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- Bangladesh: After Fire, Companies Evade Compensation, Says HRW
- Asians Told To Look Near East For Prosperity, Not Far West – Analysis
- Pacific Island Countries Warned Of High-Risk Of Extreme Weather During Upcoming Wet Season
- Winners And Losers Of Oil War – OpEd
- The Past, Present And Future Of Russia-West Relations – Analysis
- US To Send Saudi Arabia Apache, Black Hawk Helicopters
- Research Shows Anti-HIV Medicines Can Cause Damage To Fetal Hearts
- Only Half Of Patients Take Their Medications As Prescribed
- Facing Boko Haram: Nigerians ‘Storm The Heavens With Prayers’
- Three Possible Scenarios For Iran’s Nuclear Talks – Analysis
- Shark Finning Debate: Not Losing Focus – OpEd
- Netanyahu’s Cabinet Approves ‘Jewish State Bill’
- Germany’s Intelligence Chief Says At Least 550 Germans In IS Rank
- Biden Wraps Up Visit To Turkey
- Ron Paul: Defeat Of USA FREEDOM Act Is A Victory For Freedom – OpEd
- 12-Year-Old Boy Carrying Toy Gun Shot Dead By Cleveland Police
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Posted: 23 Nov 2014 01:28 PM PST
Global clothing brands tied to a Bangladesh factory that caught fire two years ago should immediately support full and fair compensation for workers and families of the dead, said Human Rights Watch, adding that survivors of the fire at Tazreen Fashions are still suffering from their injuries and loss of income. According to Human Rights […] The post Bangladesh: After Fire, Companies Evade Compensation, Says HRW appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 23 Nov 2014 01:23 PM PST
By Kalinga Seneviratne* Eminent political analysts, academics and journalists have predicted a promising Asian resurgence in 2015 and called for Asians to learn to look to the Near East for inspiration and not the Far West. They included participants in the annual ‘Global Outlook’ conference organized by Singapore’s Straits Times group on November 21. “The […] The post Asians Told To Look Near East For Prosperity, Not Far West – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 23 Nov 2014 01:13 PM PST
Extreme weather conditions predicted for the Pacific Ocean pose a significant threat for island states’ industry and infrastructure warns a new advisory note from the United Nations. Global forecasts indicate the onset of an abnormal warming of surface ocean waters, known as the El Niño effect, as the Pacific region experiences its wet season during […] The post Pacific Island Countries Warned Of High-Risk Of Extreme Weather During Upcoming Wet Season appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 23 Nov 2014 01:11 PM PST
In less than one year crude oil prices have come down by more than 30 percent and it is expected that the downward trend will continue for a while. The United States, having emerged as the largest producer of oil, does not seem in a mode to curtail its oil production. Smaller oil producing member […] The post Winners And Losers Of Oil War – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 23 Nov 2014 12:51 PM PST
I recently received a question, asking whether the US can lead over the EU in improving relations with Russia? From the Cold War period, Britain’s Margaret Thatcher and American author Suzanne Massie, are credited with influencing Ronald Reagan, to seize upon the existence of an opportunity for improving East-West relations. In the post-Soviet era, reasoned individuals in […] The post The Past, Present And Future Of Russia-West Relations – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 23 Nov 2014 12:47 PM PST
Saudi Arabia will receive Black Hawk and Apache military helicopters from the US earlier next year to bolster National Guard forces, said visiting National Guard Minister Prince Miteb bin Abdullah after talks with Pentagon officials. “Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah seeks to modernize and develop the military systems of all armed forces, […] The post US To Send Saudi Arabia Apache, Black Hawk Helicopters appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 23 Nov 2014 12:42 PM PST
A study by a Wayne State University and Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center research team is shedding new light on the troubling question of whether the drugs often given to HIV-positive pregnant women can cause significant long-term heart problems for the non-HIV-infected babies they carry. The study recently published in the journal AIDS […] The post Research Shows Anti-HIV Medicines Can Cause Damage To Fetal Hearts appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 23 Nov 2014 12:40 PM PST
Here is what we know: If people take medications prescribed to them, they usually get better. But only about half of all patients prescribed medication take it according to directions. Here is what we don’t know: We don’t know how to get patients to take their medications, despite many studies looking at the issue. Researchers […] The post Only Half Of Patients Take Their Medications As Prescribed appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 23 Nov 2014 12:36 PM PST
Boko Haram’s expansion has meant murders, forced conversion, and forcible expulsion from homes, causing Catholics in Nigeria to pray and to reach out to help and console the militant Islamist group’s victims. “Brothers and sisters, there is no better time to storm the heavens with prayers and petitions than now,” Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Jos […] The post Facing Boko Haram: Nigerians ‘Storm The Heavens With Prayers’ appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 23 Nov 2014 12:30 PM PST
By Tayebeh Mohammadikia Iran’s nuclear negotiations have reached their sensitive stage. Now, the time is ripe to review future prospects of these negotiations more accurately and talk about the final outcome of the nuclear talks with more precision. However, the way ahead is still surrounded by ambiguity and problems. Under the present circumstances, analysts focusing […] The post Three Possible Scenarios For Iran’s Nuclear Talks – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia...
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Posted: 23 Nov 2014 12:16 PM PST
By Joel Lim In his response to Graham Land’s earlier article, Mr KT Tan paints an interesting picture as he “analyses” the issue of shark finning through a cultural-imperialist lens (‘Western Hypocrisy In The Shark’s Fin Debate – Analysis’, Eurasia Review, 27 August 2014). While Tan’s argument is seemingly sound on principle, he may have […] The post Shark Finning Debate: Not Losing Focus – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 23 Nov 2014 12:02 PM PST
The cabinet voted in favor of the controversial “Jewish state bill,” with the preceding discussion descended into a shouting match between ministers on Sunday. “People ask who needs this bill; we have managed 66 years without it,” Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said ahead of the meeting. “And I ask, who needs the Basic Law: Human […] The post Netanyahu’s Cabinet Approves ‘Jewish State Bill’ appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 23 Nov 2014 12:00 PM PST
(RFE/RL) — The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency says that some 550 citizens of the country have traveled to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State (IS) militant group. Hans-Georg Maassen told the newspaper “Welt am Sonntag” in an interview published on November 23 that the number of Germans fighting alongside IS militants […] The post Germany’s Intelligence Chief Says At Least 550 Germans In IS Rank appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 23 Nov 2014 11:57 AM PST
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and his wife met Sunday with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, during the last day of his visit to Turkey. The Bidens visited the Church of St. George, a Greek-Orthodox cathedral in Istanbul, known as Constantinople during the Byzantine era, before heading to the historic […] The post Biden Wraps Up Visit To Turkey appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 23 Nov 2014 11:54 AM PST
It will not shock readers to hear that quite often legislation on Capitol Hill is not as advertised. When Congress wants to do something particularly objectionable, they tend give it a fine-sounding name. The PATRIOT Act is perhaps the best-known example. The legislation had been drafted well before 9/11 but was going nowhere. Then the […] The post Ron Paul: Defeat Of USA FREEDOM Act Is A Victory For Freedom – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 23 Nov 2014 11:49 AM PST
A 12-year-old boy, who was shot in the stomach by the police while playing with a toy gun “resembling” a real pistol, has died in a Cleveland hospital. The youngster passed away on Sunday morning at the Metro Health Medical Center, the family’s attorney said. The shooting occurred on Saturday around 3:30 pm at Cudell […] The post 12-Year-Old Boy Carrying Toy Gun Shot Dead By Cleveland Police appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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