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Blair Peterson

Better Staffing Seen as Crucial to Ebola Treatment in Africa - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ebola-treatment-in-africa.html

Global Health Diplomacy International Relations Ebola

shared by Blair Peterson on 05 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Most of the patients in the United States also received experimental drugs or plasma transfusions, but doctors say rehydration played a major role in saving them.
  • Ebola wards need an unusually high level of staffing, Dr. Sprecher said. Not only does each patient require a lot of care, but the protective gear causes health workers to overheat so quickly and severely, especially in wards that lack air-conditioning in bare-bones facilities, that they cannot work for more than an hour without coming out to cool down. Extra workers are needed so that they can spell each other.
Blair Peterson

Peter Theo Curtis, Abducted in 2012, Is Released by Nusra Front - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ia-is-freed-after-2-years.html

International Relations Syria Conflicts

shared by Blair Peterson on 25 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Yet his surprise liberation by the Qaeda affiliate, the Nusra Front, came less than a week after the decapitation of another American journalist, James Foley, held by a different and even more radical jihadist group, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
  • “Our family wants to thank the country of Qatar in a big way,” said Amy Rosen, a cousin. “Every person that our family dealt with in Qatar said that under no circumstances would a ransom be paid — and that this was something the U.S. government had requested, and they had agreed to,” she said. “But at the same time, we don’t pretend to know everything that happened.”
Blair Peterson

Club Med for Terrorists - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Israel Palestine gaza International Relations

shared by Blair Peterson on 25 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • It says a great deal that Hamas’s former Arab backers, which historically have included Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia, long ago abandoned the terrorist group. Only a few nations still stand by Hamas. Among the most prominent is the tiny Persian Gulf emirate Qatar.
  • In recent years, the sheikhs of Doha, Qatar’s capital, have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to Gaza. Every one of Hamas’s tunnels and rockets might as well have had a sign that read “Made possible through a kind donation from the emir of Qatar.”
  • Qatar’s proxies of choice have been radical regimes and extremist groups.
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  • This hasn’t stopped the Persian Gulf monarchy from serving as a Club Med for terrorists. It harbors leading Islamist radicals like the spiritual leader of the global Muslim Brotherhood, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who issued a religious fatwa endorsing suicide attacks, and the Doha-based history professor Abdul Rahman Omeir al-Naimi, whom the United States Department of Treasury has named as a “terrorist financier” for Al Qaeda. Qatar also funds a life of luxury for Khaled Meshal, the fugitive leader of Hamas.
Blair Peterson

If That NPR Guy Moved to Israel and Knew Hebrew ... - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...to-israel-and-knew-hebrew.html

Podcasts NPR

shared by Blair Peterson on 21 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • One program followed an all-night pancake house for a full 24 hours, interviewing commuters, servers and frazzled waitresses. And one of the first season’s most popular episodes sent the team hunting down the same address — 48 Herzl Street, the Israeli equivalent of 123 Main Street — in dozens of different communities across the country.
Blair Peterson

Ukrainian and Russian Leaders Will Meet as Rebels Continue to Falter - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ukraine-conflict.html

ukrainian International Relations Ukraine Russia Sanctions

shared by Blair Peterson on 21 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • pro-Russian rebels
  • Talks have foundered on Russia’s refusal to halt or even acknowledge what Ukraine and its Western supporters say is a steady flow of fighters and military hardware into Ukraine from Russia.
  • Lifted by battlefield gains in recent weeks, the mood in Kiev was bolstered further on Tuesday by news that Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany had accepted an invitation from Mr. Poroshenko to travel to Kiev this weekend, and that the European Union was considering a new round of economic assistance.
saniyajoshi

U.S. Drone Kills 3 Qaeda Operatives in Yemen, Continuing Policy on Strikes - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...cia-drone-yemen-qaeda.html

yemen

shared by saniyajoshi on 27 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • since the resignation of President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi
    • saniyajoshi
      saniyajoshi on 27 Jan 15
       
      the president resigned after Houthi rebels stormed his residence and clashed with government forces in recent days 
  • counterterrorism operations there despite the apparent takeover by Houthi fighters.
  • American counterterrorism efforts had not abated.
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  • The turmoil in Yemen comes at a particularly fraught time, just two weeks after A.Q.A.P. claimed responsibility for the deadly attacks in Paris
    • saniyajoshi
      saniyajoshi on 27 Jan 15
       
