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West Asia
A visually-impaired Palestinian teacher makes bamboo chairs
Mahmoud Taha, a 61-year-old visually-impaired Palestinian teacher, works on chairs made of bamboo at a workshop in Al-Ala’iya school for visually-impaired children in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, April 15, 2013. Taha, who was injured in an Israeli bomb explosion when he was nine years old, teaches and trains…
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East Asia
Chairman Yu meets President of Cambodian Royalist Party Rasmey
Yu Zhengsheng (R), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, meets with Norodom Arun Rasmey, president of Cambodian royalist party Funcinpec, in Beijing, capital of China, April 17, 2013. <Xinhua/Pang Xinglei>
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West Asia
Syrian President Assad accuses West of interference on national TV
In this image from video broadcast on Syrian state television Wednesday, April 17, 2013, President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview. Syria’s president accused the West on Wednesday of backing al-Qaida in his country’s civil war, warning it will pay a price “in the heart” of Europe and the United…
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East Asia
Aung San Suu Kyi meets with Japanese FM Fumio Kishida
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) poses with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida prior to their meeting at Foreign Ministry’s Iikura Guesthouse in Tokyo, Japan, April 16, 2013. <Xinhua/Ma Ping>
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West Asia
Sherif Adel: Comics aren’t for kids only
Egyptians are known for their sense of humor, who laughs at almost anything. In many times, this humor is considered a weapon with its own mechanism. That’s what comics and caricature artists do, they put their own ideas and beliefs and ideals into these little dialogue boxes with its unique…
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West Asia
Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki speaks at election campaign
Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, center, is surrounded by his political bloc as he makes a speech during his campaign in Basra, Iraq’s second-largest city, 340 miles (550 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, April 15, 2013. Al-Maliki resumed his election campaign after the early voting for security forces in…
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South Asia
Kuwait’s Emir Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah meets Palestinian President
Emir Jaber al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah (R) meet with visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Kuwait Ctiy, capital of Kuwait, on April 15, 2013. <Xinhua/Pool>
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East Asia
Japanese PM Abe shakes hands with NATO Secretary-General Rasmussen
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, left, shakes hands with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after they exchanged documents of joint political declaration between Japan and the NATO during a signing ceremony at Abe’s official residence in Tokyo Monday, April 15, 2013. <AP Photo/Toru Hanai, Pool>
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East Asia
Suu Kyi visits Japan for the first time in 27 years
Nobel laureate and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was greeted by dozens of flag-waving well-wishers, including people from her home country, as she arrived in Japan on Saturday for a weeklong visit. She later met with other people from Myanmar, packing a Tokyo hall, and answered their questions…
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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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