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Pollution continues to hinder life in Iran

The severe air pollution continues after it had led authorities to close schools for three days in and around the capital, where an estimated 14 million people live, it resulted in cancelling two major football games. According to Fars News Agency, The premier football league games between Tehran teams and clubs visiting from Mashhad and Tabriz were […]

29 December , 2015Comments Off on Pollution continues to hinder life in IranRead More

Mecca: Seasons of Pilgrimage and Anger

Two years after the end of the Ottoman Empire, in the wake of the First World War and the establishment of the secular Turkish Republic, the Arab region clamored for a revival of the caliphate. On 3 March 1926, delegates from Muslim countries, including Egypt, accepted an invitation from King Abdel-Aziz Al-Saud to discuss the […]

29 December , 2015Comments Off on Mecca: Seasons of Pilgrimage and AngerRead More

Iran closes capital’s schools due to air pollution

Iran is to close schools for two days in Tehran following air pollution three times the acceptable level that has blanketed the city in fog. Air quality in Iran’s capital was the worst for at least nine months this week, media said, and airborne particles from car emissions were at “seven times the standard level”. […]

21 December , 2015Comments Off on Iran closes capital’s schools due to air pollutionRead More

Iranian newspaper condemns media censorship

Iran’s “Ettelaat” newspaper has objected to the state’s ban on publishing the name or images of the former reformist president, Mohammad Khatami. As the managing editor of the state-run newspaper, Seyed Mahmoud Doaei, wrote a front-page editorial in the form of a public letter addressed to President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday 9th December stating that the ban is […]

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[Indonesia Report] Illegal immigrants escape Indonesian detention facility

Some 20 illegal immigrants from Middle East countries again escaped from the East Java Immigration Detention Center’s temporary detention facility in Madiun, East Java, Indonesia on Friday (Sept 14). They escaped through window, climbed a wall and then moved onto the roof of a house next to the hotel used as the immigration temporary detention […]

17 September , 2012Comments Off on [Indonesia Report] Illegal immigrants escape Indonesian detention facilityRead More

Iran nuclear talks kick off in Moscow

MOSCOW, June 18 (Xinhua) — The latest round of talks between Iran and the world’s six major powers in addition to the European Union (EU) to resolve the nuclear dispute have started in Moscow on Monday. Representatives from Iran and five permanent members of the UN Security Council (the United States, Britain, France, Russia and […]

18 June , 2012Comments Off on Iran nuclear talks kick off in MoscowRead More