      This terrorist group was part of the Charlie Hedbo attacks
  • the current political standoff could lead to the partition of Yemen
    • saniyajoshi
      saniyajoshi on 27 Jan 15
       
      partition of Yemen could take place due to the current political turmoil 
sabrinacarneiro

Who Will Rule the Oil Market? - 1 views

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/25/opinion/sunday/what-happened-to-the-price-of-oil.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share "American shale oil has become the decisive new factor in...

International Relations

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sabrinacarneiro

Fall in Oil Prices Poses a Problem for Russia, Iraq and Others - 2 views

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/16/world/europe/fall-in-oil-prices-poses-a-problem-for-russia-iraq-and-others.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0 From Moscow to Caracas...

International Relations

started by sabrinacarneiro on 27 Jan 15 no follow-up yet
Blair Peterson

Mr. Putin Resumes His War in Ukraine - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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International Relations Russia Ukraine

shared by Blair Peterson on 02 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Meanwhile, Ukraine is broke, and without the military means to move against the Russian-backed rebels. Most of the victims are civilians who struggle with hunger and dislocation in the rubble of the combat zones and die in the constant exchanges of shells and rockets.
  • resident Vladimir Putin has sharply cranked up his direct support for the rebels in the provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk, while continuing to baldly deny it and to blame all the violence on the United States.
  • its allies will actively use their good offices with Kiev to seek a workable
Blair Peterson

As Ebola Ebbs in Africa, Focus Turns From Death to Life - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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International Relations ebola Public Health africa

shared by Blair Peterson on 02 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • While many have emphasized the enormous assistance hauled into the region by the United States and international organizations, there is strong evidence, especially here in Monrovia, that the biggest change came from the precautions taken by residents themselves.“Fundamentally, this is about the extent to whi
  • Reeling from the explosion of infections in August, volunteer Ebola watchdog groups sprang up in many neighborhoods, typically overseen by local elders and led by educated youths, drawing from a long history of community organizing to survive war, poverty and government neglect.
  • “Heroes emerged in every community,” said Dr. Mosoka Fallah, a Harvard-trained Liberian epidemiologist who often acted as a liaison between neighborhoods and the government. “The volunteer task forces may be the biggest reason behind the drop in October.”
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  • He said that the region’s chiefs enlisted the traditional leaders in the area and put together bylaws that barred residents from hiding their sick, interfering with health workers or carrying out traditional burials that increased the risk of spreading the disease by touching infected corpses.
  • We threatened that anybody who tried to do a traditional burial would be banished from the chiefdom,” he said
Blair Peterson

A Test for Ukraine in a City Retaken From Rebels - NYTimes.com - 12 views

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Ukraine IR international relations Russia

shared by Blair Peterson on 03 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • As it struggles to secure the consent, if not yet the trust, of Slovyansk’s largely ethnic Russian population, Ukraine has found that its best weapon has been provided by the rebels themselves — a legacy of violent thuggery and chaos that alienated just about everyone.
  • housands of residents thronged a large square in front of City Hall to welcome the pro-Russian putsch, chanting “Russia, Russia” and posing for photographs with gunmen they hailed as their saviors from the fascists who had seized power in Kiev with the February ouster of President Victor F. Yanukovych, a Russian-speaker from Donetsk.
    • Blair Peterson
      Blair Peterson on 03 Aug 14
       
      Where do the people of Ukraine feel about a Russian takeover? Are there some who are supportive of it?
  • Blair Peterson on 03 Aug 14
     
    Where do Ukranians stand on this war that is going on? Are they all anti-Russian?
  • Blair Peterson on 03 Aug 14
     
    Where do Ukranians stand on this war that is going on? Are they all anti-Russian?
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