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West Asia
[Novel] The Road to Shamawes ⑬
[19] They walked silently, Emad’s heavy, angry steps, his uncle Nabil’s light, but quick steps to catch up with his nephew. Nabil felt he let down Emad and his sister. He wondered what mad Nargis did out of home. She does her prayers regularly. She’s modest and brilliant, though her…
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East Asia
RCEP vs. TPP: Choice between China and America?
Editor’s note: A trade talk for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership(RCEP) is scheduled to open from May 9 to 13 in Brunei. The RCEP covers more than half of the world’s population involving 16 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. It aims to become a platform for the integration of trade…
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East Asia
Japanese PM Shinzo Abe visits UAE to enhance economic ties
In this image released by the Emirates News Agency, WAM , Sheik Hazza bin Zayed Al Nahyan, center right, escorts Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, upon his arrival in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Abe vowed Wednesday to promote exports of Japan’s nuclear infrastructure to the…
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South Asia
Pakistani opposition leader’s election campaign poster hung on wall
Children peer through a window of their house, as an election campaign poster of Pakistan’s former cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan with versus in Arabic from the Quran, hangs on a wall in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Pakistan is scheduled to hold parliamentary elections on May 11, the first…
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East Asia
Dozens of Chinese people fall into water from tilted suspension bridge
Photo taken on May 2, 2013 shows the tilted suspension bridge in Fenghuang County, central China’s Hunan Province. About 40 people, who returned from a bonfire party, were on the bridge when the bridge floor suddenly tilted in Fenghuang at around 9:10 p.m. on May 1, and more than 20,…
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Central Asia
Russian nationalists carry old Empire flag while marching for May Day
A group of Russian nationalists carry a banner that reads: “Blood. Fatherland. Faith” and old Russian Empire flags as they march to mark May Day in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 1, 2013. <AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko>
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West Asia
Egyptian workers chant anti-Gov’t slogans during Labour Day protest
Egyptian workers and activists chant anti-Government slogans during a protest in Tahrir square marking the world Labour day in Cairo, May 1, 2013. Dozens of national factories and companies were sold to the private sector during Hosni Mubarak’s regime causing unemployment of thousands of Egyptian workers whom still lacking proper…
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South Asia
NGOs hide identity for fear of militants in restive Balochistan Province
Quetta, Balochistan – A grave situation prevails in restive Balochistan province of Pakistan, bordering Iran and Afghanistan, where the civil society organizations have removed boards and name plates from their office buildings, their staff and officials do not carry identity cards or any other document while travelling, for the fear…
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South Asia
Indian patients evacuated from hospital after magnitude-5.4 earthquake
Patients are evacuated from a hospital after a magnitude-5.4 earthquake in Bhaderwah area, in Indian-controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, India, May 1, 2013. Officials say a moderately strong earthquake has hit a mountainous region in Indian-controlled Kashmir, injuring at least nine people and damaging several buildings. <AP Photo>
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East Asia
Chinese communications satellite successfully launced in Xichang
A Long March-3B carrier rocket is launched in Xichang, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, May 2, 2013. China successfully sent a communications satellite, “Zhongxing-11”, into orbit with a Long March-3B carrier rocket launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Thursday. <Xinhua/Han Yuqing>
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