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- Saudi Arabia: King Salman’s New Team Takes Charge
- Egypt: Video Shows Police Shot Woman At Protest
- US And Seven Wrong Strategies In Diplomacy With Iran – OpEd
- What Next For Libya? – Analysis
- Pope Francis’ Soft Power Amidst The Crisis Of The International Order – Analysis
- Pakistan: Shia Carnage In Shikarpur – OpEd
- Latin America Sees Stall In Decline Of Poverty Rates
- Hindu Group Urges Withdrawal Of Lord Ganesh Shaped Edible Chocolate
- Egypt Releases Jailed Al Jazeera Journalist Peter Greste
- Stalled Global Growth Threatens US-EU Trade Talks – Analysis
- A Food Secure Asia By 2025: Addressing Vulnerable Groups – Analysis
- Sri Lanka: A Precarious Transition And National Government? – Analysis
- Modi’s China Problem – Analysis
- Obama Casually US Role On Ukraine Coup?
- New Zealand Robustly Defends Nuclear Ban – OpEd
- Proof Closer That Our Universe Is Filled With Life – OpEd
- Iraq: Islamic State Executes 24 Doctors In Mosul
- Pope Francis To Visit Bosnia-Herzegovina In June
- Female Jihadist Geo-Tracked From Canada To ISIS Frontline – Report
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 03:27 PM PST
By P.K. Abdul Ghafour Saudi Arabia is all set for a new era under Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman as the newly appointed ministers and regional governors took oath of office in front of the king at Al-Yamamah Palace on Sunday. King Salman urged the new governors and ministers to give top […] The post Saudi Arabia: King Salman’s New Team Takes Charge appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 03:24 PM PST
Photographs, videos, and witness statements strongly indicate that a member of Egypt’s security forces was responsible for fatally shooting a female protester in a downtown Cairo square on January 24, 2015, Human Rights Watch said today. Evidence analyzed by Human Rights Watch shows a uniformed police officer apparently directing a masked man who fires a […] The post Egypt: Video Shows Police Shot Woman At Protest appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 03:22 PM PST
By Seyed Hossein Mousavian* Former deputy head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council for foreign policy has recently taken part in a meeting of American elites in the northeastern state of Maine to discuss reasons behind the failure of the United States diplomacy toward Iran during the past 35 years. The meeting was organized by […] The post US And Seven Wrong Strategies In Diplomacy With Iran – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 03:20 PM PST
By Mary Fitzgerald If any further evidence was needed of the importance of ending the power struggle that has plunged Libya into chaos since last summer, it was the reminder this week that sympathisers of the so-called Islamic State (IS) are keen to exploit the resulting power vacuum. In a 27 January attack claimed by […] The post What Next For Libya? – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 03:17 PM PST
By Odomaro Mubangizi* A recent Pambazuka News issue carried an article by the world reknowned scholar-activist Prof Yash Tandon discussing Pope Francis’ ideas on global poverty as contained in his encyclical (papal letters addressed to the church and the world) ‘The Joy of the Gospel’. Prof Tandon makes an accurate analysis of the Pope’s critique […] The post Pope Francis’ Soft Power Amidst The Crisis Of The International Order – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 03:08 PM PST
In the second attack of 2015 on a mosque of the Shia sect in Shikarpur in Sindh over 60 people were martyred. The first attack was in Rawalpindi. Sindh police has een prompt in terming it a suicide attack. Reuters reported that Jundullah, a splinter group of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which last year pledged support […] The post Pakistan: Shia Carnage In Shikarpur – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 03:03 PM PST
“Poverty affected 28 percent of Latin America’s population in 2014, revealing that its decline has stalled at around that level since 2012, while indigence rose to 12.0 percent from 11.3 percent during the same two-year period in an overall context of economic deceleration”, revealed the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in […] The post Latin America Sees Stall In Decline Of Poverty Rates appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 03:00 PM PST
An upset Hindu group has urged “Bond Street Chocolate” of New York to withdraw its “Ganesh Chocolate”, which is a figurine of Hindu deity Lord Ganesh made with chocolate, calling it highly inappropriate. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada today, said that Lord Ganesh was highly revered in Hinduism and was meant […] The post Hindu Group Urges Withdrawal Of Lord Ganesh Shaped Edible Chocolate appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 02:57 PM PST
