globalization – delivering economic […] The post Government Approval Not Enough, Businesses Need Social License – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 02:38 PM PDT
It is an old debate on fictions. St. Augustine, in his lengthy and at times revealing scribbles, proposed that humans were placed on this earth for a purpose. Disappointing it must be to then discover that humans have no purpose at all, the sort of accidental matter that coexist with Mother Nature’s musical furniture. They […] The post Histories Of Illusion – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 02:34 PM PDT
By Saeid Jafari 1. Branching from Al-Qaeda Without a doubt, the emergence of the ISIS terrorist group, which is currently calling itself the Islamic State, was closely related to an organization whose founding leader was slain a few years ago. In terms of its main core and theoretical background, the Islamic State is an offshoot […] The post Five Major Reasons Leading To ISIS Emergence – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 02:28 PM PDT
By Hassan al-Obaidi The Iraqi army has discovered a mass grave near Fallujah that contains the bodies of 19 civilians executed by the “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” (ISIL), the Defence Ministry said last week. The ministry said in a statement that the army found the grave site after entering the town of […] The post Iraqi Army Uncovers Mass Grave Near Fallujah appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 02:23 PM PDT
A 19-year-old mortarman has become the first US soldier to die in the fight against ISIS in Iraq, albeit from a “non-combat injury,” the Pentagon acknowledged. The death of Marine Lance Corporal Sean P. Neal of Riverside, California, which occurred on Thursday in Baghdad, is under investigation, according to the Pentagon. He was assigned to […] The post 1st US Soldier Killed In Iraq Anti-ISIS Campaign appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 02:21 PM PDT
By Jim Garamone It is imprudent to assess the U.S. strategy against terrorists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant after only three months, Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said during a Pentagon news conference Friday. The Pentagon press secretary said the strategy against ISIL is not just sound, but it’s working. “The […] The post Pentagon Spokesman Urges Patience In Anti-ISIL Campaign appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2014 02:18 PM PDT
In this week’s address, the President discussed the measures we are taking to respond to Ebola cases at home, while containing the epidemic at its source in West Africa. This week we continued to focus on domestic preparedness, with the creation of new CDC guidelines and the announcement of new travel measures ensuring all travelers […] The post Obama: Focused On The Fight Against Ebola – Transcript appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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