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- China’s ‘Nine-Dash Line’ Claim: US Misunderstands – Analysis
- Iran Viewpoint: Saudi Arabia Seeks Rapprochement With Iraq – OpEd
- Iran: Rohani Insists Lower Global Oil Prices Won’t Pressure Country
- Sri Lanka: Did Chinese Model Of Growth Defeat Rajapaksa? – Analysis
- Treasure Hunters Find Mysterious Shipwreck In Lake Michigan
- Microsoft Critical Of Google For Exposing Security Flaw
- Liberia And Sierra Leone Feel Economic Effects Of Ebola
- World Bank Says Economic Prospects To Improve, But Highlights Downside Risks
- The Importance Of Being Angry – OpEd
- Saudi Arabia: Putting On A Brave Face – Analysis
- Sri Lanka: Pope Francis Canonizes Nation’s First Saint
- Saudi Arabia Calls For Solidarity With Security Forces Against Islamic State
- Georgia: President Hopes Government Won’t Snub His State Of Nation Address
- Repressing Anger About Important Matters Makes Negotiators Lose Focus
- The Dangers Of ‘Poppers’ Under-Reported
- Rescuing Farmland After A Flood
- Five Ways To Play The Oil Price Plunge – Analysis
- Burma Needs To Amend Biased Citizenship Law, Says HRW
- Mariano Rajoy Attends Swearing In Of Spain’s New Attorney General Before King
- Can Inhaled Oxygen Cause Cancer?
- Sri Lanka: Return Of Rajapaksa And Post-Election Politics – OpEd
- Future Of Davos Is In Kyrgyzstan – Analysis
- Post Presidential Elections In Sri Lanka: A New Chapter With India? – Analysis
- Russia To Boost Military Capabilities In Crimea, Kaliningrad, Arctic
- Pakistan’s Motives For Escalation Of Border Clashes On India’s Jammu International Border – Analysis
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:45 PM PST
The US Department of State’s Paper on China’s Maritime Claims in the South China Sea was published on 5 December 2014. It has confused China’s “dash-line” claim. By Ye Qiang and Jiang Zongqiang* China’s controversial “nine-dash line” claim in the South China Sea has triggered long-running misunderstanding in the United States government due to its […] The post China’s ‘Nine-Dash Line’ Claim: US Misunderstands – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:40 PM PST
By Ali Akbar Asadi* Saudi Arabia moved to close down its embassy in Iraq soon after the former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, attacked and occupied its southern neighbor, Kuwait, in 1990. The lack of diplomatic relations between Riyadh and Baghdad has continued from that time for a period of a quarter of a century. Of […] The post Iran Viewpoint: Saudi Arabia Seeks Rapprochement With Iraq – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:31 PM PST
Iranian President Hassan Rohani says the recent fall in global crude prices will not pressure the Islamic Republic. President Rohani said, “Iran won’t be pressured by the slump in oil prices” as it has envisaged economic plans to compensate for the drop. Rohani said that his administration has based the country’s budget on the lowest […] The post Iran: Rohani Insists Lower Global Oil Prices Won’t Pressure Country appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:26 PM PST
By Avinash Godbole Mahindra Rajapaksa lost to his rival and one time ally Maithripala Sirisena in the Presidential elections held on 8 January 2015. Sirisena of the New Democratic Front (NDF) won 51.28 percent of the votes against the 47.58 percent secured by Rajapaksa of the United People’s Front Alliance. Given Rajapaksa’s popularity in the […] The post Sri Lanka: Did Chinese Model Of Growth Defeat Rajapaksa? – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:21 PM PST
Beneath the cold waves of Lake Michigan rests an aging shipwreck, its wooden planks encrusted with brown-and-gray zebra mussels, that may be the remnants of a 17th-century ship called the Griffin, two Michigan-based treasure hunters say. French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle built the Griffin in 1679, but it was lost in Lake […] The post Treasure Hunters Find Mysterious Shipwreck In Lake Michigan appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:17 PM PST
