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“What Can African Union Do To Foster Health Development On The Continent? – Analysis” plus 24 more : Eurasia Review

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• What Can African Union Do To Foster Health Development On The Continent? – Analysis
• China’s ‘Great Leap Outward': The AIIB In Context – Analysis
• US Congressional Reception Welcome India’s New Ambassador Singh
• Obama Does Have A Strategy In Iraq: It’s Called Escalation – OpEd
• Humanity Beware! – OpEd
• War Without Gunfire – OpEd
• Anticipatory Bribery – OpEd
• PPP Suffers Setback In Guyana Elections – OpEd
• Mediterranean Migrant Crossings In 2015 Already Top 100,000
• INTERPOL Holds Meeting On Sports Safety And Security In Qatar
• States As Partners In Modi’s Global Engagement – Analysis
• New UN Agenda Could Enable Global Expansion Of Abortion
• Pakistan Executes Christian Death Row Inmate
• Turkey: Reality Check For Erdogan – OpEd
• Modi’s Dhaka Visit: A Paradigm Shift In India-Bangladesh Relations – Analysis
• Obama Seeks Advice On Improving Iraq Mission
• Russia Loses Strategic Sheen With India – Analysis
• Beyond Accountability: The Struggle For Co-Existence In Sri Lanka – OpEd
• China-US Rivalry In South China Sea: A New Norm? – Analysis
• To Coalesce Or Not To Coalesce: Post-Election Scenarios In Turkey – Analysis
• Only Joint Collaborative Efforts Can Minimise Climate Change Impact – Analysis
• Sri Lanka: Vithya Episode And Tamil Protests – Analysis
• Companies Making Cybersecurity Greater Priority
• Freedom Flotilla Vows To Break Siege
• Iran Denies It Has Deployed Troops To Syria

What Can African Union Do To Foster Health Development On The Continent? – Analysis Posted: 10 Jun 2015 03:42 PM PDT By Erica Penfold* The focus for this year’s African Union (AU) Summit – being held on 14 and 15 June 2015 in Johannesburg, South Africa – is the ‘Year of Women Empowerment and Development towards Africa’s Agenda 2063′. The Summit follows on from the launch of the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA), which encompasses 26 countries in Southern and Eastern Africa, including SADC, the EAC and COMESA. Despite the focus on development and the empowerment of women, proceedings will more than... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

China’s ‘Great Leap Outward': The AIIB In Context – Analysis Posted: 10 Jun 2015 03:39 PM PDT By Stuart Larkin* After some thirty years of double-digit economic growth, China has become dependent on the world economy with one of its two key drivers having been labour-intensive manufacturing exports. The other is domestic infrastructure and real estate development. Xi Jinping is regarded as China’s strongest president since Deng Xiaoping which is fortuitous because China now faces considerably changed circumstances both at home and abroad which require talented leadership and a much more... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

US Congressional Reception Welcome India’s New Ambassador Singh Posted: 10 Jun 2015 03:30 PM PDT The House Foreign Affairs Committee, in association with Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans organized a Congressional Reception to welcome Ambassador Arun K. Singh on his taking over as India’s Ambassador to the United States at the Capitol Hill on June 10. The event was hosted by the Chairman of House Foreign Affairs Committee- Congressman Ed Royce (Republican-California) and Ranking Member Congressman Elliot Engel (Democrat-New York), together with co-chairs of the... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Obama Does Have A Strategy In Iraq: It’s Called Escalation – OpEd Posted: 10 Jun 2015 03:22 PM PDT By Phyllis Bennis* Almost nine months after President Obama admitted that “we don’t have a strategy yet” to challenge the Islamic State — and just days after he said he still has “no complete Iraq strategy” — the non-strategy suddenly has a name: escalation. According to reports in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, the Obama administration is poised to send 400 to 500 additional troops to Iraq immediately, and to build a new U.S. military base in restive Anbar province to house... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Humanity Beware! – OpEd Posted: 10 Jun 2015 03:02 PM PDT High population densities in the third world and the exponential rise in cross continental migration are symptoms of the biggest problem humanity has ever faced. Due to rapid population growth over the last 50 years many parts of Central Africa, South Asia, and SE Asia are reaching unsustainable population densities. The wealth and affluence gap between North and South is a magnet attracting anybody who is able to travel outside their impoverished regions to seek better lives in any accessible... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

War Without Gunfire – OpEd Posted: 10 Jun 2015 02:55 PM PDT Cyber warfare, with the changing international environment, ever growing technologies and capabilities, has emerged as a new threat on the globe. It is being used by states as a covert campaign against other states. The advancement in technology has brought revolution in military affairs that has drastically changed the nature of warfare. With the rapidly changing nature of warfare, states are pursuing for new and efficient strategies and employing innovative tactics. Cyber warfare is one such... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Anticipatory Bribery – OpEd Posted: 10 Jun 2015 02:52 PM PDT Washington has been rocked by the scandal of J. Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican speaker in the history of the U.S. House, indicted on charges of violating banking laws by paying $1.7 million (as part of a $3.5 million agreement) to conceal prior misconduct, allegedly child molestation. That scandal contains another one that’s received less attention: the fact that Hastert, who never made much money as a teacher or a congressman, could manage such payments because after retiring... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

