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- Federalism Debates In Iraq And Autonomy For Basra Province – Analysis
- Bangladesh Tribunal Sentences Islamist Party Leader To Death For War Crimes
- Greece, Cyprus Coordinate To Thwart ISIL Recruits, Gunrunners
- Mali: Refugees In North Fear Reprisals
- US Law Enforcement Fatalities Up 24 Percent In 2014
- Survey Names Justin Bieber As Worst Celebrity Neighbor In 2014
- US Calls For Prisoner Swap With Iran To Free Former Marine
- EU Welcomes Azerbaijan Pardon Of Prisoners, Concerns Over RFE/RL Closure
- Saudi Arabia Signs Solar Deal With General Electric
- Eastern Ukraine: Humanitarian Disaster Looms As Food Aid Blocked, Warns Amnesty
- The Challenge Of The Islamic State And US Policy – OpEd
- Evacuation Of Bodies From AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Begins
- A Tribute To Azerbaijani Scientist, Yusif Mammadaliyev – OpEd
- Palestine Statehood Bill Fails At UNSC, Blocked By US, Australia
- Syria: Year-End Predictions And Analysis
- Religious Freedom At Risk In India – OpEd
- Pakistan And Taliban: Good Beast And Bad Beast – OpEd
- India: Dangers Lurk Behind Democratic Triumph In J&K – Analysis
- India: Cyclical Butchery In Assam – Analysis
- Nepal: Political Parties Not Sincere In Adhering To Deadline – Analysis
- Sri Lanka: Rajapaksa Says Foreign Forces Trying To Set Up Puppet Government
- US Rejects New Palestinian UN Statehood Resolution
- Quader Mollah, Shahbag Movement And Bangladesh’s Search For Identity – Analysis
- Silk Road Project And Opportunities To Improve China-Turkey Relations – Analysis
- US-Led Airstrikes Continue To Pound IS In Iraq, Syria
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 03:13 PM PST
By Ömer Faruk Topal Whether or not Iraq will maintain its territorial integrity is one of the issues that almost everyone studying Iraq analyzes. While debates on fragmentation focus mostly on Kurdish independence or Sunni insurgency, the position of the majority of the country, the Shiites, has often been overlooked. This situation changed after autonomy […] The post Federalism Debates In Iraq And Autonomy For Basra Province – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 02:59 PM PST
A Bangladesh war crimes tribunal sentenced an Islamist party leader to death on Tuesday, Dec 30 after convicting him of atrocities committed during a 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, Reuters reports. A.T.M. Azharul Islam, 62, assistant secretary general of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was found guilty of five out of six charges including the murder […] The post Bangladesh Tribunal Sentences Islamist Party Leader To Death For War Crimes appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 02:56 PM PST
By Andy Dabilis The Greek police are investigating whether criminal gangs are running guns from Albania through Greece to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria, while Cypriot authorities are trying to prevent would-be jihad fighters from going through that country to join the terrorists, officials said. While authorities work to […] The post Greece, Cyprus Coordinate To Thwart ISIL Recruits, Gunrunners appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 02:54 PM PST
By Jemal Oumar Two years after the cities of northern Mali were freed from the control of terrorist groups, more than 100,000 refugees are still living outside the country. Many of those now residing abroad are in Mauritania, Niger and Burkina Faso, the UN reported. According to Touareg writer and journalist Intagrist El Ansari, these […] The post Mali: Refugees In North Fear Reprisals appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 02:50 PM PST
Law enforcement fatalities in the U.S. rose 24 percent in 2014, reversing what had been two years of dramatic declines in line of duty deaths, based on preliminary data compiled and released today by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF). According to the NLEOMF report, 126 federal, state, local, tribal and territorial officers […] The post US Law Enforcement Fatalities Up 24 Percent In 2014 appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 02:46 PM PST
Pop star Justin Bieber has been named the least desirable neighbor of 2014 in a survey, and earned the most “worst neighbor” votes in the survey’s eight-year history. On the upside, Americans would most like to be neighbors with comedian and late-night-show host Jimmy Fallon in 2015, according to the eighth annual Zillow Celebrity Neighbor […] The post Survey Names Justin Bieber As Worst Celebrity Neighbor In 2014 appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 02:41 PM PST
The United States has proposed exchanging Amir Hekmati, the former US marine currently jailed in Iran, for a number of Iranian prisoners being held in the U.S., Hekmati’s lawyer has told the media. ISNA reports that according to Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabayi, the U.S. has sent word that it is willing to exchange Hekmati with Iranian […] The post US Calls For Prisoner Swap With Iran To Free Former Marine appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 02:38 PM PST
The New Year pardon announced by Azerbaijan President Aliyev for several prisoners, including a number of journalists and opposition youth activists held in detention, is a welcome step, said a EU External Action spokesperson in a statement. “At the same time a decision to close the Baku bureau of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty contravening Azerbaijan’s […] The post EU Welcomes Azerbaijan Pardon Of Prisoners, Concerns Over RFE/RL Closure appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 02:33 PM PST
By P.K. Abdul Ghafour The Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) signed a SR4.5 billion contract with General Electric on Tuesday to establish the Kingdom’s first fossil fuel and solar power plant near the Red Sea port of Dhuba in the Tabuk region. The 600-megawatt (MW) integrated solar combined cycle (ISCC) plant will primarily burn natural gas, […] The post Saudi Arabia Signs Solar Deal With General Electric appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 02:29 PM PST
Pro-Kyiv volunteer battalions are increasingly blocking humanitarian aid into eastern Ukraine in a move which will exacerbate a pending humanitarian crisis in the run up to Christmas and New Year, said Amnesty International. “As winter sets in, the already desperate situation in eastern Ukraine is being made even worse by the volunteer battalions preventing food […] The post Eastern Ukraine: Humanitarian Disaster Looms As Food Aid Blocked, Warns Amnesty appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 02:26 PM PST
The Western response to the rebellion in Syria, encouraging and fostering civil war, at the cost of death or misery for millions of Syrian refugees, has only made the situation worse for most Syrians. By Karl Meyer* and Kathy Kelly* What to do about the political mess in the Middle East and the rise of […] The post The Challenge Of The Islamic State And US Policy – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 02:21 PM PST
