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West Asia
Major news in Qatar on June 19: Condolences offered Top news in <Gulf Times>: Condolences offered HH the Heir Apparent Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani offered his condolences and sympathy to Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, Saudi Arabia’s newly-appointed Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, on the death of Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, at Al…
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Protesters Burn Pictures Of Assad, Putin In Lebanon
Protesters chant slogans against the Syrian regime and Russia’s support of President Bashar Assad as they burn a banner depicting Assad, top, his brother, Maher Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin, bottom, in the southern port city of Sidon, in Lebanon, Sunday, June 17, 2012. news@theasian.asia
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Israeli Religious Renaissance
In a Thursday, June 14, 2012 photo Israeli children pray with their families in a reformist Jewish synagogue, in Mevasseret Zion near Jerusalem. Israel’s attorney general recently announced that a group of 15 non-Orthodox rabbis who answer a certain criteria will begin to receive government funding like some 2,000 of their Orthodox…
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World
Muslim Brotherhood Declares Victory
This combination of two photos shows Egyptian presidential candidates, from left, Ahmed Shafiq, and Mohammed Morsi. The Muslim Brotherhood has declared that its candidate, Mohammed Morsi, won Egypt’s presidential election, early Monday, June 18, 2012. <AP/Newsis> news@theasian.asia
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West Asia
Major news in Turkey on June 18: Court rules ‘7+5′ for President Gül Top news in <Sabah>: Court rules ‘7+5′ for President Gül Turkey’s Constitutional Court has determined that President Abdullah Gül’s current term will complete in seven-years’ from his appointment. Court members also voted unanimously on cancelling out an article in the Presidential Election Code restricting a president from serving two terms.…
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Major news in Iran on June 18: Nuclear Rights Should Be Respected Top news in <Iran Daily>: Nuclear Rights Should Be Respected Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili said Tehran expects that its right to nuclear technology, including uranium enrichment, be recognized in the upcoming talks with the G5+1 in Moscow. In an exclusive interview with the English-language Russia…
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[News in Pictures] Egypt Presidential Runoff
Egyptians gather to protest ongoing military rule in Cairo, Egypt on Friday, June 15, 2012. On the right, a man holds a defaced campaign poster of presidential candidate Ahmed Shafik, a man widely believed to be an extension of Hosni Mubarak’s regime. On Thursday, Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court dissolved the…
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Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Nayef Died
In this Monday, May 14, 2012 file photo, Saudi’s Crown Prince – Interior minister Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz attends to welcomes the Gulf Arab leaders as they arrive to the Saudi capital Riyadh to take part in the opening of Gulf Cooperation Council “GCC” summit, Saudi Arabia. The Saudi royal family…
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OPEC Tug of War
In this file photo of Friday, July 17, 2009, an Iraqi worker operates valves at the Nahran Omar oil refinery near the city of Basra, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq’s rapidly expanding oil production is likely to complicate OPEC’s efforts to influence world prices as the…
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Shite Pilgrims Flock to Commemorate Saint’s Death
Shiite pilgrims gather at the Imam Moussa al-Kadhim shrine during the annual commemoration of the saint’s death in the Shiite district of Kazimiyah, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, June 15, 2012. <AP/Newsis> news@theasian.asia
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