PPP Suffers Setback In Guyana Elections – OpEd Posted: 10 Jun 2015 02:50 PM PDT By Dr. Odeen Ishmael* Guyana witnessed a change in administration after the ruling People’s Progressive Party-Civic (PPP) lost by a mere one percent of the votes to an alliance of opposition parties comprising A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) in the general elections held on May 11. The retired army Brigadier David Granger, leader of the alliance, was elected as the new president while the grouping, with 50.3 percent of the votes, acquired 33 seats in the... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Mediterranean Migrant Crossings In 2015 Already Top 100,000 Posted: 10 Jun 2015 02:47 PM PDT Refugee and migrant arrivals to Europe across the Mediterranean so far in 2015 have moved above 100,000, with record numbers now arriving every day in the Greek islands. Official figures show that as of 8 June a total of 103,000 refugees and migrants had arrived in Europe: 54,000 in Italy, 48,000 in Greece, 91 on Malta and 920 in Spain. The latest tally includes around 6,000 migrants and refugees who were disembarked in southern Italy last weekend in a major rescue operation coordinated by the... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

INTERPOL Holds Meeting On Sports Safety And Security In Qatar Posted: 10 Jun 2015 02:45 PM PDT Global experts in sporting event security gathered in Qatar to discuss and share best practices to address and mitigate potential threats facing major sporting events. The two-day (9 and 10 June) meeting brought together 12 representatives from eight member countries with the aim of providing concrete recommendations on strengthening physical security capabilities and improving the formulation and implementation of security architecture for major sporting events. The meeting was held under the... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

States As Partners In Modi’s Global Engagement – Analysis Posted: 10 Jun 2015 05:08 AM PDT By Prof. Purnendra Jain and Tridivesh Singh Maini* Over the past year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made it unequivocally clear that he favours states’ active participation and partnership in his development agenda through his stated policy of ‘cooperative federalism’. Not just in the domestic policy arena, he has now extended this partnership in the international arena through the involvement of states in promoting India’s broader interests abroad. While the Modi government’s willingness... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

New UN Agenda Could Enable Global Expansion Of Abortion Posted: 10 Jun 2015 05:03 AM PDT By Matt Hadro A massive, well-funded push to increase access to abortion worldwide could be underway at the United Nations, and according to one congressman it could silence faith-based organizations which oppose abortions out of conscience. At issue is proposed language in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals that will eventually be voted on and adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in September, and will go into effect in 2016. If the current proposed language is adopted, it could... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Pakistan Executes Christian Death Row Inmate Posted: 10 Jun 2015 05:01 AM PDT Pakistan on Wednesday executed a Christian death row convict despite repeated calls for clemency from rights groups and Church leaders. A spokesman for Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), a law firm specializing in death row cases, confirmed that Aftab Bahadur Masih was hanged at Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore in the early hours of Wednesday. Bahadur was arrested in 1992 in a case involving the murder of a woman and her two sons. He was tried and convicted in a speedy trial. Critics say the verdict was... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Turkey: Reality Check For Erdogan – OpEd Posted: 10 Jun 2015 04:59 AM PDT By Mahir Ali Recep Tayyip Erdogan should have seen it coming. Perhaps he did, given that opinion polls were reasonably accurate in predicting the result of Sunday’s parliamentary election in Turkey. In which case, his tactics clearly backfired. Erdogan wasn’t a candidate, having last year successfully engineered his elevation to the presidency, constitutionally a relatively symbolic post. No one was particularly surprised when the focal center of political power consequently shifted from the... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Modi’s Dhaka Visit: A Paradigm Shift In India-Bangladesh Relations – Analysis Posted: 10 Jun 2015 04:56 AM PDT By Rupak Bhattacharjee* Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s just-concluded Dhaka visit is set to take India-Bangladesh ties to an extraordinary height. The two countries inked as many as 22 agreements and memoranda of understanding (MoU) covering diverse areas of cooperation, including trade and investment, road, railways, waterways, energy and power cooperation, security, science and technology, communication and cultural exchange. Some of the existing pacts were also renewed. The officials... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Obama Seeks Advice On Improving Iraq Mission Posted: 10 Jun 2015 04:54 AM PDT By Jim Garamone President Barack Obama has asked the military for recommendations on how to make the effort to train and equip Iraqi security forces more effective, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday. “What he’s asked us to do is take a look at what we’ve learned over the last eight months in the train-and-equip program and make recommendations to him on whether there are capabilities that we may want to provide to the Iraqis to actually make them more capable,” Army Gen.... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Russia Loses Strategic Sheen With India – Analysis Posted: 10 Jun 2015 04:51 AM PDT By Dr Subhash Kapila Russia in 2015 has lost its strategic sheen and strategic utility to India after more than four decades of being the sheet-anchor of India’s security. The onus of this Indian perception gaining ground lies on Russia squarely for switching to China as sheet-anchor of Russia’s foreign policy. Russia’s imperatives for resurgence and re-emerging as an independent global power centre and nurturing the Russia-India Strategic Partnership by India were intensely advocated in my... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Beyond Accountability: The Struggle For Co-Existence In Sri Lanka – OpEd Posted: 10 Jun 2015 04:48 AM PDT The promised report of a UN investigation into war crimes in Sri Lanka will achieve little unless accompanied by real introspection by both Tamil and Sinhala communities. By Ahilan Kadirgamar and Mahendran Thiruvarangan* Sri Lanka’s civil war ended in May 2009. For years, the lack of accountability for the grave human rights abuses committed during the last phase of the war has seemed for many actors to be the sole issue of concern. Powerful states, international human rights organizations,... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