Three out of the six bodies spotted in the Karimata Strait waters, west of Kalimantan Island, have been evacuated by a team of the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) on Tuesday. Basarnas Chief Vice Marshal F.H. Bambang Soelistyo confirmed that the bodies and debris, suspected to be from the missing AirAsia QZ8501 aircraft, were […] The post Evacuation Of Bodies From AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Begins appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 02:16 PM PST
Every year on December 31, the global community of scientists celebrates the birthday of a great Azerbaijani academician and former Chairman of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan SSR, Yusif Haydar oglu Mammadaliyev. Haydar was born in the historic city of Ordubad in the Autonomous Republic of Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan) on December 31, 1905. Mammadaliyev […] The post A Tribute To Azerbaijani Scientist, Yusif Mammadaliyev – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 02:07 PM PST
The United Nations Security Council failed Tuesday to adopt a draft resolution calling for Israel, within three years, to withdraw from Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 and, within one year, for a negotiated solution to the conflict. The draft drew the support of just eight countries —Argentina, Chad, Chile, China, France, Jordan, Luxembourg, Russian Federation […] The post Palestine Statehood Bill Fails At UNSC, Blocked By US, Australia appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 06:10 AM PST
Syria will become increasingly fragmented in 2015. The Somalia-ization of the country is inevitable so long as the international community degrades all centers of power in Syria and the opposition fails to unite. Who owns what? The four strongest authorities in Syria are the Assad government, ISIS, Nusra, and the Kurds. They rule close to […] The post Syria: Year-End Predictions And Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 05:49 AM PST
By John Dayal* There is an element of irony, which has not gone entirely unnoticed, in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement that what the world knows as Christmas will henceforth be celebrated in India as “Good Governance Day.” A slew of activities in honour of the first Bharatiya Janata Party Prime Minister, who was […] The post Religious Freedom At Risk In India – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 05:40 AM PST
By Mahar Munawar* December 16 was already a black day in our chequered history. The brutal attack on APS Peshawar, has now made it even blacker. The nation stands united, aggrieved and outraged at the irreparable loss of the innocent children who were mercilessly massacred by the merchants of death. The barbarity of the attackers […] The post Pakistan And Taliban: Good Beast And Bad Beast – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 05:18 AM PST
By Ajit Kumar Singh* For the third consecutive time, the electorate in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has thrown up a hung Assembly. The People’s Democratic Party (PDP), with 28 seats in an 87 seat Assembly, has emerged as the single largest party, followed by the Bharatiya Janata Party, with 25 seats; the National Conference with […] The post India: Dangers Lurk Behind Democratic Triumph In J&K – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 05:16 AM PST
By K.P.S. Gill* Every few months, one or other community in Assam is put in danger. Bloody slaughters are inflicted again and again, and Governments quickly trot out their usual alibis for failure, announce a range of knee jerk responses – principally the injection of more Central Forces and escalation of ‘counterinsurgency operations’ – and […] The post India: Cyclical Butchery In Assam – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 05:15 AM PST
By Dr. S. Chandrasekharan There appears to be no seriousness on the part of Nepal’s political leaders to expedite the constitution drafting process. Though the deadline of January 22 was a self-imposed one, it was one date on which all the political parties had expressed their commitment at the time of the elections for the […] The post Nepal: Political Parties Not Sincere In Adhering To Deadline – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 05:10 AM PST
Certain foreign forces are plotting with some opposition political elements to set up a puppet government in Sri Lanka, according to President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Rajapaksa made the comments Monday while addressing a group of Sri Lankan expatriates working in Europe who are in Colombo. The group, representing the organization ‘Sri Lankans in Europe’ told the […] The post Sri Lanka: Rajapaksa Says Foreign Forces Trying To Set Up Puppet Government appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 04:57 AM PST
Palestinian envoys presented Monday a more toughly-worded UN draft resolution on statehood that could come up for a vote at the Security Council this week, despite US opposition. The United States again rejected the text that would pave the way to a Palestinian state by setting a 12-month deadline to reach a final peace deal […] The post US Rejects New Palestinian UN Statehood Resolution appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 04:55 AM PST
By Rupak Bhattacharjee* The trial of suspected war criminals has been a central theme of public discourse in Bangladesh since the Awami League (AL) government initiated the process in 2010. The party led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina endorsed the long-standing popular demand of trying the alleged war criminals and collaborators of the Pakistani forces […] The post Quader Mollah, Shahbag Movement And Bangladesh’s Search For Identity – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia...
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 04:52 AM PST
By Selcuk Colakoglu Turkey’s Contemporary Silk Road Project and China’s project named ‘One Belt and One Road’, or the ‘Silk Road Economic Belt’ (SREB), are providing both sides with great opportunities. Indeed, the construction of the ‘Contemporary Silk Road’ has been a matter of debate since early 1990s, but the project is yet to be […] The post Silk Road Project And Opportunities To Improve China-Turkey Relations – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 30 Dec 2014 04:47 AM PST
US and partner-nation military forces on Tuesday continued to attack Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists in Syria and Iraq, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported. In Syria, six fighter aircraft airstrikes near Kobani destroyed three ISIL buildings, damaged another ISIL building and struck an ISIL tactical unit. A fighter […] The post US-Led Airstrikes Continue To Pound IS In Iraq, Syria appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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