Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Tuesday, 19 April 2016

“Why Saudi Reforms Matter For British Businesses – Analysis” plus 29 more : Eurasia Review

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Posted: 19 Apr 2016 12:26 AM PDT
Announcing that it will be selling 5% of state-owned company Aramco, the Saudi government’s partial privatisation of the world’s largest and most secretive company has revealed an unprecedented opportunity for foreign investors in general and...
Posted: 19 Apr 2016 12:15 AM PDT
In my line of work, you come to expect a wide variety of defamatory attacks, threats, and harassment. I’ve been arrested by Putin’s police in Moscow, dodged sniper bullets in Bangkok (or close enough for...
Posted: 19 Apr 2016 12:11 AM PDT
Why is there so little discussion about one of Bernie Sanders’s most important proposals – to tax financial speculation? Buying and selling stocks and bonds in order to beat others who are buying and selling...
Posted: 19 Apr 2016 12:08 AM PDT
Anyone (individual or family) who enters the USA is required to fill out CBP Form 6059B, whereupon one must provide various personal information and answer several questions. One of the questions asks whether one is...
Posted: 19 Apr 2016 12:04 AM PDT
The Dignitatis Humanae Institute was privileged to be among the select participants at a highly exclusive invitation-only conference hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 11:59 PM PDT
Minutes after news broke Sunday, April 18 that “The Jungle Book” dramatically leaped past first-weekend estimates, box office watchers were predicting the Disney live-action remake would easily hold the No. 1 position in its second...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 11:55 PM PDT
Last year, Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, and it made international news. Pro-Ukrainian factions considered Russian actions to be unfair regional despotism, whereas pro-Russian groups considered the annexation to be justified. Amidst all of this,...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 11:50 PM PDT
Floods in Khuzestan have engulfed the protected park for Iran’s yellow deer, further threatening the survival of this endangered species. The head of Khuzestan province’s Department of the Environment told ILNA on Sunday April 18...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 11:45 PM PDT
Scientists from Heidelberg University have developed a novel mathematical model to explore cellular processes: with the corresponding software, they now are able to simulate how large collections of cells behave on given geometrical structures. The...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 11:39 PM PDT
According to a Pew Research Center study of the ways religion influences the daily lives of Americans finds that people who are highly religious are more engaged with their extended families, more likely to volunteer,...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 11:30 PM PDT
By Naveed Jamali* Reading about the emerging case of Lieutenant Commander Edward C. Lin, a U.S. Navy officer arrested for allegedly spying for a foreign country, I was brought back to my time living the...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 11:18 PM PDT
Saudi Arabia’s Council of Ministers issued a sweeping new regulation on April 13, 2016, curtailing the powers of the country’s religious police. The council removed the authority of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 11:16 PM PDT
The EU welcomes the arrival of the Presidency Council in Tripoli on 30 March 2016 and commends the courage and determination of Prime Minister Serraj, the other members of the Presidency Council and supporting actors...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 11:12 PM PDT
By Andre Ishii The recent revelations of the so–called Panama Papers – a massive 2.6 TB collection of data concerning the hidden shell companies of the world’s leaders and other famed personalities – have sent...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 11:05 PM PDT
By Tridivesh Singh Maini and Manish Vaid* The removal of sanctions on Iran has opened new vistas for many foreign investors and the recent back to back visits of Iran by India’s Petroleum Minister, Dharmendra...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 11:01 PM PDT
Bad news: it’s not just obesity that can increase the risk of heart failure. A few extra kilos, especially around the gut, are dangerous, too. A BMI over 30 is considered obese, and the connection...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 10:58 PM PDT
Ensuring implanted therapeutic devices are compatible with diagnostic systems will improve neurological healthcare and create new market potential. The EU-funded DENECOR project was launched in 2013 in order to address a key challenge facing cutting...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 10:54 PM PDT
By Khalid Kazimov Iran and the European Union will set up a joint working group on climate action and energy, an Iranian minister said. At a meeting with EU Climate Action and Energy Commissioner Miguel...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 10:47 PM PDT
The more prominent reasons behind the collapse of prior Israeli-Palestinian negotiations include disagreement on rules of engagement, a failure to delink the conflicting issues, a lack of trust, political factionalism, power disparities in the negotiations and an...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 10:42 PM PDT
By Emre Tunç Sakaoğlu Almost five years have passed since the former pseudo-civilian government of Myanmar departed from half a century of authoritarian rule to embark on a tedious quest towards democratization. With last November’s...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 10:38 PM PDT
By Cheryl Pellerin U.S. military forces in Japan are providing support to relief efforts by the government of Japan as it responds in the aftermath of two damaging earthquakes that have occurred in the region,...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 10:33 PM PDT
The death toll from Ecuador’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake rose to 413 on Monday, with many victims still believed to be trapped under the rubble. Rescue efforts are ongoing, with nine countries sending experts to help out....
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 10:27 PM PDT
State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday called for a constitutional amendment that would create a federal democratic union that includes all Myanmar’s ethnic groups in order to bring peace to the Southeastern Asian...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 05:48 PM PDT
A NATO manual marked “restricted” and full of codewords, ciphers, coordinates, and radio frequencies for its war drills this month somehow made its way into the email inboxes of fishermen and ferry operators, according to...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 05:45 PM PDT
By Reeta Tremblay* On April 4, 2016, after three months of Governor’s rule in the ever-volatile Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti was sworn in as its thirteenth Chief Minister. Her appointment to...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 05:42 PM PDT
By Mitchell Blatt* A week before America’s tax day, the Washington Free Beacon reported that the U.S. Treasury collected a “record-high” amount of taxes in nominal terms in the first half of fiscal year 2016....
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 05:33 PM PDT
(RFE/RL) — The United States will send 200 additional soldiers and a number of Apache helicopters to Iraq to assist in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) extremist group. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 05:29 PM PDT
Three months after the implementation of the Iran nuclear agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the Iranian Foreign Ministry has submitted a new report to the Parliament (Majlis) that provides an...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 05:13 PM PDT
President Barak Obama has a challenge and an opportunity when he meets this week first with Saudi King Salman and then with the leaders of the six Gulf states. His challenge is to manage increasingly...
Posted: 18 Apr 2016 05:08 PM PDT
By Aniket Bhavthankar* After the creation of Bangladesh on December 16, 1971, Japan and Bangladesh established diplomatic relations in 1972. Since then, Japan has been generously donating through Overseas Development Assistance (a provision established by...