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West Asia
Annual Islamic Pilgrimage Attracts Pilgrims From Around World To Grand Mosque In Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Palestinian children perform a simulated pilgrimage celebrating the upcoming Islamic pilgrimage and Eid al-Adha festival at their school in the West Bank city of Nablus on Oct. 22, 2012. <Xinhua/Ayman Nobani> Muslim pilgrims leave the Grand mosque after the noon prayer in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. The…
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West Asia
Turkish Youths In Region Bordering Syria Protest Against Foreign Intervention In Syria
Demonstrators gesture during a protest in Hatay of Turkey, on Oct. 21, 2012. A group of youth protested against foreign intervention in Syria, near the Turkish-Syrian border on Sunday. Five people were detained as some protestors clashed with police. A demonstrator is arrested by police during a protest in Hatay…
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West Asia
Tension Heightens In Beirut After Overnight Clashes Between Sunni And Shiite Gunmen
A masked Sunni gunman stands guard on a road leading to a Shiite neighborhood after overnight clashes that erupted between Sunni and Shiite gunmen in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday Oct. 22, 2012. Lebanese security officials say overnight clashes in Beirut between Sunni and Shiite gunmen have wounded several people. The officials…
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East Asia
Chinese Aged 60 Or Above Expected To Account For One Third Of Total Population By 2050
Members of an elderly model club rehearse in a park in Zhengzhou, capital of central China’s Henan Province, Feb. 7, 2012. China had 190 million people at or above the age of 60 at the end of last year, according to the China National Committee on Ageing (CNCA). It is…
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South Asia
Some 3 Million Pakistani Girls Fail To Attend Schools
Children attend a class at a public school in Multan, Pakistan, on Oct. 22, 2012. In Pakistan, 5.1 million children are out of school and 63 percent of them are girls, according to a recent UN report. Children attend an English class at a public school in Multan, Pakistan, on…
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Society
Penn Museum Installs Artifact Lab To Repair Egyptian Human, Animal Mummies
This photo taken Friday, Oct. 19, 2012 shows a hieroglyphic-inscribed slab of wood that comprised part of the coffin of an Egyptian named Ahanakht, circa 2000 B.C. at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. The newly installed Artifact Lab at the Penn Museum allows visitors to peek behind the scenes as…
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South Asia
Despite Threat Of Taliban, Pakistani Girls In Swat Valley Attend Class
In this Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 photo, A Pakistani student teaches her fellow students in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan. The Taliban’s horrific attack on a female teenage activist in this scenic corner of Pakistan’s northwest was the latest in a series of assassination attempts by militant sleeper cells in the…
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East Asia
GGGI to bridge global green divide
Korea wants to make real contributions to the welfare of the world and is adopting green growth as its theme. Songdo has just been selected to host the secretariat of the United Nations-operated Green Climate Fund (GCF), often compared with the World Bank in the area of sustainable development. Now,…
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East Asia
President’s son to be summoned
An independent counsel plans to summon President Lee Myung-bak’s son for questioning this week over alleged irregularities involving an abandoned plan to build a retirement home for the president. Lee Si-hyung is under suspicion for his involvement in a shady deal last year to purchase land in Naegok-dong, southern Seoul.…
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South East Asia
[Indonesia Report] Indonesia plastic surgeons enjoy booming business
Indonesia is hit by Korean Wave Fever. Not only female but also male’s awareness of appearances is increasing nowadays. According to one of Indonesian mass media, Berita Satu.com, Dr. Enrina, owner of a plastic surgery clinic Ultimo, said in an interview during this past one year, the male patients increased 15 to 20…
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