China-US Rivalry In South China Sea: A New Norm? – Analysis Posted: 10 Jun 2015 04:45 AM PDT By Dr. B.R. Deepak* South China Sea (SCS) which encompasses an area from the Singapore and Malacca Straits to the Strait of Taiwan, consisting of Dongsha, Xisha (known as Paracel), Zhongsha (also Huangyan in Chinese) and Nansha (Spratly) islands, has long been a bone of contention between China and Southeast Asian countries. Presently of these Zhongsha and Xisha are under the actual jurisdiction of China; Dongsha under the jurisdiction of Taiwan, and Nansha being fiercely contested by various... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

To Coalesce Or Not To Coalesce: Post-Election Scenarios In Turkey – Analysis Posted: 10 Jun 2015 04:42 AM PDT By Mehmet Yegin The Turkish General Elections, held on June 7, resulted in a new four-party parliament system. According to unofficial results, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) won 259 seats, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) 132, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) 80, and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) 79. Because 275 seats are required for a majority in parliament, the results of the elections ended Turkey’s single-party rule. The current situation necessitates a coalition or... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Only Joint Collaborative Efforts Can Minimise Climate Change Impact – Analysis Posted: 10 Jun 2015 04:40 AM PDT By Ram Kumar Jha* Increasing concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is a major contributor to climatic change. As definition given by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate change is any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity. Climate change is projected to undermine food security due to increase in temperature of 2oC or more in late 20th century and may impact negatively on wheat, rice and maize productivity in... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Sri Lanka: Vithya Episode And Tamil Protests – Analysis Posted: 10 Jun 2015 04:37 AM PDT By N. Sathiya Moorthy* The gang-rape and murder of an 18-year-old Tamil school girl in the Northern Province has revived rumours and talk, speculation and initiatives that were better left behind in the wartime past. It has also thrown up sensitivities of the ethnic and administrative concerns back in the public space. In the normal circumstances, the heinous rape and gruesome killing of Sivaloganathan Vithya and allegations of cover-up by local police higher-ups should have triggered public... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Companies Making Cybersecurity Greater Priority Posted: 10 Jun 2015 04:32 AM PDT Companies are spending increasing amounts on cybersecurity tools, but aren’t convinced their data is truly secure and many chief information security officers believe that attackers are gaining on their defenses, according to a new RAND Corporation study. Charting the future of cybersecurity is difficult because so much is shrouded in secrecy, no one is entirely certain of all the methods malicious hackers use to infiltrate systems and businesses do not want to disclose their safety... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Freedom Flotilla Vows To Break Siege Posted: 10 Jun 2015 04:30 AM PDT By: Anna Kokko This summer, Swedish seaman Joel Opperdoes, 32, is not piloting cargo ships in the Baltic Sea. Instead, he is the sailing across Europe with five permanent crew members on a fishing trawler named Marianne. Their final destination is the main seaport of the Gaza Strip, which has been under a jointly enforced Israeli and Egyptian blockade for the last eight years. “I strongly believe in international solidarity,” Opperdoes told Ma’an from Lisbon, Portugal, where the boat stopped... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.

Iran Denies It Has Deployed Troops To Syria Posted: 10 Jun 2015 04:27 AM PDT Iran has denied that it has deployed troops in Syria to defend Damascus and government forces, AFP reported Wednesday, after reports that thousands of foreign troops had been flown to the war-torn country’s capital. Reports that foreign military “friendly” to the Assad regime had been flown in are “unfounded,” Marzieh Afkham said. “The Syrian government and people have the capacity to resist and will continue to do so,” Afkham said in a press briefing.... To continue reading this article, click on the headline.