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South Asia
Indian devotees gather at Hindu Temple for Navratri festival
Indian devotees stand in queue to offer prayers at a Hindu temple on the first day of ‘Navratri’ or the nine nights festival in Allahabad, India, Thursday, April 11, 2013. ‘Navratri’ honors the Hindu goddess Shakti, or divine mother. <AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh>
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West Asia
Lamborghini Aventador joins Dubai Police fleet in UAE
This image released by the Dubai Police, shows a Lamborghini Aventador, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, April 11, 2013. In a city of boundless bling, Dubai police also are in hot pursuit after adding a nearly $550,000 Lamborghini to its fleet. Local media reports Thursday say the Italian-made Lamborghini…
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South Asia
Sri Lankan artists protest against movie arists in Tamil Nadu
Sri Lankan artists participate in a peaceful seated protest outside the Independence Square in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, April 11, 2013. Artists protested against movie artists in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu who alleged their fellow Tamils in neighboring Sri Lanka were subjected to human rights violations during…
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West Asia
Civilians continue to be killed by Syrian regime’s airstrikes
In this Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 file photo, a Syrian woman stands amid the ruins of her house which was destroyed in an airstrike by government warplanes a few days earlier, killing 11 members of her family, in the neighborhood of Ansari, Aleppo, Syria. President Bashar Assad has exploited his…
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West Asia
Yemeni people hail President’s decision to make military shakeup
An elderly Yemeni man shouts slogans during a demonstration to hail the decisions by Yemen’s President Abed Rabbu Mansour Hadi to make a military shakeup, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, April 11, 2013. Yemen’s president removed his predecessor’s son and nephews from powerful security posts on Wednesday in the most dramatic…
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East Asia
North Koreans visit Pyongyang Folk Park
North Koreans visit the Pyongyang Folk Park on the outskirts of Pyongyang Thursday, April 11, 2013. The park, which spans Korean history from prehistoric to modern times, opened in September 2012 after three years of construction by North Korean soldiers. <AP Photo/David Guttenfelder>
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West Asia
[Novel] The Road to Shamawes ⑪
[16] She was overwhelmed by disturbing thoughts and Saadiya’s voice awoke her: “Mistress Nargis. The General is in the reception room. He wants to talk to you.” Putting on her alternative clothes Nargis said : “Tell him I’ll be there in five minutes.” A few minutes later the Shamawes woman…
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East Asia
Grandson Kim: Who laughs last?
In the 1940s, the German leader Adolf Hitler was going on building his Greatest Germania; a target that was not accepted by his far enemies or by his competing neighbors. The survival of the better economically and scientifically Hitler, compared by Europe’s countries, meant that there will be a fierce…
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Ending North Korea’s gamesmanship
Editor’s note: The crisis on the Korean peninsula has heightened to the bitter end. Here’s a view from Singapore’s The Strait Times to address the issue. It never is wise to discount renewed conflict on the Korean peninsula, despite the latest brinkmanship showing a familiar pattern. If the military moves…
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West Asia
Mazen Maarouf: The Arab Dictators create their intellectuals
He is one of the creative voices of Arab poetry. He worked for several newspapers in Lebanon as for some newspapers abroad. Belonging to a Palestinian 1948 refugee family, (b. 1978) lived and studied in Beirut to hold a BS degree in general chemistry at Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences.…
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