Microsoft has criticized Google for highlighting a security flaw in Windows 8.1 before it had the time to fix it, Digital Spy said. The computing giant’s security chief Chris Betz said that the search engine firm’s actions were more about one-upmanship than “principles”. He wrote in a blog post: “We asked Google to work with […] The post Microsoft Critical Of Google For Exposing Security Flaw appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:15 PM PST
The socio-economic impacts of Ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone are far-reaching and persistent, according to two new World Bank Group reports. Both countries continue to experience job losses, despite their differing health outlooks. These impacts have not been limited to the areas where infections have been the highest, which points to economy-wide slowdowns. As […] The post Liberia And Sierra Leone Feel Economic Effects Of Ebola appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:12 PM PST
Following another disappointing year in 2014, developing countries should see an uptick in growth this year, boosted in part by soft oil prices, a stronger US economy, continued low global interest rates, and receding domestic headwinds in several large emerging markets, according to the World Bank Group’s Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report, released Tuesday. After […] The post World Bank Says Economic Prospects To Improve, But Highlights Downside Risks appeared first on Eurasia...
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 06:02 PM PST
Unfortunately, in many circles, anger has a bad reputation. There are several reasons for this. One reason is that we are scared when people are angry at us, so we try to scare people, especially children, out of being angry. By doing this, we hope to escape responsibility for our dysfunctional behavior. Another reason that […] The post The Importance Of Being Angry – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:53 PM PST
By Ana Echagüe* Saudi Arabia is trying to manage instability by clamping down domestically on any expression of dissent and helping prop up fellow authoritarian states such as Egypt and Bahrain. It is continuing its struggle for regional power and influence with Iran, in part via proxies in third countries such as Syria. In the […] The post Saudi Arabia: Putting On A Brave Face – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:36 PM PST
Pope Francis on Wednesday canonized Joseph Vaz, Sri Lanka’s first saint, praising the 17th century priest’s love for the Sri Lankan people, his “missionary zeal” and his example for all Christians. “Leaving behind his home, his family, the comfort of his familiar surroundings, he responded to the call to go forth, to speak of Christ […] The post Sri Lanka: Pope Francis Canonizes Nation’s First Saint appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:25 PM PST
By Sultan al-Barei Saudi Arabia stepped up security on its border with Iraq following last week’s suspected “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” (ISIL) attack on Suweif border post, which drew widespread condemnation. The January 5 attack at dawn killed the commander of Saudi Arabian border guards in the Northern Province, Brig. Gen. Awdah […] The post Saudi Arabia Calls For Solidarity With Security Forces Against Islamic State appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:22 PM PST
(Civil.Ge) — Georgia’s President Giorgi Margvelashvili expressed hope that government members will attend his annual state of the nation address in Parliament in Kutaisi in February. Government members were not present at President Margvelashvili’s first annual address in Parliamet last year. “I hope that last year’s occurrence, when the government was not able to be […] The post Georgia: President Hopes Government Won’t Snub His State Of Nation Address appeared first on...
