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Other experts say Ozawa's new role is more focused on the interests of the party. Says Jun Okumura, a senior advisor at the think tank Eurasia Group and a former government official: "It's Hatoyama's Cabinet, and Ozawa's party. I don't think Ozawa will meddle on the policy side. He has his dream job - another crack at sticking the knife into the LDP heart without the distasteful job of being accountable to the media." Gerald Curtis, a Japanese-politics expert and professor at Columbia University, says the Hatoyama Administration is a game changer in Japanese politics...
...this week in the Journal of Human Evolution, is part of a growing body of evidence that suggests contact between Neanderthals and humans was often violent and may have played a part in the extinction of our closest prehistoric relatives. Squat, rugged, and well suited to cold, Neanderthals dominated Eurasia for the better part of 200,000 years, surviving an ice age, but the species mysteriously disappeared around the same time modern humans spread out from Africa into their habitat...
...currently able to supply the 15 billion cu m a year the line needs to kick off its first phase. "We don't even have a map showing us which countries will be the sources and which will be the transits," says Ana Jelenkovic, an analyst at research consultancy Eurasia Group. (Read: "Russia-Europe Gas Spat Ends...
...Biden's comments caused a stir precisely because U.S. officials have scrupulously avoided making comments that Iran might interpret as a green light from Washington for an Israeli strike. "That leads me to infer that [Biden's] was a planned statement," says Cliff Kupchan, director of Europe and Eurasia at the Eurasia Group, a risk consultancy in Washington. "It is very rare for any U.S. official, [much] less the Vice President, to make concrete comments on the possibility of an Israeli military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities." Kupchan warned in a note on Tuesday that Iran could interpret Biden...
...deal for a consortium led by BP and China's National Petroleum Corporation to develop the giant Rumaila field in southern Iraq. "Frankly I did not think it would be such a fiasco and embarrassment for the government," says Rochdi Younsi, Director of Middle East and Africa for the Eurasia Group in Washington. "It shows the level of disconnect between the Ministry of Oil and the oil companies...