Families of journalists involved in the Al Jazeera trial, said that Australian journalist Peter Greste left prison early Sunday morning. The Australian Embassy could not confirm the news, but said it would answer questions from the media on Monday. Greste was initially handed seven years in a maximum security prison over charges of aiding a […] The post Egypt Releases Jailed Al Jazeera Journalist Peter Greste appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 02:54 PM PST
By Jax Jacobsen The World Bank, earlier this month in its Global Economic Outlook for 2015, warned of ‘disappointing’ global trade growth in the international economy. This may spell trouble for ongoing negotiations to secure one of the biggest trade deals in history – the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) free trade agreement between […] The post Stalled Global Growth Threatens US-EU Trade Talks – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 02:50 PM PST
Despite numerous international and regional conversations on food security of late, the problem of hunger and malnourishment still persists in Asia. There is a need to relook existing strategies to secure food for affected groups in the region if the vision of a food secure Asia is to be realised by 2025. By Tamara Nair* […] The post A Food Secure Asia By 2025: Addressing Vulnerable Groups – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 02:46 PM PST
The last time Sri Lanka had a president and cabinet of ministers from two different parties was in the 2001 – 2004 period: the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the United National Party (UNP), respectively. President Chandrika Kumaratunga (SLFP) was re-elected in 1999 and in 2001 the coalition headed by Ranil Wickramesinge (UNP) won […] The post Sri Lanka: A Precarious Transition And National Government? – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 02:43 PM PST
By C. Raja Mohan* Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to expand the engagement with the United States on regional security in the Asia Pacific and the Indian Ocean has set off much hand-wringing in New Delhi’s foreign community about the potential Chinese reaction. This is not surprising, given the deep concerns in the UPA government […] The post Modi’s China Problem – Analysis appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 02:41 PM PST
The United States took an active part in the February 2014 coup in Ukraine, which installed pro-Western authorities, US President Obama told CNN Sunday. “And since Mr. Putin made this decision around Crimea and Ukraine — not because of some grand strategy, but essentially because he was caught off-balance by the protests in the Maidan […] The post Obama Casually US Role On Ukraine Coup? appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 02:36 PM PST
By Neena Bhandari The small Pacific island country of New Zealand has punched above its weight in the international disarmament debate. For nearly three decades it has pursued an active nuclear free policy, banning entry of US warships carrying nuclear weapons or propelled by nuclear power into its ports despite being part of the ANZUS […] The post New Zealand Robustly Defends Nuclear Ban – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 02:31 PM PST
During Medieval times almost all Christian theologians accepted the Ptolemaic earth centered Greek view of the universe as an absolute universal truth. The Catholic Inquisition punished those who dared to voice other ideas. I do not know why they believe that the rarity of life in our universe proves that God must have created life […] The post Proof Closer That Our Universe Is Filled With Life – OpEd appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 02:27 PM PST
By Khalid al-Taie The “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” (ISIL) has carried out brutal acts against health workers in Mosul since seizing the city in June, including killings, intimidation and persecution. From June until mid-January, the group executed 14 doctors, Iraq’s Independent High Human Rights Commission said. On Tuesday (January 27th), Kurdish daily […] The post Iraq: Islamic State Executes 24 Doctors In Mosul appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 02:24 PM PST
By Elise Harris During his Sunday Angelus address Pope Francis announced he will visit the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo in June, where WWI broke out in 1914 with the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand. “Dear brothers and sisters, I would like to announce that Saturday, June 6, God willing, I will go to Sarajevo, […] The post Pope Francis To Visit Bosnia-Herzegovina In June appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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Posted: 01 Feb 2015 02:21 PM PST
A woman from Canada, displaying staunch support to jihadists, has been tracked all the way from Toronto to the ISIS stronghold in Syria via Twitter geo-tagging. She even infiltrated hard to reach “enemy” territories, a Canadian intelligence group says. According to a new report from the Canada-based open source intelligence research group iBRABO, one woman […] The post Female Jihadist Geo-Tracked From Canada To ISIS Frontline – Report appeared first on Eurasia Review.
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