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:19 PM PST
Negotiators shouldn’t always try to keep their cool during a heated meeting. Trying to suppress their anger about important points related to the negotiations could, in fact, cause them to lose the focus of discussions, says Bo Shao of the University of New South Wales in Australia, who led a study in Springer’s Journal of […] The post Repressing Anger About Important Matters Makes Negotiators Lose Focus appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:17 PM PST
While it is widely known that “huffing” – inhaling organic solvents or propellants to achieve a “high” – is extremely dangerous, new products being sold as “poppers” and distributed throughout the US, primarily to men who have sex with men (MSM), actually contain harmful solvents and propellants and pose the same health risks as huffing. […] The post The Dangers Of ‘Poppers’ Under-Reported appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:14 PM PST
When levees fail, either naturally or as an intentional breach, as was the case on the Mississippi River in 2011, an orchestrated effort is made to remove or repair flood-damaged homes and other structures. A University of Illinois soil scientist believes that an equivalent effort should be coordinated to assess soil damages, including how flooding […] The post Rescuing Farmland After A Flood appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:06 PM PST
By Andrew Topf The collapse of the oil price has created losers and winners, and like every major movement in a commodity sector, the trick for investors is figuring out which side of the trade to be on. The most obvious victim of the slide in Brent and WTI prices over the last 6 months […] The post Five Ways To Play The Oil Price Plunge – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:03 PM PST
The Burmese government should accept the United Nations call to amend the discriminatory law that deprives Rohingya Muslims of Burmese citizenship, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday in a letter to President Thein Sein. On December 29, 2014, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution calling on the Burmese government to amend the 1982 Citizenship Law […] The post Burma Needs To Amend Biased Citizenship Law, Says HRW appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 05:01 PM PST
Spanish President Mariano Rajoy attended the ceremony at Zarzuela Palace during which the new State’s Attorney General, Consuelo Madrigal Martínez-Pereda, was sworn in before His Majesty the King of Spain. The Minister for Justice, Rafael Catalá, acted as Commissioner for Oaths. The ceremony was also attended by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and […] The post Mariano Rajoy Attends Swearing In Of Spain’s New Attorney General Before King appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:58 PM PST
The ancient physician/alchemist, Paracelsus, said: “The dose makes the poison.” According to a new study published in PeerJ, even oxygen may fall prey to the above adage. While essential to human life, aspects of oxygen metabolism may promote cancer. Capitalizing on the inverse relationship of oxygen concentration with elevation, researchers found lower rates of lung […] The post Can Inhaled Oxygen Cause Cancer? appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:54 PM PST
Sri Lanka successfully concluded the much anticipated presidential election on January 8, 2015. The New Democratic Front (NDF), or the opposition alliance candidate Maithripala Sirisena, won the election. He polled 51.3 percent of the total votes cast and his rival, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, managed 47.6 percent of the votes. The successful conclusion of the […] The post Sri Lanka: Return Of Rajapaksa And Post-Election Politics – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:48 PM PST
By Francesco Brunello Zanitti* Is the new Russian approach towards China and India, vector for a multipolar world order? Will the new Davos – gathering between vanity fair and summit of the mightiest – in future take place in Kyrgyzstan – Central Asian country surrounded by the most prosperous and promising powers? The last months […] The post Future Of Davos Is In Kyrgyzstan – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:40 PM PST
By V Suryanarayan* The unprecedented democratic upsurge in Sri Lanka, which brought to an end the despotic regime of Mahinda Rajapaksa, has been hailed as the harbinger of a new chapter in Sri Lanka’s turbulent history. While the minority votes tilted the balance in favour of Maitripala Sirisena, it must be underlined that the support […] The post Post Presidential Elections In Sri Lanka: A New Chapter With India? – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 13 Jan 2015 04:38 PM PST
In 2015, the Russian Defense Ministry plans to focus on boosting military capabilities in Crimea, the Kaliningrad region, and the Arctic, while carrying out other planned modernizations of the armed forces and drafting a new long-term defense plan. “We are drawing up a new Russian Federation Defense Plan for 2016-2020 to ensure timely placing and […] The post Russia To Boost Military Capabilities In Crimea, Kaliningrad, Arctic appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Pakistan’s Motives For Escalation Of Border Clashes On India’s Jammu International Border – Analysis
Posted: 13 Jan 2015 07:39 AM PST
By Dr Subhash Kapila Pakistan seems to have gone on an overdrive in conflict-escalation since about August 2014 and more from October 2014 in terms of border clashes along the International Border stretch of India’s Jammu & Kashmir State. Border clashes along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir have been a part of […] The post Pakistan’s Motives For Escalation Of Border Clashes On India’s Jammu International Border – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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